OsirisDawn

To be honest i dont like the city building in the latest build. Before you could specialize cities and you really needed those gardens and houses. I liked it, because you need to make a decission. With the latest build you take that away. You can just build everything and i have so much free space i doubt the new techs add enough stuff to make me wish for more free tiles. Also the new Food/Housing/Citygrow ratio is totally out of balance. If you find only one farming tile you

The best unit/combat design i ever saw was the one of Kohan. It was the best of all worlds and fun to tinker with different combinations of units in each stack. hm.... *heads of to GOG, looking for Kohan*

Wow, awesome work from you Elementalists. [e digicons]:digichet:[/e] The Beta will be the first thing (well after Win7 64 and Impulse) installed on my new computer. And i got a free weekend to boot. [e digicons]:w00t:[/e]

There is also a bug (that i cant reproduce) which ends the game if you sovereign is killed near one of your cities. Not your last one, just anyone. I am still trying to reproduce it. Cant even do it with save games.

[quote who="gapper4" reply="27" id="2654236"] Quoting OsirisDawn, reply 26 I have never even thought about killing NPC's that i cant hire, just for XP and loot. The notion that some you did, disturbs me and makes me mourn about humanity. Morals and ethics should be nothing you need to put into game mechanics. Just my2 eurocent. People will do what they can get away with; That's why we have civil society. Othe

My empire tree never looked like that. Did you know, that you can filter, add/remove and group stuff?

I have never even thought about killing NPC's that i cant hire, just for XP and loot. The notion that some you did, disturbs me and makes me mourn about humanity. [e digicons]:'([/e] Morals and ethics should be nothing you need to put into game mechanics. Just my2 eurocent.

[quote who="Sanati" reply="168" id="2654111"] Quoting strager, reply 161 But you shouldn't be able to steamroll over someone using that strategy. If they don't prepare for it then I don't see why not. Much like rushing in another game. If your sovereign sits on their butt in a city all game and you don't train any adventurers up or build some really powerful defenders, then you will lose to that strategy. If you counter their strategy though with s

[quote who="strager" reply="150" id="2653788"] Quoting Valiant_Turtle, reply 146 Keep in mind that early cities are not a strong requirement for this game. The other day I started a game with a inventor hero and a 4-pack of adventurers by me. I recruited them all but didn't have enough $ left for a city (I'm not sure the game is getting the $ right on recruiting groups, I'm going to check next time I see one). We wandered around getting loot and f

I will buy Civ5 for two reasons: 1) They made Civ4, which earns them a one buy sight unseen. For the same reason i will buy the next Ironclad (SoaSE)game (if it is something that remotely interests me). 2) Grand Strategy games a rare in this day and age and if not enough people buy them, we might lose (sp?) them completly. Just IMHO and YMMV, of course.

I played too many hours this weekend, but had nothing else to do anyway. I had both Civics and Warfare reseached to lvl 30+ and found so many speed potions, my sovereign was zipping around the map with move 13, after which even more speed potions didnt add anything more. And i dare say it was fun. Now i am going to punch myself for awhile to even out my karma ... [e digicons]:banhammer:[/e]

Just holding down the left MB and dragging works for me.

[quote who="Eldorad" reply="38" id="2652899"] Quoting Sanati, reply 18 I know you can't please everyone, but I'm disappointed in the city change. I think most of the complaints about the current system are from people who don't really understand the food system or aren't researching the housing upgrades. You only need like 10-12 villas to max a city right now, and gardens are optional if you just go out and look for food resources (one bee hive with a granary is 30

[quote who="caross73" reply="13" id="2644907"]Why would you get a caviar green? They are slower than the Caviar black and for a game system, you want a large cache and high speed. You're not trying to minimize power consumption. Edit: Oh, nevermind. Too late. At least you're being nice to the environment. I hate the way they market those drives, right alongside the much faster caviar black. [/quote] I thought the exact same, mybe he can send them back

[quote who="Zozz" reply="47" id="2645875"]I know the first beta was supposed to be all paper cuts and lemon juice, so I am just wondering if Beta 2 is supposed to be somewhat fun or just more of the arduous masochism we have been promised up until now. [/quote] BETA 2 is supposed to be all open wounds and salt, lots of salt. [e digicons]:S[/e]

[quote who="Anomander" reply="89" id="2644661"] Quoting VicenteC, reply 88 Quoting seanw3, reply 69Who cares about map irregularities like that? Is your imagination so far diminished that you need your fantasy games to have ultra realistic river formations. We could go on for days about this map's similarity to real life and the justifications for its geographical qualities or we could just enjoy it. Or are you capable of enjoying things? <br

[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="83" id="2644602"] ... Lake Gorba is really weird however, or then the map is really unintuitive. The river through the imperial spine is clearly continuous, so it would indicate that Gorba indeed has two rivers flowing into the ocean. This would require *extremely* rare and unstable circumstances. The river would have to fill up at the exact same rate as it empties from both rivers to maintain the balance. Otherwise one of the rivers would

Great review. Can't wait to see the 3D engine in action.

Nice to get some coverage, but i found the preview a bit lacking (on all fronts). It somehow read as if the reviewer wasn't very interested in the game at all. *shrug* But maybe i got it all wrong [e digicons]

@Wintersong: It is just an idea that covers nearly all sides of the argument, i think. Also "Sovereign Death = Game Over" is more of a story reason i guess, then hard to implement. You are the sovereign, it is your story. If you die, it is game over, as i understand the design. Another suggesstion: Bind things like essence recovery to magic research and include spells like Empower Life (City enchantment, Cost X Essence): Life spread from this city is i

My suggestion: Make it an option at game start. Include something like Cost to build city : 1) Essence (5) (on dead land after the first) 2) Essence (2) &

WINNER.TAKE.ALL. If you want to implement it, N could be: N = MAX(CHA Sovereign;CHA Heroes in battle) + Training* + Special Boni (like Warlordtrait or such) *Training: Green 1; Veteran 2; Elite 4 a.s.o. Randomness vs. Richness I like irongamers idea. Or amke a set of special maps and include them into the random generator, so that there is maybe a 10% chance to play on a special map.

I guess it is working as intended. You should not be able to build all or even most of the buildings in each city AFAIK.

Go under options (upper left blue button)/preferences and mark 'show prerelease versions (Alpha/BETA)'. Hope it helps.

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="39" id="2549086"]Without reading any answer (which means I could be repeating someone else): You trace the route you want the caravans from one city to another. Caravans go along that route. No road yet. As turns go by (and the caravan successfully reach the other city and come back), the road is automatically built. Techs can improve these kind of roads once they are done. [/quote] I find that the best of ideas. Maybe, if you wan