Elemental: v1.07 Update
Performance Issues...begone!
By BoogieBac Posted September 3, 2010 4:22:40

More of a maintenance update than anything, Elemental v1.07 focuses on the performance issues seen by both high and low end users. There are more improvements to come as code is continually improved and tile-designs are streamlined, but this update should bring a healthy FPS boost to all. And, if your frames per second remain under-par, new options will give you additional wiggle-room.

That's not to say gameplay dosen't get some update love...resources no longer use up city tiles, unit groups save out the necessary info to regenerate themselves on reload, and item stacking heroes is a thing of the past...but performance, memory usage, and overall stability were our targets here.


Note: A 1.07.025 hotfix was published with a fix for a crash in the 'Custom Sovereign' system (Merchant/Brilliant/Meditative traits). This would have caused a crash loading saved sovereigns or games with those traits applied as well.

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* Performance *
+ Major improvement to rendering system, especially when over cities.
+ Condensed scene rendering process from 3 passes through scene into a single pass
+ Bunch of fixes to the issues behind "DX Error: Invalid Call", particularly when Alt-Tab'ing. This will continue to be worked on.
+ Added new framerate limiter ( limits framerate to refresh rate of device )
- Removed throttle framerates option (this is always on now)
+ Particle Effects no longer render if the "Disable Particle Effects" option is on
+ Outlines now LOD-out as you zoom out
+ Added option "Disable Outlines" to the options screen to turn off rendering outlines (Might help lower-end machines, and some people prefer no outlines)
+ Commented out unnecessary debug messages

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* Bug Fixes *
+ Fixed Various Memory Leaks
+ Fixed the issue that was causing the unimproved tile designs for elemental shards to stick around after a shard-harvesting improvement was built on top of them.
+ fixed a bug where if you have the option on where when entering/leaving city build mode, the camera switches between overhead and default view, you could get stuck in overhead view (and forced to manually move the camera back) if you pressed the city build mode button, while already in city build mode
+ fixed bug where AI demands a tribute of 0 gildar
+ fixed display issue where improvement cost entries overfilled the improvement build list
+ fixed display issue where units with long names overfilled the name area on the level up wnd.
+ fixed display issue on battle init wnd, if defense or attack was negative then it showed up as a huge number. Beserker ring gives a -3 to defense, which could give you negative overall defense. Same might be true of attack if in the future we have some strange item that decreases your attack.
+ Fixed bug where units in tile designs (like horses, wargs, etc) would not fade out when the tile is under fog of war
+ Fixed "jumping units" when starting new game from within a game (or loading a game within a game)
+ Other fixes regarding battle initition window, creating mountains in map editor, first contact status not being set to relation unknown
+ Fixed a bug where improvements that were flagged as once-per-city were able
to be placed twice.

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* Gameplay / Balance *
+ Fixed bug where economic treaty gold bonuses weren't getting added to the global resource pool
+ Changed how creatures and NPCs increase their stats when they level up to nerf incredibly powerful high-level monsters running around
+ Stacking of items fixed (can now only wear 1 per type per champion)
+ Pioneers in a boat can no longer build a Settlement at sea
+ Wild improvements will now be able to be taken into account in a city's resource usage correctly, if any of them ever have negative resource production
+ Refugee camps (and other wild improvements that provide population storage bonuses) improvements
+ Fixed Miner sovereign profession bonus
+ Fixed Great Warriors faction bonus
+ Removed really high starting mana regen ability from Umber's faction config
+ Fixed Advanced Tracking techs (in both tech trees) to change the player ability that is hooked up to affect movement
+ Fixed broken productionreq tag on vengeance coating
+ References to Ice shards changed to Water for consistency
+ Sprint duration adjusted to 2
+ Lowered HP for fallen peasant
+ Fixed up resource hoard description text
+ Various food resources now provide different amounts as indicated by old description text
+ Improved output of Temple of Essence
+ Improved output of Tower of Titans, Tower of Souls
+ Fixed construction resource cost for curgen's exchange
+ Resource hoard costs now mirror kingdoms resource costs
+ Fixed up description text for construction yard
+ Great Theatre no longer provides +100% Gildar, only +100% Prestige
+ AI: Added code to send sovereign back to his capital city if he has no destination after the early phase of the game
+ Fixes for various terrain types not responding to RaiseLand spell
+ Resource hoards no longer deduct from the buildable tiles of a city (the 'bananna cities' from the forums)

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* Battles *
+ Changed the calculation for battle damage to take multiple troops into better account (with each unit getting an individual attack roll).
+ Every time panic is caused, the combat text for the panic will be shown.
+ Fixed a problem where misses and non-damage spells would cause an on hit animation to be played in tactical battles.
+ Fixed a possible bug where units would no longer update their troop counts after reaching a single troop left.
+ When selecting the spell book in tactical battles the cursor should now reset to the arrow.
+ When clicking on a unit's hiergemenon entry in tactical battles the cursor should now reset to the arrow.
+ Turned on bounding box picking for tactical battles to improve the feel of unit selection.
+ Selecting units should now be turned back on while other units are animating in tactical battles.
+ Fixed a bug where unit tooltips in tactical battles would draw over tooltips for items and spells.
+ Added some checks to the battle init window to stop the window from showing when defenders or attackers were null. Also added logic to clear waiting flags in this case.

