The problem with the balance of each faction only having ONE/FEW overpowered things means that they are forced to focus only on that to the exclusion of other strategy. And it makes it more difficult for the AI. Each faction should have multiple viable paths of growth
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="18" id="3247653"]Let's stay on target, this isn't about LGBT or religion or Republicans vs. Democrats.[/quote] Ah, sorry. I already wrote up a response before seeing this... Well I am willing to discuss this elsewhere if you insist. But I think this is exactly about those things. You have liberal media spreading lies about a "conservative" (since when is sound fiscal policy being conservative? what the hell happened to the parties?) CEO to f
[quote]Republicans are anti LGBT rights and they champion teaching creationism among other things, I will never vote for a party like that, ever. I live in Kansas, I know damn well what these Republicans are like, and no matter what other ideas they have, as long as they are filled with these types, I will never vote for them. [/quote] The leftist media makes the claims above, but lets look at reality. First of all, "teaching creationism" is NOT a republican thing and republicans offi
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="3247444"]Because they would quickly destroy the world in the early game? [/quote] No they won't. All you have to do is: 1. Turf centered on monster lair, not on current location (if lair destroyed DO NOT move turf... move monster to remains and have it sit there to rebuild). 2. Make lair turf visible to players. 3. Make the weakest monsters (wolves) not project turf at all. 4. Make initial settlement lo
I hope you are right Xan.
cheap slaves = yum yum delicious XP to enemy sov. The issue here is not slaves overpowered, its that enemy AI didn't properly react.
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="13" id="3247611"]It's really too bad that republicans have aligned themselves with religious types, because I can never vote for them as long as they are. All other messages are meaningless to me, and I imagine the opposite is true for many Christians, they will accept whatever it tacked on to the republican ticket as long as it stands for what they believe are strong Christian values. Either way, I can't vote Republican.[/quote]
The most important thing for a game being a commercial success is the INITIAL impression. While hugely improved over WoM, the game is still not quite what it should be and has the potential to be. It is very close but I do not think a mere 2 weeks are going to be enough to do sufficient polishing before going gold.
[quote who="bbr91" reply="138" id="3247599"]It has been indicated that this feature might be added to the game post-release, if the game is a commercial success.[/quote] How do they expect to make the game a commercial success if such a crucial feature is missing? Its boring and tedious and detracts from the game.. And it is going to hurt the game's reviews, and this is going to hurt the game commercially. [quote who="Lord Xia" reply="139" id="3247603"]I don't really u
[quote who="seanw3" reply="9" id="3247592"]You missed the subtext of my satire friend. It happens to partisan people.[/quote] No, it happens to people speaking to you online via TEXT who have no idea what your tone of voice is. Everything you said as "satire" has been said by some moron in full seriousness. And I am not "partisan" and would thank you to not throw such insults at me. [quote]Right now both presidential candidates are claiming to do the exact same th
[quote who="sareth01" reply="2" id="3240470"]To me, sins proved that all 4x should be real time.[/quote] Real time strategy rewards fast clicking over intelligent strategy which is undesirable. TBS FTW.
Where is the option to use AI governor to build structures in cities? This is really tedious when you have 20 cities and a serious flaw in the game.
[quote who="seanw3" reply="7" id="3247583"]Why would the president matter in any of this?[/quote] Veto power. Also obama personally nationalized companies and overruled laws of congress (which he has no power to do) which were defended by congress and the courts [quote]Both sides are claiming to reduce taxes for the lowest incomes and keep taxes the same for larger companies. Are you saying I shouldn't believe them?[/quote] No, the dems say we shoul
[quote]“The CEO Who Built Himself America’s Largest House Just Threatened to Fire His Employees if Obama’s Elected” [actual headline][/quote] Interesting title lets read the actual letter... [quote] If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company. Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back. This mea
[quote who="Kestral2040" reply="3" id="3246948"]you could also potentially drop an outpost next to it and pray it leaves you alone when it's released from its lair [/quote] So wait, the wandering monster mechanics are locked until a ZoC covers a lair?
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="371" id="3245818"]So basically, at this point in time, there is a struggle going on within the Greenskin. Are the mages going to hold on to power, continuing to evolve their powers, or is there going to be a physical freak development that can counter the magical abilities and restore the Greenskin to their former, magic-less selves?[/quote] What about muscle mages who channel their magic inwards to boost their physique and provide healing rather th
Cell splitting is much scarier. The only way to get rid of them is to glass the whole planet. And removing sex as a biological consideration makes them more focused on slaughtering everything else.
[quote who="Purest Warrior" reply="365" id="3245638"]Speaking of Greenskins: Why are they genderless? Are they pulled out of the earth?[/quote] Yes, literally... it says so in their description. They work a little like the orks from 40k... skin flakes take root and form a "plant" like stage that eventually grows into an orc or goblin assuming it doesn't get eaten by another orc, goblin, or wild animals.
Thanks for all your replies heavenfall. BTW I really like the interaction of various items... like how the infinite HP potion would interact with the immortal trait, etc.
Good point about the timing. An item can be very strong in early game yet near worthless in late game. How do you control which items are awarded at what stage of play though? Also, it seems to me that while the hexed penalty is not the end of the world, it provides more penalties then the items that give it seem to confer. And it is a practical guarantee that you will eventually acquire it since its a chance every time you are hit not when you are killed or taking d
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="347" id="3243901"]The bonus for using those items is stronger than others. Therefore, they have a chance to suffer a penalty for using a cursed item. It's a way to let the player choose a high-risk high-reward tactic.[/quote] Its not a high risk high reward its a small reward its guaranteed (its only a matter of time while wielding such an item) medium penalty (at least I think, I have yet to discover all the bad things hexed does to you).<
Why do so many items cause hexed on the weared (at 1% per hit taken per combat)? Personally I would never use such an item (and its not like those items are ridiculously awesome to being with, just "nice")
Anyone has a save with this bug? It will probably help them.
Am I the only one who hates those "diminishing results schemes"? 1. Why should an empire 10x the size not have 10x the budget and 10x the army? That's what it is there for and if you remove it... well all the more reason to go sauron. Or in a game like civ just raze every single city immediately as you conquer it because conquering it is detrimental/worthless. 2. People can't wrap their head around complicated scales like log or power scaling. Although you could make s
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="118" id="3241929"]Perhaps you didn't read my post. I am quite clear on how exactly the solution adresses the problem. Nerf heroes, boost monsters, make heroes dependent on cities (research, gildar, troops). What's missing?[/quote] The opportunity cost where a player chooses to focus on boosting a hero OR focus on boosting his armies. Making heroes depend on troops because they can't solo is NOT making them dependent on cities. I