Lord Xia

The only champion I have had that was good at dodging was one that had some piece of champions gear that gave +1 dodge per level. Nothing to do with other skills or stats so much as that one piece of gear. Did your dodge tank have that or similar gear or is there a more powerful dodge trait that I am unaware? INT lets you over power a creatures magic resistance. It's not something to really go much above maybe 20-25, but I am still lookin

FE question, right? You don't research spells. The individual champion or Sov will have a magic level in each school of magic that determines what spells they have.

[quote who="joasoze" reply="29" id="3084169"] Civ V is the first Civ game I havent bought. Maybe I try it sometime, but they butchered what was the best game ever (CIV IV). [/quote] When people say Civ IV was the best game ever, do they mean vanilla Civ IV or BotS Civ IV? I would never put either one in that category, Civ V either. Maybe Civ IV BotS with FFH2, but vanilla Civ IV? Not in my book.

I agree with Brad. As much as I throw out ideas and complaints, I would prefer Stardock take all of our ideas with a grain of salt. Simply because as fabulous as I think my ideas are, I think some of your ideas are terrible. But, I also know that from a third party perspective, all our ideas(mine too) are probably only marginally helpful at best, and obnoxiously worthless at worst. But, things to listen to the forum crowd are things that Brad listed are bugs,

Bottom-line is this, "Who gives a shit how much the game cost to make?". That means nothing to me as a consumer. If new games cost me $50, then I will judge it compared to other $50 games. And games are not community projects. That is a ridiculous concept to me. We are buying a product.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="23" id="3084142"]That is not logical. It is the same as being in a group of 10 million people all chipping in 50 dollars to fund the construction of a house and only 50 thousand people chipping in 50 dollars to buy a house. Would anyone expect the 2.5 million dollar house to be as good as the 500 million dollar house? I think not. They should both be expected to be quality buildings in their price range, but they are not even close to the same scale. [/quote]</

I hit this wall about 3 weeks ago. It's a shallow game. Story and voice acting isn't enough for me, I guess. I will probably go back to it and try some more. I got one character to 47 and another to 32, so I think I played it enough to get an honest opinion, and that opinion is that it is a shallow game gilded in Star Wars appeal.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="20" id="3084133"]Of course indie games are on a different scale. That scale is millions of dollars in difference. [/quote] All I care about is what I get. I payed the same price for WoM as I paid for Civ V, so I judge them on the same level.

I find the change in combat of Civ V so much better than that of older Civ games and WoM. Stacks of doom seemed pretty silly to me. fight one unit at a time, but stack them in huge piles. One unit per tile, cities have their own defense, such a better system. And diplomacy? It's not great, but it's not worse than any other game. They've always been bad. And I dislike the idea that indie games are given some kind of pass on

Civ V is a great game. Very excited to hear about this expansion. I have never had problems with it crashing...to compare it to WoM is pretty drastic. I never really understood all the hate for this game, it's really good. I do wish it had things like religion in it from the start. Civ IV didn't really get great until it's second expansion. WoM never became good. All my opinion of course.

Right, I think its suppose to be game ending. Its pretty cool that it actually proves itself worthy of being a victory condition. Some times in games, when you get a victory condition, I think...why the hell would that automatically entitle me to win the game? This seems pretty worthy of saying "Victory" to me...

I think you might be reading more into the level ups than there actually is. Choices don't really lead to specific paths, other than dodge 1 leading to dodge 2.

It never became a good game. But with a ton of hard work from Stardock, it did rise from bad to mediocre.

Only Nerds argue in absolutes! [e digicons]}:)[/e]

Sounds like bullshit to me.

When people bring up cool sounding board games, it makes me sad. It reminds me how much I enjoy board games and that I have no friends.

Ooh, well then. That makes a pretty solid victory, I suppose.

Which country is yours, the Czecho part or the Slovakia part?

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="11" id="3081968"] The same way that if you run from a lion, it is instinctively compelled to chase you...when geeks see flaws in facts or a comment, joking or not, geeks are compelled to argue unimportant shit over the internet. Probably in real life too, but there are so few geek to human interactions, studies are difficult to do.[/quote] Going to start calling this Xia's Law...

[quote who="Burress" reply="12" id="3081979"] I disagree with the above. Since geeks are outliers, most geek communication must be geek to human simply by regression to the mean. [/quote] Maybe, but I do appreciate you proving my main point. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Storywise, what does the spell of mastery do again? I understand in gameplay, its a victory condition. But, in the story of the game, does it make you a god or something? I probably once knew the answer of this, or it's in that ridiculously named pedia.

I feel that you are probably technically correct on this subject, and certainly surpass me in personal knowledge about the subject. But, overall...my opinion on what to call these people in this video game is simply this...I really don't care. Also, it seems the reaction seems a bit personal, as if these terms offend you in a personal-political way. Either way, I'm not terribly concerned.

[quote who="xaltotun" reply="9" id="3081956"] So, except for Lord Xia, this humorous thread lhas had responses that are all serious. What does that say about the sense of humor of EF beta testers?[/quote] We can't help it, we're geeks. The same way that if you run from a lion, it is instinctively compelled to chase you...when geeks see flaws in facts or a comment, joking or not, geeks are compelled to argue unimportant shit

100% Agree.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="3081910"] We do have very regular builds. We just don't make them available to the public. Having endless "The game sucks! It takes 10 turns instead of 4 turns to build this means it's domed" is distracting. There's a place for public beta and there's a place for private beta. There's no point with another public beta until we've completed incorporating the changes already on our list.[/q