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[quote who="Vaul_Darkhour" reply="2" id="3026988"]that picture doesnt really explain why he's an idiot.. if the champion is that good at lvl 10 and can beat the crap out of enemies, then maybe he can take on all those units by himself..? Or if this is not the case, should he have immediately fled the battle or not have entered it to start with?[/quote] He could have cast some powerful magical spells and blew them away. It's getting the AI to cast magic spells

[quote who="Gandhialf" reply="1" id="3026981"]Do you simultaneously work on AI for E:FE and E:WoM (upcoming patch), or just focus on the former one? Are there many differences between the two games in terms of basic AI mechanics? (Define "basic". Yeah, I know...)[/quote] I'm not doing anything more on WOM at this point. FE is a totally different game from an AI point of view. I am trying to think if there functions I was even able to salvage from WOM but no

The beta is going to roll out similarly to how WOM was done. Around Thanksgiving (and it'll be after it because no one wants to be on beta babysit watch during the 4 day weekend) the first phase will go out which will be to people who joined the earliest of the WOM betas. Soon after, it will expand to everyone who was part of the WOM beta process. Soon after that, it'll expand to everyone who bought WOM by release. Then it'll be everyone who bought

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I don't even get good cloth map mode though. Look closely at the units. No lighting or effects. Makes me eyes cry.

For me, it depends on the size of the game. If it's a LARGE sized game, I'll get it from Impulse pretty much no matter what because Impulse's download speeds are the fastest of any of them by a significant margin (i.e. on Battlefield 3 it would have taken another 2 hours to get it via Origin direct). If it's smaller, I'll go by price unless it is using Steamworks at which point, I will tend to pick Steam.

[quote who="Satrhan" reply="26" id="3025750"]I thought taking on wild lands would be something you did more than maybe once per game. IIRC it was said there would be several wild land areas on a map, some of which you could take on early in the game, but others would have to be left alone until late game. Something else I've been wondering, when you conquer a wild lands, does it stay a distinct area, or does it convert into 'regular' grounds?[/quote] Depends on

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="10" id="3025478"]Looks great. Substituting Wildlands for minor races sounds like a great idea. Also, the more variety the better. Can't wait for the beta. Getting a little giddy. [/quote] The trick for us is to pull Paul (Mormegil) OFF of doing Wildlands to do other things. I walked by yesterday and he had just made the ruins of the Imperium complete with a functioning city surrounded by impenetrab

In fact, you won't have to do anything. FE isn't one of those "free" offers where you have to jump through hoops. You just get it and we'll go out of our way to make sure you KNOW about it. It is very important to us that every single person who bought WOM in 2010 get FE.

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="7" id="3025465"]So what percentage of FE games will we get powerful enough to take on Wild Lands successfully?[/quote] Don't know yet. I'm still trying to get the AI good enough to take them on. You humans are on your own.

[quote who="eelektrik" reply="12" id="3025468"]What about for those of us that were early adopters of Elemental? The whole 'get the first two expansions free' deal thing. Are they going to still be tied to Impulse or can we get Steam keys for them since they have yet to be released.[/quote] That deal is a Stardock direct thing so you'd get those updates from Stardock Central. Not Steam or Impulse.

Public beta release: tomorrow.

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="5" id="3025432"]My question is will every game have the exact same number of wildlands or will every game be different? For example, if there are only 5 wildland types, will every map (small, medium, or large) have exactly the same 5 wildland types or is it different than that?[/quote] It doesn't really work that way. It's more akin to there only being one type of Wildlands in a given game typically. I guess if the world size is large

Stardock titles are coming to Steam. However, your serial numbers are registered with wherever you bought them. You can't redirect them. That said, Sins Trinity is only $15 on Steam right now.

Actually I had already added a requirement to have a + and - button to the tactical combat screen to speed up the battles.

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="70" id="3025134"] Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 69we'll be adding features to it as we learn more about how you guys use the app and what it is you want to be added. I'll jump out on a limb here & let you know you can pretty much bank on us wanting access to alpha/beta versions. I'd expect that had already been 'learned'. [/quote] The web version will let you do this. But yea, the app will have to get updated firs

The worst part of this is that when it's all done, bloody humans are going to mess it all up. Can't you guys just be satisfied watching the AI fight each other? Why do people insist on interacting with it and doing crazy weird stuff? edit: btw, while doing the AI I'm constantly pointing out cheese to Derek because the AI does it first. For instance, outposts initially spread environment which made land tiles fertile. So the AI would build outposts and then ci

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="56" id="3024846"]Brad, you showed zero karma a while ago. That was strange. Not that I want it back, mind you...lol. [/quote] Deep down, we all know I have zero karma. :)

Jon and I have talked a lot about Civ V design stuff. I happen to think Civ V is a very well designed game. It's not a game that Stardock could have made. I would have vetoed the 1 unit per tile feature because we (Stardock) aren't capable of creating a path finding system that would prevent the turns from becoming ridiculously long and I wouldn't have been able to write an AI that would manage those units intelligently without it taking a very long time. When

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="44" id="3024539"] SO WHEN IS IT COMING ??? Hypersoon son, hypersoon [/quote] Heh. That's a really obscure but awesome reference. Funny thing is, I'm friends with Hyperguy on FB. We debate constantly.

The cool thing is you only need to download the 750MB Metro libraries once. Then the installer itself is only 1 megabyte. (just kidding)

There are lot of obvious solutions to these problems. FE is quite a bit different than other tile based games in that the world is really REALLY dangerous. It's not like Civ or WOM or what have you where there's an occasional threat. It's more like an obstacle course of threats. The world is out to kill you hard. And since I write the monster AI too, I am doing my best to make sure they're really good at killing stuff (without them being too unrealistic -- they

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="45" id="3023843"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 42 The millions of users who use it monthly disagree. You must mean. The millions of users who use it monthly for the first time only to be forced to download steam and or origin to play their impulse purchased game give up on impulse and just switch to steam and origin since they have to use them anyway disagree. [/quote] I can't speak t

[quote who="Mistwraithe" reply="134" id="3023635"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 121 Indeed. It does not. You will almost certainly not like FE if you find WOM "boring" at this point. I'm puzzled. Perhaps Frogboy is just talking out of frustration in which case I can sympathise, the negative reaction to WOM would be enough to make anyone slightly bitter, even if they understand some of the reasons behind that negative reaction. But if this is meant as a genu

[quote who="Katrinakat" reply="30" id="3023689"]It was my understanding that the new software installation program would only be for customization software and would not include games. Is that true? [/quote] It'll do games and software.