Elemental Beta 2 Update Schedule

I can't even get the game to start now Frogboy. It opens and I hear music playing but it refuses to open to screen. (program running on task bar)

Can you give us a bit more detail to set it to run in a window, I cant seem to see from impulse where to do this

Create a short-cut and type /w at the end of the short-cut target in it and that should do it.

You're running ahead of schedule?  That's not how it works in this industry.  But I'll allow it!

Games vs. the AI have already had a nice stability boost for me, as have games vs. other players (though they've all ended from the player dropping...not sure if that's by choice or error).  So, that's been good news so far - plus the 3D engine, which has added a lot of visual interest and that giddy exploration feel we get with these games.

Good luck with the AI coding you're working on. 

For the first time I've been able to play for more than 400 turns!! Keep the good work Frogboy!!

Just a question, is the sovereign's Hp supposed to be that low? Because I only get 1 hp per stamina point

This is why I love Stardock.

Thanks Frogboy.

Unfortunately still same problem. I upgraded from beta 1z. I think ill try installing from scratch.

Another non-December Christmas from Stardock!!

damn you bone ogre!!!!!!damn you all to hell!!!

Thank you FrogBoy and all you StarDockians! Have a great weekend, party your a$$es off! You deserve it!

Just spent a solid 3 hours playing beta 2, and you totally brought the fun with this one, even though it's totally gimped it's still really fun. Good job!

Had over 1000 population across 3 cities off of only a single fertile piece of land (and around a dozen gardens) which felt about right to me. The cool thing was as my biggest city boomed I didn't have room to build everything in there (which I wanted to, I just wanted to try out all the cool new pretty stuff asap ) which means city specialisation is going to be a must as they get bigger. Is there a hard cap on a cities population (the next level up was 1000, but how much further does it go)?

A few thoughts: It's kinda hard to tell what buildings are what just by looking at it's representaion on the tile once a city gets bigger and is getting busy.... Not that it seems to matter where you put most buildings really. I guess the one thing I'd like to see is a bit more feedback or player thought ti be put into where you place buildings in a city rather than just slapping a slum right next to a townhall, which doesn't seem right. I dunno how you make it more meaningful from a gameplay perspective (apart from building toward resources or other geographical points of strategic interest).

Anyway, good job and keep it up!

Been playing since around, oh, five. Off and on. Crashes left and right, but it's still a fun game. I've just adapted by saving a ton. Keeping a nifty journal of various stuffs...

I digress. The game is fun, even at this stage and even with (for lack of a better term) lackluster graphics.

-N

Can't start the game. It just sits at the Splash screen. If I ad the /w at the end it starts the intro vid but it stays minimized.

Great update Thanks, chief

Good info Brad, I'm about to dive into Beta 2 for some good old fashioned beta testing.

Can't start the game. It just sits at the Splash screen. If I ad the /w at the end it starts the intro vid but it stays minimized.

can't seem to INSTALL the game O.o I clicked "update" on Impulse, it got to 100% and froze there. For more than half hour so far.

Mr Wardell:

If you've played a modern MMO -- which I'm just about certain I recall you having done -- you'll know exactly what the HUD needs to be. The default should have sufficient information that the player can play the game, but the rest should be entirely the choice of the player -- maybe not to the point of including in game scripting and macro-capabilities and such, but everything else f'sho.

It should be easy as pie to remove an element from the main bar, move it to a different part of the screen and pin it there, resize it, add other stuff to the main bar, make some HUD elements transparent, move the main bar to the side or top or even middle of the screen, and just generally change EVERYTHING. 

Everyone does things differently -- the only thing we can all agree on is that we'd like the freedom to do things the way we want to do them. 

Will this sort of flexibility be a big sales winner? Probably not. Will it be a huge deal for most fans? Probably not. Would it seriously please a certain segment of players? Almost certainly.

I had same problem in beta 1 , try going to the folder and starting game  as administrator, that worked for me.

Im addicted

This!

Cant stop playing! 

@frogboy

since many things are already dealt with internally  and others are hold back, what feedback would you like to see most?

it is bit strange, i played some games and most of the issues i was going to report are already known or are purposely there.

Thanks for the update, it's good to get a chance to test this game!

edit: Whoops, this isn't the post where the HUD is mentioned. Moving the feedback on that to the appropriate post now...

As an nVidia user, not very. Their drivers the last six months have been terrible. I'm still using ones from 2009 because they were the last ones that really worked well. It's sad really, drivers used to be an nVidia strength.

I had the same problem.  On Vista, delete the folder \Documents\My Games\Elemental\.  If you on XP, I would guess it's in My Documents somewhere.  That should fix it.