Ashain

Reply to Road Building…Your thoughts? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I think I agree with people that say we should have a mix of ideas. Organic roads are a very good and natural idea, generally roads between citys start out as dirt/caravan tracks of traders moving between cities. The traders are going to find the easiest/best route for them between the cities. Generally however at some point, assuming that the cities are growing and prospering, the government will HAVE to invest in building roads to be able to increase the amount of traffic. Governments that

Reply to Pirate Dilemma in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="Dargoon999" reply="67" id="2542917"]As they are right now, Pirates are broken and they do not add anything fun to the game, in fact I think they take away some of the fun from what I think the game should be (empire building, colonizing/researching and fleet managing). [/quote] I think this pretty much sums up my feelings on pirates right now, nothing to do with difficulty, they just aren't fun.

AI envoy usage in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

So the last game I played with Diplomacy 1.01 I was teamd up with two hard AI's vs 3 other hard AI's on Twin Empires. I started next to one of my AI's and the other was across on the opposite side of the map. I far away AI got quickly isolated and eventually beaten. The other AI next to me got pretty big and we eventually beat the other AI's out of existance. My complaint however was this, during the ENTIRE game my friendly AI sent one envoy ship that spent a grand total of about 30 s

Reply to Czech Republic - In your country, stealing your photos. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="strikesback5" reply="6" id="2255108"] I beat Yahoo! too the punch, in case you havent noticed, I posted this about 5 hours ago.[/quote] You beat yahoo to the punch py posting it on a completely unrelated non-news site?

Reply to A picture worths thousands word, what can this picture tell us? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Actually the topic of the thread is basically what can we learn from the screenshot, so he's basically just speculating on something he noticed. Also keep in mind the game is pre-alpha, it could just be a placeholder at this point.

Reply to Survival of fittest...or survival of the biggest? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Yeah but if we didn't speculate what would we have to talk about?

Reply to An interesting conversation. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

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Reply to Pre-beta wishes, if devs can read it in one go... in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Climber" reply="7" id="2199641"] Pearl Harbor (& other sneak attack) happens in History; but it is a tactical event that hardly affects the final outcome of a war. The result of a war bases on factors on the strategic level. [/quote] Semi off-topic but i'd like to correct this thought here. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with the intention of catching the Pacific fleet in port and wiping it out. According to all their intel the fleet sho

Reply to Survival of fittest...or survival of the biggest? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="18" id="2252513"] It's the same in Civilization. You start with a settler, but you still loose the game if you loose all your cities.[/quote] Actually, I don't have the quote to prove it, but brad definitely stated that you start the game with just yourself (i.e. the channeler) wandering around. I think he said that if you then decided to invest essence in an area to make it habitable people would be drawn from the surroundings to populate the t

Reply to Master of Magic 2 = Elemental ? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Well I think the point is that Elemental is supposed to be the spiritual heir as opposed to the direct descendant of MoM. I think they want to capture all of the same gameplay styles that MoM had and capture the same audience that has been waiting for a sequel forever. That being said, I don't think there's even close to enough details yet to say whats similar. No doubt information will continue to flow, especially once alpha starts.

Reply to Survival of fittest...or survival of the biggest? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I don't know about how in depth, but it has been brought up before. I think the basic idea is that a channeler who has many cities will be chosing to invest his power in the industrial might of his empire. I.e. he will be the one who has large armies/trade routes/better weapons etc. On the other hand the channeler who has very few cities will have far more power invested in himself and would likely have access to spells that could handle the legions sent against him. <p

Reply to Games with Style in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

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Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Either way, here's my votes though, borg vs flood: borg, because flood is biology that takes over biology, whereas borg is technology that takes over biology so borg nanos could rewrite flood DNA and flood couldn't do jack against tech. federation vs covenant: federation. Simply put all the federation needs to do is make an antimatter torpedo (they use antimatter regularly as a power source since TOS) fire that at an unshielded covenant ship, and there's one toasty coven

Reply to Halo vs Star Trek in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Problem with this thread is that when you include books in with video games/tv shows, they are often inconsistent with themselves. I remember reading the ST book Vendetta years ago where they said that warp 10 was the speed limit of the galaxy, and that when you reached it you were theoretically in all places at once. They clocked 9.9 to be somewhere around 3000c. Then if you ever watched the last episode of ST, the future version of the Enterprise-D with the 3rd nacelle and