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* UI *
+ Adopted the unit vitals context for a Details tab to show when a wild improvement is selected on the main map, to give more meaningful and easier to read information
- If the improvement is under construction, it says so and uses the level slider to show the progress towards completion and the turns left
- If the improvement is done, it shows what that improvement is producing and has an entry to get further information about the improvement by opening up the lorebook
- Also, it shows which city an improvement is linked to, or "Not linked" if it isn't. If it is linked, the tooltip explains that this city is contributing production bonuses to the resource production of that improvement. If the improvement is not linked, the tooltip says how many tiles the nearest city needs to be closer to link with that city, explaining that it will be able to get city production bonuses if it does link
+ New Tactical Icons hooked up for Smelter, Trade Center, Construction Yard, Merchant Guild
+ New Tile Designs for Ventri Iron Mine, Stone Quarry, Clay Quarry, Marble Quarry, Drath Village, Shrill Hive, Spider Nest
+ Fixed bug where double-clicking on a spell you couldn't cast from the spellbook popup would queue a bunch of "Can't cast tactical spell" message boxes to appear over and over, now just plays a little failure sound if something that can't be cast is double-clicked
+ Fixed a typo in a campaign dialog
+ When you build an improvement on a resource, the map notifier for it is removed
+ Fixed typo "completly restored" to "completely restored"
+ Fixed some places where the display of per-turn gold production lagged behind changes to it, gets rid of some income discrepancies between some screens when loading a game, adding/cancelling a treaty, etc.


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* Known Issues *

+ Tactical Battles: Stuck turn if you use space bar or click "Pass Turn" button while selected unit is moving. Clicking auto-resolve will end the battle if the turn is stuck.
+ Occasional instances of damage indicators not appearing over units.

(I'm up north on vacation typing on an extremely slow connection so bear with me)

I don't think people yet fully realize the completeness of Stardock's fail on Elementa's launch.

I'm going to write more about this but not only did we think v1.05 was ready for everyone but we felt v1.0 was too. That's the level of disconnect/poor judgment on our part we're talking about.

If the game had come out in February, it would still have been a disastrous launch because lack of time wasn't the issue. It was blindness, sheer blindness. We felt the game was finished. And I speak of v1.0, not v1.05. Blindness.

There will be massive consequences for Stardock's game studio. I'll be talking more about this when I get back. But the game wasn't released early. The game was released poorly. Head in the sand syndrome imo. I've read the reviews as much as possible given my hideous internet access up here and I agree with them. We just didn't see what they were talking about. We thought any complaints would be about polish points or something.

The point is, the issue here is far far worse than many of you think it is. I wish it was an issue of the game being released too early. That's an easy thing for a company to "fix". Elemental's launch is the result of catastrophic poor judgment on my part.

EVERY competent software developer knows that the programmer must never be the one deciding whether the program is done. Yet, my love of Elemental broke my self discipline and I began coding on the game itself in vast amounts and lost any sense of objectivity on where the game's state was. I normally only program the AI on our games so I can keep a level of distance from the game itself to determine whether it's "Ready". On Elemental, I was in love with the world and the game and lost my impartiality.

We'll do better.

Stop Stop Stop. And I'm not just saying that because it takes like half a minute to load up a page from here.

There is a phrase they use in the movie industry "Kill your darlings".

The person green lighting a production should NEVER EVER be the one working on said production. Writing AI on GalCiv or helping design the game mechanics on Sins of a Solar Empire kept me at a reasonable distance from the actual GAME.

The problem with Elemental was that I am in love with it. To me, it's not just a game. It's a whole world that we can expand and build on. During the months of July and August, when I was working on the game non-stop, I literally had a hard time distinguishing the difference between the GAME, the MODS and the future. It all merged into one fuzzy centrality.

Stardock will be working on Elemental for years to come. Literally. Let me be specific: Stardock will NOT release a new game next year. It'll all be Elemental related. Releasing it in August wasn't a financial decision. Hell, Stardock's games aren't funded by PC game revenue. I wanted you guys to get the game ASAP.

