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[SUGGESTION] Spellbook Specialist Vs. Multiclass in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Hey everyone, I think something needs to be put in place to offer an advantage to those who only pick one class of magic. For example, if someone where to only pick the Fire Elemental book. Well perhaps get a research bonus? Or rather, if you pick all the elemental books, you get a spell research penalty? For example: 4 Books // No Bonus to Arcane Production // AND/OR // +15% Spell Research Cost 3 Books // +5% Arcane Production // AND/OR // +10% Spell Research

Reply to 1.08 Two Steps Forward, Three (Four or Five?) Steps Backwards in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

This isn't a suggestion, is it? And I'm really puzzled, in my game it's raining ressources. Well ok it's in clusters, but not that much 'emptyness'. I was able to get 3 gold mines before turn 100. And this is on a medium map. This is without the tech that unlock goldmines. Maybe your map had an issue when seeded. Better luck next time! Cheers, V PS: Makes me think of Civ games where you just... couldn't... get... iron... D:

Reply to Fixing Elemental? This is how to do it. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Hybridvitae" reply="7" id="2757838"]thread after thread after thread saying turn Elemental into a sequel to an older game. this thread more specifically then others has an ironic title for that. FIX Elemental by turning into NOT Elemental. That makes NO sense. Then it WOULDN'T BE Elemental. Stop trying to talk Brad and his company into re-making other games you loved and let him make his own game, and maybe join him in loving it too. If you want

Reply to Labor Day notes in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="50" id="2755564"] Someone, somewhere put it best: Under the current syste, the spell of making is a 20 mana spell. That's like 3 chain lightning spells. There's nothing to "save up" for. It also drastically hinders any sort of real POWER in the spells as they stand now. [/quote] I [quote who="Vhorthex" reply="9" id="2754720"] Th

Reply to What's the hold up on MP? in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

I'm afraid that this whole "let's make MP different" will just make Elemental a multi-headed dragon for them to deal with. It basically means the team will have to debug/support 2 games. Maybe not on the engine level, but on tweak and balancing. I think they made it worse for themselves.

Reply to What is it about THIS game that's so important? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="58" id="2755227"] Elemental has everything MoM had and much more.[/quote] I think you need to play 1 game of MoM, to refresh your memory, then come back and post again. If by that you mean: Elemental has spells, heroes, city building, magical items & dungeons. Well that's not looking too deeply into things. I mean the spells are so bland, please. How epic is it that the spell of "making" is 20 Mana to cast... 20... For those

Reply to Mana Regeneration in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kargaxe" reply="12" id="2754806"]A cheat and a game mod are only separated by perspective. Edit: I do prefer the MoM method but Elemental's is cool too. It just needs quite a few more updates.[/quote] Saying it was a cheat didn't wrap up exactly what I meant. Basically, you can't level it up, or do anything for it to go up through gameplay means. You will have to go and edit it yourself. There we go. And as far as Mana &a

Reply to Requesting advice about refunds and Stardock customer service in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] The first rersponse was a copy-pasted restatement of the Stardock return policy. Today, I got a curt and to-the-point e-mail, stating that no refund, full or partial, will be given due to the transaction having taken place more than 90 days ago. My reward for beta testing, I guess. I’m not really used to dealing with customer service. What do you guys recommend I should do at this point? [/quote] Wow,

Reply to Mana Regeneration in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kargaxe" reply="9" id="2754774"]I'd go for an independant stat for mana regen, i.e. how it is now. [/quote] That stat is "backend", currently it's not displayed in your stats or at character creation. Which is problematic for, unless you edit it like you said, it wont' change at all. And your suggestion is a semi 'cheat' if anything.

Reply to Mana Regeneration in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="vashtyphoon" reply="8" id="2754744"]Tying Mana regen to INT would not be too good either. Since it's the same stat that increases the power of the spells it would mean more powerful spells, more often, and power multiplied by Shards, if they ever work. I'd tie it into Charisma, Using the idea that it is ones force of persona that will allow more mana to accrue faster.[/quote] Don't get me wrong, I said "intelligence... or something". Ideally, the only wa

Reply to Awesome AI experience in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tekkor" reply="7" id="2738836"] Next thing I notice....the Sov who Ive been battling with is coming towards my city. Alone. He attacks. I kill him fairly easily. At that point I had like 4 cities. He had maybe about 5. But he walks over solo right up into my city and commits suicide against my sov and 2 units. Ok...... AI just seems really weird right now.[/quote] Actually it's probably that the AI became self aware for

Reply to Mana Regeneration in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="6" id="2754715"] wisdom (aka essence) Please, say it isn't so. I've been vexed by the random UI & doc references to "wisdom" and assumed they were just more editorial sloppiness. Now you're telling me that I've got yet another vain wish to add to my list... If it is indeed a randomly used synonym for essence, that would mark the death of essence as a potential major differentiator for Elemental's magic system. Not to mention serious dama

