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[quote who="Tasunke" reply="157" id="2669195"] Armageddon Strategic Arcane Knowledge: 32 Mana: 27 1 fire, 1 air, 1 earth, 1 water Creates an Apocalypse. Everything except for the caster is dealt (Intelligence)x2 damage, all cities Populations's are halved. Random destruction everywhere. Spellbook: Ruin Note: can only be cast once. More expensive version of (apocalypse now) on a more easily findable spellbook. [/quote] To expand on this, w

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="272" id="2669367"] Raven, have you played with Dominions 3? If yes, what is your opinion about SCs [super combattants] in the game? Basically SCs are super-powered champs. I had no problems with SCs in Doms 3. It was a valid tactic to create & use them. They were capable of destroying whole armies alone, but they were not unbeatable, IE. the game itself was not imbalanced because of the SCs. [/quote] Quite true. In fact the accr

Well, you'd have to get all the expansion packs. Civ 4 in my opinion was a bit of a bust until Beyond the Sword came out. That plus a massive amount of moddability (the glory of Python) really made the game great. If you liked Civ 2, Civ 4 is a truly great game for you. Planetfall really does have the "feel" of Alpha Centauri (that almost undescribable attribute that was why I loved SMAC). It isn't quite finished yet (the two alien factions aren't in yet, and pol

[quote who="Simsum" reply="11" id="2669323"] Oh yeah, and SMAC2. I'm really looking forward to that one. And I'm just as confident it'll come out this year as I have been the past several. I mean, it's been so long since SMAX and it is just too damn good not to get a sequel, right? [/quote] In the meantime, you may want to check out the "planetfall" mod for Civ 4:BtS, over on Civfanatics. It should help tide you over.

[quote who="THARN" reply="9" id="2668503"] HOI3 is running pretty smooth with the semper fi expansion... you might want to revisit it.. [/quote] Yeah, I'm tracking, and I'm sure the next HOI3 expansion will make things even better. It is just that while I'm used to paradox games being broken AI wise upon release, and that two expansions later will be when it is finally a mostly finished game (usually with a mod), I do have the expectation that my relatively

[quote quoting="post"] 2.) and will we have the power to grow forests, plant rivers, deserts and stuff? if we want to? [/quote] Yes to this (possibly not the "plant rivers", but everything else).

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="246" id="2668798"] I mean, good grief guys, we had people screaming because there were tough creatures spawning in their starting locations and those creatures don't even target anyone in particular yet. It would be a riot if a player's 10 hour long game ends because the AI somehow managed to build up to a single mega unit that teleported itself to your capital, dispelled your protection enchantments and then volcano'd it. [/quote] Wow.&nbsp

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="31" id="2668746"] Not really, no. How is the Futurama episode when they go back in time and do cooky stuff to try and preserve time in any way satirical? How does it poke fun at politics when it doesn't have any in the show? I can maybe think of a mere handful of episodes where there was "some" politics, but not anywhere near a central theme of the episode. How does it poke up at celebrities when it basically has none? They had some homage episodes to

Here are some more. Spell Name: Divining Is it Strategic or Tactical? Strategic Arcane Knowledge required to acquire: 10 Mana required to cast: 10+ 2 essence Does it require any shards to be controlled? No Spell Effect: You employ this spell to unearth an iron deposit that was previously too deep for you to spot. What Spell Book would it be part of? Earth Notes: For use in an iron poor natio

Hopefully today.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="236" id="2668559"] Becase there's also a stack limit of 10 "units" in the army. A champion is 1. Just how powerful would a champion have to be in order to be worth 1000 troops that also count as 1? Of course that's really just another problem with stack/army size limits. [/quote] Which is why a separate limit should be used for champions, researchable in the adventure tree.

