Slainangel52

Reply to Graphic style grows on you? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="26" id="2718490"] In Elemental, zoomed in, I don't know what I'm looking at. Are those trees? Is that a rock or a pouch I can get goodies from? This was a major gripe from Q/A and was fixed for Gold Quests and goodie huts are now very distinguishable on the main map (without looking too gamey...they actually add to the feel of the game, I think).[/quote] Good to hear, that was really the only gripe I had with the graphical

Reply to A Question on the old "Continuous Turn" system. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="2" id="2716998"] Quoting Civfreak, reply 1Ah that would be a handy reference to have for people wanting to play around with the combat system. I think it would be very beneficial if that "code" got released as it would accelerate a bunch of mods that plan on changing how the system works. I can think of at least 4 Mods being planned that would benefit greatly from seeing that code. Let's hope Frogboy or Boogie kept the code and put it up for a rain

Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="380" id="2717355"] LAN-capable with only one copy, other than Demigod and SoaSE, that I own. Battlefield 2 complete collection Age of Empires 3 Europa Universals 3 Supreme Commander Majesty 2 (2010) I'd be interested to see how many of those explicitly allow it, and how many simply don't do anything that prevents it.[/quote] Having experience with 4/5 of those games in lan play it'

Hotseat implementation in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I know I've asked this question previously and there really wasn't all the much of an answer outside of a maybe. Now that the beta is officially over and the release is a mere week away, what can we expect to see in the future as far as hot-seat goes? [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e]

Reply to Other Games Stardock should re-make. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I'd like a version of galactic civ with hotseat play and tactical battles similar to master of orion II. Also elemental needs hotseat play as well _>

Hotseat games? in Everything Else Stardock Forums

Lately I've been scouring the internet looking for new hotseat games to try but it seems to be relatively slim pickings as of late. Ones we've played before include: Dominions 3 Warlords II HOMM Disciples II Civ IV Worms MOO II Space Empires V Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic Medieval II Since I was counting on elemental to fill in the hot-seat section of my collection and it apparently won't ha

Reply to Shhh. Sleeping. in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="32" id="2697814"] Quoting Sushikawa, reply 30 Quoting Heavenfall, reply 19 Hey, why not.... I'm not a modder myself, but if modding is such a huge part of the game... every month select 2-3 mods, let the community vote for one, stardock decides another, if yours is good enough then a 25 buck gift-card is in order. It's not about creating an incentive, though. It's showing that you appreciate the modders.

Reply to Graphics Card Concerns in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="10" id="2693247"] Quoting Slainangel52, reply 9 Quoting Tormy-, reply 6 Quoting Slainangel52, reply 3 Quoting Neil Banfield, reply 2 Personally I wouldn't expect massive changes from the 3c beta to the RTM build in terms of performance. There will be some changes obviously and if there is one root issue causing performance to be slow for you then it is possible it will be found and fixed prior

Reply to Graphics Card Concerns in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="6" id="2693147"] Quoting Slainangel52, reply 3 Quoting Neil Banfield, reply 2 Personally I wouldn't expect massive changes from the 3c beta to the RTM build in terms of performance. There will be some changes obviously and if there is one root issue causing performance to be slow for you then it is possible it will be found and fixed prior to RTM. I don't know the min spec offhand for elemental, but I would have thou

Reply to Graphics Card Concerns in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="2" id="2692295"]Personally I wouldn't expect massive changes from the 3c beta to the RTM build in terms of performance. There will be some changes obviously and if there is one root issue causing performance to be slow for you then it is possible it will be found and fixed prior to RTM. I don't know the min spec offhand for elemental, but I would have thought your system is probably near the bottom end of the range, so turning options off wou

Reply to Watch this space… in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="39" id="2692499"] Quoting Slainangel52, reply 37 Stardock fortunately realizes this, if somebody wants to pirate something, they'll pirate it, that's a simple fact. Yeah, too bad other game developers don't I guess they are being idealistic or something to think they can develop THE system to end piracy. Like you said, it's up there with world peace, the end of poverty, and the end of crime. I.e. never going to happ

Reply to Watch this space… in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="DoomBringer90" reply="36" id="2692470"]They don't, but what's to say that Stardock doesn't have a few legit users who don't post on the forums that feel the need to crack the patches as they come down the pipes and post them to the pirate bay or whatever?[/quote] All they really need is one user to repackage the (patched) game with a custom installer and distribute it via pirate bay or whatever. You can't stop piracy, it's an effort in futility to try and you end up inconv

