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[quote who="mangobutter" reply="6" id="3324438"]Also, could anyone comment on the AI of the game? Does it provide a challenge without feeling like they're cheating? Do they act ignorantly? I've still not played GalCiv 2, but I hear its AI is outstanding. Considering Stardock publishes both games, I'd like to hope Fallen Enchantress is held to a high standard when it comes to AI. [/quote] The AI for Stardock games is coded by Brad Wardell (aka Frogboy), the owner of th

Totally agree. I've been playing for a week & it's really addictive. Anyone who loved Diablo I & II but thought III left the rails will love this game. FTP but everyone should support them with non-game changing microtransactions if they can.

I too came to enjoy Civ 5, but I'll admit I held off buying until it was patched a couple of times. It is really a different game than the traditional Civ's. However different doesn't automatically mean bad, and once I gave the game a chance it grew on me. I'm confident I'll find enough "differences" in ATG to enjoy what it brings to the gaming table.

Keep the fixes coming!. I know Brad has said that a lot of the work being done on Legendary Heroes will be back ported to FE 1.3. Oh, and #1 reply if anyone's counting! [e digicons]}:)[/e]

Ah, the poor long suffering wives. First we ignore them by spending all our time on the computer & then we buy animals for them to clean up after. It must be our childlike wit and charm that keeps us in their good graces.

Frogboy - Just wanted to say - Thank you.

Try removing a couple of the forest squares.

RTS drools, TBS rules! [e digicons]}:)[/e]

Jon - Best of luck with new project. After reading about it I think it'll be a strategy gamers idea of fun. I signed up for the alpha group so I'm really hoping you make your target $.

[quote who="peddroelm" reply="17" id="3317688"] Quoting Darxim, reply 14 Will we be able to choose our own arrangements for units going into tactical combat? Or am I still going to have archers appearing in front of melee guys, and high-initiative meleers getting stuck behind low-initiative guys? One can hope ... And hold out purchasing the expansion until convinced this was fixed ... [/quote] While this isn't a game breaker for me, I will cer

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="35" id="3316756"].. I've updated the build that should also retroactively fix those bad saved games some people had. And again, these have to be unzipped into your existing FE directory. [/quote] A friendly tip to anyone trying this build. When you unzip into the FE directory you will be asked if you want to replace the FE.EXE file or save both versions. If you save both versions you can do a desktop link

[quote who="Mytheos" reply="12" id="3316452"]You are right, I apologize. It is ok for a company to make a product and release it in an alpha state then drop all support for it, then remake it and have constant bugs and and after months and countless patches still have this level of trouble. They offered a discount for this game if you bought Elemental BECAUSE IT WAS A NOTED FAILURE. Again I loved playing several Stardock games, but even beyond all

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="3316432"]Quoting scifi1950, reply 7 Quoting Ambermonk, reply 5When I tried to run your patch I received this message... Frogboy - I got the same error when I tried to run it a few minutes ago. BTW - I haven't noticed a problem with corrupt autosaves in 1.2, but then a again I usually save manually & reload those games. If you get this working I'll test reloading autosaves. I've updated the link with, wh

[quote who="Mytheos" reply="6" id="3316426"]libcurl.dll Error same as above... Really starting to about loose it, played Elemental and ended up paying for an alpha that was abandoned a month after release,.. And now FE which has half worked at best through 5-6 different patches, and this time I feel like I am paying to play a beta. I have enjoyed several Stardock games in the past and I cant comprehend how this is from the same company. How much failure do you expect your

[quote who="Ambermonk" reply="5" id="3316409"]When I tried to run your patch I received this message... "This application has failed to start because libcurl.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." What would you suggest?[/quote] Frogboy - I got the same error when I tried to run it a few minutes ago. BTW - I haven't noticed a problem with corrupt autosaves in 1.2, but then a again I usually save manu

I've been playing, critiquing, and enjoying since the EWOM beta. I've put hundreds of hours into this game & expect the expansion to keep my interest going for a long time. You have a winning combination here which you can keep coming back to for years. I think the real question here is - does the team still have the desire to keep this game going? As long as you guys are having fun it'll show up in your games & that's what dri

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="3307374"]Quoting Heavenfall, reply 1 1) When a city gets attacked twice in one turn, sometimes it will lack all its militia defense the second time around. On #1 that is by design. This would make sense if it was tied to population. A larger city would probably be able to recruit additional militia several times before they ran out, although the units should probably become less well trained & equiped e

After 17 turns, (I was 500 turns into game before switching exe files) only seeing a 7-8 second lag (hit 10 seconds once), not really noticing any difference from previous version. I'm running it on a pretty good rig (Win 7 64bit, Intel i7-2600 CPU @ 3.4 GHz, 8.0GB Ram, NVIDIA GT530), so maybe those extra cores & Ram really do help. Can't really tell yet if AI is doing a better job, but it seems the armies I'm facing are t

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="3302419"]It's everything. And you don't need to start a new game. [/quote] That's cool. I'll go back & reload my saved game. That should be a much better test.

30 turns into new game & haven't noticed any lag in turn times. Playing on Anthy's map with 8 factions.

I have a pretty good game going on the Anthy's map (Custom Sov & map settings changed to allow denser resources), but I'll start a new game & give this a try. I'll let you know if I notice anything different (good or bad). BTW - Is this just for the Faction AI or did you make changes in the monster/UPC AI also?

Congratulations & welcome to the club!

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="67" id="3293284"]I believe you can turn on normal spawns of resources and monsters by changing 1 into 0 in the map file.[/quote] Worked like a charm for me. It took 3 ctrl-N's, but I got a decent start with a normal spawn of resources. I love really large maps. Thanks, Heavenfall.

[quote quoting="post"] So anyway, are these regular updates annoying you? Would you prefer if we slowed down and had fewer, bigger updates? Thanks! [/quote] Yes it's very annoying, that I don't have enough free time right now to play the game as much as I want! [e digicons]}:)[/e]

[quote who="Kalin" reply="12" id="3275989"]Nice list... but how about just giving dragons fire resist so they don't kill themselves? That seems like something you'd want fixed.[/quote] I'll second this. I wondered why the Dragons were so easy to defeat, & then I noticed in a fight with multiple dragons that they were taking damage from each others flames!