[quote who="StoweMobile" reply="11" id="1937551"]Do mean thats how many soldiers they would be equal to?[/quote] In the most general terms possible. One hundred surfs are no one hundred blood knights. [e digicons]:wulf:[/e]
@McFungos - Don’t lock the system into its current incarnations. Simply look at the system for what it could be... For example, the initial traits do not have to be random. They could be selected as part of an avatar creation process. You could get them along with racial picks like in GC2. There could also be a multitude of triggers for acquiring new one or removing old ones based on action. There really does not have to be any random element to it if properly implemented, unl
Then there are account mergers and lost emails that also contribute to a lage member number. Trust me - I found out the the hard way on both accounts. [e digicons]:annoyed:[/e] Back on topic: The list is updated. I even put in trailer links as well as FAQs. [e digicons]:fuzzy:[/e]
[quote who="Zubaz" reply="22" id="1937296"] Being a moderator can be very limiting to what you might WANT to say in a situation. That whole "being moderate" thing can suck.[/quote] No doubt. I have several years experience doing it as well as being an admin. I have build a couple forum communities over the years from nothing. I even had two of them get to over 20k members. My current one is pushing 5k now - it was at 7k a couple years ago but sadly, I simply don’t hav
@LR - Thanks! Also sorry for the typo the first time I typed the name. Night Edge is correct it is "Stars!". You should note it was later renamed "Stars! Supernova". It went into the freeware realm a several years ago when the update to the second version Supernova got canned. Anyway you can download the game from here . Under the version dropdown you can see the original. As it was updated the core elements that
[quote who="Zaisha" reply="3" id="1937164"]I'd still like to have some cheap and cheerful magic forces to enhance my army though. (My negative life channeler needs his skeleton/zombie forces!) It is, after all, the army of a channeler. NOT the army of a king who just happens to be able to throw some sparkely effects around. Then again, undead hordes etc. would be the work of the channelers spells, not something built in a city. I don't see any harm in bulking out your forces a
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="19" id="1937170"]That and you don't count since you're a moderator anyway. [/quote] Hush! It is my secret hope is that Boggie will chose a few MVP members to become moderators for E:WoM. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] Of course with Zubaz slumming here it just might not happen.
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="2" id="1925938"]Haha, I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to translate that text Awesome![/quote] He did an outstanding job to be sure! If that does not warrant him some solid karma for him from you I don’t know what would. Anyway, I'll give him what I can. [e digicons]k1[/e] So man-up, step-up and give-up! [e digicons]:fuzzy:[/e] <img src="http://web.stardock.net/images/smiles/themes/digicons/error"
@Tamren - outstanding efforts brother. Karma for sure. [e digicons]k1[/e] On the topic at hand you are doing an exceptional job of developing the thread to say the least.
[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="16" id="1936885"]Here's the deal, though. If the AI could manage your towns, it should be the same AI that the computer uses to manage its towns (give or take some additional intelligence depending on your difficulty level chosen). If the management AI sucks, then it does for the computer opponents, which means there's an AI coding issue that needs to be addressed. In essence, we could help trouble-shoot the governor AI by pointing out i
Well if we were to quantify things I think a 100\1,000\10,000 to one (1) ratio for beasts going from uncommon to mythological, such as dragons would be a solid base line.
[quote who="StoweMobile" reply="21" id="1937053"]I think a dragons sheer physical size would prevent it from being a playable race...though in many fantasy settings dragons can take the form of other beings.[/quote] No doubt. A dragon city would be an entire mountain range and that would only be a small city at best.
[quote who="Bootss1" reply="12" id="1937097"] I like the idea of specializing Cities (such as the city/castle in Medieval Total War 2) but city-tile management is diffrent.[/quote] I do as well. I assumed this would already be an inherent thing given what Frogboy has stated thus far.
[quote who="Polistes" reply="5" id="1937006"]Well to be more precise I dont want an army of all powerful dragons as you are right they would not be as special. But I think you could do this if you had various types/species of dragons that preformed different things/ had different specialties. Here are some other posts I made to this topic: https://forums.elementalgame.com/329873 This one has my most detailed ideas on dragons so far: https://forums.e
[quote who="idunno116" reply="20" id="1936994"]Thanks for the Avatars Spartan.[/quote] I'm glad you like them. [e digicons]:')[/e]
[quote who="FlyGuy7" reply="25" id="1937033"]While I don't have anything against that, it could be different side by side. Instead of Men and Fallen have each 6 factions, Men could have 6 and Fallen just 3 but these 3 be more variable/different. It would be more in-deth, allows for better storytelling, leting things more realistic (immersive) and less symmetric. Games tends to follow these symmetrical correlations a lot, would be likeable to change.[/quote] That is precisely why that
[quote who="Asharak" reply="16" id="1936853"]This is an area where I think Stardock's plan is already the right one. Dragons shouldn't be commonplace creatures or a playable race; they should be extremely rare and extremely potent NPCs. That opinion is based on nothing more than my own sense of the kind of world I'd most like to play in. - Ash[/quote] I firmly agree. Dragons action should be a special treat regardless of what side of it you face. [e digicons]:wc
You just know Zubaz is here incognito (no SD tag) trying to milk some karma points from the community posing as a general member. [e digicons]:ninja:[/e] I guess I need to post more on the WC site. [e digicons]:blush:[/e]
[quote who="Tamren" reply="13" id="1936437"] Rome Total war worked a bit like this. Units got tired if you made them run too much and this would make them fight worse. Problem is the endless chases still applied, and no matter how tired troops got they always ran at a minimum speed. It makes sense when the remnants of units disband as a fighting force. Depending on thier loyalty to you they might dissapear or migrate back to friendly forces before rejoining your army.[/q
[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="21" id="1936903"]Good post, Elvenshae. karma for you! [/quote] I agree. [e digicons]k1[/e] [quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="21" id="1936903"] It does seem like the resource production, allocation, re-allocation, transportation, and management of all of this could be terribly complex. Seeing your viewpoint doing this professionally and finding it tough makes me a bit concerned about how fun this will be, how easy it will
[quote who="Polistes" reply="24" id="1936471"]From what I have read I would like to see the Dragons be their own seperate faction that can be played, with their own campaign agendas.[/quote] Sadly enough I disagree with this idea. Call me pedantic but dragons as the natural power supreme beings in the game they should be very rare otherwise they will lose their intrinsic value and would simply nullify most if not all of the other units in the game unless they are all scaled up to matc
I also like the fact that SD is has chosen a highly restrictive monster unit approach. Mythical units should truly be rare and the really high-end ones very rare. I think in the end it will make the game far more enjoyable.
Cool. I was thinking of doing the same with the none medallion resources but I wanted to wait and see if the devs were already working on some.
I think the tactical combat one or one of the systems threads.
That kind of system works well for me and is in fact the system I guessed SD implemented already based on the scale they are talking about.