Bring back some flavor to Elemental

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Elemental right now is kind of boring, no randomness, no flavor to factions and/or magic.

 

Research
- bring back some randomness to research
- increase cost, at a certain level all research cost the same, I'm currently at 20 turns for any research.


Factions
- Add some flavor to factions, taunts about family members, after attack destroying resources

- Create multiple profiles (good, evil, dumb, friendly, etc.) and use to randomize factions with each new game

 

Magic

- Ability to create your own spells ( Air + Fire, Air + water magic)

Example Fire Ball + Storm = Fire Storm

 

New units
- spies send to enemy cities to recon, (no recon no info about enemy cities)
- Thief, that can steal technology, money, weapons, equipment, resources from towns and resource centers
- Infiltrator that can turn enemy units to players side and redirect carvans w/their resoures to your towns
- Assassins that can hide and ambush near passing units
- Beast Master that can capture, breed, train creatures found in the wild
- Imperial Guard, to counter prevent thiefs, spies, assassins
- Magi need to research specific spells



New Buildings
- Watch towers to guard Boards, see into enemy territory, and prevent encroachment by prestige for enemy cities
- Prisons for capture units



Things to consider
- Ability to capture units
- Ability to bribe units
- Ability to kidnap other empires family members
- Ransom captured and kidnap units


Razing
- captures a random amount of money, resourses

other
- Heal spell to heal units after combat

- Bring back ability to create single units

- Ability to equip and promote units to hero's

- More interaction between your leader and heros send gifts, even marry the leader of another faction

 

Island Map

- Bring back boats (make them work), land only maps are just boring.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I'd say throw a pepper shaker with bunch of chillies and stir vigorously. Other than that... I just don't know.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Dumb down graphics to make more room for more interesting gameplay.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting WhiteElk, reply 2
Dumb down graphics to make more room for more interesting gameplay.
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Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Graphics don't inherently prevent good gameplay, although requiring 3d models for all units does limit the potential for varied units.

Regarding the actual OP, a lot of this is happening in some form in FE.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

For the factions, you could see about contributing to the UDF mod in the mod forum.  Some of the other issues might be addressable thru the other mods offered.  Otherwise you'll probably have to wait for FE or anouther update.

The nautical part of the game will probably be on hold until they can get it working better (with pathing, and water combat and such), as it was pretty poor last time I tried using it. I distinctly remember the auto-explore not working well and having to babysit the ship's movement for longer distances.