Derek Paxton

That's a big issue for me too.  We should have a fix in for it today.

Except since you can create custom factions you have to judge each trait by itself.

I'm curious about the reasoning behind non-faction improvements being destroyed upon changing hands.  Wouldn't those be desireable to factions that didn't possess the means to build them themselves?

Or are we talking about something like a Kingdom taking ownership of a slave pit and destroying it for the sake of going against their beliefs?

I think it's to prevent different improvements doing the same thing in cities, for example kingdom get hedge wall+fort and empire get wooden wall+castle.

Oh boy! So many games to beta test and so little time AH! 

Saw Avengers opening on midnight! Good stuff. Now I hope Batman can also deliver too! 

 Yea I just got it yesterday and was almost late for work this morning. It is a good game at least so far.

On the subject of -1 hp for Wraith units.  I think it's not so bad at all.  Before .913 I was making all my custom sovereigns Wraiths for the +3hp per kill which is amazingly useful in the early and late game.  Early because the enemies are weak and die easily, late because the sovereign is strong and kills easily.

Now that total hit points have been reduced and the Pariden actually get the shard bonus, I am actually playing different races, but I still have a .913 game with a Wraith based custom side.  My warg cavalry acts so often compared to the enemy that I can usually let the right squad get the kill.  +3hp is not much, but it adds up, especially if you plan your fight for it.

No the Wraiths are still good in .913, and I can't wait to try them in .914

I think there is a memory leak that seems to be around loading saved games.  I loaded a saved game and my city borders no longer appeared.  So, I reloaded again.  Now I didn't have borders and oceans were missing as well.  Checked my memory and it was through the roof. (Of course I had Visual Studio open as well, which is itself a memory hog).

Thanks for patches. Plz fix AI city and Outpost placement + AI sending wild monsters at us.

WOW seems like overkill, even 10 would be nice.

Also seems like overkill. 25% was nice, you dont need 100% fire resistance to make fire spells obsolete and even just the fire rings make that 75% fire resistance. Personally even the 50% would mean I would never cast fire spells at Quendar. It would be better if we could get more stat and stat per level modifiers in blood traits.

Wow at the training yard change... well that's one way to justify the AI ALWAYS picking it. Heh. Works for me, I'll build it in 1, and Garden in all the other... wonder who that helps.

Read a fascinating article by Soren Johnson years ago in which he talked about what he learned from working with Sid Meier. It's here, and it's well worth reading. Here's the relevant bit:

Good games can rarely be created in a vacuum, which is why many designers advocate an iterative design process, during which a simple prototype of the game is built very early and then iterated on repeatedly until the game becomes a shippable product. Sid called this process “finding the fun,” and the probability of success is often directly related to the number of times a team can turn the crank on the loop of developing an idea, play-testing the results, and then adjusting based on feedback. As the number of times a team can go through this cycle is finite, developers should not waste time with small changes. Instead, when making gameplay adjustments, developers should aim for significant changes that will provoke a tangible response.

If a unit seems too weak, don’t lower its cost by 5%; instead, double its strength. If players feel overwhelmed by too many upgrades, try removing half of them. In the original Civilization, the gameplay kept slowing down to a painful crawl, which Sid solved by shrinking the map in half. The point is not that the new values are likely to be correct – the goal is to stake out more design territory with each successive iteration.

Seems to me like Derek and Brad are in good company here.

Can we haz it  it now?