There's an option to turn on manual building placement, actually.
[quote who="Mortenart" reply="46" id="3207712"]One more issue - turns ending automatically when one unit/hero has finished their move (not allowing other units/heroes to take their moves).[/quote] Under game options tick off "Auto-turn". First thing I always do when I get a TBS game - after I move my units, I want to have the option to change city queues if necessary. Anyway, I'm enjoying the game so far. The pacing seems a bit slow, however
[quote who="Colbert30" reply="43" id="3138177"]Or he could give us a day 1 save that we could all play and chronicle sort of like in a PBEM log. The only problem is that it would have to be the same game build or it would be incompatible with ours.[/quote] That sounds like a very good idea. It would give Stardock a cross-section of strategies being used by people. It would also show them if there's any broken tactics, so they can balance things out. And it should give
[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="9" id="3083394"]Just out of curiosity, of you guys who played AoW:SM, how did you feel about AoW2? Both as pertains to this thread and in general.[/quote] AoW was great, AoWII was better, AoW:SM rocked. imho.
Very, very brief summary of TBS games: Generally speaking, you have sources of income, and you have outgoing expenditures. In the Civilization series, MoM, and the Elemental series, you get your income from your cities/settlements. Having highly built-up and developed cities with lots of population gives you great income and the ability to support more and better units, and the research to get even better cities and even better units, faster. So: Lots of big cities
Had a game recently where Capitar stuck around long enough to build a couple of outposts, but then got wiped by monsters. The outposts' ZoI disappeared, but the outposts themselves stuck around, and prevented me from building near them. I can provide a screenshot, if that helps, but my save succumbed to the infamous late-game crash-on-load.
@Lord Reliant: Lairs spawn new groups of enemies periodically. A new group might go wander off, or it might stay in the tile. If it stays, you can generally tell by the fact they get a special icon over them. Clicking again on such a unit will show you the unit underneath the top one. The bug is in the fact that the icon indicating this status doesn't always clean up properly.
I did. It worked. I did get an issue, though, where late-game saves wouldn't load, something that also killed my original game (entirely in .75). I'll try a new game today/tomorrow, because I do tend to play the long game, and being forced to quit due to saves not loading sucks.
Also Wildling (iirc) villages, Drake habitats, and at least a few of the Level 5 city buildings.
Kingdoms have two riverside buildings. I noticed you put them side-by-side in the screenshot above, but you can actually use them to bridge a river. Build one first, wait for it to finish, then build the other across from it.
[quote who="Alstein" reply="3" id="3065124"]Agreed on the building everything in every city, and hearing that they want to lower the number of buildings, not sure that's a good idea- may need to do the opposite. Maybe build times need to be reduced in the later game.[/quote] I really, really like the suggestion that's been mentioned elsewhere of having branching upgrade paths. Then you can decide what's important for a particular city. If you want the cit
I had the same issue. It took a once profitable city and made it -3 gildar.
Two more things: 1. Head of Torax appears to take money away from a city. It's registering as -100%gold, giving me a negative income in that city. 2. Mantle of Oceans increases spell mana cost, rather than decreasing it.
Started playing the game yesterday, and I'm very, very impressed. It's a lot of fun to play, and I've gotten fairly far in one game. For me the game has been very stable, with only one crash so far (sent the debug report in ;) ). A few things I noticed: 1. In tactical battles certain special abilities take a long time to process. On mounted champions, setting the defense mode when equipped with shield takes about 10 seconds or so, as does the Eb
For my rig, the 1.2 version of Elemental is stable, after previous builds caused numerous reboots. My 2 cents.
In my (admittedly somewhat limited) experience, by the time these groups show up you should have enough cash to hire them. Population + caravans + a few %gildar level-ups should do the trick. I'm somewhat puzzled by "Because they can't hold equipment...". The heroes in these parties sure can use bought (or found) equipment.
I played, and actually finished (!) a game last week, on a medium map. Some observations: 1. It was actually stable for me! Before, during long games it would either reboot the computer during play, or right after exiting. Didn't happen once this time around (~300 turns over a few days). 2. The annoying really long pause between firing a bow and being able to take another action has been resolved. 3. The AI was really, really bad about using all
For a while they were having issues with rivers merrily meandering their way to the sea... then continue straight on for several tiles into the sea. Looks like they simply decided rivers just weren't worth the hassle. That said, the waterfall at the end of the river in the second picture is rather pretty.
WyldRage: I ordered the LE only, so that probably isn't the issue.
I too received a second copy of the LE box. The first was sent August 30, the second September 3, both Customs Declarations signed by the same person. I'll be emailing sales next.
[quote who="Iseare" reply="14" id="2775792"]The only person I've seen that I can recruit is Rilis. She is able to be recruited now, and was able to be before. [/quote] I had the reverse, I was unable to recruit Rilis (and she's my favourite hero, too). I was able to recruit some others, though, such as Jasper Tilmin.
Hint: It's not a coincidence that caravans are unlocked right about that point of the campaign...
[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="131" id="2775470"]No! You Lie! The Horse Is A Lie! *crawls back under his desk*[/quote] But if you start one more game, you will find hor-ses. You want hor-ses, don't you? Then we will sit down together, and build horse ar-chers. And it will be good. (That didn't come out nearly as well as I would have liked, but I couldn't not try.)
[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="123" id="2775328"]Also: Horses are still a myth, they dont exist. They are so improbable they simply cant be. ( I found horses and wargs in my latest game (managed to grab the horses too, for the first time ever! [e digicons]:')[/e] ) So they do exist, but they've never been common in my experience. And I'll vote for 'notify the player that his heroing level isn't high enough' on the iss
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