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Reply to Any way to cure injuries from defeat yet? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Riggamortis" reply="17" id="3256012"]They really need to look at this. I downloaded the game a few days ago and been playing and it's just infuriating early game when your hero dies and gets a horrible injury. I basically ragequit or reload at that point. Of the weak early enemies, wolf packs seem to be the worst enemies that can just gib a unit on you because they cast berserk and then run across the map and smash the same unit.[/quote] Wolves don't

Reply to Mismatch mouse pointer in FE Support Elemental Forums

I've had issues with mouse pointer imprecision since GalCiv II. Trying to place a space station while zoomed out in GC2 was an exercise in frustration. Stardock is certainly not alone ... I used to dabble in 'pixel art' using a paint program called Paint Shop Pro and companion software called Animation Shop ... later versions of the softare, especially after Paint Shop Pro version 7, lost mouse-pointer precision and behaved inconsistently trying to paint individual pix

Reply to Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

When it comes to making a commercial product, strong effort without a matchingly strong result counts for squat. How much of an effort Stardock made into making Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is, unfortunately, irrelevant to the question of how 'good' of a game resulted from that effort. I have been a loyal customer of Stardock since the original Galactic Civilizations. Brad is certainly a lot more sharing of what he's working on and what's going on th

Reply to [1.00] So how are a tile's resources (food/mana/essence) determined? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="1" id="3264028"] if integers are used. You mean natural numbers, not integers. It can be explained, if the developers has decided that some features take away essence, i.e. rivers washing essence off. I have not really looked into it, because I stopped re-rolling my starts, and because of playing at difficulties where you do not pick and choose your spots, you settle what you can, where you can - i.e. I will usually settle two materials+forest

[1.00] So how are a tile's resources (food/mana/essence) determined? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Its been explained in several threads that the resources for a tile are a summation of the resources in the adjacent 8 tiles. If this were true, then every one-tile source of a resource would generate a 3x3 grid. While there seems to be a 2 resource minimum for grain or material to show up, this does not seem to be the case for

Reply to Someone help me with essence? It doesn't appear to exist. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nakisisa" reply="7" id="3263626"]Snyder49 it makes sense if you think of it this way. I think I remember it right. The numbers stated on a tile shows the total of that tile and the eight surrounding tiles grain,materials and essence letting you know what a city built on that tile would get. They also put a limited the titles available to be settled to 2+ grain. Nakisisa[/quote] I've heard this stated a number of times,

Reply to FE not showing up in Impulse/Gamestop in FE Support Elemental Forums

I've heard but can't confirm purchasers in 2011 could at least get a discount on FE ... been trying to hunt for it but, hey, that's the paid Stardock reps' jobs to dish out the official info, heh.

Adam Smith of Rock, Paper, Shotgun's review of Elemental: Fallen Enchantress in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Pretty negative through and through: Despite some effective scene-setting at the opening of a new game and paragraphs of charmingly needless flavour text scattered throughout, Fallen Enchantress never inspired me. I didn’t feel a sense of struggle or purpose, and that’s mostly due to the disconnect between so many of the game’s features. It might seem odd to complain about a game that’s a construction of disparate systems short

[REVIEW] "Playing gets more interesting as it continues" 3.5/5 stars (GameSpy) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

"... The middle and late game come together beautifully, but at the cost of a fair and entertaining beginning. Fortunately, Fallen Enchantress is not just a strategy game. It is a fantasy strategy RPG that, by its conclusion, does feel fantastical. Magic is devastating (where it was once puny), heroes are demigods, and your forces do battle across the blasted landscape with huge armies and towering dragons. The world doesn't feel tamed or conquered b

Reply to Outposts should be destructible in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Monsters frequently destroy my outposts. :( Always seem to ignore AI outposts, though ... I'll see unaffiliated dragons meander around other AI outposts and not bother with them. :/

Reply to Someone help me with essence? It doesn't appear to exist. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Unfortunately, your city only acquires the Grain, Material and Essence materials on the exact tile you place the city. No matter how many resources are in the other tiles your city encompasses through border expansions, your city cannot use any of those other resources, only those of the starting tile. If your starting tile contains no essence, then unless your faction can build the Enchanting pool, your city will never have essence.

