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I'm a big fan of the auto upgrade from Bronze Sword I to Bronze Sword II and the change from Short Sword to Long sword being manual. Sammual

I would like to see a more modular approach where you can't just build everything. (Space / Cost / Effeicency) Some of your fort Items would be upgrades (Keep -> Castle) and others would be seperate buildings that had overlapping effects (Wizards Tower and a part of your keep may both have a sight bonus, only the largest would be used). Sammual

[quote who="Pnakotus" reply="29" id="2330121"]The way it handled units and squads and modifiers. Different races had character through not only empire-wide bonuses, but changes to how their generic units worked. Squads took casualties that reduced their ability to attack. Powerful monsters could sweep away several units. Throwing axes, striking first, all that stuff. [/quote] I agree,l I love the way squads became less effective when they took losses.

[quote who="Spartan" reply="4" id="2327154"]For me it was the setup options, diversity of the game elements and dynamic play. [/quote] Ditto. Just add kick ass Hero units you could customize with spells and artifacts and you have my list as well. Sammual

NTJedi - I think the OP wanted to see what kind of abilites we hope to see without using magic. Just special (Non-magic) equipment or special training. When it comes to unit creation I would like to see a lot of different options under the training section. Advanced X training - Unit gains a bonus to hit and damage with X type weapons. Advanced Teamwork - Unit gives 1 defense to an allied unit to his shield side if using a shield. Unit gains an a free attac

A lot of the names I was shure were shoe in's for the Alpha have stated that they are not in it. I wonder who DID get invites. Sammual

[quote who="SaberCherry" reply="3" id="2327958"] Don't worry. A closed alpha is one where they abduct the participants in black helicopters and lock them in the testing dungeon, tossing in food and patches now and then. It smells rather bad since it's right below the programming dungeon, which is not locked, since the programmers never leave anyway. To prove this... nobody who is actually in the alpha will announce the fact... because they have already

Of all the threads the Alpha announcement was the one I least thought would get derailed this badly. Sammual

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="3" id="2326401"] 'Damn you, random number generator!!!!!'More like "Damn you, slow parents!!!" [/quote] LOL, that is the first time I've ever seen someone curse his parents for not getting busy sooner. Sammual

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="18" id="2324733"] There're probably some bureaucratic factors involved that will make this idea sound silly, but why not give up setting such faraway date entirely? If they can't live without a date, the PR folks could shift to soft goals like a given season or a given half of 2010, leaving the devs able to wait until they have a strong consensus that the public beta has done what it can for them and they're ready to 'let go.'[/quote] IIRC Brad owns

[quote who="Denryu" reply="16" id="2322079"] I think a better option might be to continue with the February release date beta cycle, then around December evaluate and at that point ask "Can we release the game that we want in two months?" "Are there a lot of new ideas that we have gotten from the community from the betas so far that extending the development cycle to August is going to be worthwhile?" All software projects will grow to fill the available time to release, my

[quote quoting="post"] Would you be interested in us extending the beta? Since anyone can join betas by pre-ordering, we could try something that really hasn’t been done before as far as I know – make the beta experience something truly outstanding unto itself. So what would be the point of this? The point would be to make it a lot more fun to develop the game with the beta testers. Rather than have v1.0 come out in February and then have v1.1 in say Apri

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="6" id="2316274"] Quoting sciborg2, reply 1Will the AI code be public knowledge then? Gawds above, below, and sideways, I surely hope not. Modding is interesting and all, but having the AI code out in public would inevitably lead to a bunch of tedious best-strat nonsense that could swiftly drain the life from the game for those of us who could care less about multiplayer and don't even think of 'winning' very often when we're off in the singleplayer san

I love this dream, I hope it becomes a reality. Sammual

I'm on Vista64 and the game runs rock solid. For what I read on the boards most of the users having issues are Win 7 64. The Vista64 users found a workaround for the crashing / lockups (Reinstall and patch in the correct order I believe). From what I picked up in IRC the issue was people missing an interm patch that updated PhysX. If you had PhysX installed on you PC before you insalled Sacred unless you updated Sacred 2 to 2.3X it didn't upgrade PhysX. <

[quote who="StoweMobile" reply="20" id="2315646"]hmmm...I just bought it a few days ago, but haven't been able to play it yet...the newest patch screwes up the game and it won't work on most 64 systems...I'm hoping impulse will give me a refund if a fix isn't found soon.[/quote] Only on Win 7 64 systems. What are you running into? I am pissed off, I just got the game this week. I was planning on playing all day today before I head to the beech for a week on

OK, I just read the July FAQ and I have new Favorites. 1) Over time, the life force (or death force) that a channeler initially imbued in the land will naturally spread so each founded town won’t usually require the sacrifice of essence to create. However, if the player wants to quickly spam out a bunch of cities (which is a typical strategy in 4X games) it will come at a very high cost. 2) The channeler might choose to imbue a hero with 5 essence points to make hi

[quote quoting="post"] The maximum amount of mana a channeler can accumulate is based on their essence. At the beginning of the game, a channeler starts out with 20 essence points. When channelers gain levels, their essence increases.[/quote] As time goes by I like this concept more and more. [quote quoting="post"] Over time, the life force (or death force) that a channeler initially imbued in the land will naturally spread so each founded town won

[quote who="goodgimp" reply="16" id="2313276"]The complete lack of any kind of death penalty (well, other than lowering the monster's levels to make it easier for you) kinda killed it for me. Yes, I know there's a hardcore mode, and that's what I'd exclusively play but hardcore is a PITA when playing with a LAN group. I'd love something in between, but sadly nothing is offered and it's not moddable. [/quote] All I play is hardcore. I lost

Favorite: Moddability! (I can't wait to mess around with the AI) Least Favorite: Squares instead of Hexes on the battle map.

All, As far as DRM goes I was not aware that it had SecuROM, I bought a copy from Impulse and downloaded it. It didn't cause any problems on either of my PCs. Differences from Diablo - I like the cooldown on the skills, the ability to chain together skills in a combo, the ability to mod you attack powers (The biggest plus), only being able to pick 10 skills. All in all Sacred 2 character development is much more complex then Diablo 2

Hey all, I bought Sacred 2 on Impluse this weekend and I'm loving it. Other then the random maps of D2 I think it is better in every way. Any one else play both D2 and Sacred 2? What do you think? Sammual

Thanks all! I went w/ the Crysis demo, Sacred 2, and some 1080 movie trailors. Damn is this thing bright. My 4 year old ran out of the room in the middle of my 'demo' and came back with my wife's sunglasses for her. Sammual

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[quote who="Battlewounds" reply="1" id="2309406"]I have a 24" monitor myself,I love it a lot.If she isn't a gamer let her see what a movie looks like on it. To keep from getting whacked have pictures of you 2 as a screensaver. [/quote] She knows I bought it for gaming so I have to show her a game but I will follow it up with a movie and the idea of pics of us and the munchkin are pure genius! Sammual