Elemental - War of Magic

[crazy canuck]

The build is pretty basic at this point and a lot of things havent been implemented yet but you can still see some real potential here.  I like how they do the open ended branching tech tree for example.

[Darth Wagtaros]

 

Dear chipwhich,

keep the prayer line open for important things only.

-God

[Eddie Teach]

God is apparently worse than the post office at getting his replies in the right place.

[ulmont]

The build is pretty basic at this point and a lot of things havent been implemented yet but you can still see some real potential here.  I like how they do the open ended branching tech tree for example.

Yeah, the decision point of "research something new, or just buff my farming - housing - unit times etc." is pretty neat.

[Syt]

I don't look much at this early beta, but I keep reading the diaries and thought this was a cool concept:

+ Caravans now show up on the map when a road is completed

- Caravans will travel back and forth on a completed road between any connected roads

- If a road is connected via a proxy city, new caravans will be created to traveled between the newly connected cities

- Caravans will deposit 10% of the home cities stored resources upon reaching the destination city

- If a caravan is killed, it will not respawn for 5 turns

That puts a twist on strategic resources (no iron appearing magically at the other end of the empire for construction).

[Cecil]

I don't look much at this early beta, but I keep reading the diaries and thought this was a cool concept:

+ Caravans now show up on the map when a road is completed

- Caravans will travel back and forth on a completed road between any connected roads

- If a road is connected via a proxy city, new caravans will be created to traveled between the newly connected cities

- Caravans will deposit 10% of the home cities stored resources upon reaching the destination city

- If a caravan is killed, it will not respawn for 5 turns

That puts a twist on strategic resources (no iron appearing magically at the other end of the empire for construction).

Fap fap fap fap.....

[ulmont]

Beta 1B is up.

Don't get excited. It's still primitive. It will still randomly corrupt your boot disk, kill random pets, and make small children cry. But here's what's new:

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Change Log - Beta 1b Update (0.25.015 on Impulse)
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[Refreshed 0.25.014 build to fix an intermittent crash bug on launch and to change unit costs to 1 gp per turn.]
- New Features -
+ Info Cards Displaying rollover data
- Game objects, such as Units, Cities, Caravans, Goodie Huts, and Resources all send mouseover messages to pop up the info card
- Caravans will show their destination, goods carried, and time to reach city
- Units will show their stats, current action or destination, and unit count
- Improvements show time to complete and required materials
- Resources list what tech or known improvement is needed to harvest them
- Cities show net income and basic stats (still needs to show resources coming in)
+ 'Turns to build Improvement' Calculations implemented
- Improvements can now require resources to construct (though none do ATM)
- Gold Cost to Build = Labor x GoldCostPerLaborPt
- Time To Build = Labor + Difference in Resources Available vs. Resources Provided
- These calculations should be displayed in the InfoCard when you roll over an improvement in build mode
- Improvements are now built in a queue
- Gold to build an improvement is instantly removed from the treasury
+ City Context ACTIONS Tab now lists all available actions for a city
- Medallion buttons hidden
- Train Unit action now listing in the TRAINING tab
- Construction action now listing in the BUILDING tab
- images made for city actions
+ Cleaned up Internal City Resource management
- made it easier to tell what is going on, both code-wise and for display in the UI
- City Details now lists details on how to reach the next level
+ Smarter Caravans
- Only one caravan per city link
- That caravan will drop off goods from the home city, then bring back goods from the destination city...rince, repeat
+ New Resources
- Twilight Bees and Wild Wheat are rare resources can be build upon by a farm but provide more food than a Fertile Ground tile
- Twilight Bees' 'Apiary' improvement added
- Forests can now harvest lumber with a Lumberyard
+ New 'Save Unit Design' dialog
- lets you set up a scene to (eventually) use as that unit's medallion image
- background can be flipped
- stance for the image is used for the pewter pose
+ Map Generation is now Data Driven
- Maps are moving towards a system where all generation options are moddable, right now only the main features are hooked up
- Maps should no longer look like big blobs, but may end up looking like big spiders instead (it's a work in progress)
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- Tweaks -
+ Texture Atlas: Forces generated texture to a smaller size to help with cards that were struggling on startup
+ Research Screen: Time to unlocked milestone changed from PERCENTAGE to TURNS
+ Lowered the speed of units
+ Evil Factions disabled as opponents until we get more of their assets ready
+ Tweaked Tech costs
+ Logrithmic representation of Techs
+ Roads take 5 turns to build per segment
+ Citizens only produce 0.01 research pts (used to produce 0.05 RPs)
+ Iron Deposits visible right away
+ Most 'Negative Treasury' logic implemented, so if you dont have enough gold, you can't build more Cities, Improvements, or Units
+ More Art Assets Implemented for Tech Tree and UI
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- Fixes -
+ City Build Mode: Improvement Icons stay flat to the Terrain (they were floating 50 units above)
+ Grid lists fixed to properly display dangling entries
+ Players History daa gets Saved and Loaded
+ Changed advanced choose faction screen and advanced choose opponent screens to use shorter strings for the filter buttons
+ Various Typos



We plan to do an interim update next week to finish out Beta 1B.

I'd say have fun but...well, you know...

[Cecil]

Any new updates on this you people who actually bothers to stay updated?

[ulmont]

They just released 1C, with some more limited AI features, but really I'm not planning to check back in until beta 2 in feb.

[Syt]

Same here. I follow the dev diaries (which are nice, and frogboy is one of the legendary super- IMO), but the game ain't much fun yet (as advertised).

[Jaron]

Its Feb. Anyone still tracking the betas?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Its Feb. Anyone still tracking the betas?

It has become like Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.  It ain't never happening.

[Syt]

New beta should be out soon.

[crazy canuck]

I tried it a few weeks ago. 

The RR Martin reference was perfect.

[chipwich]

It's basically a perpetual open beta until winter, like Twilight of the Arnor.