Entorwellian

Reply to WOW! THANK YOU! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Tried it out for a few hours and the improvement from WOM is incredible. The UI is a lot more cleaner, the RPG mechanics and character progression choices are great, and I haven't experienced any crashes as of yet. However, magic still feels vastly underpowered and too expensive, whereas in Master of Magic and Age of Wonders I was able to fling enchantments and spells around without having to worry about becoming mana-bankrupt after a couple of turns. If I am understanding correctly, its

Reply to Let's stop with the special tile nonsense. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I think you've hit the nail on the head with why the surrounding landscape seems empty and boring: It's just *there* and we can't interact with it in any meaningful ways (except for arbitrary defense bonuses). Heck, there doesn't even have to be a huge graphical change as we can fill in parts with our imagination as you describe with your example of Civilization's use allocating labour to different tiles. To further elaborate, Civilization's case (the older ones), they just shows a little whe

Reply to [Destiny's Embers] Just curious, how's the Elemental Book? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

^^^So movie critic reviews aren't valid because they have never made a big budget film?^^^ It's pretty bad. I mean I was pretty lenient with it because Brad Wardell is a game programmer, not a novelist. But holy jeez the atrocious grammar, coupled by the fact that there was an actual novelist that was writing alongside Brad, made me stop reading it a good 30 pages through. It reads at a grade 4 education level, and that's being polite. I'm enjoyin

Reply to Neoseeker’s Elemental: War of Magic Review in Elemental News Elemental Forums

You don't give a game 9 out of 10 when it's missing multiplayer and a host of game mechanics, regardless if the reviewer was playing through the betas or not. It's akin to saying "Sin: Episodes gets 10/10 due to the promise of new episodes down the pipeline."

Reply to Tactical Combat discussion continuation in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Controlling the length of a tactical battle. This should be a toggle that the host could control which can be set in an option menu. A default could be set at 5 minutes or so initially, but this can be increased or decreased depending on the host. I guess this would be close to how Sword of the Stars handles tactical combat. Randomization vs. Richness. If the environment plays a role in impeding movement or blocking line-of-fire for ran

[NPC] Entorwellian The Questionable in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6695988/Entorwellian.xml (May 6th edit: changed some of the stats and descriptions around) Beta-tester name: Entorwellian

Reply to Impulse gets Total Annihilation! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="TAU_gamma" reply="139" id="2565194"] Quoting Entorwellian, reply 132For those complaining about no music: Just burn the mp3's onto an audio CD (no need for a blank track at the beginning) and make sure to remove out the 2 second pause-between-tracks command. It works wonderfully in-game. Track 1 DOES need to be added in order for TA to play the appropriate music (it switches tracks according to the amount of action ingame), also track 1 will never be played by TA (

Reply to Impulse gets Total Annihilation! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

For those complaining about no music: Just burn the mp3's onto an audio CD (no need for a blank track at the beginning) and make sure to remove out the 2 second pause-between-tracks command. It works wonderfully in-game.

Reply to How to give resources? Locked teams... in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Your AI ally has to research the tech, which they seem to rarely do until late into the game. Honestly it should be patched so that it defaults to being able to demand and offer credits.

Reply to How to Demand Resources. in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Yeah its annoying. You should be able to demand credits/resources from them when you research it right off the bat.

Reply to New Map List in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

For Diplomacy: Agamemnon's Bounty Celanus Core Desperation Devil's Caludron Domination Double Cross Fire and Ice Gateway Hyperion Gates Implosion Nemesis Secrets Triad Triumvirate Voruk's Labyrinth Whilrwind and Wrathful. For Entrenchment: Derelict Grindstone Melting Point

Reply to My first real play of Diplomacy in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="10" id="2531978"]The setting is fairly meaningless in single player, unless you care to limit your AI alliances.[/quote] I don't agree with the setting being meaningless in single player. It presents the opportunity to backstab your allies if you set the allied winners to a low number. Additionally it can also allow the AI backstab you and take the win (which has happened to me once already.)