Reply to Watch this space… in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="SpaghettiMon" reply="25" id="2692036"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 24 Quoting Spitz, reply 23When do you expect we'll get to try out some of the new goodness. I'm a bit put-off from testing 3c since I'm not sure how much of the feedback I'd provide would be useful at this point and how much of it would simply be: "You're worried about that? We completely revamped that two days ago!" I'm expecting a week from today. Yea, Beta 3C is a distant memory at thi

Reply to Game Mechanics: The Ultimate Balancing Act in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Imperium/Civilization This tree really just provides the supports necessary for any other tree to succeed, while it's fairly fleshed out I'd like to see it even more intertwined with your advances within other trees. The game already tracks what rank you are in each tree, would it be possible to have it unlock more powerful techs when two or more trees are at a certain level. In addition to the tech level requirement there should likely be specific breakthrough requir

Reply to On to BETA 4! in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Mandelik" reply="59" id="2690562"] Quoting Saije, reply 51I made a company of elite hatchetmen... The company had 300 Hp, 250 Atk, 110 Def. Everyones talking about ways to increase HP... They already have two ways. First increasing the training of a unit boosts HP, actually... That's ALL higher training does. Secondly grouping units into squads or companies allows them to share HP as well as other stats. Havi

Reply to On to BETA 4! in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

This is why I'm in favor of a combat system with four variables rather than two. Defense = Avoidance skill Attack = Accuracy skill Damage = .... Armor = Damage reduction cloth/leather has higher defense and lower reduction, plate does the opposite in addition to slowing movement (without a mount) Example using fake numbers: Unit has 16 dexterity this provides a bonus of 16-10=6 let's preten

Reply to Is the stardock team amazing or is it amazing? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

They've ascended to favorite game developer on my list. It's a very high honor I promise, only bioware comes close in quality game-making, they are just a bit weak on the customer interaction and suggestion facet.

Reply to lets talk about armors! in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="novagenesis" reply="12" id="2689091"] Quoting ddd888, reply 11 lol? you have any idea how it was using a plate? knights couldnt even WEAR team they had a team just to use it Walking around, even putting on platemail, isn't the same as fighting in it. Generally, gaps in the armor in the arm area limited slowdown to the arms for swinging. Charging on the back of a horse, the negative eff

Reply to Mana regeneration in War of Magic Stardock Forums

There's a building you can unlock in the magic tree that increases it by 2. Mage tower or something of that nature.

Reply to Tactical Battle Evolution in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="ddd888" reply="127" id="2687543"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 120 Another thing that has been mentioned here is the "General" or "tactics" ability that lets you place units before battle. AoW didn't have this and it was maybe the only drawback of the TC in those games. It should be in, in one way or another. I disagree. This system adds little value if the game already smartly positions ranged units in the back and melee in front. This feature could be "cool" in some h

Reply to Swan Dive into Elemental 3B videos - Brand New in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Watched the videos, you can cast tactical spells in the battles if you favorite them from the spellbook beforehand.

Reply to Some problems with Beta 3B in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Sethfc" reply="3" id="2685137"]Well for one they intend to have ALOT more troops meaning that later on we'll be able to have thousands of soldiers so..your summons would be swamped by immense numbers. *Just stating that as it is the ultimate counterbalance between the two* and the dragon and master quest i'm sure they will balance the dragon is intended to be uber powerful but much harder to get ahold of. and finally I'm pr

Reply to Some problems with Beta 3B in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I'll throw mine in: 1. It was pretty easy to get the red dragon to join up and it is immensely powerful. Because of the way combat works currently he can destroy entire armies by himself with relative ease. Combine this with the spell "freeze enemy" and you can pretty much do the entire master quest with your dragon and your sov. The final battle with the hermit in my last game he never even got to fight back as he was always frozen, so despite having 500 hp the dragon

Reply to Elemental – Beta 3B Changelog in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Anyone else notice you can build on all the resources whether you've got the technology to or not? [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Reply to Tonight Maybe? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="35" id="2684054"]We're not going home until the beta goes up.[/quote] [e digicons]\o/[/e]