[quote who="Wintersong" reply="12" id="2654195"] Quoting Bill_Door, reply 1 And really, one stack of 20-30 super heros with a dragons and a sovreign would equal game over. How are you supposed to fight a dragon with 20-30 peasants? It should take 3,000+! Bah, 300 spartan peasants should be more than enough. Or a hair from Chuck Norris' beard [/quote] <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DPtfyN9i4pQ/Sjut19rI0yI/AAA
[quote who="Sanati" reply="172" id="2654215"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 169 This is a strategy game, isn't it? So is Ogre Battle and HoMM, you can't build any cities in those games. Not all strategy games have to be the same. Civilization and FfH are the games you play to build 50 cities, I was drawn to Elemental because they talked about how the game was based on building a much smaller number of cities. [/quote]
[quote who="Nemesis7884" reply="10" id="2654238"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 9 Quoting Tridus, reply 6 Quoting Nemesis7884, reply 5 hmm altough somehow logical this would lead to the creation of high attack 0 defense/low hp mass-one-hit units and huge hp/defense 0 attack single city-defense units...? Probably not. A high attack/0 defense unit would get destroyed by a peasant horde, which could simply swarm it into
[quote who="Tridus" reply="6" id="2654225"] Quoting Nemesis7884, reply 5 hmm altough somehow logical this would lead to the creation of high attack 0 defense/low hp mass-one-hit units and huge hp/defense 0 attack single city-defense units...? Probably not. A high attack/0 defense unit would get destroyed by a peasant horde, which could simply swarm it into the ground. While a 0 attack/high defense unit would make an alright defende
[quote who="Sanati" reply="3" id="2654224"]They said they are doing weekly updates and we really only have 10 Thursdays left until August 24th. If we are going all the way up to a beta 4, then they don't have much time for Cs or Ds. You'll notice that beta 2 link lists custom sovs as 2B yet we are going to get it in 2A. They need to step it up, I'm still worried we aren't going to have enough time to properly test everything. [/quote] I think that the game won't
[quote who="Raven X" reply="5" id="2653920"]No Limits Please... There Will be some kind of limit in place simply from a "processing power" point of view. That's why the Total War games have a hard capped limit. Once you get so many units and individual soldiers on screen and moving at once it will seriously bog-down performance. Things will start looking laggy and generally just "bad". Rather then slow down people's machines or make it look like the game couldn't perform well they
[quote who="Eldorad" reply="47" id="2652913"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 41 Why should this change affect city spam? I fail to understand it. This is an "anti-micro" change imo, nothing else. I assume by Frogboy's post "food is more precious since you can’t crank out gardens anymore" means only one garden per city level or something. Under beta 2 I could build as many gardens as I had tiles. Thus I can support more cities und
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="2" id="2653455"]It's something like... ( AtkSpd x Attack Strength ) + Defense + ( sqrt (Current HP) ) ...but is subject ot change as the battle system is tweaked. [/quote] Good to hear, because the current calculation method is far from being perfect. ;)
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="12" id="2653489"] Quoting Bill_Door, reply 8 Quoting Slainangel52, reply 7I'm seriously disappointed if the scale of the battles is just gonna go back to the HOMM era of a picture of a unit with a number underneath dictating how many there are. Or these great nations are only fielding armies in the low hundreds. I guess in my mind I was picturing total war scale battles but on a turn based field, I suppose without the psuedo real-t
[quote who="Thiryn" reply="7" id="2653519"]Isn't there a spell that lowers mountains? Who needs to walk over them when you can just make them vanish. [/quote] This. [e digicons]}:)[/e]
[quote who="Nemesis7884" reply="7" id="2653400"]oh boy how i love the warhammer orcs [/quote] Bleh. Tolkien's orcs >>> everything else! [e digicons]}:)[/e]
[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="6" id="2653988"] Quoting Nick-Danger, reply 5 Quoting Meccajube, reply 4I'll try changing some settings, races, champions, etc. and see what's affecting it. So far it seems like it's just me.Have you tried saving, quitting, restarting and reloading? That may clear up any memory leaks/problems or the like that may be contributing to your problem. Also try to reduce some settings to minimum and if that improves th
[quote who="Eldorad" reply="38" id="2652899"] Quoting Sanati, reply 18 I know you can't please everyone, but I'm disappointed in the city change. I think most of the complaints about the current system are from people who don't really understand the food system or aren't researching the housing upgrades. You only need like 10-12 villas to max a city right now, and gardens are optional if you just go out and look for food resources (one bee hive with a granary is 30
[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="22" id="2652826"] Quoting Sanati, reply 18 I know you can't please everyone, but I'm disappointed in the city change. I think most of the complaints about the current system are from people who don't really understand the food system or aren't researching the housing upgrades. You only need like 10-12 villas to max a city right now, and gardens are optional if you just go out and look for food resources (one bee hive with a granary is
You can pretty much create whatever you want, especially if you are a talented gfx artist as well. ;)
[quote who="Zubaz" reply="7" id="2652155"]Played every time the wife and kids left teh house. Why must they keep coming back?!?! [/quote] Eh. [e digicons]:-"[/e]
[quote who="Recnelis2" reply="135" id="2652171"]I would like to see serveral things. 7. Birth right, if Sovereign dies but has children that child becomes new sovereign instead of ending game. Add bonus stats for being Main sovereign. [/quote] It's agains't the core concept, which is Sov dies = game over. We've talked a lot about a possible "successor system", perhaps someone will be able to mod it in. :)
I only played for like ~1h with the new build so far. I don't have enough freetime in these days. That being said, I really like the gfx engine. There are many gfx glitches still, but I am pretty sure that those will be fixed soon. :)
[quote who="Adam_H" reply="6" id="2651887"]So, is this inability to remarry by design, or will it eventually be changed? It really is pretty absurd that you can't have a second marriage, even if you've been widowed for a hundred years. [/quote] Hopefully they gonna "upgrade" the dynasty system. Just a couple of ideas: - Sovs should be able to divorce. - The stats of the generated children should be a bit more random. - The "special tra
Roads between the buildings. [...or at least roads around 4x4 buildings] It's a must, because the look of the cities is quite chaotic right now.
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="4" id="2651600"] Not sure if Stardock will tweak the system more or not but no matter how much I like Dynasty (which I do), it's not too random or too open. Apparently. [/quote] Agreed.
[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="8" id="2650600"] also hexes > squares. Having a hex based system instead of the square based system = having more strategical and tactical options. Perharps. But I don't see how Elemental city building can work with hexes [/quote] Obviously we won't have a hex based system in Elemental or in any expansions. Perhaps in Elemental 2....;)
[quote who="Beric01" reply="93" id="2649852"]Combat does seem overly simplistic.[/quote] Just wait for Beta3. Damage types, spells etc. will be enabled in that build.
Ah, I forgot to add something. #4 NON-HUD Information I've suggested something a while ago: Army Management Screen I think that an "informational screen" like this is a must for many reasons, but the most important reason is, that it would be much easier to organize your armies and champions as well.
[quote quoting="post"] The other issue I have with cities is aesthetic.. And I'm not totally convinced there could be anything done about it at this point. They do seem to be to just be a blob, a sprawl of really quite random tiles all hunked up against each other with no roads or anything. This is is probably outside the scope of fixing now, but it also isn't really a deal breaker by any stretch. [/quote] Yeah, I agree with this statement. Roads should sepa