kyogre: Do you think announcement facilitates a rekindling of the Elemental twitter account? 

Of course! I was actually just wondering about that. I'm always ready to post them to the forums

This method will take an actual person some time to do, but it's better than that "Road to War" roll-out for Warhammer Online:Age of Reckoning.   I just kept inviting spamgourmet email addresses to rack up the points to be sure to get my sigil of cursed company.

is it anything like this picture?

Well, I registered before knowing what it was excatly, and I must say that I disapprove somewhat of the concept for ethical reasons: with such a system in place, it means that any good review might be more because the author was hoping for some points in the Elemental Army.

I still remember before the release of Master of Orion III when some beta-testers where praising the game far more that it was worth.

Not that I don't have faith in Stardock: I already preordered the game and I like what  I've seen in the beta (beta 2 this week, yeah ! ), but a really good game shouldn't have to use such cheap tricks to generate some buzz.

Would writing short stories that take place in the world of Elemental nab me more points than digging up articles?

Cause' I could do that.

In fact I think I will do that, tomorrow night, after my Graph theory exam.

 Now, would you like a horror, thriller, comedy and if you say romance I will cut your head off.

there is something checking its a valid email address, however, if it doesn't think its valid it pops an error saying to please enter a valid address...  The error connecting to web service is for something else, I'm still trying to figure out what exactly it causing it  send me a PM with the different emails and I can make sure its not something with that?

For questions of other languages, feel free to write your stuff in whatever language you want, we will do our best (read: google will do its best) to translate it for us when we are awarding points.

Also for Jack Trowell's comments, we are not asking for people to be submitting reviews of the game for this.  In fact there is no way anyone could review the game right now, the beta is not a finished product. We are simply looking to get more eyes to look at the game and judge it for themselves when it comes out.  If people are submitting impressions of the game it should be more in the vein of a preview, less opinion more features/facts.

As some users seem to be having issues with it, please make sure that when you provide a link it's something that actually points to a publicly viewable page. Some people have submitted things that go to your own user page on a third party site (such that it just shows the page for who's looking at it, rather than always yours), or things that not only require a login but a promotion or special access so that we can't confirm them.

can i get the apathetic badge plz?

or a kitten one, that would do nicely 

Though no one asked me...

I think the icons for the forum are a tad large, but that 's just me.

update for Elemental Army:  you can now view other Army members' profiles by clicking their name in the side boxes, leaderboards or Quest reports.  This will bring you to a view of their quests they have completed to get where they are along with the loot they have gotten so far.  

If you would like to return to viewing your own profile you can click up on "My Profile" on the top right next to the logout button.  While viewing other users' profiles you can still submit quests and refer friends, you don't have to go back to your own profile.  

Note you cannot view another users' profile unless you are logged in.

Kitten Badge?

The kitten says that you've nothing to fear from this scheme, nothing at all...