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Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="42" id="2675579"]look, i think that whatever the story calls for is what should be used. not everything has to appeal to everyone, and not everything has to make everybody feel comfortable. sometimes a story, setting or whatever is not fair or equal or stuff like that. if people are refered to the races of men then so be it. maybe the historians in the game thought women were lesser creatures and lifted men to a higher ideal. there

Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="37" id="2675328"] The more steps we take away from gender binary the better. That's why its important. It's a video game, not a model of society. It's intended purely as a form of entertainment. It is the absolute *last* thing you should look to to "take steps away from gender binary". [/quote] Really? So being more accessible to someone's experience is less important, than, say...hidden pictures of family trips? I realize you w

Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Rincewind57" reply="30" id="2675307"] Oh god! Not a feminist! PFfft. Women having equal rights? Having less fear of equal treatment? What will they ask for next? To wear...PANTS?! Surely feminism doesn't refer to a pursuit of an egalitarian society but a pursuit of a female-dominated one? Presumably the word for the former would be a humanist? [/quote] No. feminism is not about a female dominiated society. You can suggest semant

Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Rincewind57" reply="25" id="2674929"]Can I suggest a radical solution? We instead have 'chaps'. There can be 'good chaps' and 'bad eggs'. Thereby circumventing all of the political correctness issues whilst being simply splendid terms to use in their own right. [/quote] Sounds good Mr. Pratchett. ;)

Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="22" id="2674660"] and also that this doesn't mean that Elemental has to make the same mistake Why are you assuming that it's a "mistake"? As was pointed out above, "human" and "woman" both have the word MAN in them, which makes "The Race of Man" a fairly accurate generalization as a more flavorful fantasy name besides "Human". [/quote] The more steps we take away from gender binary the better. That's why its important.

Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Mandelik" reply="21" id="2674650"] Quoting Kimaya, reply 20 As for all the whining about my suggestion being, to them, "feminist" or "politically correct" etc. -- it's a pity the idea upset you! I already pointed out the obvious that Tolkein etc. were very man-centric and that Elemental is another game drawing heavily on that for canon... and also that this doesn't mean that Elemental has to make the same mistake just

Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kimaya" reply="20" id="2674632"]Yeah, I made some Ironeers and they're the same regular race as the faction, which I expect is the way it's going to stay. The lore that I read actually had dwarves as non-Men by definition, which is also Tolkein-esque. As for all the whining about my suggestion being, to them, "feminist" or "politically correct" etc. -- it's a pity the idea upset you! I already pointed out the obvious that Tolkein etc

Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="15" id="2674247"] LOL. Another feminist trying to ruin everyone's fun. Fuck political correctness. While these assholes above me are super-diplomatic, I sort of agree with them to a certain extent. I argued heavily in a prior thread that female characters should not be gimped. However, there is sort of an established setting here which takes place in a male-dominated society. There's a certain extent where I think fo

Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="DamnedChoir" reply="11" id="2673417"] I'm Hispanic and I'm not insulted by the fact that a game based on European Medieval Fantasy features White people. Now The Last Airbender...that's more something you should be upset at. An Asian-Inspired Fantasy world turned into bland nonsense by a bad director replacing A Tibetan and two Eskimos with white people. [/quote] Ugh, reminds me of what SyFy did to Earthsea.

Reply to [Suggestion] Races of ... does it have to be MEN? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Beric01" reply="7" id="2672733"]LOL. Another feminist trying to ruin everyone's fun. The race of Men in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books, such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, refers to humanity and does not denote gender. In Tolkien's writings, Man with an initial capital letter refers to any human being http://en.wikipedi

Reply to [Suggestion] Egalitarian -> Warrior Tradition in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Xtropy" reply="1" id="2674948"]I thought egalitarian wasn't just cosmetic flair? I thought it had a practical function in that it gave you double the recruitment pool. [/quote] Which doesn't make sense to me since recruitment just requires one population right? Or if it requires more it doesn't say only half of your population, or what have you, is available for recruitment. But how often are you going to want to take half of your people and put t

