Two questions:

Will you be doing expansions or microexpansions?

Is the same tile editor we've seen screenshots of for editing city-built tiles? I see you're able to drop in critters straight into the tile: can you set animations for them, can you give them waypoints? Are they actual units or just animated additions? Are they scriptable?

Hmm Beta 4 around July... that's quite near in time.

Yea, it's largely a (ack) marketing things since the modding tools were the first thing actually finished (i.e. they're how we put content into the game and have been for the past two years).

Yea, the expansions we would do for Elemental would be well beyond new "content".  There's a lot of directions we can take but we'll wait to see what customers want us to focus our time on before making any definite plans.

I don't want to overhype here but in my 15+ years of game development, I've never worked on anything remotely as cool as Elemental.

Wait till you guys play the campaign. It's not at all like your typical campaign.  The sandbox and the campaign will be completely different. The campaign will feel very RPG-ish while the sandbox is more MoM-ish.

John_Hughes sends Wintersong a large roll of paper-towel as this news will surely generate some more serious drool...

HOLY  %$#^%& !!!! That Looks Awesome!!!!!

All Hail Frogboy, Master of Making His Customers Happy!!!

One request....BIGGER Picture Please (or that video you're talking about )

The tile can be whatever you want it to be.  I can either use a pre-defined tile ("This is an ogre") or I can create my own custom tile (seen here) and then I use XML to describe what happens (is it a creature, what kind of creature is it, how strong it is).

I can also apply trigger tiles (on or around it) that can pop up an interactive conversation. So if I near the above dragon it could have a conversation with me (also described in XML).  That is, in essence, how we're doing the campaign. We tell the story through encounters and other triggers.  

In terms of general map design, you save the tile and associate it with a creature (one you design or a pre-defined one) and plop it on the map editor.

This just keeps getting better and better (and no I don't mean the pretty graphics)

P.S. Thanks for the Bigger Picture though

Edit: Hey, where'd the bigger (second pic in your reply) go?

RavenX, I am fairly sure this is the same editor pictured here:

https://www.elementalgame.com/images/Screenshots/Elemental_TileEditor_ZoomedHarbor.png

Just set to "Resources" instead of "clumpy plant and rock decoration stuff."

This post, and the followup comments from Brad have been excellent. The absolute highlight among highlights for me though?

Best. Possible. Answer.

My main point of contention with DLC has nothing to do with it's perceived value for money to me, it's the fact that it seems to have all but killed off the notion of full blown expansion pack.

I beyond belief that Elemental will be seeing full expansions after release.

Nathikal, do not wait. Period. Next Beta gets what we assumed to be 3 months away. You want in? Get in now!

Anyone that wishes to argue that point please speak up.

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Except "Tactical Combat". As last I understood. We won't get for another Beta or 2 down the road. Still, we'll have access to a lot more stuff.

Yup. Although Tactical Combat has already had feedback sought on it, so it counts. But yeah, according to the updated [url=https://forums.elementalgame.com/363845]schedule[/url] Tactical Battles will be enabled in Beta 3, so not such a long wait!

Edit: Boo for non working link tags, ah well, Schedule Page: https://forums.elementalgame.com/363845