Reply to Bing vs. Google: First impressions in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="chevelleking" reply="15" id="2244218"]You forgot what is most important, which URL is faster to type, Bing vs google, Bing clearly wins![/quote] And if you think that wasn't a very clearly thought out design point... Another point about the name is, if I said I was going to google something, everyone would know exactly what I meant. However if I said I was going to windows live something, it wouldn't have nearly the same catchyness as say.... binging somethin

Reply to Microsoft= Epic Win in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Wrong. All PC's are for Elitists who think a machine makes them better than other people. [/quote] [quote]I pity how miserable you must be emotionally to have to resort to insulting people based on their gaming machine.[/quote]

Reply to The New - Star Trek movie 2009 in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="8" id="2240174"]Wait, are you actually calling that kind of fiction "plausible"? I'd love to see your explanation on how the warp drive is plausible. "High tech" does not imply that it's even in the realm of possibility, much less plausible. That's what I was making fun of. You must see the huge irony in picking out scientific inaccuracies in the new movie while being perfectly fine with faster than light travel without which Star Trek would

Reply to Microsoft= Epic Win in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Vicente" reply="18" id="2237914"] Last time I checked games costed money on PC too. So that argument is fail argument. And as twifightDG said, a couple of hundreds dollar upgrade is a new console. But we can make a test: pick a 500$ PC released in 2005 and let's see how well it will run Crysis 2 when it's released. No matter how much money you throwed at a PC in 2005, you are going to have to get a new one to play that game (or over the years you would have spent a lot of mon

Reply to Forum Update - June 2, 2009 in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

I know you said you weren't gonna list the minor ones, but is there a general change log we can see to know what we're looking for? Edit: ok in my case I couldn't see any of the other actual replies until AFTER I posted in this thread...

Reply to Will the Federation meet the Borg in the new timeline? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Personally i'm rather sick of star trek using alternate realities as a prop to spin off entirely new series/movies as a valid license to just wave around and say "look, I don't have to fit in with the established stories, alternate reality remember?". Honestly, it's star trek, its famous for whats already been written and thats why most of us were drawn in to see the new movie (imo). It just seems to me like a terrible cop out to just use this movie to lay the groundwork for the inexora

Reply to Secret of Monkey Island Fans? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Haree78" reply="13" id="2238434"]Well the entire season is only $34.95, that's for 5 episodes. They will be released with roughly a month between each. It just means each one will be it's own little mini story but there will be an overall story going on no doubt concluded with the final episode. Having played the Sam and Max episodes the quality is good, I just hope they capture that SoMI atmosphere and humour just right. Although I can't garauntee it

Reply to The New - Star Trek movie 2009 in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="23" id="2237825"]It's good Trek. Don't confuse Trek with science, though. Scientifically accurate movies do not make for good entertainment [/quote] Actually the original series was commended many times for thoroughly researching the plausibility of most of the fiction that they threw at the fans. Also am I the only one that picked up on the fact that the whole idea of putting Kirk in command hinged on the fact that the captain pu

Reply to Secret of Monkey Island Fans? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="rigphoria" reply="11" id="2238361"]Ashain, did you ever play the episodic Sam and Max games by Telltale? They're full games that continue a story, they're just a bit shorter and always cheaper. I think they were around 20$ per on release and now you can get a full season for around that much.[/quote] No, honestly before today i've never actually heard of Telltale, so I profess my total ignorance on them in general. But in trying to read your post you say they're "$20

Reply to Secret of Monkey Island Fans? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Did anyone else catch this part? "Following the tradition of Telltale Games, Tales of Monkey Island will be episodic, a five-part series set to be released monthly (more or less.)" I don't know about anyone else but this already irks me. When I buy a game, I want the whole damn game, not just dribs and drabs released to me per the developers whims. Other games have add-ons such as entrenchment for SOASE which is fine because SOASE is a complete game on it's

Reply to Track posts in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="4" id="2237018"]There actually is a "view all user's replies" option, but it's restricted to moderators only. Not entirely sure why, though.[/quote] Is that something thats likely to change Kryo?