Comprehensible Suggestion List (Pls Read Before Posting)

All ideas added 5/29/10

Good work with the input Everyone. In Beta 2 I'm sure we'll all see ways to balance and tweak things and to help the Team make the game more "Fun". This is The Time to be giving your opinions here in the Idea Section especially. We all know Stardock will support Elemental and continually Add to It over the coming year or two or three. They will add more player ideas then as well just as they have done up to this phase. If you want to make it "under the wire" then Right Now, and during Beta 2 and 3 are the most important times (in my opinion) to be expressing your ideas and thoughts. Let's continue to make this the Amazing Experience it's been so far. Well done Stardock and well done All. Keep the ideas coming.

P.S.: To those people trying to help and actually listing the "Category" in your post heading, Thank You. It makes things easier on me and don't think I haven't noticed. It is Greatly appreciated.

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All new idea posts Added 6/9/2010.

Note: I haven't been feeling well the last couple days. Worse then usual. I'm not sure if it's just another Crohn's Flare-up or if it's getting closer to me needing to go to the Emergency room and possibly not come back out for a week or more. I have no health insurance currently so the only way the Hospital will operate on me is if I go in when something inside me bursts (assuming I manage to make it there in time). Just a little for-warning in case I "vanish" sooner then I expect I'll have to.

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All new ideas updated 6/13/2010

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wow great work

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I posted this in beta feedback but maybe the ideas forum is a better place for it. Not sure if discussing character items should be in customization or gameplay -

https://forums.elementalgame.com/384355

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All New Posts Added 6/15/2010

Well Done Everyone!!!

New Ideas are FLOODING IN. This almost feels like "work" now . The "RXG" may need to step up just to help me keep track and stay on top of all this new idea Goodness!!!

P.S. A Special THANK YOU, to all those who are using the correct Categories (Customization, Gameplay, Map, New Ideas) in their titles. You make my work much, Much, easier....and that makes me a Happy Raven I've even started passing out Karma for it.

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I just wanted to include the one below too (shamelessly promoting my idea in a number of threads, why not this one).

[Suggestion] Gameplay: Living Champions

https://forums.elementalgame.com/385079

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Gameplay: City Management & Building Ideas

By M. Agrippa Posted June 22, 2010 6:53:52 PM

I have been playing a lot of Beta 2B, and the city management seems to be playing near the "spam identical cities" chasm. I think this is due to really NEEDING a food resource to make a city work and because its Beta and their are not enough options for buildings to make you really have to choose. I think this could be improved by the following:

Gardens: limiting the number of gardens per city was a really good idea, it makes food resources more valuable. However I think the current limit of 1 is TOO limiting as until you get Civ food techs going on a resource tile or two, your cities are not very useful. I think the limit should be 2 gardens per city; enough to allow a city to become interesting, while still requiring food resources in your empire to support large populations and high level cities.

Building Ideas

I think having more buildings that force you to make a real choice about resources would add a ton of flavor and strategy to city building. Most of these could require being adjacent to another improvement or at least having that improvement in the city. This will allow for city specialization and force strategic thinking as you could NEVER build all the building available in any one city. Some potential ideas (numbers are suggestions but give the idea for the purpose of the building):

Farmers Market: one tile, requires Market in city, available with Economics, one per city (uses 4 food, give 3 gold and 1 pop growth)

Mead Hall: one tile, requires Bee hives, (uses 4 food, gives 3 gold, 1 prestige)

Brewer: one tile, requires Wheat (uses 2 food, gives 1 gold, 1 prestige)

Tanner: One tile, requires Workshop, requires Equipment from Warfare tech tree (gives 2 material, reduces city growth by 1 person per turn [bad smell])

Potion Makers Workshop: One Tile, requires School, (uses 1 material, 1 metal, 1 crystal give 3 research)

Bog Iron Smelter: one tile, requires swamp tile, requires Forging (Uses 3 material a turn, gives 1 metal)

Clothier: one tile, requires Market, (uses 3 material, give 1 prestige, +1 population growth

Painter: one tile, requires School, (uses 2 gold, 1 material, gives 4 prestige)

The idea is to have enough options that every city building decision matters because of what it will do, AND also because of what other options it will prevent me from being able to develop.

Sorry it this registers as double posting, have spent more time playing beta than learning forums.

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All Ideas Added 6/30/2010

Congrats Everyone, we now have over 1000 Player Ideas Listed!!!!

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Category: Customization

Title: Spellbook Layout and Design

Link: https://forums.elementalgame.com/386010

Brief Description:

A few Ideas at how the Spellbook interface can look a bit more streamlined and friendly than it does now.

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Does Raven REALLY mean comprehensible or does he mean comprehensive?

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Quoting Autarkhos,

reply 86

Does Raven REALLY mean comprehensible or does he mean comprehensive?

Take your pick

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astrath

Join Date 04/2006

+28

[Suggestion][UI] putting names for mountain ranges etc on the cloth map by astrath

https://forums.elementalgame.com/386045

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Quoting M. Agrippa,

reply 83

Gameplay: City Management & Building Ideas
Sorry it this registers as double posting, have spent more time playing beta than learning forums.

NP, It doesn't, my friend. I Don't Go into the "Elemental Beta" section of the forums and copy "Suggestions" from there. In that Section of the forums the Devs have asked that new ideas be labeled as "Suggestion" for the BETA. In THIS Section of the forums, the "Elemental Ideas" Section, I politely ask people to use one of 4 "Categories".