An update on my quest for free screen recorders in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

In a previous post, I requested help finding a free screen recorder so that I could record tutorial videos for Elemental: Fallen Enchantress. I've been trying to experiment with now 3 different screen capture programs including CamStudio, WinCapture Editor and now Microsoft Expression Encoder. I tried CamStudio first, and the result was terrible with only about 1 frame per second of video output, way too jarring. I had issues with WinCapture as well, then tried goi

Reply to Can't enter city of Urwen in first camaign mission. in FE Support Elemental Forums

Its a friendly city, so you can't conquer it. You can buy things from the shop when you are near it.

[REVIEW] "The RPG elements are an excellent addition to the game, and really help set the game apart from others in the genre." 7.7/10 (Gaming Irresponsibly) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Fallen Enchantress is the type of game that most people have a good idea about whether or not they’ll enjoy it before they even play it. For fans of turn based strategy and 4X games, this game sticks close enough to the common tropes of the genre while also adding in some fairly significant elements of other genres to make this an interesting game, if nothing else. In my opinion, the RPG elements are an excellent addition to the game, and really help se

Reply to Ideal Town Settlements in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Players over-value high-G/M/E resources. Yeah, they're nice, but I have won several games starting with little in the way of the first city's raw resources using Beastlord, which isn't dependent on my starting city having a lot of material to gather a large, powerful army not dependent on research nor training troops.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress ranked #7 in Gamespot's Top 10 Games in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Did you not read the OP? These are Gamespot's rankings. 7 out of 10 is good. 8 out of 10 would have to be superior, 9 out of 10 exceptional. 10 out of 10 should never get appointed unless a game were completely free, not the slightest typo and it makes you feel you should throw all your game CDs and cartridges out, delete them off your computer and only play that game ever again.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress ranked #7 in Gamespot's Top 10 Games in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Fallen to #8 today (Sunday). And I disagree that low 70s or 7/10s isn't too good, its pretty darn good. 8s should be rare, 9s very rare and a 10/10 should be virtually impossible.

Reply to Disappearing Tile Yields in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Tile yields always vanish within 6 tiles of a settled city. Once a city is settled, its tile yield will never reappear, if the city gets destroyed, you cannot settle another one in the exact same spot as it will have no tile yields.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress ranked #7 in Gamespot's Top 10 Games in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Now its at #5. Brad, what have you done!? Elemental is now crushing XCOM: Enemy Unknown!

Reply to [REVIEW] "Stardock finally hit the nail on the head" (CheatMasters.org) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Trying to hunt for more reviews, I found this same article copied and pasted to several other supposedly distinct websites. :/

[REVIEW] "Stardock finally hit the nail on the head" (CheatMasters.org) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Stardock Entertainment is perhaps one of those video game companies that stays true to its roots and remains consistent with its vision and philosophy. (...) Strategy fans should give Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, along with RPG and fantasy fans as well. This game does cross multiple genres at once and pulls off

Reply to My fail at a video tutorial attempt ... in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Its a bit better with "Win Capture." I am also trying to narrate as I go instead of trying to narrate afterwards [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqoK5BGQkA&feature=share&list=PLucltIH-umI-_3RGG4RJHWG5eUjzmRu34[/video] [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei7MP595I9M&feature=share&list=PLucltIH-umI-_3RGG4RJHWG5eUjzmRu34[/video] I tried using my speakers to get game audio into the recording, but I think I'll ditch the musi

Reply to Juggernauts balance in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Juggers gave me trouble, but Shrink for some reason takes away their full attack (not just a penalty like most Shrink targets) and Slow. I also tend to have dragons by that point, and dragons trounce juggernauts.

My fail at a video tutorial attempt ... in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[video]http://www.youtube.com/embed/TvMvGXAtHek[/video] That software combination didn't work, and I flubbed the narrative in a couple places. I've found software that records video much better than the CamStudio I was using, but it still doesn't record game audio, unfortunately. I am trying to record audio while I play as well for a bit more smoothness, but I am making a lot of errors which are frustrating, but I am hoping I can re-record audio over my flubs

[1.0] [CRASH] Incompatibility with GameCam? in FE Support Elemental Forums

I'm trying to find better software to record Elemental: Fallen Enchantress sessions to make video tutorials and guides (my first attempt was utterly atrocious). I googled and found 'GameCam,' but trying to launch EFE with GameCam running generated the following crash error: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: FallenEnchantress.exe Application Version: 1.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 5084b255<br