To be honest I could live with out of memory errors and learn to save every turn. To me the biggest problem is everything else. If the AI was great, combat tactical and engaging, game balance perfect, story compelling, the campaign kept you coming back for more, the magic system original and fun, graphics interesting (and really, I don't expect or require  too much from turn based strategy game graphics), then I'd happily live with the out of memory errors...

Unfortuantely, the AI is beyond terrible, combat is not tatical nor engaing, there was no attempt whatsoever to balance the game, the story is a yawner, there is no more to come back to in the campaign, the magic system is the some old tired rehashed magic schools (I know the name of the game is "Elemental" but really... air, earth, fire, and water? - you couldn't come up with anything more original? really?), and the misty watercolor graphics seem intentionally designed to prevent you from ever forming any sort of emotional attachment to your heroes.

I really hope Elemental will onday be a good game. But it it does it will have to be the game comeback of all time. Ever.

Well Stardock is only as good as it's last game and this one is horrible. I updated and now it says I can't log on to impulse, I'm logged on to impluse now. Nothing changed on my computer except the update. I emailed them no response. So now I can't even play the game to see if the update is worth the time. This is typical of this game. It was supposed to be the new Master of Magic reborn. Well it doesn't come close. I loved Galactic Civilizations, they really missed the mark on this one. Well I bought the ultimate version of this game hoping it would be good, this will be my last purchase from them, I'm not sure how long they or Impulse will last up against the like of Steam. SO moving forward I have to ask myself if any games I buy electronicly I can only own them as long as the company I buy them from exists. Impulse or Steam who do you think will go under first, especially when Stardock put out this kind of product. No one will just trust their next product.

This has been the most frustrating game I have ever played.  Not only out of memory crashes but crashes all the time once the game gets a little more interactive (battles, etc).  I am only playing tiny worlds as anything else gets way too slow down the road and crashes all the time.  They promised more monsters with this update and instead they took away all the monsters.  Now I encounter none.  What is this?...

I hope one day they can address at least this constant crashing issues.

Likewise, I updated and now it tells me "cannot download datafile...".  I'm going to uninstall it and not bother with it anymore.

Interested to know if anyone bought a car in the same state, e.g. not running properly, constantly breaking down, running very slowly, a satnav that didn't know it's arse from it's elbow, would they be encouraged by the dealer it was bought from promising they'd get it working eventualy?

So what you're saying is, essentially, the game has not improved at all despite Stardocks efforts? Great...

geez your reply is an ignore in itself and just as bad as the bug whiners. lets see, 4x rts combat with redundancies... lol ....dont think this genre of gaming is our cup of tea if you can say that:)

You argue for "effort" as if it had some meaning to the end user. It seems some percieve that "effort" is a result in it's own right.

It is not

The "effort" that Stardock puts into the game is entirely transparent to the end user. I am not in the slightest bit interested in the "effort" that I am continually told about.

I am interested solely in result

A game that works. Does not crash, and offers a modicum of gaming challenge.

The game is almost 7 months old, is still beatable (when it stays running long enough) with the simplest of tactics and constantly falls over with the same errors it had on release day across a wide range of systems (5 totally unique systems of my own).

What value is there in "effort" then? None that I can see - I will measure results.

As David F said "the game has not improved despite Stardock's efforts"

So to the end user it is the EFFORTS that are redundant.

What use is effort with little or no result?

Wonderful oversimplification. The equivalent of a counter would probably sound something like, "LYING IS WRONG," or, "YOU SHOULD BE IN POLITICS." I can see why you look up to David F since you employ a similar, albeit equally annoying, tactic. 

Or rather what the nitwit said that I said. You know, when he OVERSIMPLIFIED my statement.

Honestly, the irony of these replies are losing their charm. It's not even that complex* to see what's wrong with your "counter" and yet, even with a month to consider your reply, you've fallen into the same trap as David F. Can you even tell what this so-called "debate" is over? Because it's beyond annoying to watch you blindly flailing about in order to hit some imagined target, only to end up beating on yourself.

*(Haha, get it? Yeah, I thought not. Or I wouldn't bloody be here... Again!)

Because they're bloody chatting to me about a comment that's two months old! Do I want to be poked for the rest of my life on this idiotic topic? Hell no!

I get what he's saying but let me reply in the same tone and words he replied to me, "I'm not interested."

Or maybe that I don't want to be brought into this conversation for several more years. Imagine that?

The fact that you believe I'm criticizing people who bemoan the "lack of result" makes me wonder if you even understand.

Like David F? Excuse me while I eye-roll.

This entire topic started over an oversimplification, which I thought to rectify. There's the joke if you hadn't guessed.