Nice AAR. Doms 3. is one of the best [if not the best atm] MP fantasy TBS game. It has it's weaknesses however... 1. The singleplayer part is bad because of the weak AI. 2. Unbalanced races & spells. 3. Most of the units & spells are not used at all in MP games, because they are worthless basically. 2. + 3. > Enforces powergaming.
Good ideas lads....some counter spell system [like what you've mentioned] would be nice to have IF the AI would be able to use it properly. There is a more simple "AI friendly" solution: General protection spells for cities/settlements. There is a system like that in an old game, but I forgot that which one was it. :|
[quote who="MageMatthew" reply="3" id="2546619"]Sweet i can't wait. [/quote] Indeed! :D
As we all know, one of the core gameplay elements in EWoM is the spellsystem. I really like the idea of destroying whole cities -for example- with a single spell [or let's call it ritual], however, there must be a way to defend against it. First of all, there must be spells which will protect the cities against the most dangerous spells like raise volcano, firestorm etc. Secondly, there must be spells, which will protect the armies against various spells, or at least raise their [magical]&nbs
[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="30" id="2545922"]Makes me wonder more about the tactical combat. Even 250 vs 1000 is tough let alone 4 vs 1000. And compared with the old MoM "1 unit per square" have we got rid of squares? [/quote] Hm.....yeah I made a post about tactical combat <> number of units on the battlefield as well, but no reply from the devs. :( Imo this is an important question, so some proper infos would be nice to have.
[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="25" id="2545588"] Modders can create their own 3D models in whatever program they want and then export it to Havok’s format. This is extremely good news! [/quote] Yeah but I suppose it won't be easy to create proper models and animations. 1 creature will have different animations: attacking, moving, standing still?, defending? etc.
[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="22" id="2545409"] It typically takes a town 1 turn to produce a given point What is the targeted duration for building a legion of 1000 armored fabio when training 1 requires between 11 and 14 turns? [/quote] That is a good question. Also, I was wondering about the tactical battles. Let's say you attack a city with 1 Legion, 3 Brigades and 5 Battalions. I suppose we won't see 1000 [legion] + 3x250 [brigades] + 5x50 [battali
Nice! :)
[quote who="cephalo" reply="35" id="2544419"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 29 I dunno. You guys have to realize, from our perspective, Firaxis are the good guys. It's a small industry and we're friends with these guys. Soren Johnson, at Firaxis at the time, is in the GalCiv II credits. He's not there but it gives you an idea of how close knit our group is. That's why it always pains us to see people taking sides. We're all on the same side. &
I guess this has not been suggested yet. I think that some of the units should be bribeable. Example: some specific humanoids. If we gonna have a feature like this ever, it should be "modding friendly" of course. [IE: If we would like to create a creature, which is bribeable, give us a "bribeable" flag :)]
This is a good suggestion. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]
You will be able to mod whatever you want, including neutral creatures. I am 100% sure about this.
Huh? Civ 5. and EWoM will be totally different games. While we are at it, I just read that [unit] stacks are removed from Civ 5. Wth? [e digicons]:omg:[/e]
[quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="104" id="2543979"] But most of all, the Factions in EWoM seem to be a bit generic.I completely agree with you. Richard Burlew, author of the excellent webcomics "the Order of the Stick" and occasional gamedesigner (and D&D GM) once wrote an unfinished 9-parts diary of an exercise in world creation, and it really detailed the process through which he went through to make sure his world wouldn't feel generic. Now, I might be
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="88" id="2541461"]The number of factions couldn't be the same as in D3. Isn't D3 in 2D? Last time I checked, 2D art is faster and cheaper. (even if you are a pixel artist) [/quote] True, but it's a lot easier to create 2d sprites/gfx. Not that I am against anything better/3d [like the Elemental engine..] All I am saying is: I surely won't be able to create 3d creature models for Elemental...[e digicons]:S[/e] It would be awesome if we w
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="59" id="2540721"]I should clarify there: Being an Empire does not make one inherently evil. By most moral human standards, the Magnar, Urxen, and Trogs are pretty evil though to varying degrees (I'd say the Magnar are the ones who would be most classically "evil"). [/quote] I think that most of the people will think about the Empires being evil because of death magic. :) Either way I really like this Kingdoms - Life magic, Empires - Death ma
Hm....I don't know....all of the races of Kingdoms & Empires are humanoid in appearance. Weird stuff...[e digicons]o_O[/e]
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2536280"]Battles are turn based. However, by default, they are continuous turns (turn button pushed automatically but can be turned off). [/quote] Hm...so basically "real" turn based battles are in as an option? Because that would be awesome. :)
The Edars are "looking like" Balrogs... I like it! :D
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="36" id="2530487"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 30 Quoting Cerevox, reply 17 elite swordman killing modern armor? How is that a joke? Happens all the time in real life. Iraq invasion, quite a few tanks got killed with moltov cocktails. Set thier air intake on fire, engine gets no oxygen, it dies and rips itself up. Dead tank. For all that we talk about how high tech and powerful our army, all the gps and coordination
[quote who="Tridus" reply="50" id="2528383"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 35 Hm....Q3 2010 is still the planned release date? I am just wondering, because the beta phase is still in the early stages...not to mention that I am still having random crashes all the time, so even the latest beta build is unstable. Building systems is a lot harder then populating them. There's five beta phases scheduled, but if you look at later betas, most of the basic g
[quote who="Cerevox" reply="17" id="2529463"]elite swordman killing modern armor? How is that a joke? Happens all the time in real life. Iraq invasion, quite a few tanks got killed with moltov cocktails. Set thier air intake on fire, engine gets no oxygen, it dies and rips itself up. Dead tank. For all that we talk about how high tech and powerful our army, all the gps and coordination gear and predator drone uplink won't save you from getting your face smashed in by a rock. [/quote]
No.
[quote quoting="post"]You know how the complete randomness of unit damage in combat part of Civilization 4 completely destroyed the entire game so that I lost all desire to play it[/quote] Indeed. Civ4's combat/dmg "system" is a joke.
Hm....Q3 2010 is still the planned release date? I am just wondering, because the beta phase is still in the early stages...not to mention that I am still having random crashes all the time, so even the latest beta build is unstable.