They have already talked about plans for an RPG in the elemental world. I hope it's an epic open-world style RPG like Elder Scrolls. That could be awesome!

Oh sorry I hope I'm not being dense. I remember brad saying that customers who bought WoM prior to release would get the two planned expansions for free; so FE is the first of those 2. Is what brad is hinting here the second? Or did I misunderstand and by "free" is meant FE "basic" or "light" and everything else we must purchase?

thanks much

This all sounds great.

But I'm going to ask to please, at least consider, focusing on the civilization building aspect, rather than the hero-buiding, in the role playing.

By this I mean: if the civilization build mines and foundries and researches smelting steel, then the hero and the armies get the benefit of steel armor and swords.  If the civilization has a college that researches a lot of magic, then the sovereign gets enchanted swords and armor and spells.

But not this: the hero goes into a dungeon and after saying a troll he finds a wand of increased harvest +10%.  Or if the sovereign is level 10 he can produce blacksmith shops capable of making arrows.  Not that.  Please.

You might say it is kind of like how I want it already but no it isn't.  Well yeah kind of it is for the armies but not for the hero and champions.  While what is available in the shop does follow the technical advances of the civilization, most of the gear I end up wearing is found adventuring, and it ends up with a disconnect between how my sovereign and key champions are geared and what the focus is of my civilization.

Well I'm sure you guys have a bunch of great ideas and I'm happy to see the outcome, but making the fantasy-civilization-building more interesting with less of an emphasis on war would send elemental in an interesting and unique direction, rather than following well-trodden ground.

Are the quest pack and item pack ideas scrapped, or are they being tied into the expansion?

Not scrapped.  Just not available yet.

I am very glad to hear this.  As your opening implies, there are times when FE does feel like a mix-mash of mechanics rather than one collective experience.  Looking forward to 1.2

Hi Brad your post got me thinking about board games with solid game mechanics and I was wondering if Stardock would ever be open to colaborations with some of the premier board games companies - Fantasy Flight Games is one that immediately springs to mind as they do some pretty epic stuff such as Arkham Horror and Twilight Imperium which would be awesome if ported to PC. Other cool games that could also be ported as mobile apps would be something like Pandemic (I've forgot the publisher). I think some indy PC game companies have started dipping into board games for their ideas - for example FTL seems to be derived from Space Alert and Dungeonland seems to have been inspired by games like Descent/Mansions of Madness.

I'm looking forward to Elemental's Xpac and your future announcements for this year but I thought I'd just mention some of these cool board games a) in case you wanted to try em out b ) if you wanted to feed some of their ideas into future projects.

It's been a while since I've been on these threads but it's always nice to pop by this forum from time to time

FTL is a fantastic little game, I just wish the developers would keep adding to it. I want to see DLC, more mod support, new scenarios, etc.

Also, if you want to watch a quick Lets Play of FTL, check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfpVw9ECbuA

Lastly, regarding Fallen Enchantress, try not to take too many steps back with the RPG system. I feel like the RPG aspect of the game is lacking what Elemental had. I really enjoy having a variety of truly unique characters to play with and in Fallen Enchantress they all feel roughly the same.

hELL, YEAS.

Hmm, why not do a spinn off of the galactic civ in that regard?