I think most people would agree that Elemental has tremendous potential. The reason it was released when it was was because we thought it had reached that level ready to be shipped. When you're living, breathing and eating something 24/7, your perspective changes.

From a personal pride point of view, it would be much easier to say "Whohaah, my jet fuel requires Elemental to ship in August!". To give you guys an idea of how certain I was that the game was ready for everyone to ship, I didn't just give copies to reviewers, I sent copies to my friends who used to be reviewers (long story but the gaming media has changed a lot in the past 18 months) because I was dying for them to see this masterpiece.

Tom Francis's debiliating PC Gamer preview only was possible was because I personally compiled a version for him (of v1.0) for him to see because the v1.0 version doesn't work outside North America (region checking). In other words, that negative PC Gamer UK preview was only possible because I was so confident in Elemental's readiness that I bypassed Stardock's PR people to get a friend of mine in Europe a copy.

I don't think there should be much disagreement that Stardock absolutely blew it with the launch. Holy cow that should be obvious by now. In my mind, anything less than "game of the year" (in a year with Starcraft 2 and Civ V in it) means we totally screwed up.

The real question, and the question I think every single person who shelled out $50+ for this game should ask is this: What is Stardock going to do to make me whole?

And the answer, I hope, is in the coming months because, like I said, most of Stardock's revenue doesn't come from making PC games.

Having my idiocy shown on a global stage is humbling but probably very constructive for PC gamers. I think most people would agree that Elemental is a fantastic game -- once you get past the idiotic UI decisions, balance, etc.

We are very fortunate to be in a position to make the situation right. We're our own publisher. We don't have the same financial constraints as other companies so we can spend months or even years if necessary to do right by you guys.

Hopefully, this message will make it up to the forums, (because it was long) but if it does, please take it as it is meant. I failed you. I failed you because I love what we're doing and out of sheer hubris -- that the basic law of programmer != guy who decides if it is done somehow didn't apply to me. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Elemental is getting pasted in reviews and deserves that pasting. I'm glad many people are having fun but our eyes have been opened. Like I said before, I'll be writing a lot more about this when I get back to an Internet connection that measures bandwidth with an M instead of a K.

I don't think Elemental's shortcomings can be fixed with tweaks or small patches. I think there are core game mechanics and AI that will have to be revisited. I think there are things that would normally be reserved for sequels that will have to be put in.

I think I mentioned this earlier but we employ multiple former editors of major review sites who were part of the process. When you're working a long time on a project it's easy to get way way way too close to it and soon, its foibles and flaws become simply part of the fabric.

When I get home, with the benefit of being away for a bit, I'll be able to outline some specific and in hindsight, obvious game mechanic things that will need to be addressed for Elemental to begin to reach its potential.

As an AI coder, the biggest disappointment to me is that I allowed the design to allow so many N^2 variables (I'll talk about this later). So don't think i'm thinking that we can just tweak around the edges to make Elemental what it needs to be. That would be just another version of denial of the problem -- as if we could just tweak it and suddenly it goes from a 3 out of 5 to a 5 out of 5 and no, that's not the case. Not even close.

The upcoming version they're working on, v1.07 is still about working on all the crazy compatibility issues that our engine has to deal with (that deserves a separate discussion but I've been looking at the check-ins and they're depressing to me. I see a lot of "Fix allocation that causes a crash on nVidia driver 1/10/2010" type stuff which makes me wince).

The kinds of changes Elemental will require to meet is potential are pretty big things IMO. Things that we (and myself in particular) were just blind to. Let me give you a couple of concrete examples so you can see what I'm getting at (and this post BETTER post, this is like being back in 1994): My friend Mark Asher on a post on a forum talked about how boring our spells were. I took that to be about the spell names. But it wasn't just the spell names, it was about the spells themselves and how they worked. The way resources are managed and handled is very limiting when it comes to the way the AI has to deal with them (N^2 variables).

Anyway, the point is, we fell in love with a vision of the game that was largely in our minds rather than in reality. The difference here is that Stardock has the luxury of being able to address it. Even if Elemental didn't sell a single new copy, we would still be able to address it.

I truly wish I could ascribe Elemental's launch to cynical greed or something. Cynical greed beats out pathetic incompetence any day.

Oh, Hi there Peter!

