I'm pretty sure mods are covered under the "fair-use" provided nobody directly profits from it.  So the people who made the game that was modded can't directly endorse the creation of the mod, making it seem like they want to gain sales as a direct result of the mod. 

Lack of FAQ so...

-Altough Elemental is based on the idea of Channelers influencing land (from desert to plains, for example), will it be actually easy to just ignore that feature and have just one type of terrain without too much effort (or maybe include a tutorial about it )?

-A secondary plane will be included and/or planned and/or easy to add (random map generation problems apart)? And more than one secondary plane? Iknow this wouldn't be easy but the potential... And if there were planes, could we associate some races/civilizations to them so you can only play them if you pick a perk that allows you to do so?

-Will units be only of one gender? Can be there mixed genders in the same unit and/or units of a different gender than the standard (supposed male)? Would playing with gender in the military units affect population growth?

-Any kind of weather? I would enjoy to have frostbite making life of travelers more interesting (and deadly).

-Will be possible to have units with pets? Be it just one pet or a group of pets.

-Will art be given to support mods? Like models for medalions and the like. So we can add new icons that fit the already stablished style.

-Will Elemental include many extra options not used in the campaign like monsters, armors, buildings...?

From the previous one come:

-Will I get weapons and armors of ancient design (ancient Greece, more preciselly)? And some matching buildings? Repeat those two questions but for Chinese/Japanese/Vietnamese/... style? Is leather as resource and leather type armors in the game anyways?

-Will we get dwarves, elves and orcs?

-Altough I'm not fan of bear cavalry, I had an idea for a unit and... hey, I need it so... bear cavalry in or planned to? It also depends on the presence of female dwarves with not so many clothes.

Well, my first guess would be "no". Generally, militaries have rules against that, and a pregnant soldier usually becomes a dead soldier very, very quickly. Also, in the games I am used to playing, population is measured in thousands, millions, and billions: individual births don't count for much, although in the screens we've seen the population is much smaller, on the scale of 10s to hundreds.

"Turn to Stone" fits the elemental theme.

You took the first one out of contest. I was refering as getting them as out of campaign content. Even if they are just humans whose shape can be molded and some props added to get results that look like them.

About the second one, I meant squad. And I would prefer not to depend on other modders too much, so the more Stardock can provide the better. (and what I ask is more or less broad enough)

And about the population growth, when your population is really big, maybe it doesn't have an impact. But when you can count your population with your fingers (exaggerating a bit here), it may count. In any case, I want to play with the population growth mechanics of the game to achieve different effects in the different civilizations I would be interested to create.  The same as I would be very interested in alternate mechanics for population growth like kidnapping population from other cities/towns after succesfull attacks/raids, or cloning rituals/techniques/spells... If I'm to create an amazon civilization for example, those kind of details matters a lot. Or I won't bother making it.

It would be like the extra planes thing. I can design a mod that doesn't need extra planes. Yet being able to have one or more (3 extra more would be nice considering that I would be making non-random maps for it) would radically change my civilization setup (and all the story/background behind it).

And as it's a thread to ask questions for the next FAQ (like in someday somehow), I wouldn't mind some answers about Stardock plans about those topics (be it for release or post release).

-Will the game come with discarded art? Yes, I'm pointing to the discarded medallions or whatever falls during the process of creating the game. Discarded doesn't mean ugly or useless.

Why would any general allow his soldier women get pregnant while on duty? (duty as let's say they serve for some years and then they go to the reserve if the squad is disbanded)

True, but if they did get pregnant, they would die in short order. I, personally have never been pregnant (I'm 15 and male), but the woman down the street had a baby recently, and belive me: there is no way that someone in that condition could fight or travel long distances. And, of course, if the woman dies, then so does the baby (remember, we're talking about a world before emergency c-sections here).

The really neat thing about history is that even though it's all already happened, there's always more to learn. I knew you were not quite right here, but I had no idea that the first recorded maternal survival of a c-section was in freakin' 1500.

Also, while I agree that generally speaking, pregnant women are not going to make good soldiers, you really need to rein in your affection for absolute statements. Each pregnancy is unique, and the delicacy of the embryo/fetus and the mother vary over the full term. A very fit and well-trained woman in her second trimester could probably kick most teenage boys' asses in unarmed combat.

Its amazing what crazy directions these conversations wind up going.

Umm....please don't flame me for my "noobishness", but I have to ask.....

I have never played a game like this... (ie. RPG/Fantasy etc.) so I don't really have any idea what to expect.

You could ask, why would I even consider this game?  Well it's a STARDOCK product and my experiences with them speak for themselves.

I guess I would just like to know wether I'll be "eased into the game" by tutorials or whether I'm fated to staying a fantasy/rpg nub because I haven't got the lore background down etc. etc.

For example:  I thought (since I had tons of RTS experience) that not ever having played DOTA wouldn't be a problem for me with DEMIGOD, but that has turned out to be false.  I only play on LAN now, and avoid the toxic online of DEMIGOD completely.  I would just like to know if the same sort of thing is going to happen to me here.... 

the Monk

Well, speaking as a guy who hadn't even heard of TBS for 14 years, then started playing GC2 only last summer, I can assure you that you won't have ANY trouble integrating.

Actually, my point is that after maybe the second trimester you would essentially be useless in combat (depends on the woman's condition and the size of the baby, but that's generally the way it works). Remember, she wouldn't be fighting forum nerds here: she'd be set against an opponent or opponents just as strong as she normally is, and just as mobile, except that she'd be much slower and have lower energy levels. Granted, in a few odd cases mother, chile, or both miiiight survive, but the vast majority of pregnancies would end in mutual death. Considering all of the probelms posed, I think that magical sterilization of all troops is the only game-viable outcome. Besides, I don't want to have to explain an M rating to my parents.

Uhhhhh...... you do realise that I'm 15 and live with my parents, right? But seriously, they're hippies, and I'm not entirely sure how they'd react..... they've been bugging me to start dating random girls I go to school with for approximately two years now.

The real point here is that people are debating something that is completely out to lunch.

The best solution to the problem is not to try to come up with magical troop sterilization. It's to not model pregnancy in the game. We're not really gaining anything by modelling it in terms of gameplay. We are gaining extra code complexity, bugs, information for players to deal with, processor requirements, etc.

Something this forum seems to have an issue with is that often times with software, the solution to complexity is not adding more complexity. It's just to remove the thing causing the problem, especially when that thing doesn't really add anything to the game in the first place.