[quote who="keithLamothe" reply="1" id="2415511"]From MoM I recall To Hit and To Defend stats that had very interesting effects, as well as the Resistance stat. There's also cool things like "First Strike", "Breath Weapon", "Armor Piercing", "Illusion Attack". How do you feel about that sort of thing?[/quote] As I've stated before I consider MoM to be the gold standard for Tact
For me MoM is the gold standard, I would start there. MoM had some balance issues and did not have a small enough granularity (Mostly in To Hit). What I would like to see is all the MoM attributes with better granularity, and statistic modifications for height and terrain, and Damage Types. Height I would like to see units defending highe
[quote who="Denryu" reply="176" id="2401459"]OK routing of armies - even HEROES I can live with - but I AM THE SOVEREIGN and if there is anything that causes him to route I will be extremely put out! [/quote] Magical Fear / Mind Control? I say if it can get past your magic resistance your lucky you routed and not died. Sammual
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="78" id="2411526"] The beta program ensures only those who are seriously interested in this type of game in the first place are involved. Over the next few weeks, we'll be debating and discussing a great deal different ways of handling the economics and based on that feedback be making changes. Now, some might argue that the self-selection process of the beta tends to bias it away from the "mainstream" of gamers but my personal feeli
[quote who="fimiki" reply="87" id="2399807"]It seems like there are two important ideas when it comes to the strategic purpose of resources. Idea 1: I want my Nation to be defined by it's resources. This idea envisions resources as a way to shape and diversify factions according to the resources they have in abundance. This would promote diversity and keep games original and fresh by causing factions to specialize based on their geographical
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="46" id="2399111"] If the Scape Counter is 0+, then the Sovereign can scape. If it's -1 or lower, he must face his destiny. [/quote] I think you might be onto something here. I would like the escape counter to be calculated like this; Sovereign defending (+1) Sovereign is in a town with an escape tun
[quote quoting="post"] Sovereign Handling People do not want luck to decide the fate of their sovereign in a battle. Many people don’t like the idea of ones sovereign dying meaning the end of the game. The sovereign being a unit in the game is key to the game mechanics that will become more apparent later. But we have been convinced by the feedback that there shouldn’t be an “evade” ability. Instead, we’re now leaning towards if your sovere
[quote who="Einlanzerous" reply="58" id="2396845"] You wouldn't know as a nation, that once you research x resource that you would want x amount and that it would be in location y. So, it's only after you research steel, that you discover you need to expand north to find deposits for it. This forces expansionism, and is good for the game anyways (plus trade would be a bigger focus this way).[/quote] I disagree. You finish researching Bronze. You find this rock that we
[quote who="KbT" reply="28" id="2396066"]Flat, small percentage modifiers, like Gal Civ II, is terribly dull. The resources in your realm should be an important feature in all aspects of that realm - its warfare, its culture, its trading, its research. I'd like to see kingdoms naturally play to their strengths, and their strengths being those resources. A land of plains with wild horses should become a land of powerful horsemen; their horses should be sought aft
[quote who="Denryu" reply="77" id="2393708"] Quoting Sammual, reply 76 Add me to the legion of people who are not a fan of this idea. If you want to give the player a 'get out of Sovereign death free card' don't make it random. There is good random (Map generation) and bad random (Do you loose the game or not). If you want players to be able to spend character creation points to avoid thier Sovereigns death, let them buy a Contingen
[quote quoting="post"] Option C: If the missing resource is weapons/armor then the player is informed they must substitute the weapon/armor, if it’s equipment then the item is not included on the unit. This simplifies things somewhat and encourages us to try to make as much of the “bonus” stuff fall into equipment. In the case where the twilight bee apiary is taken by another player, the unit is still built minus the twilight honey pack. The player would be able to see
Resources Q) How many? A) Only as many as you need. How many resources do you need to make the resouces system you want fun? List the things you want to get bonuses from resources. Research Prestige Income Production Units Attack Defense HP Speed XP Healing Should al
Add me to the legion of people who are not a fan of this idea. If you want to give the player a 'get out of Sovereign death free card' don't make it random. There is good random (Map generation) and bad random (Do you loose the game or not). If you want players to be able to spend character creation points to avoid thier Sovereigns death, let them buy a Contingency spell. Contingency: A spell for emergencies, Contingency will teleport the Sovereign, shoul
I like this idea but am still fine with the Sovereign fighting to defend the city his is in and you lossing the game if you loose that city. Either way I will be happy. Sammual
Agreed. Sammual
OP updated, 100 responses. Sammual
93 Responses so far. I will post updated stats as soon as I can after we hit 100. Sammual
Interesting things found in the results from this survey; 1) Only 5 users who can play the game do not report "Edge-scrolling issues" and over 50% of the users who report them have them all the time. 2) Of the users who can play the game AND have it not hang after an ALT-TAB, 70% report the "Map does not render after alt-tab" every time. 3) The majority of users who can play the game have some sort of Save / Load issues. 4) Almost all us
Results added. It appears that I need to upgrade my Survey Monkey account to get crosstab results so they may or may not be added later. Sammual
[quote who="Espio" reply="3" id="2382291"]Gave my answers. If you make another of these surveys you may want to consider providing a "N/A" option, theres quite a few I answered "Never" to simply because I have yet to be able to get past turn 5 or so without some game-ending glitch or crash occuring (all of which have been reported by others if you are wondering why there have been no posts from me).[/quote] I can see your point but I am looking for what OS and Video card people
[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="1" id="2382089"]I have the survey open, and on the second page it only lets you assign each "frequency" to a single crash.[/quote] Fixed. Sammual
All, Stardock responded to this Survey and requested some System Spec info so I created a new Survey asking for this info and added some questions about the crahes, hangs, and bugs you are encountering. Survey is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=A5PfAwf4AWuyhmSNL3c83g_3d_3d Discussion thread is at <a href="https://forums.elementalgame.com/3647
All, Stardock responded to my last Survey and requested some System Spec info so I created a new Survey asking for this info and added some questions about the crahes, hangs, and bugs you are encountering. Survey is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=A5PfAwf4AWuyhmSNL3c83g_3d_3d Thank
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="19" id="2381779"]Question 2 kept me from taking the survey because there is no good answer for someone in my situation (I'm one of the folks caught by the FamilyTree version of the splash->CTD problems). If you're doing an update or new one, please consider asking about whether the player can get past the title and into the game, and whether it required a workaround to get the game going. [/quote] In the next survey most of the questio
[quote who="CodeCritter" reply="14" id="2381711"]Actually, because we only see the bugs here on the forums, it's nice to see that things are working for others. Thanks for posting the survey. We'll be checking up on it. I'm not sure if you can add a question, but if you can, it'd be nice to know what video cards people are using: a. ATI b. NVidia c. Intel Integrated Graphics d. Other [/quote] I can add that questio