warlord being useless?

Yes.. In the game that i shall not mention cos the developers are probably sick of hearing.. warlord gives all your units a 1 level boost! That's a significant bonus.

To a greater or less extent was the same for other traits that you could choose at the start. In other words what you chose at the start MATTERED and you would play each game very differently..

Compared to EWOM where most of the choices you make at the start have very few long term implications and you can play each game the same way regardless of what they chose.. and I'm not even talking about magic!

EWOM should significantly beef up each of the choices.. e.g hardy should boast hitpoints per level increase perhaps.. Not sure about how to handle equipment.. but start by boosting the power of equipments you can buy at the start.. that might not be enough...though

Your talk about how weak starting sovereign equipment is just makes me want to bring up the option available to humans only to equip boots that increase their movement in sovereign creation... I just noticed it recently, and think it's a little (read: way too) strong...

I dont think soldiers should level.  They should have levels based on their training only..  But never  gain experience.  They should be canon fodder.  They are currently far more powerful than heroes.  I have individual soldiers that have equipment equal to a hero and 4x as many hp,  Then take that times 4 or more.  How groups of soldiers are stacked needs to be changed.  I dont think def and att should be multiplied by the number of units in it, there needs to be diminishing returns or just have their hp increased.  A group of 4 soldiers wouldn't have 20att, 20 def, and 20 hp, they would have maybe 13 att, 13 def and 20 hp.  What that does is give an 0.5, instead of full, on every additional unit in the stack for att and def.  So then a unit of 4 soldiers in poor gear isn't vastly more powerful than a hero in good gear. 

Heroes need to gain hp on levels.  My level 10 hero should have more than 20 hp.  It needs to be closer to 60 or even 100.  Maybe gain 1 hp for every level and 3 for every point of constitution?  So a level 10 with 20 constitution would have 70 hp?  and a level 10 with a 10 constitution would have 40?  I think that sounds about right to me.  That would give a level 1 with a 10 constitution 31 hp.  That may sound like a lot, but they deserve and need that much survivability, I think.

Yes!  This is something I've been thinking about, too.  It would help make heroes much more interesting.  I loved the ability to ransom royalty in Medieval Total War and would love to see the same thing here.

Also agree.  Originally, Elemental was going to have vassal states that the player could create by granting independence to some of his cities.  I hope this feature returns as it, along with your idea, would make the world seem much more alive.

Dynasties need a lot of chrome, period.  Soverigns need to be mortal so that their children can inherit the throne and drastically change the course of a game.  I also would like to see SD bring back the idea of custom coats of arms that change as families inter-marry.  

 

Trying to finish a game, and bugs are really making it very difficult.  I am far into a large map game with every premade nation in it, me playing a created Empire. I did have a lot of fun, even though it looks like I'm complaining, but the game needs some work.

BUGS:

I guess they not only limited the game to a single neutral kingdom, but aparantly I'm either unlucky or its the Ore Keeper ones every time.

The OOM crashes now happen about every 10 turns or so.  Almost unplayable.  I feel the need to finish the game before it turns into every other turn.

There is persistant slowdown.

Often, when my male children marry, I get a double wife.  One wife that works normal, and a shadow of her that won't move but causes problems, like not letting the turn end unless I make her guard or something.

This is a strange bug, and my favorite.  Altar and Resolin(sp?) are nation that have both been destroyed, but I have two grand kids that have relations to them and somehow became the Kings of those nations.  They have no cities, but they are in the game and can be interacted with and you can attempt to make treaties and things as if they were a neutral nation.  One is standing on my captial city, never moving and hes the King of Resolin and has 5 champions too, but no cities or armies.  Might try and declare war on them and see what happens. 

Legendary armor is really cheap for humans and 1000 gp for trogs and urxen.  Why?  And why would it cost more than master armor when its not as good?

Is scale mail real?  I see it mentioned sometimes but have yet to see it in games.

I attacked a unit that should have been seriously overpowered and he was able to slay all my units when I did the auto battle, but when I started a normal battle then switched to auto to finish, he was easily destroyed.  I have notice that some times the enemy monster or unit gets superpowers when you auto battle.

Oh, and shards can be completely destroyed by monsters.  Most resources can't, they have to have their farms or shrines or whatever rebuilt, but is a shard is attacked, it's gone forever.  Pain in the ass.

I hate that at the end of the game, I nation is going to always have the same weapons and armor.  I want them to be more diverse, like specializations, maybe my nation specialized in short blades, and becomes extra proficient in short sword and gets special attack skills and bonuses when using them?  Something along that line would make the game more fun. 

I created a new nation, Empire, Race "Men".  They were not able to use the Sion temples they built.  There are so many things in this game that were overlooked before release that should have been noticed before it was released.  I get attacked by magnar armies wearing human armor that doesn't fit them and their chest are clipping out of it, looks terrible.  Nobody notice this before release?  Really? 

Anyone understand why the Fallen races have strange Peasants?  They have 8 hp and only 1 attack speed.  um...why?  And you can upgrade them with better equipment, although their choices are limited I think, or maybe it was because I first noticed this playing Kingdom Wraiths.  And they don't look like Wraiths at all.  Another lazy part on the Devs...At first, when I heard about the layoffs at Stardock, I felt bad for them, but now I just hope Brad laid off people that did a half assed job on this game. 

I would like it if instead of a nation disappearing when a sovereign died, the nation would go into chaos and there would be a battle for the crown between heirs, like in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.  I think Sovs should die of old age too.  This would make the game dynamic.  In fact, if you added random events like what GalCiv had, rebellions, battles for the throne, and all that goodness, the game could last forever!  Maybe large nations break up into smaller ones when their Sov dies and have a civil war?  And new monsters and adventures pop up from time to time.  They can be repeatable ones.

I think resources should cluster more.   Meaning instead of having a clay pit way over there and a wild horses way over there, make them more close together.  So there would be the same amount of resources, but you wouldn't need to make so many cities to claim them all.  Less city spam the.

Also, When a city reaches a new level, they no longer need the houses that brought them to that level, so you can tear them down, maintain the same city level, and then build the houses up again in another city and repeat, you can get all your cities to level five this way with only a little food.

Magic robe armor would be a good idea too, and magic staffs.  Some of my champions, I want to make them have a "Wizard" feel to them and right now, It's all about heavy armor on everyone.

Some ideas.  In Crusader Kings, you could have an event of having a bastard child.  That would be kind of neat too, and maybe there could be some dynamics or vents between champions, Sovs and such.  Like in Romance, some generals like or hate other generals and have rivals, and enemies and fun shit like that.  Also, maybe your bastard could try and start a revolt against you! 

I still hate the idea of soldiers having super leveling and champions being scrubs n the game.  Needs to be fixed.  My tenth level hero should be able to kick the ass out of a 12 man squad in similar equipment, even without magic.  Why, cause he's a mother f'ing champion, thats why.  Maybe soldiers should only have a 5 in all their stats, so they only get half the bonus from armor and weapons?  While my hero might have 20s, getting 4 times, thats a good start.  That and Champs getting more HP.