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Dev Journal
Multiplayer update and brief v1.1 info
So this week we’re finishing the process of porting the 1.0x updates to multiplayer. The new combined version will be called v1.09E. It has a handful of single player game fixes (like the free money from pioneer thing ). After v1.09E, we’ll take a step back to see how people are playing multiplayer and start putting together plans for future improvements in that area based on the number of people in the community playing it. For myself, I’ve been working on a different b... [read more]
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v1.09, Data.zip, Modding, and You!
Hey everyone, So v1.09 went live, and one of the big modding-side improvements is in the official addition of a 'my games/elemental/Mods' folder! The game will now properly read data from 'Mods/Data' and graphics and models from 'Mods/GFX'. For anyone using Mods that have required data or graphics to be placed in the core game directories, I highly suggest moving these out into this new folder, otherwise Elemental may attempt to rebuild the Data.zip file, resulting in a nice, lo... [read more]
Dev Journal
We expect to make this available either this evening or tomorrow. Here’s what’s new: --------------------------------------------------- ----------- Elemental v1.09 Change Log ----------- --------------------------------------------------- * Gameplay / Balance * + AI sovereigns take more care about where they are doing their attacking + Added code so that AIBasic is smarter about attacking units in cities + ‘Equipment Cache’ goodie hut now hand... [read more]
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Version 1.09 arrives this week and amongst the additions is the new city list window: [read more]
Dev Journal
Lot of interesting stuff going on
So right now the team is working on getting v1.09 of Elemental out this week. I’ve been working on the AI which continues to generate a considerable amount of pain for me but it’s getting better but as I’ve gotten better at the game I’ve found it very problematic at certain things. What I’m working on tonight is a detailed user manual update that will be based on v1.1 of the game (global mana and population as a resource). Population as a resource was something discussed in the ... [read more]
Dev Journal
For those of you working on mods, we’ve added a new mod area called “other” that you can upload pretty much anything you’d like. https://www.elementalgame.com/mods [read more]