Reply to [eINFO] Spell chart in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Ok, This thing just made me fell off my chair. The spell of making costs... 20 Mana to cast... :( :O :S What? This is completely ridiculous. Again, taking MOM as a reference I think the Spell of Mastery was more than 1000 mana points to cast and could take very long to cast if you didnt' spend enough points in your casting skill. (skill that determined how much mana/turn you c

Reply to official PC Gamer review in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="hairrorist" reply="7" id="2753768"] Quoting Ahroo, reply 1Who is tom francis and why should I care about his opinion? Where's Dan Stapleton or Desslock? The game has been released far, far too early And so was your review. Tom Francis is probably the best known game reviewer in the business. PC Gamer also waited nearly a week to print, more time and leniency than most games get. Think before posting. <b

Reply to Mana Regeneration in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="loloh" reply="1" id="2754614"]For now it's a simple 1 mana point / turn, but SD intends to link that to wisdom (aka essence) in a future patch (it's somewhere in one of their master todo list). At that time I expect you'll have somewhere to see your mana regen. [/quote] What!? Link more stuff to essence? It's going to become this uberstat. Not only does it define how many simultaneous enchantments you can have, it dicdates how much man

Reply to ANNOYED in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Hey Nick, I'm really sorry you didnt' get any help in the forums, a lot of people are currently upset with the game so we dont' have the best mindset in here. :S [quote]The one time the game went on it seemed whatever i did the computer had got much better stuff and way more stuff and it was just a matter of time then.[/quote] * There is currently an issue where the AI can go into the negatives for his economy (Gold for example) and when he does so. He just keeps diggi

Reply to Terrain Exploitation in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]If you can suggest a means of using terrain - any means - that is something to talk about. The debate isn't about whether or not using terrain is right or wrong or whether Civilization is right or wrong. The debate is that we don't actually have a suggestion to work with. We have an idea (use terrain!) but that does not yet translate into anything we can call a game mechanic.[/quote] Hey Sagittary, You commented in one of my earlier post that it seemed I had changed my percepti

Reply to Why wouldn't you pick all the spellbooks? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

**** EPIC POST WARNING ***** Hi Dalamb, & Everyone else reading :) [quote] # 1 - Having all the element books is great because they each provide a powerful summonable creature. (sounds good to me but has to be balanced against whatever else you could do with the points; is it enough by itself if all the other criticisms are true?) # 2 - Having more than one element book is useless because the spells are all duplicates of each other. (well, there's #1

Reply to Multiplayer ever? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Uberwilhelm" reply="2" id="2753773"]Let them get the thing running right first before they add something new.[/quote] I took me a while to understand that they are making a game in a game for MP. different tech trees and all. So in that light I understand the hold up, even though my friend whom I convinced to get the game so we could play coop games... well he is not super happy. The worst is I told him next week, last week. hihihi Hey SD, I'm taking some o

Reply to Elemental: v1.07 Update in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] That's not to say gameplay dosen't get some update love... [/quote] OMG instant Boogie, I love you! (and the team :D)

Reply to 1.07 is available in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Uberwilhelm" reply="6" id="2753767"]Soooooo is this one going to wipe out my saved games also?[/quote] Actually, only for users with the name that start's with a "U". :) No I can confirm that loading save games seems to be working fine. Hope it's good for everyone. Now off to my last day of work, after an insane non-stop 5 month marathon of QA work... 16 days off... *drrooooolllssszzz* Again, high five for the SD Team!

Reply to 1.07 is available in War of Magic Elemental Forums

One step further! Woohoo! Now, the whole SD team deserves to pig out on their favorite food and... pass out I guess. :) Cheers, V

Reply to I REALLY don't like the city building limit in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Neitherman" reply="32" id="2753487"] Unlimited citys SOUND like fun, but realistically its problematic middle to late game. And your going to have at least one gigantic city (thanks to palaces) Which makes sense, there should be a capital somewhere right? [/quote] *Cough, Cough* What? If you don't want to have games with too many cities, I would suggest playing on smaller maps. Also, this would prevent us "hardcore" (or old geezers) play

Reply to Why wouldn't you pick all the spellbooks? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="MageMatthew" reply="32" id="2753458"]With a login name like MageMatthew you can tell i would be all over the Mage in this game. But having started many games i can say for sure picking more than 2 books is really a waste of points. Since mana takes forever to regen and that having all those powerful spells are usless since you are forced to sit around getting mana back or to run around avoiding fights till you regen enough.[/quote] LOL @ first sentenc

Reply to I REALLY don't like the city building limit in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] ."oh, you have plenty of space around the city but you can't build anymore cuz we say so." [/quote] In Elemental, magic plays tricks on you! O_O