I was thinking about adding a new Category called Suggestions just so I could throw EVERY IDEA into it with "Suggestion" in the title into the SAME PLACE, this would mean I don't give a crap if it has to do with the Map, or Customization, or Game-Play...whatever. I'm getting tired of having to read Every post in this section to try to figure out Where someone wants their idea listed because they only called it "Suggestion". This is Not The "Elemental Beta" section of the forums.

The whole reason for the list is to break down our ideas into sections the Devs can follow when they are looking at Our Ideas so they can Add Them to the game. With Everything listed as "Suggestion" it makes that harder on Them and harder on Me....not good.

Note: I will be Adding a New Category called "Spells" though.

Again, Thank You to EVERYONE who uses the Proper Categories when listing their ideas here in the Elemental Idea Section. It makes things easier on me especially. I don't like having to read a post for 20 minutes having to decide if the poster thinks this goes into Game-Play or Customization as many ideas can fit into multiple Categories. This is why I Don't Have Time to Respond to Every Idea Posted anymore. Because once I read an Idea, if I don't Add it to the list Right Then I often miss it when I'm doing a list update because it no longer has a "check" next to it when I look at the page so I think I already read it and added it to the list when I in fact did not then I have to go back and re-edit things which takes a considerable amount of my Free Time. I'm going to start passing out More Karma to those who actually read the Stickied Post and follow my suggested guidelines.

Thanks

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Good effort - I'll try to ensure all my future suggestions have some reference to your categories, so that in the very least it helps you a bit.

For now, if you want to add to your master list:

Customisation: Change to UI:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/386459 - clarify which unit gets enchantment

https://forums.elementalgame.com/386458 - moving items between units

https://forums.elementalgame.com/386457 - diplomacy UI

Map

https://forums.elementalgame.com/386444 - clarifying useable and non-useable goodies, inns etc

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All new ideas added 7/13/2010

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I posted this as a bug but someone said to post it as a suggestion so here it is:

Don't allow a shield when using a 2H weapon.

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Quoting Trifler500,

reply 92

I posted this as a bug but someone said to post it as a suggestion so here it is:

Don't allow a shield when using a 2H weapon.

Can you also post it here in this section of the forums please? If so I'll be happy to add it to the list. I don't do cross section postings. If I did it would be unfair to all the other people who have moved their posts over or reposted them again in this section.

If it's a bug I'm sure it will be addressed before release anyway, especially as that seems like a pretty big bug. Still, if you repost it in this section as a topic, I'll be happy to add it when I do the next update. Thank you my friend.

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Quoting Raven X,

reply 93

Quoting Trifler500, reply 92I posted this as a bug but someone said to post it as a suggestion so here it is:

Don't allow a shield when using a 2H weapon.

Can you also post it here in this section of the forums please? If so I'll be happy to add it to the list. I don't do cross section postings. If I did it would be unfair to all the other people who have moved their posts over or reposted them again in this section.

If it's a bug I'm sure it will be addressed before release anyway, especially as that seems like a pretty big bug. Still, if you repost it in this section as a topic, I'll be happy to add it when I do the next update. Thank you my friend.

Oh I was about to say I just did re-post it in this section, but at the end I see you said you want it in a new topic. Will do then.

I'm glad I checked this because I haven't found a way to subscribe to threads in this forum.

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All ideas added 7/25/2010

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James009D

Join Date 01/2005

+67

[Gameplay] Automatic and Passive Culture Spread- Improved Culture

Passive Culture- Like Civ 4:

Culture Expanded:

Culture Effected by Terrain:

From a Civilization 4 FFH Mod:

Link : https://forums.elementalgame.com/389284

I'm loving this thread, btw.

+1

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Quoting Folcik009,

reply 96

I'm loving this thread, btw.

Glad you like it Folcik. I'd also like to say thanks to you for using the proper labels in yours posts since you started posting. It's not like it's a "Dev Rule" or anything, but doing it this way makes it a Lot easier on me when there's tons of ideas to add at once and it makes thing's easier on the Devs to know at a glance what part of the game a new idea will affect. Some ideas are a lot easier to incorporate than others. Incoming Karma for you my friend.

Thanks again.

Your latest idea will be posted in the next update as I missed it tonight since it was posted right after I updated the list. Fear not, I won't miss it.

As we can see the proof of in Frogboy's latest Dev Journal "Diplomatic Capital: Big Beta Tester Win!", Stardock DOES Pay Attention to our ideas and they DO Add them. With development being in "crunch time" right now and the rate at which ideas are being added, making things easy to find for the Devs is (or should be) a big concern of ours and it's proven quite useful for them.

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Updated 7/29/2010

I'd also like to say a special "Thank You" again to those using the proper categories. Tonight's update was really easy for me to do as there were more labeled posts than non labeled posts. Well done everyone. Karma will be passed out accordingly . Keep up the great work and keep those ideas flowing in !!!

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Note: Today's (and other recent) Karma recipients were,

Teucrian

Chehalden

Folcik009

Satrhan

MadInventor

Adam_H

CdrRogdan

ArcElement2002

StillSingle

+1 All Around !!! Congrats, and Thanks again!!!

+1

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Thanks RavenX, I'm glad someone looked at my post. Thanks for all the great effort you put in in the forums!

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Comprehensible Suggestion List (Pls Read Before Posting)

Comprehensible Suggestion List (Pls Read Before Posting)

Lets keep it organized

Gameplay: City Management & Building Ideas

[Gameplay] Automatic and Passive Culture Spread- Improved Culture