Frogboy

[quote who="seanw3" reply="9" id="3007333"]Please tell me you played the C&C Tiberian Sun campaign. Best one I have ever played. [/quote] Nope. :)

IMO, the campaign is a lost cause. I hate campaigns. For FE, we had Jon Shafer (Civ V's designer) write it which resulted in something much better. In WOM, it was the opposite, the guy who drew the short straw did it (poor Boogieback). We just don't like campaigns generally. I still don't like them but understand the need better to have them be more compelling as a lot of gamers seem to play that first (I still haven't touched the Starcraft 2 campaign).

The answer is, yes. I already have one campaign handed in from Jon that was for WOM. But we're going to use it in FE instead as the campaign system is much nicer and less linear.

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="5" id="3005743"] Quoting AlLanMandragoran, reply 1Cool. The new UI looks great. While we're on the topic. Please implement a more elegant solution to this madness: [/quote] We are. That's going away.

I'm listening... :)

Flanking, LOS, terrain, etc, are all interesting concepts. But there's also some meat and potatoes here that are easy to overlook because we take them for granted. How about the AI just freaking healing a hurt unit? Or slowing down a charging unit? If you want to talk about the design of tactical battles, that's Derek's thing. I can say, IMO, that I am not keen on tactical battles being the deciding factor in whether someone wins or loses a give

[quote]Wait wait wait. Brad. Seriously? You don't know how to implement an XML parser in C++? What?![/quote] Obviously Elemental is filled with XML parsing already. But it makes as much sense for me to set up new parsing abilities as it does for me to code new file handling code. Do you want me writing AI code or writing file reading code?

You won't want it. Fallen Enchantress is going to suck and give you cancer. :)

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="16" id="3005356"]Counter-spells sounds awesome... but you know what's even more awesome? AI using it![/quote] Yep. That's the key.

In Fallen Enchantress it pretty much works like the screenshot except it's Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Life/Death.

All I'll say about it is that it'll be Baldur's Gate style (isometric) and not first person.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="12" id="3005325"]You're right, I only know what existed in WoM, and that is what I was talking about. But feel free to tell us what FE will have. And like I said, I don't know anything about writing AI. I'm just a consumer. Like with a pie, I may not know what goes in a good pie, how to bake it, but I know when one taste like shit. [/quote] Well you may want to wait until you've tasted said pie then. This is

[quote who="jshores" reply="11" id="3005319"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 10Xia, no offense but you don't know what does or does not exist in FE tactical battles. And even if you did, what you can and can't do in tactical battles does little to shape the general design structure of writing an AI. Frogboy, no offense but is this how it is being coded at present or how you plan to code it? I remember reading the same thing before WOM was released and th

In here you'll see little bits of stuff we're working on that aren't fit for a journal entry.

This new forum has been created so that users can post their ideas and wishlists for Elemental: Fallen Enchantress.

Xia, no offense but you don't know what does or does not exist in FE tactical battles. And even if you did, what you can and can't do in tactical battles does little to shape the general design structure of writing an AI.

Re Derek and such, the #1 lesson is not to treat project management as a side thing. War of Magic was in development for 3 years. I was on the project a total of 4 man-months during that time (about 650 engineering hours), nearly all of which was in the last couple months. Without a single "vision owner" and the corresponding enforcement, there's no good end. I no longer have the opportunity to spend all my time on one project and there is some point where the splint

Frankly, I'm tired of the complaining regarding WOM and am done with it. It is not worth my time to keep working on it when every update is met with "Yea, that's nice but why didn't you do A, B, and C?" WOM is what it is. I like it. I'm satisfied with where it's at. It's done.

[quote who="Phoon" reply="12" id="3000444"]Question/Observation: If Impulse was such a time consumer and a big money maker why not just hire more people to run it. I'm fairly sure that while the profit margin wouldn't have been as high, a profit would still exist and some more people would have jobs. [/quote] If one could wave a magic wand and "just hire" high quality employees then few businesses would ever be sold or acquired since those companies could simp

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="25" id="3000185"]I am also in the "just move on to FE" camp. But I'm sorry to say, E:wom is absolutely not in a finished state. And I'm not talking about the things that "maybe" could be somewhat improved. I'm talking about things that are flat out broken, and make the game unworthy of a customer.[/quote] I'm sorry you feel that way. I fear you won't find FE to be worthy either. I certainly enjoy WOM at this point and I think mo

[quote]Bug fixed that prevented AI from learning higher level spells. (Will it cast Spell Blast, Touch of Entrophy and Spell Immunity now?)[/quote] No, to my disappointment today, it is not casting those spells. The code in there that determines the "Best spell" is not determining those spells to be very good. It's something I can look into but I'm itching to get onto FE. IF there's a v1.5 in the future, that's something I would work on along with

I just finished a very long game today (allied victory) without any problems in tactical battles. I see an endless number of things that could be improved in the game (as is always the case) but I think v1.4 will be the build I have to let be the definitive version of WOM. The question in my mind is, would most people who buy WOM off the shelf and play v1.4 be happy and I think the answer is quite definitely yes. I am still not happy with how the AI plays in tactical bat

BTW, I'm very pleased with how this build has turned out. I'd say the AI improved more in this particular beta update than from 1.1 to 1.3 combined.

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="3" id="2959885"]It looks like sometimes they covered more: Reduced 44%Original 1280 x 960[/quote] I love Russia. There, I said it.

That's FE.