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Reply to Make city stats visible when chosing level upgrades in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Sign me up for the petition. Whatever way it's accomplished, we need more information for the level-up decisions.

Reply to Coming soon: Fallen Enchantress on Steam in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

1. I like Elemental: Fallen Enchantress as it is. 3. Tactical summons and spells affecting the entire battle area, like prayer and counterspell from MoM. Overland enchantments are also really cool, like 'Eternal night' or 'Holy Crusade'. 5. For random events I like events that give boni more than those that give penalties. -50% something just slows the game down. 2x mana from shards for a short period creates an interesting period.

Reply to [.95] Need Option for Two-Step Confirmation Process When Moving Units. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I agree with what Kongdej is saying. That's the way many games show paths, including Civ 5. And it works great. Only problem with it that I can see is that it might be difficult to program as there are a lot of calculations to do if you move your mouse around. I hope Stardock has the resources and know-how to do it.

Reply to [0.95 UI] Merge redundant "you have found an item" dialog to the following one in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Yeah, the "equip" button is not very useful right now since you have no clue what you're replacing with the found item. It's okay for the very beginning of the game when you don't have any items, but later on what you really need is the equip or trade screen.

[0.95 UI] Merge redundant "you have found an item" dialog to the following one in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Like the title says. When you find something lying on the ground, you first get a pop-up saying "you have found an item" and after clicking ok, you get a new pop-up saying what you found. The first pop-up is redundant, all the information could be in a single pop-up.

Reply to 25 Best Animated Movies in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

Nothing by Studio Ghibli on the list? I believe you, my dear forum friend, have a lot of excellent animation movies to catch up with [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to An idea to give strategic depth to Elemental Shards in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Wouldn't these changes actually simplify the game a lot? I mean I could just decide to play a fire mage and make every shard I meet have a fire shrine. Every game I could accomplish the same thing, no matter what the map layout would be.

Reply to [Maul] Balance Suggestions in FE Beta Elemental Forums

How about just a flat decrease without messing with the stats, which can get screwy. Every hit has half the hit chance of the previous one. Assuming you have an 80% chance to hit, that would mean that second hit has 40% chance, third a 20% chance, then 10% and so on.

Reply to Rome2 Total War pictures in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="joasoze" reply="12" id="3186316"]If they use 1% of the budget on AI this time, then we might actually have a game [/quote] I've found the AI to be quite good since Napoleon. It does have it's weaknesses, but what AI doesn't? I especially like how the AI actually attacks you on the strategic map. Back during the otherwise excellent Medieval 2, you could just walk over Europe, avoiding enemy armies and taking undefended cities.

Reply to Top 5 Games in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

For vintage, I'd like to give an honorary mention for two Spectrum titles: Reberstar Raiders Lords of Midnight Other than that, pretty much the games you've all mentioned already :-)

Reply to EDITED: SUGGESTION FOR DEVS - A Tweak to Solve the "Only 1 Action Per Turn On Rough Terrain" Problem. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Decimals and computers don't mix as well as integers and computers.

Reply to Endless Space - New turn based space 4x game in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

In case you want to participate in the ongoing discussion: https://forums.elementalgame.com/420530

Reply to Civ 5 Gods and Kings expansion in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

If I do immaterial work for someone for 50 hours, let's say I build them something out of their own materials. And they don't pay me. I would call that stealing, just like I would call piracy stealing. I'm not 100% sure of the differences between the words stealing and theft. In finnish we have just one word for the whole thing. Piracy, incidentally, is simply called "illegal copying". Fancy words sometimes hide true meanings. In other news, the expansion

Reply to EDITED: SUGGESTION FOR DEVS - A Tweak to Solve the "Only 1 Action Per Turn On Rough Terrain" Problem. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Making tireless march apply only to strategic movements sounds good to me. I'm not as sure of the rest. Fractional movement costs are not very intuitive to humans. How about plains costing 1 and rough terrain 1.5? That would also communicate the meaning: "You can move 50% faster along plains than along rough terrain"

Reply to [0.915][BUG] Pathfinding woes in FE Support Elemental Forums

Looks like the pathfinding algorithm doesn't consider the first diagonal movement to be valid. Hopefully this one is easy to fix. Also, if they just showed the path before movement, we would be able to avoid this and other pitfalls. It's hazardous to move more than one square at a time if there are monsters or enemies around, since you have no indication which direction your stack will take. With GalCiv this wasn't an issue as you knew you'd be flying pretty straigth as there was no terrain.

Reply to 64 bit gaming finally takes off in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Very well, I now see the light :-) 64 bit it is then, others can eat cake! Sorry about yet another food analogy, MarvinKosh :p

Reply to 64 bit gaming finally takes off in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Let me put this in another way. You have 4 bucks. An ice-cream costs 2 a cherry 3. You want the ice-cream more, but you buy the cherry and complain you didn't have enough money. Now change the words: red capes on campaign map = cherry, some other feature = ice-cream, money = memory. That's a design decision. Sure it would be best to have 5 bucks, but if you only have 4, you need to pick where to use it.

Reply to 64 bit gaming finally takes off in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Exactly. We can't have everything so we should have that which serves the purpose best.

Reply to 64 bit gaming finally takes off in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Savyg, this is what started this: "But we can't have lots of equally equippable body types because we can't fit it in memory" Are you on track now?

Reply to 64 bit gaming finally takes off in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="21" id="3161044"]Could their design be less ambitious? Of course. But if it was, would they want to play it? Who would want to create a game they don't want to play? I'm sure I could continue, but I assume you get the point.[/quote] Yeah, it's a valid point. I guess my point revolves around the "bang per buck" principle. Which is more valuable to the player? Nice looking trinkets on the strategy map, or visually distin

Reply to 64 bit gaming finally takes off in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="3158655"]This is incredibly important to the industry. Not having access to more memory is very limiting these days. For instance, for those of you who have read Elemental: Destiny's Embers, you know that the Fallen aren't just "big humans". They are, effectively, a collection of fantasy archetypes. The Ironeers are supposed to be dwarves. But we can't have lots of equally equippable body t

Reply to "Online all the time" authentication required in FE Beta Elemental Forums

One reason for the connection is that all crashes are relayed to them automatically. Which is a pretty good feature for a beta, I think. I know I wouldn't want to write an email / forums post with attachments every time a beta product crashes on me. That alone is worth the connection in my eyes.

Reply to where to go after wheel of time and game of thrones(A Song of fire and ice) series in Books Elemental Forums

The Black Company by Glen Cook might be worth a shot for you.

Reply to New Space Strategy Game in Development "Endless Space" in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Looks very interesting. And more promising than Sword of the Stars 2 at the moment.. The UI looks really beautiful. Hopefully the gameplay is smooth and deep too. Time for a happy face [e digicons]:D[/e]

Reply to AI Wars: Beta 3 Edition in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Maybe the AI should be taking unit counts into account when deciding on spells? Few units on own side -> use buffs and summons. Many units on own side, few on enemy side -> debuffs and direct damage.