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Reply to Interested in Multiplayer Beta Testing? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Of course.

Reply to [0.295][Bug][Graphic or Data] Left clicking 'spawns' special tiles on empty spaces!! in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

FOW is still a work in progress and this is one example.

Reply to [Bug]Old Game Reloading in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

This is a known issue. The current beta doesn't take well to starting a new game after another one was running. If you exit the game and restart all will be well.

Reply to Downloaded file invalid; MD5s do not match server in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Pointing to something other than a server-side issue is the fact that I was able to download and install the Sins updates without issue. This was within minutes of the updates being posted. Not that I was impatient or anything.

Reply to Are Beta invites still going out to pre orders in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

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Reply to Are Beta invites still going out to pre orders in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

The current beta has memory leaks.

Reply to [0.295] [BUG?] Sloooooow animation speed of ebenwolf in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I've seen this behavior too.

Reply to [Bug / Gameplay .295] Invisible resources in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

No "cheat" is necessary. Something changed with the FOW in .295 that impacted the area visible at the start of the game. Before Beta 1G this wasn't an issue. There was a comment from one of the Devs that they did, indeed change how FOW is handledl; to accomodate multi-player. As to how big the visible area should be around a sovreign at the start of the game... I think 2 hexes / squares would be perfect. Right now there are things that are right

Reply to [Bug / Gameplay .295] Invisible resources in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I think this is the one of the bigger annoyances with .295. It's especially annoying when you have to spend the first 6 - 10 moves of a game, before you can found a city, just to uncover the resources that surround the sovereign at the beginning of the game.

Reply to [0.295][Bug/Graphics/Gameplay] Unattackable and dead units display on map in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I've had this happen with monsters too. The graphic for the troll or spider will be visible on the screen but it will fade in and out of visibility. I can move a unit onto the space supposedly occupied by the enemy unit and nothing happens.

Reply to [.295][Feedback] Kingdom Economy in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Everything described dovetails with what I experienced. Once I went over some magic number of cities the upkeep skyrocketed. Perhaps this is the Elemental version of the Civ 3 concept of corruption. [e digicons]:D[/e]

[.295][Feedback] Kingdom Economy in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I'm finding .295 a LOT more stable than .291. I was able to complete a game with only 3 CTD. The really nice thing was that I was able to continue from autosaved games. Towards the end of the game I noticed that my treasury was negative to the tune more than 20,000 gold but I have no idea why. I had founded three cities of my own and they all seemed to be adding steadily to my treasury. At that point I attacked my neighbor and took four of his cities. Tha

Reply to when dose beta open up agin ? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

This Thursday.

[BUG] Loading a save game results in a blank map outside of city ZOC in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

On restoring a saved game the entire explored map, outside of the area of control of a city, comes up as blank territory. I had to re-explore before things would show up again.

Reply to [1g][Bug?] Research issues in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Mines are now showing up but I think the "random" aspect of researching technology could stand a little tweaking. I just played a partial game (CTD) where I had researched level 20 in Civilization tech but never discovered housing.

[CRASH] CTD when pressing the turn button in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Nothing much going on just a CTD when pressing the turn button. I tried to post the debug.err and dump file to FogBugz but it's requiring a login before it will let me do that. It didn't require that the last time I tried. I used the link on the "READ BEFORE POSTING" post: http://fogbugz.stardock.com/default.asp?pg=pgPublicEdit

Reply to DeskScapes 3.1 Supports Multi-Monitor Wallpapers in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

That's what I'm doing now. I just wish it would span monitors. I suspected it was the dream causing the issue. It's in the category of "it would be nice" if it could "understand" that the wallpaper is large enough to span monitors. Thanks for you work on "Winter Snow". I love using the dream in winter.

Reply to DeskScapes 3.1 Supports Multi-Monitor Wallpapers in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I'm currently trying the beta and one thing that I hoped for that isn't there is the following: I have two monitors and if I have a wallpaper that is the right size to display across both monitors at once it displays properly in Windows. It doesn't display properly if I use that same wallpaper as a custom background in the dynamic dream "Winter Snow". "Winter Snow" is compressing the wallpaper each monitor has a "squeezed" copy of the image rather than having the single image spread acros

Reply to Making research cost more for bigger empires in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

There's nothing I've found that takes the fun out of a game more than arbitrary restrictions of the type being discussed. The earlier example of the Civ 3 concept of corruption is a stellar example. That single "feature" was the reason why I stopped playing Civ 3. I've nothing against reasoned and logical, in terms of the game world, limits but a larger empire will be able to out research a smaller empire. It's that simple. The trick to good game design is to

Reply to [CRASH] @ Creating World Screen in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I'm still getting crashes but, overall, stability has increased for me with beta 1D.

Reply to [CRASH] @ Creating World Screen in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

It's been stated since the beginning of the beta that DirectX 9.0c support would be needed at minimum.

Reply to Weapon Enchantment Limitations in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I'm not a fan of failure chances either, for the same reasons mentioned by DivineWrath. Wouldn't it be better to see how the system is implemented, with a chance to see how it works in practice, before proposing alternatives?

Reply to We don’t like the research mechanism in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

One game that did this sort of mechanic reasonably well was Sword of the Stars.

Reply to I can run the game! in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I saved the game after about 30 turns. I'll try to resume it this evening.

I can run the game! in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

As of last nights update I can now run the game in a Windows 7 32-bit environment without having the game crash at the splash screen. I no longer have to run the game as an administrator for the game to load. Progress!