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Reply #26 March 25, 2009 1:40:15 PM
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I'm still not 100% sold on the artistic style you guys have gone with but this looks a lot better than the very early samples you had out. Hope it continues to improve. Can't wait till this is out.

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Reply #27 March 25, 2009 4:25:23 PM
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Quoting Noldofinwe,
reply 12
Btw. how big can the maps get?

I think one of the devs basically said "as big as we can make them"

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Reply #28 March 25, 2009 5:18:46 PM
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Quoting Lothar,
reply 1
I'm still not 100% sold on the artistic style you guys have gone with but this looks a lot better than the very early samples you had out. Hope it continues to improve. Can't wait till this is out.

This IS early alpha here...

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Reply #29 March 25, 2009 5:21:23 PM
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Please include Yellow, Red, Orange, Blue, Purple, and Green Power Rings with that decoder ring you showed in that.

 

Oh and an Indigo Staff too

 

 

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Reply #30 March 25, 2009 5:30:09 PM
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So? That doesn't mean things will continue to improve.

I doubt they will mess it up but companies that have had good reps have done so before.

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Reply #31 March 25, 2009 6:33:00 PM
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Makes me even more desperate to be in the Beta 0!!!

Looks excellent.

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Reply #32 March 26, 2009 12:45:24 PM
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Tres cool. Glad to see some footage! Thanks for the glimpse.

Only give us more vids if it does not slow down production.

 

 

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Reply #33 March 26, 2009 8:23:05 PM
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I have GOT to find some spare coin to get on the demo boat.

 

Thx for the teas devs!

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Reply #34 March 27, 2009 3:32:27 AM
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I couldn't help but notice that Elemental: War of Magic is in the coming soon section on Impulse...

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Reply #35 March 27, 2009 4:40:15 AM
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Quoting Lost_WLd,
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I couldn't help but notice that Elemental: War of Magic is in the coming soon section on Impulse...

yeah, 'soon' is realitive for sure.    But I mean, it should be less than a year, right?

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Reply #36 March 27, 2009 11:59:25 AM
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Quoting landisaurus,
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yeah, 'soon' is realitive for sure.    But I mean, it should be less than a year, right?

I believe Blizzard has a good take on "soon":

 

Copyright 2004-2009 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. "Soon" does not imply any particular date, time, decade, century, or millennia in the past, present, and certainly not the future. "Soon" shall make no contract or warranty between Blizzard Entertainment and the end user. "Soon" will arrive some day, Blizzard does guarantee that "soon" will be here before the end of time. Maybe. Do not make plans based on "soon" as Blizzard will not be liable for any misuse, use, or even casual glancing at "soon."

 

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Reply #37 March 27, 2009 12:44:19 PM
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Hah! Nice finding!

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Reply #38 March 27, 2009 2:01:35 PM
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Nice!  Where did you dig that out of?

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Reply #39 March 27, 2009 9:40:43 PM
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Quoting Noldofinwe,
reply 12
Btw. how big can the maps get?

 

Gnats3  I think one of the devs basically said "as big as we can make them"  

 

You'll need a 64-bit  operating system for the "as big as we can make them"  statement...  I'd recommend checking your motherboard manual to see the max amount of RAM and available motherboard slots.   I have 64-bit system which will be beta testing elemental at 8 Gigs of RAM and 512MB graphics card.  

I wonder how much RAM the fellas at Stardock will be testing with this game?

 

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Reply #40 March 27, 2009 9:43:21 PM
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In the video in this thread: Are those alpha graphics (place holder graphics) or is this the style you are going for?

No need to remind me that graphics don't make the game, however it certainly doesn't hurt to have flashy eyecandy either.

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Reply #41 March 27, 2009 9:57:12 PM
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if i have the strength, i will try waiting until v1 hits...

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Reply #42 March 28, 2009 6:25:17 PM
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Am i the only one that's not impressed..?   The best thing were the zoomed-out graphics. Nice looking.

Didn't know there was an inventory system for the sovereign (and heroes I guess).

 

But there were nothing to be excited about.

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Reply #43 March 28, 2009 7:22:16 PM
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In the video in this thread: Are those alpha graphics (place holder graphics) or is this the style you are going for?
The style is the style.  The actual images may change though.

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Reply #44 March 29, 2009 8:23:08 AM
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Ooooh, shinies.

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Reply #45 March 30, 2009 3:22:28 AM
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Quoting Zubaz,
reply 18
The style is the style.  The actual images may change though.

 

I love the style. And I would be happy and content if the graphics stays that way.

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Reply #46 March 31, 2009 11:50:41 AM
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Wow...just wow...

it is looking amazing guys! I can't wait to get my hands on it  and please keep some of those item names  

 

a few suggestions/questions

-(00:24) In the zoom in, I couldn't help notice the map grid lines seem a bit too visible for this level of zoom, though this isn't a a major issue it takes away the seamless flow a little 

-(00:41) with the equipment system what is covered by each box around the character? ATM I am guessing the following:

XXXXXXX   Head
XXXXXXX   - ? -
XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX   Chest
XXXXXXX    - ? -
XXXXXXX Left Hand
Items      Right Hand 
- But any clarification would be awesome!

 

-(00:53) While this is most likely just a placeholder graphic WIP  and as such nothing too important again, that selection ring should really scale slightly to zoom level or it gets slightly dominant of the terrain, while it's nice to know what you have selected a clearer view on terrain would be great.

 

-(01:02) as you swap between the normal game map and the cloth map a slightly more subtle change may be nice rather than the flash, can be quite disconcerting to lose your focus on whatever you were viewing while your thinking, possibly a fade across?

 

 

anyway thanks for the show guys! hope to see more things like this in the future, as well as the journals!

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Dingbat

    

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Reply #47 April 2, 2009 10:59:28 AM
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From a technical perspective, it looks like the game engine--at least to appearances--is an advanced version of the GalCiv2 engine.  Zooming, tiles, etc. look familiar.  Far from being a bad point, I think it's a good one: I like GalCiv2's interface a lot, and it goes to show the strength of developing solutions for generic requirements, rather than developing towards a very specific requirement.

Now if only more enterprise software will take this approach.

"You said you wanted 3 levels of approval, so three is hard-coded in."

"Couldn't you have just developed a solution for n-tiers of approval?"

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