Spell Name: Plague bearer Is it Strategic or Tactical? Strategic Arcane Knowledge required to acquire: 25 Mana required to cast: 15 mana+5 essence Does it require any shards to be controlled? No Spell Effect: Gives "plaguebearer" trait to a designated champion, enabling the unit to spread plague to any units it comes in contact with or any cities it enters (25% chance per turn

[quote who="starkers" reply="20" id="2668341"] The Lucille Ball Show was popular back in the day... don't mean to say I'd sit and watch it, though. Listening to that woman's squawky voice made me want to strangle her For the same reason, squawky voices, I'd rather watch Shakespeare's Hamlet or Othello than Lavern and Shirley. Those two I also would like to have strangled the moment they opened their mouths. "Squawk squawk, squawk, squawk"[/quote] Why hate t

Victoria 2. I sincerely hope they take the time to optimize it so it is at least playable upon release though, unlike HOI3.

[quote who="starkers" reply="14" id="2668144"] Yeah, I much preferred the 5 minute gladiatorial previews, however. Back in the day, it was truly something to see a hungry Christian eating a lion [/quote] I promise you that this would sell a lot of tickets today. [quote] Yup, more childish, inane crap. The concept isn't new... but the creators of 'Family Guy' 'American Dad' and the like need to be hung by the gonads 'til dead. Regular c

[quote who="Star Adder" reply="25" id="2668076"] Hmm, maybe it would even be possible to permanently rally them to your cause and make them part of your army. Be it through influence, promising them some portion of a newly conquered part of the world or because you act like a barbarian yourself through reckless warfare, intimidation or such... [/quote] I don't know about permanently... the Romans planned most of their federated tribes to be relatively "permanent" affairs, an

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2668069"]The book of the Necromancer is one of the spell books but we're not (though the modders will certainly find it) going to go into too many details on it. [/quote] Bam! So one lucky nation will probably have access to this kind of development, but only one. That is, in my opinion, a good thing (if it does turn out to be the case). Once that nation gets steam rolling it would be time for everyone else to gang up

[quote who="endofdayz" reply="16" id="2668134"] Something else that always annoyed me is that players expect a fair AI that beats them on higher levels. What they are almost asking for in that case is a computer program that is more intelligent than a human being... Which has been said to be one of the possible causes for the singularity. Or Skynet. Point being its nearly impossible. Give me a cheating but fun AI and I'll look for fairness in MP I say! [/quote] A few things

[quote who="starkers" reply="12" id="2668122"] That's right, All New Episodes!!! So what!!!! A 30 second preview of an early episode was more than enough for me. An ADULT cartoon??? Bullshit!!! Bloody inane and childish, to say the least. [/quote] I'm surprised they have 30 second previews back in the 19th century. South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy to name a few. The concept isn't new.

From the sounds of it, in addition to mods, expansion of the spellbook will be officially supported. So I'm sure that some kind of vetting system for created spells will be created to determine what makes it in to "official" elemental spellbooks, and what will remain mods.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="217" id="2668098"] This has me curious now. So, are you saying a "Single Unit" can only have 20 "Individual Soldiers" ? And if so, can we change that with modding? If we can only have 20 "Units" and each of those Units can only show 20 Soldiers at a time, then 20 x 20 = 400. 400 Soldiers isn't very big for a maximum army size. Am I understanding that right? Basically what I'm asking, is by the End Game, how many Individual Soldi

Scale as they zoom. Hands down. edit: And by "scale as they zoom" I mean having the unit gradually decrease in size relative to its surroundings. I just realized that saying "scale as they zoom" could really go either way in terms of description.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="208" id="2667944"] Correct. Now, you can also hire Lore masters (by building monasteries and abbeys) to help increase this as well but your wisdom is what will ultimately make up a big part of it. A player that decides to crank up their other stats and lower wisdom to 5 is unlikely to be able to ever win through spell casting. [/quote] So there would be two sets of truly effective specializations, with a third "all around" soverei

Kind of depends for how city assaults are done in tactical battles I think. If gates matter, then gate placement matters.

Dominions 3 does this very well.