[quote quoting="post"]Started early afternoon a game as I watched some football.Lo and behold four hours later I realalized I was having fun and starting to understand that this is going to be a great game.[/quote] Not so loud! You will wake They who will convince you that you weren't having fun.
[quote who="Glowing_Ember" reply="68" id="2804999"]This also enables the use of stealth and surprise tactics when you employ your merchant class to sell girl scout cookies to all the neighboring kingdoms and empires. (they look like girl scouts in uniform) Use your scrying magic to watch in glee when, at night, on a prearranged signal, your army of girl scout cookie golems burst out of their paper bags and bludgeon anyone who gets in their way as they move to open the city gates and destroy t
It's a hilarious thought that a game would "get deeper" by stealing ideas from WOW (which is the definition of casual) but in this case, it may actually make sense. =P D2 really was a simple Hack&Slash affair where you could hardly do anything in a wrong way. I'm not so sure if the "potion nerf" is a good thing. In the more recent Diablo clones, red/blue pots typically worked as a heal over time so once you had it going, that was checked off. Your abili
[quote who="Cruxador" reply="7" id="2805254"]Yeah, this retraining makes sense. But the XP reallocation doesn't. If we're representing that the same dudes go back into the force, each individual person's XP should be stored, and people with the most should be recruited first. Then the XP for large groups should be averaged, with no unit having less XP than the level you selected before training. This has the flaws that it's a very fiddly system on the users end, and that it would probably be
[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="22" id="2805073"]For Elemental, the only uses for 3D in it are unit designing and selecting units hiding behind a dragon (why can it not be just clicking the tile, rather than the tile or the unit? it would avoid this problem).[/quote] In Jagged Alliance 2 (or was that from the 1.13 mod?) you can hold SHIFT to tag the selector to the ground, ignoring all hotspots such as doors, chests... and units. Easy way to make a unit move to a square "behind" anot
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Yah, but I think relying on jewelry too much reduces the system to a grey soup where you pick the Cool Jewely Set Nr. 2 plus one generic weapon - which is made into a super weapon by the jewelry. That's not very stylish . To me, jewelry should be more along the lines of "charms and amulets". Not a source of raw attack power or armor class but rather "soft" stats. Faster healing, luck in avoiding blows (dodge), faster recovery of endurance or mana, better luck in hitt
Err, why does it matter if the factions in WOM are technically different races? In the 4x genre, races are typically ones like Klackons, Draconians, and humans. They look and "work" vastly differently. In WOM, all the factions look like Human Mk.1 and the gameplay differences between them are very very small. They don't even have different ear shapes like in Star Trek. =P Calling them different races seems presumptious because it implies a far great
@ Heavenfall Heh. And you get resource points to buy upgrades and reinforcements if you control the bonus objective squares... =P
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="26" id="2803871"]We'll be selling the armor for horses as a separate $9.95 purchase so we can't really combine the horse AND the armor.[/quote] That's not really a new idea. In Everquest you can buy warhorses (with their armor being the only difference to other horses there) with "marketplace points". Since you buy those points with real cash, yeah - you buy horse armor for cash. =P
Personally, I don't buy the "different race" line. Factions, sure. But with all the inter-racial marriages in game, apparently every combination can produce offspring which are in turn perfectly fertile and compatible. Different races? I think not.
Not yet. 1.1 will be a lot more "complete" and if you're into TB empire building, you'll probably like it. Atm it's like playing in a construction site. Sure, it's fun to some but the doors don't work and there's no floor paneling...
It wouldn't be necessary to touch the low level functions such as gfx display. In fact, access on that level would create instability and even security issues... Being able to fully alter / access / alter the UI and game logic is really all it takes. In many "modable" games there are just too many brick walls and insufficient access to the UI so you get too many crude workarounds. In WOM modders can already insert custom variables to units and such and use them in calcu
[quote who="esomonk" reply="130" id="2803589"]Half the people on the forum are here to have constructive conversations about elemental and the other half is here to satisfy their egos.[/quote] Can't we have both? =P
[quote quoting="post"]Producing: v1.1 engine doesn’t support adding abilities to existing units. Alternative proposal: Those techs provide new types of mounts: (e.g. War Horse) that do have these abilities. The Compromise The Executive Producer thus has to make the call as to whether that is an acceptable workaround or if they are willing to increase the budget and due date for the release in order to extend the engine to support that.[/quote] Yah, but could th
Aww, so The Saviour will not arrive before the end of the month? (Sorry but this hype is just a tiny bit hilarious = )
[quote who="Ilindil" reply="5" id="2802933"](I hope he will bring here bunch of good moders).[/quote] Why? They'd just grow bored because there isn't much to mod (beyond graphics), yet. Anything else is either undergoing substantial changes or inaccessible.
Nah, he said "do not represent 1/10000 of total customers" so the number could be higher or lower, but not equal to 1/10000. Effectively it most likely doesn't mean what he thinks it means. However, logic dictates that the sales had started at zero and began climbing so even the unlikely condition had been true at one point. Correct would have been: "so the small portion of merely forum members may or may n
Back when it was new it was in such a sorry shape that I skipped it entirely. With regret, but I did. Since then it got modded to hell, fixing virtually all bugs... so the download is running in the background. =) Man, and I was just getting started freeing Arulco again and had acquired G3A1 with 7x scopes for both of my snipers. (I remember those ugly things well from my time with the Bundeswehr = ) WTB gaming time!
[quote who="tjashen" reply="5" id="2798059"]If this were implemented, I'd suggest that there would be special lair battle maps, in place of the plethora of battle maps we have now. A single lair map would be easiest, but perhaps clearing a lair would involve two or three maps?[/quote] I'd go with a singular map. It would be far more important to adjust the monster placement and AI. Rather make it a bigger map than a more complicated system... If you run the generic AI, all
[quote who="Istari" reply="1" id="2802595"]Nice interview, except that they talked a lot without actually saying anything.[/quote] That's Kael deftly avoiding to insert his foot into his mouth. It's way too early to expect any specific promises or even hints at features to come. He'll still be analysing and planning.
Good games have soul. Gamers only provide the BI (biological intelligence) component.
The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning towards a different implementation of the ZOC rules. (updated the first post with an "alternative way") A rule of You stop now because I say so is just dumb and doesn't offer any choice so it's the exact opposite of what I'm usually preaching. =P However, I won't just edit it out because seeing both sides of the argument actually makes a better point. (And I don't cla
And armored dolphins for the naval cavalry.
[quote who="psychoak" reply="66" id="2802424"]The Frog has basically dismissed modding as a mover of sales repeatedly, considering it a wasted investment fiscally.[/quote] The promised degree of modability (which is still entirely in the "promise" stage) sold 100% of the copies I personally know about.