Alpha Status?

Published on July 5, 2009 By BladeRunner08865 In War of Magic

Anything word on the status of the Alpha?

Comments (Page 3)

Bingjack

on Jul 08, 2009

Pre Odred today. Very excited to get my hooks into the alpha/beta.

Stradock and Bioware are probably the only developers I would ever guy a game from sight unseen.

Darkodinplus

on Jul 08, 2009

pigeonpigeon

reply 5

"Goodie hut," as far as I know is just a term taken from the Civilization (or maybe colonization?) series - where there were literally lone huts on the map that would do something - either give you a bonus of some sort, vanish your explorer, spawn barbarians, etc. The term has grown to mean anything of the sort, regardless of its graphical content. Considering the rarity of magical creatures in Elemental, I wouldn't expect a troll encampment to be very big at all - so a single tile would be believable to me. If a troll encampment could be the size of even a small human city, then I'd expect to see hundreds of not thousands of trolls and that does not sound like what Stardock has in mind.

I've never heard the term "goodie hut" before although it could have multiple applications. As for the troll encampment I wouldn't expect to see hundreds or thousands even in an area the size of a large human city. We could also debate on the rarity of trolls since they aren't magical in my opinion.

At any rate assuming all non-human creatures are rare a single troll having a territory the size of a small or even large human city would be acceptable to me. In your original example I had assumed there would be a small band of trolls maybe 5 - 10 for a dungeon / lair thus allowing them to attack the player and be bargained with or destroyed.

RonLugge

on Jul 08, 2009

We could also debate on the rarity of trolls since they aren't magical in my opinion.

Really? Wow, where do they live, in Africa? Asia?

Darkodinplus

on Jul 08, 2009

Ron Lugge

reply 8

Really? Wow, where do they live, in Africa? Asia?

mythical doesn't equate to magical if you ask me. I would also guess that they live in Europe if trolls were real.

landisaurus

on Jul 08, 2009

I'm excited to visit a goodie hut and encounter one of these troll homes. African or Asian or whatever. I just want to be like "I hope my 1 scout unit turns up a 2nd free unit, or perhaps a setlter" to instead turn a swarm of forum trolls lose on my starting town.

Ynglaur

on Jul 09, 2009

Goodie Huts: For All Your Bear Cavalry Needs

Spartan

on Aug 03, 2009

BoogieBac

reply 23

Goodie Huts will actually allow for a lot of interaction...some will be 'lost crates' that may have treaure (traditional one-time goodie huts), some may be Troll Encamplemts, etc.

I think the term "goody hut" is toooooo Civ-ish.

Maybe something with a bit more pizzazz should be used. For example: sepulcher.

Shoot maybe make a contest of out coming up with a name for it that is befitting this title.

ckessel

on Aug 03, 2009

mythical doesn't equate to magical if you ask me. I would also guess that they live in Europe if trolls were real.

That's a good distinction, though trolls are frequently considered are at least partly magical given they can regenerate to fully healthy even when dead, unless burned. Dragons probably fall under mythical as well though, unless you're considering in some mythos they can cast spells or glamours or some such.

Scoutdog

on Aug 03, 2009

Dragons probably fall under mythical as well though, unless you're considering in some mythos they can cast spells or glamours or some such.

Well, in my judgement it depends on how or if they can breathe fire: that generally requires magic to do, but I imagine you can do it normally as well.

landisaurus

on Aug 03, 2009

Well, in my judgement it depends on how or if they can breathe fire: that generally requires magic to do, but I imagine you can do it normally as well.

I find a lot of more modern dragon stories actually create a 'reason' that dragons breath fire other than "magic". Often it comes from some sort of organ that produces a flamable gas (which happens to some extent in real life, it just doesn't come out of our mouths, nor is it expelled in amounts that it could be used for anything other than accidently clearing an elevator) and often lighting it is accidental (either because the gas natuarally combusts when in contact with oxygen, or there is another reason it gets hot enough to ignight) hints: sleeping dragon puffing flames with its snores

Whats more, a lot of dragons that european dragons that come to mind (in particular the ones found on christian cathedral walls and paintings) did not seem to breath fire at all, but were rather just massive serpant or lizard like creatures of note.

NTJedi

on Aug 03, 2009

BoogieBac

reply 23

Goodie Huts will actually allow for a lot of interaction...some will be 'lost crates' that may have treaure (traditional one-time goodie huts), some may be Troll Encamplemts, etc.

"Goodie" always sounded very elementary school... so my friends and family would refer to them as "pizza huts". Just like pizza hut or any random pizza delivery place... it was usually good and sometimes bad. Bad such as when they place on the wrong topping ingredients.

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