Questions about Units and Races and Modding

from Elemental Forums

Hi,

I have some questions ...

The best things about similar games like Master of Magic and Age of Wonders Shadow Magic were the diversity of races, units and spells.

(1) How many races will there be?

(2) How many units?

(3) How many spells?

Will there be Spore / Galciv2 style creature / unit design features? :)

In game how customisable will units be?

elemental
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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Our goal is to make all the editors we use to make the full game available to modders, we also have a lot of plans to make it very easy to mod. If all goes well you should be able to create everything from spells and artifacts, to buildings, city units, and full maps. Creating original 3D characters will be more involved, and we are still working on ways to bring as much customization as we can fit in.

As for shareing your creations Elemental will be leaps and bounds above anything we have done, more details to come as we lock things down.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

How do you plan to play-balance user-created content?  Will object (unit, creature, spell, etc.) creation be on some sort of points-based system?

If so, I have to recommend using some sort of non-linear sliding scale.  In most games, specialization is king.  It'd be cool if specialized things had their place, but came at some sort of cost.

Just my uninformed 2 coppers, of course.  :)

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