Sean and Werewindlfr - diggin' the new outpost upgrades fellas... awesome.

I will add those two to my list, thanks.

Are you using Catapults to siege the city before the battles? You need Blizzards, Fireballs, Catapults, radius damage staves to siege. If you have cleared the entire map before you got to those, that means the pacing of lairs is way off. I am working on some more challenging stuff for that stage of the game to keep things interesting. It will take a while to do, but where you are quitting right now is where I want the real game to start.

If there are two Tarth factions, one must be a custom race you made. Make sure to check the factions before starting a game. But the high power is definitely a bug. If you have cheats running in that game, reveal map to see where the power is coming from. It could be a bug, either from us or vanilla. Sounds like a memory leak.

And you can thank the AI for Magnar's early demise. Not something I can fix. 

Are you using Catapults to siege the city before the battles? You need Blizzards, Fireballs, Catapults, radius damage staves to siege. If you have cleared the entire map before you got to those, that means the pacing of lairs is way off. I am working on some more challenging stuff for that stage of the game to keep things interesting. It will take a while to do, but where you are quitting right now is where I want the real game to start.[/quote]

Hehe, you must be joking i do not have yet archer, nor cavalry, not to mentions catapults. I have fireball on my sov (does not survive first turn of battle to archers, and if he does, stationed hero will counterspell him) and one more hero.

I have five cities, i cleared little piece of land, i am surrounded by AI's and whenever i try to cross their territory they threaten me with war. I am in war with Yithril, but as i said, game is still in the early phase (80+ turn), and since it is ridiculous and they can have so many bonuses to defending city (and they of course, already have 5 size city), it is impossible to take them. Hence, on ridiculous if you do not expand, you are dead. I can prolong my agony, but game is over.

Problem is that i am playing ridiculous, which with this mode, apart from normal huge bonuses, gains also incredible bonus for defenses in cities, namely large number of serious defending troops. Meanwhile i am fielding 3-man units, he already has 7-man unit archer militia (though his regular army is only 4-man). He has also 7-man cavalry. I attack a city with 6-troops in army, and he has like 15+  (including obelisk, spears militia, archers etc.). And i have 6-troops only because that was my priority. Not to mention 300+hp Jaggernauts he gets every turn (though those outside of city i easily kill). 

My conclusion is that your balance is broken somewhat for ridicolous AI -> they develop cities way too fast, and in your mod it implies incredible defenses. They defending army in a city is like 5 times better than what AI can field. 

Right now, i would have to just turtle for 100-150 turns and do research, but since my neigbhours are rapidly growing in power, it is only a matter of time before i get crushed. My power rating is ok (of course last, but not far behind), but the difference is growing rapidly. If i do not take those two cities of Yithril soon, i am done. 

I will try to play expert terrifying world, hoping that AI on expert can cope with it .... 

Damn can't find a whipping smiley! I'd like to whip you! At least your lairmonsterxml still has wrong tags! And all that after the awesome free tools you were recommended! Bad Master Modder! Back to work! I'll try again next version

Sooo, I fire up this mod, and notice a few oddities in the tooltips when looking at sovereigns... Oh well, I fire up the new improved warlord verga (now without that strange magic stuff that I never understood, what do I care, I just want juggernauts )

It seems to me that either I installed the mod in a wrong way (I copy-pasted the stuff as per directions in the "Mod Install Instructions") but all the designable traits available to trained units have a production cost of 0....

If this is the design intent, then why does my militia have no traits? Edit: Opens Eyes. It still seems rather odd though.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Hold fixed in next version, thanks.

Sacrificial Altar seems to not have an art def. I will see what I can do. Until I make one, I'll just switch the art def to a default so people can build it. If I ever get the balance perfected I would like to move on to adding in new tile designs for high end computers. It would of course be an optional upgrade.

Mana blast should be fixed, I'll take another look. Yup, I fixed it, but I must have combined files poorly and messed it up again. It will be fixed in the next version.

Traits don't cost anything. The cost is now on the unit itself. Militia have 3 traits as you probably realized. The problem was that you could choose extremely cheap units with no traits for almost no cost. It made it impossible to balance that with the huge bonuses of traits. But when you make them cost nothing, their value is weighed only against each other. So all units cost about the same and each trait's cost is opportunity cost. The total labor is less as well. It is now more viable to train from a Town or Conclave, but Fortresses are clearly more efficient.

Hahahha, bad explanation.

What i meant is that beyond carismatic at lvl 3 the governors don´t get more governor path traits at lvl up. I leveled a governor to lvl 10 and the governors traits never show up.

I'm posting this here because I've never run into this bug in vanilla, wondering if it is in fact a bug or just a mechanic I haven't seen until now.

Great mod so far though!

Heh, just tried what you said.  Moved it one space and I can build but in a select location, just realized no part of your settlements can be within 6 tiles of another, not just the town center.  Doh.

The warhammer have this "unit sttruck suffer -1 to initiative" but the mace and the maul doesn´t. Also the fist two wepons cost metal. Is this intended?

No worries man, won't seriously hold it against you that your not skilled with codestuff - yet, most modders start that way, been there myself;)

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7973

It's indeed this old program, microsoft didn't feel the need to expand on it obviously. There are better xml editors out there but this one's free and sort of works well in combination with notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)

I used xml spy in my past modding time, definitly better but not free of charge. The main point is xml notepad does validate your xml as soon you try to open a file with it just as well. If it encounters an error the file won't open, instead you get a popup saying which line of the file you try to open is messed up. Use notepad++ to browse the file up to the line reported in the error message, fix it, reload with MS xml notepad and repeat procedure until it actually opens up. When xml notepad opens your file without trouble you can be quite sure it's good to go. Civ4 handled this better as the game itself fired up error messages when there was something wrong in the xml files. As FE doesn't do that you really need a program to validate your xml else all kind of weird stuff may happen.

Now that of course doesn't prevent every kind of wrong data slipping through but you can be sure the xml is formally clean. For actually browsing xml files looking for typos in the data not the tags xml spy would be awesome to have.

Hope it helps. I like what you guys did to the game - mostly, I kinda miss the buildings that provide idle city boni or some sort of production commerce conversion like civ4 had because I hate production going to waste and I think you should merge the citydefenderbuildings with existing buildings that provide other boni to the city. The AI doesn't allways build them headfirst or at all as a human player might do. But I understand there also might be better solutions once this game gets past xml modding options which it doesn't currently support I guess. Scripted free autobuilding when tech is available would probably be best. Another thing I'd like to see is wooden(hedge) walls being available for all settlements but that's mainly due to the shabby look of the fences each city starts with not really a gameplayissue(though in this mod it wouldn't hurt either).

Anyway, hope this mod gets more attention, good luck with it:)