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Reply to Happy New Year! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The exciting changes is that they hired the guy who made a complete mess out of Civ V and then bailed before fixing it? What am I missing, why would this be a good thing?

Reply to Almost…there in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I have not had time to play this game (or any game) at all lately, so I would also like to know if those of us who bought the game early automatically get the expansion packs added to our Impulse accounts, or if we actually have to take action of some sort before the 31st?

Reply to [Developer Feedback] Extensive overview of Elemental - Part 1: User Interface in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Holy shit, you're even more damaged than me man. Congratulations! Good job. :)

Reply to CTD on alt-tab yes yes yes, stiiiiiiill in there! in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I'm back on the Mac side of my computer and my last session didn't crash, but again, I'm glad that I'm not the only one with this issue.

Reply to First thoughts from early play in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Anyone who says that the interface is fine are blinded by fanboyism or simply don't care about interfaces.

Reply to Feedback from an interface designer in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="3" id="2723225"] While there's no button to take you to the next active unit, units with moves left are highlighted on the empire tree on the left hand side (similar to cities that are not building anything). Units automatically complete their previous orders on end of turn after the first, so if you tell your guy to move somewhere, he'll move right away during the turn you gave the order. After you end that turn, you can either manually move him again the n

Reply to Feedback from an interface designer in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

*moved to the OP*

Reply to CTD on alt-tab yes yes yes, stiiiiiiill in there! in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="2723325"]If you have a newer ATI video card, this is a known issue that cropped up again at the last minute after fixing another ATI issue. We've already got people working to sort it ASAP, but in the meanwhile you can run in windowed mode (at your desktop res it will look just like fullscreen but without edge scrolling) to avoid it. If you have an nVidia card, please post your debug.err file. The issue should not be present there.[/quote] Th

Reply to There is something ... odd about this well [huge feedback on game] in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I am also extremely disappointed with the interface released. It screams of low-budget, sadly. It's not up to par with Age of Wonders or Master of Magic (I'm talking about consistency and grouping here), and nowhere near modern interfaces like King's Bounty or Anno 1701. Now, defenders of Stardock will say that they indeed did not have a high budget, but that is no excuse today, imo. Information is freely available and there are a lot of indie game creators even who get interfaces consistent

Reply to Maps not Random (vers 1.00) in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="Buladelu" reply="28" id="2722974"]Calm down, guys. I'm sure Stardock will add "I want to play on totally random and unbalanced map*SNIP*[/quote] Fanboys... that's a recent development in the last few years of internet. Random maps, however, are not. They've been along for a lot longer than you have, and nobody complained about them back then. And what a very convenient time to forget the random map feature of the game this one is based on: Master of Magic.<

CTD on alt-tab yes yes yes, stiiiiiiill in there! in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Can I contact official stardock support about this now?

Feedback from an interface designer in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

My last thread is in the BETA forum, and can still be found here (I hope): https://forums.elementalgame.com/385058 But since the game is final now, I thought I'd start from scratch and see which things I trip over if I try to approach this fresh again: * When you click on a city that is not building anything, there is no indication on how to build anything either. Apparently, a double click brings up a build menu fr

Reply to Elemental: Game Play Example – Part 6 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

That snaking city is horribly ugly! Why haven't the kingdom's borders expanded in a more even manner? The city limits and kingdom's borders shouldn't be the same in such a large city, right?

Reply to Limited edition unboxing in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

For future reference, it's probably not the best idea to start off an "unboxing" video with "I've already unpacked it". ;) Not that it matters much to me, I've already pre-ordered it. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

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

I hope the archival DVD news gets a lot of mainstream attention once it is out. Too few publishers remove the DRM from their old games via patches, but this has to be the perfect solution.

Reply to Feedback from an interaction designer in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

So pictures of the final gold game has been released now, and my reaction is this: What the hell is going on? Take this picture for example: http://www.draginol.com/images2009/Afewscenesfromthecampaign_4DA8/image_5.png Somehow, the round icons at the edge of the screen are now square... yet, the icons on the bottom edge of the screen, representing the very same thing are

Reply to Big Fat Pictures and Day 0 reporting in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="2713426"] Quoting AllegroMonkey, reply 5 Wow that's fantastic! Even a chance at playing a bit earlier in the coming week is exciting. Will the day 0 build be a major tweek from the current gold version, or a small bump? MAJOR. Think Beta 2 to Beta 3 level changes.[/quote] Wait, this might be a good thing for us with Impulse... but what about those who buy the game without an internet connection? And what about

Reply to [Beta 4][CTD] Alt-tabbing STILL generated DX errors! in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I've discovered that pressing esc to open the game menu and alt-tabbing is also safer than alt-tabbing directly from the game, since it doesn't produce the weird, graphical glitches that otherwise often happen.

Reply to Feedback from an interaction designer in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="SolarVengance" reply="13" id="2695013"]I think I'll contribute to this list: * I don't know if you are already adressing this issue, but when you select a city you cannot scroll away from it until you deselect it. This is a bit annoying. Any building/training screen you have up should dissapear as soon as you click outside city borders. The same goes for building placement. I often end up building two huts in stead of one, because I instinctively click outside city borders to

[Beta 4][CTD] Alt-tabbing STILL generated DX errors! in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

So again, after alt-tabbing for a while, I get a DX error with invalid call when I try to get back into Elemental. At least it takes about 10-20 alt-tabs now, instead of just one, but the problem is not completely gone. Has the debug information changed location in Beta 4? I can't find it for the game... ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 8/11/2010, 15:30:03 &nbs

Reply to Feedback from an interaction designer in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Updated OP with changes from beta 4. I haven't played enough to find new issues yet. But... Am I missing something obvious here? Is there really still no way to see what units have moved or not, what units have uncompleted move orders, and no button to switch to a unit that hasn't moved and no button for completing a unit's movement orders? That is some extremely basic and fundamental TBS interaction stuff missing, in that case.

Reply to Zooming: Better or Worse? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Sareln" reply="5" id="2668037"]Have a cop-out answer: I like scaling for gameplay. I want to remove scaling for screenshots of awesome. So make sure that checkbox stays on that menu![/quote] Great answer! [e digicons]k1[/e]

Reply to Diplomatic Capital: Big Beta Tester Win! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Interesting thing reading the first post and seeing this for the first time. I do hope that Pierre Bourdieu was mentioned when this was being discussed. Look up "cultural capital" on Wikipedia if you haven't heard of it before.

Reply to Feedback from an interaction designer in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Updated the game today and tested version 0.92: *MOVED TO OP* I won't play much more this time either, because most of my interface flaws from my original post still stands, and also, the alt-tab CTD bug is still present in this version (although with a new error message this time).

Reply to Inns at gamestart? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="13" id="2653533"] Quoting Adam_H, reply 11It'd probably feel less odd if those picturesque inns weren't the only thing standing in an otherwise completely desolate wasteland.Less would be better. But if you think of them as way-stations between far distances they make more sense. I wonder if they will be intelligently placed in the final release (near rivers or passes or . . something that makes it sensible to be there).