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[quote who="Tormy-" reply="112" id="2605302"]What? Oil as a resource in the vanilla game? You gotta be kiddin'. Seriously...get real guys. [/quote] It's not in beta currently and no word from Devs either way as far as I know. But why such a strong reaction against it? It's been used for centuries it's not anything new. It just wasn't used to make plastics or in modern day machinery. But it was used a fuel source for things, as ammunition in siege weapons, paved

Yea I saw that. I was wondering did they patch to run better on Vista/Win7? Or is it the typical 1.31 Patch version? I ask cause I was thinking of digging MoM out of my closest and simply downloading the patch. But I know people have had trouble getting old DOS games to work and needed to use DOS Box. If they have patched it to run better on newer OS it could be worth getting. For those who never played it though and don't have a copy I recommend buying it. It's a great game.<

The SOV died in the city. I don't recall seeing an AI ever flee. Even though he died defending the city he still had other cities at his disposal. The save game has my army parked right out his city so in 1 turn it should fall if attacked. Everytime I load it and attack the city killing thier SOV it says the empire fell on the turn notes and the diplomacy screen no longer shows them. Yet the other cities they control remain. I went back and took some Screenshots to show what I

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="110" id="2605180"] Is Oil in as a resource in E:WoM yet?? [/quote] It should be as it's been used for hundreds of years. After all I wanna dump boiling oil down from my castle walls on my enemies... Then light them on fire. [e digicons]}:)[/e] EDIT: They also used it during the crusades to take out siege equipment. Though it was the Islamic soldiers who used it not the crusaders. They mixed some crude oil,

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="1" id="2605171"]One reason might simply be that each unit will be an entity unto itself. Currently, having the Sov and Hero's level is not overly problematic. I have had a gang level 3 units after one fight. Click click +++++ etc. No sweat. Now multiply that by 100X or way more. [/quote] Units don't currently level so what do you mean you had 3 units level after a fight? Also what makes you think people are going to have 100X units level up

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="107" id="2605159"] It seems a pretty good bet that Wheat does not grow well in a Swamp. So does this little tidbit perhaps provides us a glimpse into what may be a new Food sources to come etc.? [/quote] Well they already have several food sources as is. The garden, wheat farm, orchard, and beehives are in the game so I don't see a problem with additional ones. The game is suppose to be very mod freely and adding a new resource shouldn't

Originally I noticed that only your SOV and hired heroes earn XP but your other units didn't. So I reported it as a "bug" which got a reply that trained units were cannon fodder and not suppose to earn XP. But honestly I think this is a mistake as a lot of TBS games have your units become more experienced the more they fight. Most are simply Normal/Veteran/Elite which is fine as it adds another interesting layer to the game by helping reward players who focus more on strategy and keeping thei

[quote who="kryo" reply="3" id="2605128"]Cities have gates which aren't well represented on the cloth map, that's where they should be exiting when you eject them.[/quote] Well even with a gate I don't think it's suppose to jump over an ocean when exiting. :)

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="2605120"]Had you alt-tabbed or done anything else that might have caused the issue?[/quote] I did get pulled to desktop cause of a Team Speak version error when reconnecting to the TS server I was on. When I tabbed back into the game everything seem fine. I had just started so the only area I explored was around my starting position. That location is down along the south east shore of the island on the other side of AI. I don't usually alt-tab t

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="98" id="2604296"]GalCiv had the Map reset button built right in. Once I found out about it, it was used quite often. Why start in a crappy system, when a quick CTRL-???(forget) simply built a brand new random system. MP in E:WoM will obviously disallow this of course.[/quote] Yea and there in lays the problem. Why should a quick reset button be an excuse to have a setup that increases the chances of screwing over a play at the start of the g

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="3" id="2603358"]I was attacked by an army of 6 peasants in .302! [/quote] Wow never seen that. Overall though the AI is a joke. I don't really care that they declare war on me cause they are like flies. I simply swat their armies down without any problem and I use them to grind my SOV up to higher levels. EDIT: Grinding is really importanting in 0.302 because essence now only gives you 0.5 mana per point. And raise/lower terrain spells now co

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="96" id="2604251"]The one true dilemna that allowing for these bonuses to apply is the use of Randomly Generated Maps. ...snip... And if you want to hunt the map early for a Sweet spot, that may not even exist (random), then that is also time that other players can use to settle in. It is a lose lose situation if some do and some don't get the same chance in the opening minutes. [/quote] This is true of a lot of TBS games though.

