Frogboy

Good on him! I wish I had thought of that!

/me is a big fan of Civ V.

[quote who="halmal242" reply="1" id="3319970"]I love it. My only question is whether the AI reacts to the PC building the components for the spell of making like a person would upon seeing one of the other factions start construction?[/quote]

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="46" id="3319537"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 44 Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of system in FE/LH. But it's the direction we want to take things in. As an update to FE/LH or as a part of a future product in the FE line?[/quote] Don't know yet. Depends on $$$ really.

Achievements are a big thing. Getting mod support (if not in LH, in whatever comes later) started is a big thing. Getting cloud saves going is something we'd like to see. Getting a cloud high score list would be a cool thing. Setting things up so that unit designs can be more easily shared would be nice. How much will make it into the release I have no idea. But these are a few of the things that a steamworks version opens up to us.

[quote who="sjaminei" reply="42" id="3319428"]I like the steps forward. You guys are listening, and it makes sense. Though, are you stopping DLC's? I think some spell based (adding spells to the game) ones with scenarios/maps could have a lot of potential. I would pay just for more diverse/interesting spells, and I think most would if you add scenarios as well in the DLC. And finally, please add Legendary starts, or customizable starts. It would go a long

[quote who="Kongdej" reply="40" id="3319292"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 39people best the ai by playing the game in interesting ways that we didn't imagine. Fun fact about Meeee. I prefer to play games like this going at each different mechanic from an odd angle. I still am excited about the range in LH, not because I like the melee part, but because I don't like the random part, it would be nice to see the current FE AI try to use melee units with the "C

Steamworks requires Steam. We're not using any DRM features of it. The problem with Steamworks remains the same I used to discuss in the Impulse::Reactor days -- to use the very useful libraries of Steamworks you have to include Steam. Unfortunately, GameStop didn't carry forward our work on Impulse::Reactor (which is a shame because it had features at the prototype level that still aren't in Steamworks) and we no longer have the ability to develop thos

[quote who="Alstein" reply="38" id="3319252"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 35 I've been familiar with expert systems, neural nets, and genetic algorithms for over two decades now. I might be wrong but I'm not familiar with anyone who has been writing computer game AI as long as I have (maybe someone reading this could check). The OS/2 version of Galactic Civilizations used to save bits of data to disk that when the player played future games the AI could gather what type of

[quote who="xaltotun" reply="212" id="3319168"]Does 1.3 still look like about two weeks from now?[/quote] I'm hoping less. At the very elast, I'd like to get a beta out soon.

[quote who="zlefin" reply="34" id="3319213"] good things to hear sounds like good progress. On AI; my offer to help write improved ai still stands; and the biggest way to easily make significant improvements in the ai is through genetic algorithms and data mining of the games played by all the players; that allows for much better races and units quite readily.[/quote] I appreciate the offer to help. But unless you have ever actually written a computer game AI i

Updated original topic with results.

[quote who="Diarch" reply="207" id="3318764"] Game stability trumps all other concerns. 1. Fix 1.2 Crashes on End Turn (after 60 turns on the "Clash" map from the Pack, these crashes are constant: game unplayable). 2. Fix 1.2 Crashes on Save Game (same deal; after 60 turns or so the game crashes when you try to save; save unsuccessful and game hence unplayable). Additional features mean nothing when the game simply won't play at all.&nbsp

[quote who="enoeraew37" reply="44" id="3319082"]There is a lesson for all the kids out there..dont work hard. The quality of what you actually produce doesn't matter. Just make sure you buddy up with insiders in your industry and you can make an annual working mans wage in a month. Anyone who actually works a job instead of gaming the system is a moron. [/quote] You chose...poorly. [posting privileges suspended]

Congratulations! And please forgive Kay regarding the lizard thing. Took longer than expected.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="33" id="3318655"]The F-22 is a POS, so I wouldn't compare it to that. I'm still wondering what percentage of your customers for TBS games are still using XP- and when do you pull the plug? I can understand why you didn't on LH, but if you're getting down to 10%, it's time on your next game. [/quote] BOO. Why do you say that. You prefer the F-35?

[quote] I have to admit one of the nasty things I loved to do in Civiization just before I launched my own spaceship I would launch a world nuclear bombing raid with every nuclear weapon I hade. lol It's something I would imagine whoever leaves this planet first might do.[/quote] You're a very very bad man. ;)

I'm really looking forward to this.

Very nice. I'm sending this over to the team. Thank you very much!

[quote who="Kongdej" reply="5" id="3318627"] 1.3 is the first version with procedural tile yield support. That basically means that the map generator will look at a lot of other factors when deciding the tile yield of a given tile is. The result is a lot more variance. Ohhh playing on my curiosity... Curse you... And thanks for all of its Looks really good. Hm, now I won't be able to intimately know why the terrain tiles have the certain stats anymore ...<b

I'm working on a new build here. If you have any quickie specific AI stuff I can put it in. I just got a new diplomacy (internal to the AI) thing in that I think will make the AI behave..better. I'm running it through some stability testing scripts now to make sure it's all really solid. IF a unit isin't riding a mount of some kind by mid game, that's a bug. I've made the AI go and at its earliest ability buy mounts if it doesn't

[quote who="DevildogFF" reply="20" id="3317903"]You guys need, need, need to revisit the races in FE and the world of FE. You're making some serious improvements and I really think that this will go a long way towards righting the few "wrongs" with FE, but without true racial uniqueness, it still feels like it falls....short. Give us a unique twist on Orcs, hobbits, dwarves, lizard people, etc. FE suffers for this. Please do something about this. [/q

Yes but I know Jon personally and I'm very very familiar with the development cycle of Civilization V. He's a good guy, a great game designer and worth supporting. I'm very familiar with how people interpret things on the net. Last time I checked, I was some sort of monster who treated my coworkers as "whores" (as one person put it). What you read online is rarely even remotely accurate to reality. Even interviews where they're supposedly quoting thin

[quote who="enoeraew37" reply="16" id="3317789"]In this way game developers are like public school teachers. No matter how bad the kids turn out or what they are caught doing they never get demoted to office clerk or recess attendant. I dont need internet folklore. I judge Jon Shafer on what Jon Shafer says and does. Jon Shafer said things that turned out to be misleading and false about civ 5 pre-release. Jon Shafer did zip for customers who bought a game he recommended that was c

No, the issue was I didn't know that was going to be changed until after released. So there was no AI code to take that into account.