Reply to ELEMENTAL SCHEDULE: STATUS in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="Twohawks" reply="166" id="2674844"]the trend is for a Thursday release (although that does not mean every week and at least once since i have been following it it got pushed to Friday) and from this: This week we plan to release Elemental BETA 3-A. This build will primarily be a stability/performance run through of Beta 3. We’re going to hold off adding significant new features until we’re happier with the stability.,

Reply to ELEMENTAL SCHEDULE: STATUS in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I was wondering when the next beta will be out? I'm unable to load saved games and thus can not progress too far. (Not complaining, just eager! :) )

Reply to [Beta3][Bug] Game freezes on attempt to load save game in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="TheBirthdayParty" reply="2" id="2674550"]Er excuse that bump, I meant to do it for a different post. [/quote] I attempted to do as you suggested. Loading a saved game as quickly as possible does no work, but I am able to alt tab to the task manager window I leave up and then press tab then space bar to close the game. But if I wait for the city to come my comp freezes and I am unable to even close the program. Ty for suggestion none the less. :)

[Bug][Gameplay] Teleportation, and seperately exiting the build menu. in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

My character is in a town. Stationed there. I cast teleport next to another town(since I can not teleport into the town directly). Shazam!...my character did not move. So I sigh and say fine, i have to exercise. I move my character out of the town. Have him move three tiles. Then poof! he's back in the town he tried to teleport from initially. Mana was still spent as well as the character's moves for that turn. Secondly, when you click on the map to exit out of a build menu it au

[Suggestion]First turn death not a good idea in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

The basic character without any negatives should not die on the first turn. Especially due to one of the roaming baby spiders.

Reply to [Beta 3][Bug][Graphics] in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="Twohawks" reply="3" id="2674630"]this graphic artifacting is a known issue and is something they are working to fix.. I find that when it happens opening and closing the item shop window or diplomacy(on occasion this was the only window that cleared the issue) windows will clear this up (until it happens again then repeat).. [/quote] Tried that. Didn't work. Exiting and restarting and reloading works though. Well if you can get a saved game to load. : /

Reply to [Beta3][Bug] Game freezes on attempt to load save game in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="Krooldeath" reply="3" id="2674636"]There is a report about this already. Wait until the background animation moves to the city and then try. Seems there is an issue loading a saved game right away for some people. [/quote] I have both actually. Takes a long time to load, but does eventaully. We're talking at least 3 minutes. And sometimes it freezes right away.

[Beta3][Graphics] "lens" discolorations in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Whenever I play E:WoM I have these yellow spots on certain sections of the screen. They do not move in their position regardless of scrolling the map. Sort of like a speck of dirt on a camera lens that stays in the same spot regardless of the camera's view point. They do not seem visible, though, when I scroll far back onto the high overhead/in the clouds view. Comp Specs: Windows XP Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.2 GHz Gra

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Reply to [Beta3][Bug] Game freezes on attempt to load save game in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Er excuse that bump, I meant to do it for a different post.

Reply to [Beta3][Bug] Game freezes on attempt to load save game in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

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[Beta3][Bug] Game freezes on attempt to load save game in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

E:WoM froze when I attempted to load a saved game. Could not even alt-tab. I do not know if the last debugg.err file will have the information since I had to restart and not exit the progam from the task manager, but here it is nonetheless: http://pastebin.ca/1896338

Reply to [Performance] beta3 game runs slow in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Got a working link for pastebin Here's is the bebugg.err from one session: http://pastebin.ca/1896332 Dxdiag.txt: http://pastebin.ca/1896334

Reply to Text hosting in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="marlowwe" reply="5" id="2674167"]Try using the one below - I had trouble with the one in the sticky post as well. http://pastebin.ca/ [/quote] Cool thanks! It worked, albeit the site loads slow.