Can we get back to making specific complaints about how broken the game is, so they know what to fix? ;)
So, when I mouse over my character stats during the level-up point spending process, the tooltip for Intelligence says something like “The magical might of your character” and the tooltip for Essence says something like “Increases the potency of your magic.” They sound like the same damn thing. You can only see this while leveling up…there are no tooltips for these things when you otherwise look at your character details.
I’m in the campaign (with the Day 0 patch) and I have my two cities (the second being formed after you’re given a pioneer). The first city is sort of humming along, I guess. The second is stuck without the ability to make Huts. I built a farm there. The farm produces +4 food, just as in my first city. But my overall food production at the top of the screen says -1, and I can’t for the life of me figure out why. Looking at the Kingdom Report shows Food -1, but doesn’t give a breakdown as to why.
On my second town, when I click the construction button, I see the hut greyed out. Clicking on it shows that, yes, it’s food I’m lacking. My city won’t grow beyond 10 dudes until that’s fixed.
Do certain buildings use food? Or units? I haven’t made any units from that town. If so, is there a way to see that anywhere? I don’t see a food cost in the tooltips or for city improvements, nor in the details for the city, for anything. When that city is selected, the Resources tab does indeed show Food +4.
In my hero’s Actions tab, I have a button that looks like a green field with some tents and a green flag flying. This action, and this action alone, has no tooltip at all. If I click on it, it takes my to my character’s equipment (of all places). Only my hero units have this button. What is it supposed to be?
Why are there hills in the swamp covered with big 'ol trees that are labeled “Barren hills” when I mouse over them? These tiles sure do look different than the totally blank hilly tiles, which are also “Barren Hills.”
For some reason, my first city’s Prestige drops to 0 for extended stretches of time. Then it will go back to +1. I’m not doing anything there. I can’t build any sort of enhancements or buildings to increase prestige at this point of the campaign. How can I find out what is going on, and how can I fix it if I can’t build prestige buildings?
My population climbed really high, and then my prestige dropped suddenly in my first city, and I started dropping population like crazy. Again, not actually doing anything in this city. What causes this? How can I do something to fix it?
RPS may have pulled a dick move ripping that thing out of context, but they do nonetheless have a point about the Gamer’s Bill of Rights, which Stardock made a big deal about, claiming that “Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.” And it’s really, really hard to see that Elemental is in a “finished state.”
Also worth noting: Mr. Wardell did state publicly, here on Qt3, that his presence here will no longer be just as an interested gamer talking about games. He said that, for a variety of reasons, he will only speak out here in an official capacity as CEO of Stardock (and thus have to be less open and more careful about his thoughts on games). Given that, I’m not sure it’s entirely inappropriate for RPS to have pulled a quote, even though they should have given it more context. By his own decree, Brad’s posts here are supposed to be taken as his speaking in an official capacity as Stardock CEO.
