Archonsod

[quote who="Gravedancer" reply="52" id="2725378"] I was thinking that the enemies were going to get stronger over time, not in relation to my adventuring tech. Maybe it's not, but seems that as I focused on Adventuring, the world became a more dangerous place. Almost seems counter-intuitive in that I feel compelled to focus on military before adventuring otherwise I'm doomed to die a quick and painful death. [/quote] It really depends on your strategy. You only n

[quote who="Zorbane" reply="4" id="2725140"] That's fine and dandy for you and me (we were going to buy the game regardless) but for those people on the fence or who haven't even heard of Elemental: War of Magic they'll see poor reviews and stay away.[/quote] If only reviews had that kind of power :lol: Key thing to remember before complaining is that the game is not technically released yet, and generally even reviewers have the sense to patch up a g

5. " To put it another way, I never felt threatened in the early game, either by roving monsters or by other players." IIRC World difficulty decides how aggressive the roving bandits will be with attacking your cities. A lot depends on your location too; most of the monster spawns are in forests, so if you're in the middle of a plains area you won't see many. Also note that as you research up the adventure tree it causes higher level wandering parties to start spawning. 6. Yo

Should be fixed in tonights patch judging by the notes - tactical camera only moving when the unit is offscreen.

It seems a bit random. I bumped into Gilden who had three cities at one point (circa turn 2 - 300), and at the same time I've also had Krax never form a city, and just hang around my border trying to bum money off me like some sort of beggar.

I had the sovereign of Krax decide that rather than build a city, he'd just stand on my border for a few years issuing demands for money. Eventually he declared war, so I sent out my summoned bear who tore him to shreds. Cue "The Krax empire has fallen" message. Obviously the guy had a bit of an ego, declaring himself to be an empire.

1. Just move the whole stack into the other stack, they merge automatically 2. Ctrl + click works to select multiple units 3. Barring bonuses I'm not sure. Could be a bug, could be you're overlooking something (special equipment, training level?) 4. Gold mines. Build a city near them, get the guildar bonuses on level up and build all the market/bazaar buildings you can and it'll bring in plenty of cash 5. I suspect you can check it in the in-game encyclopedia</

[quote who="Khardis" reply="12" id="2724842"]That gives bad word-of-mouth publiciity. Not as much as certain games that had a copy protection that made the game subtly unplayable for pirates - word of mouth basically killed them - but that's the flip side of that strategy. [/quote] I've always wondered about that. I mean if it is a buggy mess then yeah, they're going to complain about it. But on the flip side I don't exactly see them saying "Hey, I just downloaded this cool

[quote who="Scfs123" reply="63" id="2724688"]So...How do i equip items on a hero... Campaign first mission, found city, and it says "we should get items" So i click "Buy from shop" option, bought some gnarled clubs, but all my heros still have 0 attack, and it doesn't appear under their items, but it took my gold and i have gnarled clubs in the shop window of "your inventory". -.- [/quote] Select them on the strategy map

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="39" id="2724646"] That seems like an interesting Idea. And then have certain large creatures (like Dragons) immune to this penalty. although, even without good stats, the ABILITIES of a Dragon KICK ASS!!!! Dragon Inferno ftw[/quote] I just tangled with a Drake. It wiped out my entire veteran army. Annoying thing was my last remaining unit (Sovereign as it happens) got it down to one hit point; I hit it with a Titan's Bre

It could also have been someone working at a store or the like too. But look on the bright side - pirated copy means no Impulse registration, so no Day 0 patch for them.

IIRC the catapult reduces the defence bonus troops would otherwise get if the city has defences. There are some abilities in the game, and I suspect more will be added over time. Unit mana increases on level up, so get that spider levelled up a couple of times and it might be able to start casting some more useful spells.

8) Child aging seems to be twice that of the parents. Not really a bug, just something I noticed. I think that's intentional so that you actually get the character to use within a reasonable amount of time.

