Lord Xia

I think you can only snake if the forest/river is immediately diagonal. So, it's right next to you, but it won't let you build a pier or lumbercamp until you snake a bit. I just find snaking to be stupid and gamey when it comes to movement. People would snake cities into long roads so they could move huge distances without spending any movement points and it just seems very metagamey and hacky. Like a flaw in game design exploited. And you can still d

It's no worse than no armor.

I don't. I rarely reload, but I don't consider myself playing Ironman. But If something like a dragon wonders into my land early in the game, eating my cities, I might reload battles until I am able to beat it. But, I never claim the game is easy or that I am some great player. The problem with people is that they believe everything in absolutes, so we tend to believe that only the people who play ironman really know what they are talking about or the

If Princess Porcupine summoned 100 Ice elementals, I still wouldn't be scarred. Doesn't matter how many of these they could summon, cause they are all shit! No amount of these shit summons would be enough to hurt me.

The reviewer score is really the only thing that matters.

Metacritc Score is up now, 78.

Should be one-handed, good catch. No reason to over analyse it.

[quote who="Kongdej" reply="3" id="3275926"]Hm, some games did this ok, other games with this feature were ruined by this feature... A game were this feature ruined the game for me is "Warlock: Master of the Arcane", since it completely killed re-playability for me being able to explore every single unit and feature on first playthrough, if you keep this mechanic out you can spend more time making each separate faction more interesting. If you don't have time to make

I hate the idea of putting those useless things on the building que. No way no how. They moved them away from there because they were never used. The way that those resources work now is fantastic. Sure, they have a few hiccups with merc and knight upkeep and some are fairly uselss, but at least they don't take resources or que space. going back to that would be a headache.

I really don't think a change to the cost of maintenance needs to be made (I would actually argue that they need to be cheaper). You might need to adjust your strategy. Remember, it is a 4x game, don't ignore Exploring for and exploiting resources, items, quest, exp. Don't ignore expansion. Early with pioneers. You can gain a pretty high score just from having a lot of cities. Also, Know Your Enemy. From what I have not

I've always loved this mechanic in any game I have played that has this, but I really doubt SD will be able/willing to make this change at this point. It has always been weird when you conquer a city and the inhabitants magically change race/culture to yours and still have an occupation penalty. I think it would be awesome if in some way you could keep the inhabitants race, but I doubt it will be changed. One, it might not be possible to do, second if it is don

Yea, her one Ice elemental would scare the shit out of me...

That's an interesting idea, but I think it would be something the player could exploit and make the AI weak. And it might make the Wraith Sov Superman.

If they are going to be a race that is useful to a magical player, than they need something more. The trait you can choose to add to units to give +3 mana on a kill, isn't enough to me at all. If all Wraith automatically got that, than that would be a start. Also, I think even though they are weak with the -1hp, they should be tougher to kill with magic, that is why I wanted to add resistances. But they need something.

Bandit lord actually is far less useful, Simply because there are no good bandit troops to get and it cost gold to get them. They need to broaden what a bandit is, to add Syndicate also.

The reason that races should be balanced, is it would be more fun. Think about it. Making the Wraiths worthy to play, makes the game have more options and more fun to play. I have eliminated the Wraith race as an option for custom factions. Why use a faction that provids nothing but a penalty, when I could create the same faction with a race that has bonuses. Maybe I want to recreate Resoln. Resoln has Adepts, Binding, Spiders, death magic, and No

It's shit.

I agree, the AI is too vulnerable to early game rushes. Would be nice if cities were tough to take in the early game, when nobody can afford to build defending units yet. Some tougher militia in early cities would help the AI. Although, one time, I planned on rushing my neighbor but the dick had the Panca archers and the Krax brother spearman with a sand golem and found some rusty armor and a fucking greatsword and tore my asshole up. &n

[quote who="athelasloraiel" reply="18" id="3275729"]summoning II gives you 2 creatures to summon, doesn't it?[/quote] Does it? Shit, I guess I would have to take summoning 1 to ever find out, and I doubt I ever had.

The AI probably can't use Tame, but to be fare, there are no AI sovs with Tame unless you make one and decide to play against it, so I don't think that's really an issue. Recruiting armies with 0 upkeep and some of the monsters are pretty good. But, none of the monsters are as powerful as some of the things you can train. Most beast are not as good as an ogre, which is also 0 upkeep. Other than Great Wolves, I often have difficulty f

Your ice elemental can tank for one turn? Does that mean he can get hit once and die? That's all mine can do. My problem with the ice elemental, is how fragile it is. It's ability to slow is nice, but it's pretty weak and cost a chunk of mana to cast. If I need a meat shield for one turn, than it's better than nothing, but it's not something to build a champ/sov around.

It's not a RTS. I don't want to be a dick, but only use terms you know as less nice people will jump your ass for it.

I really don't want this changed too much, its fun now, and it has taken work for it to become fun. 1 mana at most would be the limit, but I am fine as is. Instead of bring Beast lord down, lets build up the other options. You can achieve balance in 2 ways, by making every choice weak or making every choice strong. Making every choice a strong choice is a hell of a lot more fun than making everyone meaningless. Beastlord is a good choice, so are a few others. &nbsp

Well, it's not easy. Some spells that help a lot are Blind from death 2, and Shrink from Life 3. Slow is kind of helpful now too from water 1. Healing items, like pork, potions, things like that. Spells like Curse from Death 2 that lowers enemies defense to 0 for a few turns is really helpful. If you can build troops with ranged magical staffs, they can hurt a dragon pretty well. Ice is better than fire. <p

Summoning sucks dick. What is worth a shit to summon? Earth elementals are pretty decent. I once got a spell that allowed me to summon Aberrations freed Juggernauts that was cool, but can't remember how I got it. Other than that, I can't think of a reason to use it.