[quote quoting="post"] Most games today are derivative, simplistic corporate money-makers aimed at the mainstream and boasting ever improving graphics and little else. [/quote] Well, to be fair, elemental is also not inventing the genre. There was MoM and AoW... In fact, it is quite difficult to find original concept in this game.
Do you like to be a beta tester even if you have to pay money for it? (serious question, not a joke, I do for example) Then buy it. You will see how game progresses and you will have influence on this game - Stardock listens. But be prepared that game is not that interesting right now. What is fun is to watch it grow, and becoming good game - it is different kind of fun.
[quote who="econundrum1" reply="45" id="2770594"]I don't think it's lat boring, your question is a little loaded. [/quote] It is not loaded, for me it is completely boring. I understand that some people may see it differently, but I would never understand why. At this point it is quite boring to the level that I do not play it.
I can not put my finger on it, but why the tactical combat is so boring in this game? Compare this for example with King's Bounty game - combat shines there. Is combat field too big? Is it because there are no interesting topological elements (blocks) on the field? Is it variety of the units? Is it absence of special abilities? All of it together? Should some weapons be able to hit in two cells? Should there be poison weapons? Should there be more magical units? Or is it because of sq
[quote quoting="post"] If none of the Stardock developers gave you warnings about the game ... [/quote] That's actually hard to believe. Lots of beta testers even without seeing the 1.06 version (or whatever is the "release" version) understood that the game is rushed. I can not believe that Stardock employees did not rise this issue, unless Frogboy runs Stardock in such way that everyone is afraid to speak his own mind. But this is hard to believe, frankly,
[quote who="p22" reply="11" id="2759515"] Quoting Vallu751, reply 9Knights roll: 1, 0, 4, 5, 6, 10 defense: 1, 0, 1, 1, 4, 0 damage: 0, 0, 3, 4, 2, 10 So, if defense rolls are done separately (not single def/(num. troops) roll for all defenders), just like attack, the big strength of squad units is that their "rolls", both attack and defense ones, average out, compared to single troop.[/quote] That, plus the fact that i
Is there anything planned to address late game mechanics? Right now it is boring and tedious...
I disagree. Oh I agree that AI is bad, but I think balancing and significant late game changes should be incorporated. Good AI can not be written without first setting the rules of the game, and right now, I suspect lots of changes are needed in the rules in order for the game become fun, THEN good AI is possible to write.
I second this request.
I suggest to add separate topic of late game improvement. Granted right now I can not play much of it, due to performance issue, but something there needs to be done in term of adding fun and removing tedious micromanagement (that includes caravan management and protection). I think this is one of the most if not THE MOST important focus of development, because while despite of all problems, early game is still kind of fun, but mid to late game is not.
Well, I do think that monsters are needed, just reduced amount. However, the late game suffers from many problems, and just reducing amount of monsters will not help. Some automatic way of protecting caravans is needed so that one can build remote outpost and have caravan to it. Presently if you position many units alone the route, they will die sooner or later if you just left them there - they do not heal. The amount of micromanagement in cities should be reduced. Literally for late
[quote who="Empyrean" reply="6" id="2747354"]While Elemental was certainly released before it was really finished, here's how I see it: I could buy it now, and have a half broken game to fiddle around with while they finish it and turn it into a great game in a couple of months. Or, they could have taken a couple of months to really polish it and release it then. Either way, I'll have a great game in a couple of months, but at least now I have something to mess around with if I wa
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="57" id="2745930"]Hey guys, As we fix things internally, can you send some nice, huge, late-game saves over to [email protected] and [email protected]? Besides our personal test-cases, we'd like to make sure we're testing against some external late game crawlers as well. Thanks![/quote] It is not exactly late game, I would say it is mid game (turn about 150) but can you check this:<a href="https://forums.elementalgame.com/3942
I do not think it is a leak. I have RESTARTED game, loaded the save file, and EXACTLY the same problem.
Also, some "repel" towers may be helpful. Basically, one would have to build them alone the caravan roads if outside sphere of influence. But who would build them? Pioneers? Or separate class - builders (separate item to make builders in unit design) Alternatively or in addition, the road itself may repel monsters with some width (one may need to build improvement on the road to do that) Also, currently pathfanding for units is not very good, it does not use cities as a shortc
I have 3G of memory (Vista 32 max). And while it does generate errors if I alt-tab the game, it generates regadles if I play this save file or not. I think the problem here is some kind of infinite loop somewhere that consumes resources.
[quote who="charon2112" reply="2" id="2745008"]I actually find late game micro management a problem in most 4X games. That's why sometimes I'll quit and start a new game, I find the early and mid game more interesting...[/quote] Yes, but I think it is especially bad in this game, due to all those monsters, and absence of ANY negative aspect to grow. In civ there is corruption and city maintenance, there is nothing like this in this game.
[quote who="MrManNo1" reply="3" id="2745017"]You can raze cities by hitting "x" when the city is selected.[/quote] While I can, right now there is no reason for this to do - it is always beneficial to have it.
Unless one go quickly for the victory (like conquest) on tiny map, the late game is very bad. There are 2 problems 1) Technical problem - the game just become VERY slow. I have good computer, I do not think it should slow down like that. More over, it seems that it just hits some kind of barrier, like in 20 turns around turn 150 it converts from OK to run game, to nearly impossible to run. 2) Late game mechanics. When you kingdom is big, it becomes just way too tiresome to pla
1) Load this saved game . 2) Press end of turn button. The game become extra slow. 3) After some time a window will open asking if I want to combat some troops. Press auto resolve. 4) After some time a window will come with battle results. Click OK That's it. The game never finishes "end of turn" processing and VERY slow. Overall the performance of the game was quite good until like 5 turns ago, when it sudd
[quote who="sagittary" reply="3" id="2743598"] That said, did you really need it to win or did you just want lots of gildar?[/quote] I personally want lots of gildar. Who cares if I win, as long as I am rich? :P
Funny screenshot. I call it "my spider farm":
[quote who="Corbeaubm" reply="6" id="2742607"]My current empire, early on in an attempt at a quest win, in both rendered and cloth map formats: Reduced 91%Original 600 x 480 Reduced 91%Original 600 x 480[/quote] Did you report your first screenshot as problem with the border bug?
Magicians are the units that have magical spells but only of a single book. The book school can be defined by several things. It could be special building in the city. It could be researched in magic branch of reseach. It could be simply that the city with particular shard resource produces particular magicians. Combining (training larger troops) should improve intelligence, while incising veterancy should increase manna/essence and health. Actually, the unit has to be designe
[quote who="Das123" reply="57" id="2739459"]I wonder if in the CivV forums there is the 'parallel universe' discussion going on about the same subject. [/quote] Yes they were. I personally do not like hexes in Civ V, the way they make map look like, with all those zigzags... However, for tactical battles I think hexes are better.
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