[quote who="nOObonian" reply="7" id="2723717"]Thanks for the great responses. But I have a few questions. I just picked archer units to produce without "designing" them. Are they weaker? (they seem to miss a lot in combat). Does designing a unit make them stronger?[/quote] Nope, apart from peasants (who get a hitpoint bonus) there's no difference between the predesigned units and a designed unit that I'm aware of, their stats are all down to the equipment. IIRC howeve

[quote who="malichai11" reply="58" id="2724634"] Alright, another newbie question: Are caravans of any use just inside your kingdom, or only for trading with other kingdoms? Can you automate them? Do you have to actively run each caravan?[/quote] I've never tried taking them to another kingdom, so I'm not sure. There's no management though, once you run them into another town they create a road and the trade route is automated, traders automatically move along the

[quote who="chupacabra1111" reply="56" id="2724592"] EDIT: ok someone answered the healing thing... can you heal while moving though? also not sure about the unit question above. Or does healing apply to them alsso?[/quote] All units will heal while resting in a city. I'm not sure about on the move - if you do heal it's a minimal amount. You can buy (or find) healing potions and similar from the town stores which will replenish some hitpoints when you use them - the meat (h

The borders adjust according to prestige. If the enemy town has more prestige than you their border will start pushing yours, and vice versa. Improvements will switch controllers depending on whose border they're in. If you want the oasis back research civics and start building town halls, pubs and similar prestige generating buildings. Alternatively, train an army and go raze the enemy city, whichever you prefer ;)

If you're doing separate attacks you could just apply a penalty to defence for each subsequent attack. Say - 10%, so against a party the first soldiers attack is rolling against the hero's full defence, and the final attack is at 70% of the heroes defence. A high level hero could probably still take on a party or small group without breaking a sweat, but when facing off against a virtual army some damage is going to get through. As a side effect, it would also make grou

It's not been too bad an adjustment for me to be honest, but then I remembered seeing the resource building change mentioned in one of the dev journals :P For the most part the only real issue for me at the moment is the polish, but I don't really mind a little roughness around the edges. There's room for improvement of course, but then there's always room for improvement.

[quote who="Gravedancer" reply="26" id="2724240"] I remember reading something about merchants and nobles needing to be inside a city in order to contribute their bonus. [/quote] They contribute it wherever they are, however there's a lot less chance of them being eaten by a wandering troll in your city centre than in the middle of the wilderness. Or at least I hope that's the case ;) [quote] So how much do they lower the XP gain? I was letting

You should see a greyed out button on the pioneer even if you can't build, are you sure it was a pioneer? Food is only necessary to build houses and thus level up the cities. Founding them requires only gold, but gets progressively more expensive for each city founded (although IIRC Pariden get a discount on this).

[quote who="abr4" reply="47" id="2724194"]how do I build ships? I have built a shipyard, but I can't find an option to construct ships anywhere.[/quote] You should have them available from the training screen of the town with the harbour. The little circle portrait is a map. [quote who="Slainangel52" reply="48" id="2724199"] Thats... what i said [/quote] Yes, but I hope the clarification would head off the next "What is world level?" question :P

Mindless trolling, where would a forum be without it? You don't think perhaps explaining why you're disappointed, what you don't like or similar might be helpful? Because all I get from your post at the minute is that you're disappointed, and personally, I'm not sure why you'd think we care?

[quote who="Wexmajor" reply="23" id="2724012"] Imbuing is way too expensive to turn every champion into a spellcaster. And not every champion should need to be a spellcaster either, warriors should be effective as well.[/quote] They are, if used correctly. But not every champion should be in combat in the first place; only thieves contribute anything to your combat result, adventurers are useful for an extra move point. They're the only one's you want in an army, the merchants, n

[quote who="Slainangel52" reply="44" id="2724035"] Adventure research level is not the same as notable adventure level. The notable level raises via specific technologies in the tree, not the research level itself. [/quote] All the adventuring levels (adventure, world and notable) are tied to specific techs. Not every adventure tech increases one of these levels. This is why it pays to actually read the tech window to see what something does before you decide to take i