If you increase resource yields slightly then you can nab a good spot with access to a forest, and it may open up more tile choices. Also, in ElementalDefs you can change MinValidTotalTileYield to something lower than 7. Myself, I've gone the other way, increased it to 8 and messed around with the resource yields. Because I love more resources, and so does the AI. ;)
You can put your own designed units in the mod folder and point to those, maybe?
Well I would say Legend of the Seeker/Sword of Truth except there aren't any magical barriers (yet).
It's a good idea, modding the XML to add custom difficulty levels that are between the existing ones. It raises all sorts of interesting questions, like can the AI beat you if it has all these cool cheats, an HP bonus for example, but has an economic crunch/slump going on? ;)
[quote who="erischild" reply="3" id="3319456"]It is my personal perception that the anti-Steam percentage of gamers is loud but very much in the minority. Also, it is shrinking steadily as time passes.[/quote] That's basically 'Conform to or go away, we don't want your business.' Sorry, but that's a great way to send customers packing. I was on the fence really until a guy over on GalCiv II forums found that he has to use Steam to downl
Don't forget this easy fix. :)
What do you suppose the odds are that Tom Francis will get picked to review the first expansion?
If I have a complaint about the diplomacy in FE it's that things got too predictable. When I see that the AI has a larger military force and a dialogue box comes up saying that war has been declared, I want to reply back 'Well this is a cliché.' Otherwise, even if the AI should be my mortal enemy, it makes all sort of offerings during times of peace. Hopefully, the changes to diplomacy will tend to colour your future relations with the blood spilled in the
[quote who="Darxim" reply="64" id="3317953"]Frogboy said in another thread that he's fixing the webbing of archers. He didn't say he was doing beguiling because he was responding to my post and I didn't think to include beguiling, but he might be doing that as well.[/quote] When the tactical map is fairly long, stagger the web attacks. Wait for player units to try and cross to where the spiders are. That way the AI has a chance to swarm around the one or
Well, I'm not getting a four-core. By the time I can afford one they'll be obsolete.
I don't know what you find annoying, personally I get a little vexed that I have to use GIMP (or Paint) and my web browser (or Trillian) each time I want to post a screenshot of what I'm doing. And if I want to upload a high-quality screenshot to my own web space, then I just have to throw an FTP client in there. It's a smegging screenshot, why do I need so many programs to get it out there?
I'm not very enthused about the move to Steam either. When it works (which is usually) it's great, if there's a problem and you have to uninstall it, it is a total pain. And yes, the auto-update makes me want to scream sometimes. Then there's the great divide in the community between people who use Steam forums and those who use Stardock forums - I didn't even know there was a Steam forum for GalCiv 2 until very recently.
I'm excited about the expansion. Would love to pre-order it in March but I have the feeling I will be too poor for much of the year. Oh well.
A champion select screen? Hurrah! It'll be fun to be able to scroll to the right and see this .
Looks good! Although if you have the misfortune to pick light tan as a faction colour, it doesn't seem to show up very strongly on the leather armour, which is itself light tan in colour.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="237" id="3315970"]It's looking increasingly unlikely. We only have 1 network engineer and he's on a different project. We ARE hiring so if you know anyone who's looking to make multiplayer games, send in a resume. I have a situation where I have the budget to add MP but I don't have the people.[/quote] Would the same thing apply if we were to ask for social networking integration? Send screenies to Twitter from i
Hmm, okay. I guess I'll have to get into a tactical battle to see if it appears. Nope. No such luck. :P Going to try something then. Yep. Made a map with the quest dungeon, set it to not be a special ability, then it shows up. Hurrah.
Okay so I noticed in CoreSpells.xml that the Confusion spell has this tag: 1 Is it possible this is stopping it from showing up in the spellbook?
Hmm, I usually always space my troops out so there's a big zone of control in front of my sov. I don't know if killing units that are creating a zone of control is part of the tactical AI.
After Action Report.
Actually, I'm not so sure that the trend necessarily indicates Stardock is doing worse. You have tried a number of genres, and you've had to learn some new things along the way. Not sticking to a formulaic franchise means that the games you come up with are fresh. What you also need to factor in is the post-release support of those games which makes those games better by spades by listening to the players. You need to consider that those scores are averages (
Well, interesting bug to report with 1.29frog. Factions I haven't met yet can contact me to trade but I can't contact them.
So I was exploring the Pits of Namtur with my small adventuring party and I come across a group of Umberdroth and other nasty things. Lucky for me, I had an escape scroll handy and got out of there with just one hero down. Bummer, I thought, now I have to get that guy an Iru Elixir. Lucky for me, one of my other heroes exploring on the other side of the map found one under a statue or something. Now I'm thinking I want a sandwich. [e digicons]<_<[/e
Scouts I actually use quite a bit on large maps. They have the advantage of being able to move at a normal rate across much of the terrain, while heroes cannot. True, they can't pick up any loot or start any quests, but they can find places for your pioneers to run to quite quickly. And you can build as many of them as you like (bearing in mind you still have to pay them) and they're um, disposable. If a scout dies to a bunch of wolves, who cares, but if your
Giving the 1.29 a try today, seems to be holding up well but early in the game I guess.