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Reply to [.915] Sleeping on Beta 3 until Beta 4 in FE Beta Elemental Forums

It would be so sweet if differing victory paths supported different play styles. I remember someone complaining that his 4x game was more like a 3x. Civ5 touches on that when you have to choose early on whether to expand (ruling out a social victory) or not (making defense and diplomacy more important than military build-up), and FE has the potential to implement this nicely. Interested more in the exploring aspect of the game? Then funnel resources in

Reply to [eMOD/coreMOD] After the War 1.10 for E:wom 1.4 in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

How much do the mod tools let you tweak spells? For example, can you have spells require more than one shard to use, and have negative consequences for the caster (like being "winded," losing the following turn's movement). Can you drain a % of heath rather than a fixed number? There are tons of ways to make spells meaningful and powerful without being OP--the issue is whether modding allow you creative options to balance them. If it lets you do these things, I'd be

Reply to [eMOD/coreMOD] After the War 1.10 for E:wom 1.4 in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Understood, Heavenfall. There's only so much you can do, and it's tough to be motivated when things are broken beyond your control. Like I alluded to, it's still an awesome accomplishment to have done so much with the content (and I only use your mods, btw--haven't tried any others, and probably won't). You probably know this, but I'll mention it anyway. Balancing units and spells is laborious, but not too difficult if one has the right tools, a dec

Reply to [eMOD/coreMOD] After the War 1.10 for E:wom 1.4 in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="104" id="3006605"]I'm fairly confident that this mod has reached its potential. There are things I would like to do, that are not possible due to the game limiting me. And there are things that I'd like to do, that are simply not worth the time (primarily 3d models).[/quote] Sad to hear this, since I recently discovered your game fixes (as well as the factions and dungeons mods) and am loving them--I still find it strange that you

Reply to Observations/suggestions from a 4x zealot in Elemental Game Series Elemental Forums

Ah, thanks for the referral--I'll check into it right away. The idealist in me would rather stay away from mods and see the game as I bought it get polished, but that's impractical, heh. I'll grab fixes and be grateful, regardless of the source, especially if well-tested and thoughtful feedback can see real improvements.

Observations/suggestions from a 4x zealot in Elemental Game Series Elemental Forums

Hi there, devs and fellow gamers. It's exciting to see so much of this game's potential shining through. Though most likely these points are being discussed elsewhere, perhaps some of my input will be of value. --Game pace Lessening the maximum armies in a stack truly helped. Battles are more manageable, and the player has to more carefully choose which units to bring. Especially in the early game, the pace is quick/involving while still having

Reply to 1.08 ETA? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Bellack" reply="191" id="2774460"] Quoting solidsmooky, reply 177 I really have no idea why so many people dislike campaigns. I love them. Because campaigns in just about all TBS/RTS/SHOOTERS are boring because the tend to be linear which is never fun IMO. I perfer to create my on "campaign" if you will. Where I'll have no idea how it ends and does not have the restrictiveness of normal campaigns. I perfer a story

Reply to Elemental: can't load saved campaign games after 8/27 Update in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Yeah, I was downloading the new patch when I read this--I put that baby on hold until I finish my current game. I agree that Stardock should put a warning on any update that invalidates saved games ("info at the source is the wisest course"). Would save so many customer service issues. Anyway, thanks for the warning, Flow.

Reply to Elemental Sovreign level up crash in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

I also remember having trouble getting the click on the '+' field to register. A problem I've found is that the cursor becomes unsynced (best way I can describe it), where you can click on a specific spot on the map (especially in tactical battles), and yet the click registers quite a ways away (1.5-2 squares). So, it's possible you developed this problem and the game is thinking you're not clicking on the options (when the user interface shows that you are); try clicking all

Reply to Can't activate or register the game? See here first! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Hopefully this is the right place for my issue. I have a long history on GalCiv (see Gorde to find out how many games I've played) and it's worked smoothly until this last time. I had to upgrade my OS from W2K to XP and in doing so I needed to reinstall. I used Impulse to reinstall (and it correctly shows my account), yet when I went to post my latest game (as usual, started from the Metaverse screen), it showed a registration error (it said something like the numb