So far beta 3 is much better than the other betas and much more stable, yet I am still dealing with the occasional crash to desktop and turn button sticking.

Fix those issues and the game will be good, but to make it excellent there needs to be way more spells and more random events.

Also I wouldnt mind seeing the following:

1. I would like to be able to upgrade old units with new equipment when its researched.

2. I would like for heal wounds to be added to the life spell book.

3. Also death needs to be balanced and life magic needs to be brought up a few notches in power.

4. There needs to be some form of spell or building that you can build that will protect your city from enemy spells.

5. Now concerning spells every school needs to have at least one single target direct damage spells, one aoe direct damage spell, one debuff, one crowd control, and one strategic damage or debuff spell. Also there needs to be at least 3 global spells for each school.

Examples:

1. Life
1. One global regen spell that affects all allied units.
2. Fountain of Life - A global spell that doubles food generation and population growth.
3. A global spell blesses all allied units.
2. Death
1. A global curse on all enemy units entering the players zone of control.
2. A global buff that causes enemies that die in combat to have a chance of coming back as zombies under that players control.
3. A global curse that lowers all enemy players production.
3. Fire
1. Armageddon - a global spell that causes meteor showers to rain down on random parts of the map every turn.
2. A global spell that places flame blade on all allied units.
3. Drought - a global spell that halves the food generation of all enemy players, causing populations to starve off.
4. Earth
1. Gold Rush - doubles the gold generation of all friendly cities.
2. Volcanic Instability - causes volcanoes to appear and erupt at random areas on the map.
5. Air
1. Enchant Roads - Enchants all roads in your zone of control, effectively doubling their movement bonus.
2. Fierce Winds - Causes tornadoes to appear in random portions of the map.
3. Global Guardian Winds spell on all allied units.
4. Some form of global spell that has a chance of dispelling all spells cast by enemy players.
6. Water
1. Deluge - Causes flooding in random portions of the map as well as halving the movement speed of all units outside of your zone of control.
2. Another global spell that causes random enemy cities to be affected by freezing temperatures for 5 turns, that halt the cities productions and causes all units that step out of the city to take cold damage.  

If I remember well I voted fair.

Please fix the crash bugs

Next more race differenciation and then more earth magic spell, see all my previous post.

And finally city combat with walls.

Tactical combat really need elements to obstruct the player / monsters to make it more interesting.

And those are really the only things I'd like to see in-game, the rest is amazing !!!! Thanks a lot !!!

Saw warlock master of the arcane and that game disapoint me a lot but I like their race differentiation a lot and how different they play *hint*

Anyway, fe is already so much better than warlock totalbiscuit really destroyed war of magic but he's eager to test FE well, in the warlock test he mention FE crashing too much for him to make a video

There was a post by Brad Wardell on this about two weeks ago, I cannot seem to find it. Has it been radically edited, or even removed?

I voted Good. I think the game is much closer to being amazing than a lot of people have been saying, apart from the city building thing (which is known about). I think the game is nearly there, the choices are there it just the AI to push the player to make them.

I'm having a blast playing the game. I wish there were more summons, though. Also, there's a whole bunch of small issues that I hope get ironed out before release (see support forum). I voted Excellent. Although I'm not sure how we are supposed to judge the game, for a beta 2-3-4 or more months from release, it is excellent.

Same, but I really am not sure I like the vote (I mean what makes a Beta "excellent?").  I mean I really like the way the game is shaping up, but this is Beta.  It's not supposed to be a game demo.  That said, I have been enjoying it as a demo finally.  Previous builds have been far to unstable for me to even 'test,' to the point where I couldn't even get maps to load.

Now it seems that the majority of my CTD are after tactical battles or when clicking a little too fast on menus when 'stuff' is happening in the background.

I voted good,I was not sure wether to chose good or excellent, but for excellent I think there is still room for improvement, ie more faction differentation, etc.

However I'd say it's somewhere between good and excellent and it will become a very special game.

I still find it a pity they didn't go with the more known fantasy races seen in MoM/AoW because that would have made it much easier for them.( for faction differentiation, fantasy flavour ) Still they're doing a really good job in that area and it's coming along well.

They didn't go that path does make the game more original and I love the fact of starting in a dangerous world, again more original.

btw the Arcane Monolith spell is really cool. Ideas like this are really fun and make the player feel more like a great wizard.

For the first time I'm playing a game of E/FE where I'm thinking: " This is really fun! ".

Jopis79, be sure to keep an eye on the Stormworld mod: https://forums.elementalgame.com/421802

I voted good because the beta now has finally started to become a true game, and not just a prototype/proof of concept.

Hawever the beta is nowhere near a release statut yet, even ignoring the few bugs remaining, there is still a lot of work needing to be done on balance and game flow to become the great game that it has the potential to be.

Please keep going !

Does anyone know where the post by Brad is asking us to vote?

It has apparently been deleted, you can no longer find the thread, or Brads posts in his post history. I could not even find my own post.

Im quite certain they decided that the whole thing was just too embarrassing. I would have liked to keep that thread for future reference.

The only way I could find it again was to google my own post and then view the google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vWjikjPqVlcJ:forums.elementalgame.com/422922/page/8/+%22FrenziedFan%22+unprofessional&cd=1&hl=sv&ct=clnk&gl=se&client=opera

   Yikes!!

I saw that and was personally angered and disappointed in stardock. Its one thing to lock a thread and say okay we are done discussing this. Its quite another to try and pretend it never happened and sweep it under the rug. pathetic move guys, really pathetic.

Just to review the bidding, I voted "Good" on the Beta 3, up from "Fair" on the Beta 2.  IMHO:

     FE is a fun game already; it is gettng steadily better; and I am confident it eventually will be Great !  

I think that thread was a turning point where Brad gave up on caring what the forum zealots think.