[RESOLVED] Unable to demand/offer credits after researching necessary requirements. in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

The option to demand resources from other AI opponents isn't coming up as either Advant or Vasari for me, even after I have researched the technology to do so. Is there something I'm missing or is it just not activating? Nevermind. Thanks guys.

Reply to Questions about Diplomacy game mechanics in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Absolutely love the diplomatic victory condition. Thanks for adding it after our suggestions for something like it.

Reply to [Fixed next build]Pirates are ridiculously powerful??? in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I love pirates in Diplomacy as they are right now. They aren't a nuisance anymore and are an effective tool and a threat at the same time. I actually invested in the Vasari's "decrease pirate strength" research option. Don't change them too much if there is some sort of rebalancing that will happen.

Reply to I honestly don't get the "diplomacy" expansion. in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="Leuthesius" reply="10" id="2510886"] Also, Diplomacy isn't really meant for single player play--but multiplayer. In a two vs two game, the Diplomacy tree could allow one team to have increased defense, trade, research, weapons power, and so on. So if you've got two Vasari players and they've got all of the diplo tree taken care of, and you attack them, there's a chance you'll be dealing with 62,000hp worth of Orkulus starbases in a single system. Diplomacy is the next step in

Reply to I honestly don't get the "diplomacy" expansion. in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="Leuthesius" reply="5" id="2510437"]Keep in mind, this is still Beta.[/quote] Yes but the problem is that the beta is nearing the end and its still feels like its missing the mark of what it should be doing which is just what Tkins stated: creating situations where diplomacy is needed. At the very minimum it should have what others have been saying: victory condition options (i.e. only one player may win, two players, three, etc...) or something akin to Risk Mission cards w

Reply to Brother In Arms - Training School in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

This is a great idea and I'd love to sign up for the class. Could you post the replays too afterwords to study from?

Reply to All I really want from Diplomacy is... in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I believe a lot of the posters on here are shying away from the original concerns that Darvin brought up and are just adding their own desires in the game arbitrarily. The first problem of there being no reason to backstab an opponent has to do with the fact that there is no advantage in doing so where there should be one. If you make an advantage to backstab someone, whether it be due to a winning condition or a gameplay mechanic that makes backstabbing an attractive option (like the Ascenti

Reply to Building capture in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

A couple of times.

Reply to All I really want from Diplomacy is... in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="DesConnor" reply="16" id="2494354"]Tons of concepts [/quote] Agree wholeheartedly. Culture is definitely not used to its potential and, if the developers could find some additional benfits to building culture structures, would prove to be more beneficial in 1 vs 1 games where diplomacy is not an option. The various victory conditions are a must, as well. Again, I don't feel the need to do any Machiavellian scheming or backstabbing if I can't benefit from it in

Reply to All I really want from Diplomacy is... in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Those two concerns are definitely the most important ones that I've seen brought up to attention. However, you are a bit vague with the terms you are using and it would help if you denfined what you mean by a "strategic threat." The way I'm seeing it is that you would want something akin to Galactic Civilization's "Ascention" resource where, if the player builds a starbase upon them and gather 1000 ascention points they'd win. ...Actually, something like that would solv

Reply to Put a limit on the number of possible winners in unlocked games. in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Agreeing with the 1 Victor, 2 Victor, etc... options. Backstabbing would be a far more crucial than it is now.

Reply to Sins: Diplomacy Beta 2 Notes in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I would of liked embassies to be an actual construction akin to starbases (only smaller!) that the envoy would transform into. However, what we got now is beginning to work out. It just needs to *really* be refined more, as keeping an eye out on each envoy on a planet is extremely difficult and taxing in terms of micromanagement.

Reply to So tell me about diplomacy in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="Agent of Kharma" reply="7" id="2473149"]Well jeez, that really disappoints me. I thought there would be things like giving units, giving tactical slots or logistical slots, giving planets, etc. which would have been way cool. The stuff you listed doesn't impress me in the least. Unless I hear something else that ends up changing my mind I don't plan to buy it.[/quote] I'll admit that the lack of new toys to play with is off-putting. Right now it just feel