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[quote who="JSJ101" reply="173" id="2826444"]I'm also not very keen on turning essence into a boolean. I don't really have a problem with global mana, but without an upper limit on maximum mana usable per turn there's no feeling of a relative scale of power (intelligence restrictions aside). Even a very intelligent Joe the Farmer who I've recruited and imbued shouldn't be able to channel anywhere near as much mana a turn as my sovereign without lots of experience. Other than this, I'm pretty

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="7" id="2826342"] Quoting charon2112, reply 6... You should buy some pizza for your people, they work HARD. (and hey, have a slice yourself). Screw pizza, folks working like that deserve cash. Nothing says "I appreciate you going above and beyond" like cash. The salary+benefits thing is a shell game in the end. Overtime differentials (or overtime-based bonuses) are the honest way to motivate your staff to neglect their real lives in favor o

It would make sense for Impulse to copy Valve's report a bug feature that Steam uses in Valve's games.

What I meant with my earlier post is it could learn build orders, sneaky tactics, and other stuff, from humans. Not that it would try to do everything from the ground up.

Sorry to ask this again- but why is it not feasible for the AI to learn from the players, and maybe if people play MP or connect to Impulse, other players. You mentioned not doing this in part 1, why is it impractical? An adaptive from game to game AI does seem like it would be the best way to reduce errors, or quickly find gameplay flaws (such as a one optimal solution)

Question: how hard would it be to make an AI that is capable of learning? I think that's the next step in AI, and one that I really want to see someday.

This is not an issue of law, and whether it should be legal or not. This is an issue of whether the punishment fits the crime, which is blatantly does not, thanks to corporate interests.

[quote] Honestly, if you want to make up a fake name for your Elemental registration you can. You can get a free e-mail address from hotmail under a fake name and use it only to get patches if you're so worried about your privacy or whatever your problem is. EDIT: I'll be happy when Stardock decides to release updates in convenient .exe files instead of requiring to install Impulse. me too, but what do you want. Name a g

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="137" id="2822528"]nikmesh & lord xia, I also want the weight of the armours to effect the dodge stat as well ie leather/padded minimal effect(-1 dodge), chainmail more effect(-2dodge), light plate (-3dodge), medium plate(-4 dodge), heavy plate (-5 dodge), master plate being better designed/lighter (could have -4 dodge), imbued master plate (-3dodge) (these numbers are just suggestions to give an idea of th

Those popups on the right side- one UI suggestion: Allow an option to make them bigger? Oftentimes on my laptop they are a little too small for me to really notice them. Idea #2: another possible use of the charisma stat. Cha of husband+ Cha of wife should effect childbirth rates/caps of non-sovereign marriages. 0 should be possible, as well as more then 4. As for Dex, doesn't Dex give a bonus to co

[quote] Because it's really bad when you can fire off giant world-altering spells instantly. The reason all those other games have a casting points limit is that it lets you balance much stronger spells against the time to cast them. If I can cast "summon Wolf" in one turn, and "summon Chaos Lord" in one turn... which one do you think I want? With casting point limits, I can summon four Wolves in the same time as one Chaos Lord, and casting anything else slows down that summon furt

[quote who="Silicor" reply="53" id="2822067"]I think this combat system is better, but is still very weak. Rolling a random number from 1-n with an opposing roll is so so random that it can easily frustrate players. I almost prefer no rolls where everything is predictable. Best melee system I've seen is Warmachine. It has a roll 2d6 roll + combat stat opposing the the defenders defense stat. If hit, damage opposes opponents armor value. This system ha

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="18" id="2821932"] Quoting Napean, reply 16With a global mana pool essence is not as useful anymore, unless it's used like AoW's Casting Specialist stat, where it would limit the amount of mana a champion can pull from your global mana pool per turn. At least, that's what I think. All posts so far indicate that is not the case, though it SHOULD be. Frogboy has previously stated that essense will be boolean: you have it or you do not.[/quot

Sounds great and worth waiting another week. Some Ideas (many would have to be expansion) Charisma: How about a new stat called Insubordination given to champions. The point value of insubordination for all your champions cannot exceed your sovereign's charisma. Certain magical items can lower insubordination. Another suggestion would be providing a combat bonus to all non-champions in battle on your side. If stats are given to

It's not a holiday for many in the US. Also was announced on Monday when I asked that they would be working today.

It's a beta patch. We're supposed to get the suck out of them.

I think there's a good chance of a beta patch tomorrow. Unsure though.

They do allow transfer, I did it- but there was a bug with the registration on one game (entering in the registration manually, after getting it via automated email solves this) I think that issue is fixed now, just not retroactively.

I don't anyone is expecting 1.1 to be the magic bullet. The first expansion is where I expect the game to get massively better. I'll settle for making me want to play it with 1.1

[quote who="CariElf" reply="80" id="2820251"] Quoting harpo99999, reply 79carielf, in several of my games I have had a situation where my influence completely surrounded another faction's city and had actually forced the other factions influence to within it's city, at that point I was more or less expecting the other faction's city to switch to my faction, is this sort of situation going to be added in in future? harpo It's not currently planned, but I personally w

[quote] It's really just a tweaked feature that exists in game already. I don't think that the AI currently tries to expand its influence by building improvements, but since it will include more tiles, it will get some benefit indirectly.[/quote] This is something that I think the AI should try to do, and I don't think it would be overly hard to code some simple logic rules (not a coder like you or Brad, so if I'm wrong let me know) a) When the AI builds a

[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="10" id="2819944"]Slow? Thats strange, i get very high download rates with impulse. Much better then GG, or Steam. You dont have to run Impulse while playing, so its just running when you want to update.[/quote] Sometimes right when an update comes out, it will slow down, though never as bad as Steam does where it just refuses to function.

[quote who="MrShaw" reply="2" id="2819712"]Does anyone know if they are going to release independent patches that we can download and install without Impulse?[/quote] They never will. Requiring you to verify before installing updates is their way of deterring piracy- and one I can tolerate/accept, as it only really hinders pirates while adding a couple seconds onto patching.

[quote who="Jafo" reply="80" id="2819642"] Death penalty isn't about being a deterrent....fuckwits will always be fuckwits. What it absolutely GUARANTEES however is exactly ZERO chance of repeat offenders. [/quote] When you got nothing to lose, you got nothing to lose from doing it again. Also she can just declare bankruptcy I believe and the fine goes away- though she loses most of her posessions. If she doe

This is going to be a nice new feature, which everyone will like, but no one will really give notice to since it seems really minor at first glance. Still, it's a good change. The question- will the AI be able to make use of this, and could autoplacement of tiles be set to make use of this? For me, that's the key to how useful this feature will be- though that may take work from Brad as well. &nbsp