Nice. Looking forward to trying Beta 2. Add me to the list of people who are glad to see caravans gone. I never used them. They seemed like too much micromanagement for little entertainment value.
Question: When settling a city do all the tiles around a city square (like Civilization) matter or only the settle square is the one that matters in terms of choosing for food and production?
Fairly simple suggestion really: Add the expected increase of gildar and mana next to the current gildar / mana at the top bar of the screen. Such as: Gildar 549 (+12) Mana 74 (-2) Also format the number green / red for additional effect. Seeing the expected increase right there lets us easily plan if we should cast that additional city spell that has maintenance without having to check if we a
I would also say that Maul is too powerful. I saw it on some monsters (weak-medium) that killed my sovereign and soldiers several times. I couldn't look up the exact effect but it is definitely too powerful. Also, is there some rounding bug with horses? I built on a horse resource which said 0.3 horses per season but it never accumulates. Is that how it's supposed to work?
I played for an hour and even as Beta, FE is many times better than WoM. More lively world, better loot and quests, better spells and tactical combat, actually different factions... Everything is more polished and better thought out compared to WoM. Looking forward to the release. Congratulations Stardock!
Very informative post. It's not often you get insight about how things internally work in the industry straight from the developer / publisher.
Thanks for the replies. Hmm good to know that there is a workaround. I'll try it. But then this is a bug. Auto-explore is supposed to work, right? Developers, please note.
I don't know the changelog for 1.19e (it's not posted yet) but I had this problem in 1.19d and 1.19e too: After playing for 30 or so turns when I click on "End Turn" nothing happens. It's not a crash to desktop or anything (I can still do everything in the game) but "End Turn" has no effect so I'm effectively stuck. I did do Alt+Tab a couple of times during the game but I am not sure if that's what triggered it or not. Has anyone seen
Great Dev diary and thanks for all the hard work. Not having read the entire thread, where do we get these experimental .EXEs? Do I need to hang out at the channel at the exact time they are given out?
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It used to be that you could see the housing status of a city in the build screen before it was replaced by the building queue tab. One of my biggest annoyances is when I go to the build screen I constantly need to go back and check whether the city needs housing. If the housing status of a city was readily shown when the build screen is up it would prevent a lot of clicking back and forth. Thanks.
Almost all of these are really good ideas. I echo others' sentiments in saying put them all in.
I really appreciate you guys working on this on a weekend. That's dedication.
I see. I should have said I'm on Windows 7 (32-bit).
First of all, I love the changes in 1.1 Betas. Every iteration is a little better then the one before. Good job dev team! However, does anyone experience any game freezes like I do? I don't have any crashes but the game just freezes every few minutes for like 15 seconds and then everything returns to normal. But since this happens every few minutes it is pretty annoying. Strategic map, cloth map or combat doesn't matter it happens on all three. I can post my comput
I especially like the faction power bar.
Alternatively you can just hit 'G' to show/hide hexes.
Like most everybody on here, I agree that spamming cities is bad for the game overall. It makes micromanagement harder if you do it (you have to do it if your enemies do it) and it makes the game an unsightly mess. Almost everybody talked about the economic aspect of city spamming (I didn't read every single post) but there is also another aspect of city spamming. One huge reason to city spam is the fact that the more cities you have the more units you can p
Nice work. The Hiergamenon section is great. The descriptions help but what would be even nicer is to include a brief tag that tells what the tech provides so we dont have to read the full description such as: + Experienced, + Party, + Goodie Huts, + Sovereign Notable Locations Level. I realize you guys have a lot to work on but this would be great when you have some time.
I will make a separate bug & suggestion thread for myself but I wanted to make a thread about this separately because I think it's important. A lot of people are complaining about the lack of variety of spells and I agree. Many of the spells are identical but just the corresponding version of that spellbook. I mean that's understandable and necessary to a degree but spells need to be more varied in effect. Let's say maybe the earth version of a direct damage spell should be superior to th
I also have this same question. The thing is I don't want to be spoiled by the game or by the book. I'd like to read the book / play the game in the correct timeline. Which order of reading / playing should I follow if I don't want to be spoiled? [quote who="andrewlt" reply="44" id="2718955"]So what's the timeline of the story between the game's campaign mode, the book and the bonus campaign for the book buyers that will be released later? Game -> book -> bonus or
I was wondering the details of the dynasty and succession system too. My gut tells me it's quite basic right now but they will develop it more in patches/updates.
I love AARs. Good report. A question: why are there two of the same technologies to be unlocked in some cases (Two War Hammers for example in the screenshots)? I assume they are different somehow but how?
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="2712587"]I can't claim to be a full expert on it but here's how it basically works: All of the time consuming materials get sent out to manufacturing weeks, months in advance. That's one reason why modern manuals suck so bad (and Elemental's manual is going to suck out of the box, sorry I wish it wasn't so but it's already outdated based on ideas from my friends online and such). The manual was sent out back before Beta 3.
I was actually quite curious about publishing as well. When there is only like one week (and still more tweaking to go according to yesterday's post), how is it possible to burn, package, ship in such a short period of time?