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█ █ * Performance * █ █
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█ █ - Major improvement to rendering system, especially when over █ █
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█ █ * Bug Fixes * █ █
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█ █ - Fixed Various Memory Leaks █ █
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█ █ - Great Theatre no longer provides +100% Gildar, only +100% █ █
█ █ Prestige █ █
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█ █ - AI: Added code to send sovereign back to his capital city █ █
█ █ if he has no destination after the early phase of the game █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Fixes for various terrain types not responding to RaiseLand █ █
█ █ spell █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Resource hoards no longer deduct from the buildable tiles of █ █
█ █ a city (the 'bananna cities' from the forums) █ █
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█ █ *********** █ █
█ █ * Battles * █ █
█ █ *********** █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Changed the calculation for battle damage to take multiple █ █
█ █ troops into better account (with each unit getting an █ █
█ █ individual attack roll). █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Every time panic is caused, the combat text for the panic █ █
█ █ will be shown. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Fixed a problem where misses and non-damage spells would █ █
█ █ cause an on hit animation to be played in tactical battles. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Fixed a possible bug where units would no longer update █ █
█ █ their troop counts after reaching a single troop left. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - When selecting the spell book in tactical battles the █ █
█ █ cursor should now reset to the arrow. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - When clicking on a unit's hiergemenon entry in tactical █ █
█ █ battles the cursor should now reset to the arrow. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Turned on bounding box picking for tactical battles to █ █
█ █ improve the feel of unit selection. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Selecting units should now be turned back on while other █ █
█ █ units are animating in tactical battles. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Fixed a bug where unit tooltips in tactical battles would █ █
█ █ draw over tooltips for items and spells. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Added some checks to the battle init window to stop the █ █
█ █ window from showing when defenders or attackers were null. █ █
█ █ Also added logic to clear waiting flags in this case. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ ****** █ █
█ █ * UI * █ █
█ █ ****** █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Adopted the unit vitals context for a Details tab to show █ █
█ █ when a wild improvement is selected on the main map, to give █ █
█ █ more meaningful and easier to read information - If the █ █
█ █ improvement is under construction, it says so and uses the █ █
█ █ level slider to show the progress towards completion and the █ █
█ █ turns left - If the improvement is done, it shows what that █ █
█ █ improvement is producing and has an entry to get further █ █
█ █ information about the improvement by opening up the lorebook █ █
█ █ - Also, it shows which city an improvement is linked to, or █ █
█ █ "Not linked" if it isn't. If it is linked, the tooltip █ █
█ █ explains that this city is contributing production bonuses █ █
█ █ to the resource production of that improvement. If the █ █
█ █ improvement is not linked, the tooltip says how many tiles █ █
█ █ the nearest city needs to be closer to link with that city, █ █
█ █ explaining that it will be able to get city production █ █
█ █ bonuses if it does link █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - New Tactical Icons hooked up for Smelter, Trade Center, █ █
█ █ Construction Yard, Merchant Guild █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - New Tile Designs for Ventri Iron Mine, Stone Quarry, Clay █ █
█ █ Quarry, Marble Quarry, Drath Village, Shrill Hive, Spider █ █
█ █ Nest █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Fixed bug where double-clicking on a spell you couldn't cast █ █
█ █ from the spellbook popup would queue a bunch of "Can't cast █ █
█ █ tactical spell" message boxes to appear over and over, now █ █
█ █ just plays a little failure sound if something that can't be █ █
█ █ cast is double-clicked █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Fixed a typo in a campaign dialog █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - When you build an improvement on a resource, the map █ █
█ █ notifier for it is removed █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Fixed typo "completly restored" to "completely restored" █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ - Fixed some places where the display of per-turn gold █ █
█ █ production lagged behind changes to it, gets rid of some █ █
█ █ income discrepancies between some screens when loading a █ █
█ █ game, adding/cancelling a treaty, etc. █ █
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▀▀▀ ░ █ 1. Unpack the included rar files. █ █
▒ █ 2. Run Elemental.War.of.Magic.v1.07.Update.exe and install █ █
█ █ 3. Copy the cracked content from SKIDROW directory to your █ █
█ █ main installation directory and overwrite. █ █
█ █ 4. Play the game █ █
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█ █ Additional Notes: █ █
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█ █ You don't need to have any of the previous updates installed, █ █
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█ █ FAIRLIGHT - RAZOR 1911 - VISION FACTORY - PARADOX - QUARTEX █ █
█ █ DCS - CRYSTAL - ZENITH - ACCESSSION - ALPHA FLIGHT - PRODIGY █ █
█ █ THE COMPANY - LEGEND - TRSI - ORACLE - ANTHROX - CLASSIC █ █
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█ █ UNLEASHED - TiNYiSO - BReWErS - RADIKAL - POSTMORTEM - SHOCK █ █
█ █ FAIRLIGHT - CRUDE - VACE - ReUnion - OUTLAWS - GENESIS █ █
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