[quote who="klaxton499" reply="4" id="2604141"]I like this suggestion provided the Dragon doesn't roam. Powerful Mobs will need to stay in a region of the map or the player will be destroyed before they are capable of putting up a fight. [/quote] I have to agree with this. If you've ever played Birth of the Federation you know what I mean. With random events on you have to race up the tech tree and build a huge fleet because if the Borg random event happens

[quote who="alh_p" reply="3" id="2604059"]I've been getting this too. Although it alternates between CTD or Freeze. I've verified it by 1) selecting different (civ) techs from the same save point (only "Housing" causing the crash); and 2) choosing a different civ tech and then trying to pick Housing later.[/quote] Yea and since it doesn't seem to crash if you research housing early I'm beginning to suspect that some of the later game CTD on turn end are caused by this.

I was trying to demolish a building in the city when I clicked "yes" on the popup the game crashed. I was demolishing a hut in case that matters. Dump: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6399047/Elemental0_302-2010-04-26T03-33-07-307.zip debug: http://pastebin.com/kiUUaecc

I got some Screens to show what I mean. It seems to happen whenever I load a save game. They display normally when I start a new game but not when I save that game and load it later.

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="72" id="2603126"] I am kinda cofused to be honest. In the first 4-5 games I was crashing occasionally, after that I started a new game with the exact same settings, I had no CTDs in that game. I abandoned that game after ~400 turns, and started a new one...again with the same settings. Guess what? CTD again. Weird. John, you had no CTDs at all in your games with .302?[/quote] Yea I know what you mean. It's a bit spara

[quote who="Magicke" reply="43" id="2603180"] Couldn't we just toggle in-between overlays? Doesn't seem complicated to me but then again, I'm not always the brightest light. [/quote] It would require a major overhaul of the engine. Going from squares to hexes is not that simple. Just look at the Civ5 screens and how the terrain is molded to fix hexes. They would have to change all the map drawing graphics, city borders, and so on to handle hexes. Not to mention

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="1" id="2602842"]Do they ADD or STACK the BONUSES associated with the Buildings?[/quote] What do you mean? Currently say you have a brand new L1 city. Well it can only build 1 merchant. So if you want to build a 2nd merchant in that town you need to level up the city to L2. So if you only have 1 merchant your only getting 1 Gold per turn where as if you have 2 merchants your getting 2 Gold per turn. So they stack in that regrad if that's what you

The Arcane Academy has no resource cost and actually has a 0 on space it takes up. In later games in cities that are completely surrounded with no more spaces I've been able to lay down Arcane Academies. But when they are placed on the map they seem to attach to other cities and all stack in the same place. It's a very fickle bug that's hard to reproduce when placing Academies in cities with no room. Sometimes it does it other times it won't. If I track down more on that part of bug I

When I captured the city that had the ememy SOV in it it said their empire fell even though they had several other cities. I saved right before I attacked the city and loading to try again seems to repeat the bug. Save: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6399047/EmpireFall.EleSav

It happen again in another game. I have the save for another bug report but it was 1 turn away from Civic tech so I figured I'd test it and sure enough upgrading to housing caused a CTD. Dump: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6399047/Elemental0_302-2010-04-24T23-24-38-136.zip Save: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6399047/ArcaneAcademy.EleSav</a

[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="7" id="2602952"] They're not supposed to, but aren't we talking about a bug? [/quote] Yea but city level remains. Number of usable spaces remain. And population amount remains unless it was houses that vanished in which case it only drops if population was at cap. There was a bug before when cities leveled up they would drop some population right after level even if they had plenty of room. That seems to have been fixed in 0.302 as city

Also playing 0.302 and having issues with the mountains not showing up.

In two games now I can't turn in the quest. When I move onto the inn nothing happens. The quest remains and the yellow inn stays there.