Kalin

The shard balancing is completely out of whack. Right now if I see someone with a shard I like, it's like auto war, even if I wasn't even planning on rushing.

I'm pretty sure you can just walk to his town with any unit, I did it with caravan though.

That won't help you if the code for Organize gets commented out.

[quote who="Stuie_acs" reply="2" id="2775650"]Change points per level to 3 in elementaldefs.xml and heroes maintain their balance late into the game. 2 might even work, but 1 point/level is a joke.[/quote] This introduces another problem, it makes normal troops super beefy. This value doesn't control points for your heroes/sovereign alone, it is for all units. It just happens to be that normal unit upgrades automatically and always puts points into Con. As a resul

Relax people, it probably won't take more than 5 seconds to mod it back in if you love it so much. The issue with it for me was that the AI wasn't putting it to any use. Personally I think it would have been better to buff the other traits (except for intimidate, that one is completely broken late game) and fix any stuff that isn't working, but eh... nerfing is easier I guess.

IMO, the biggest problem the EWoM AI has right now is the game itself. Putting the various exploits aside, the game is simply changing too fast. All of what you guys are talking about can be improved upon and done, but if tactical combat is changing in a week, then it's not going to help (see how well the AI is adapting to new maintenance cost or magic revision). The game rules has to be stable before the AI can seriously be worked on. Until then, everything is just hot fixes.

Nah, the adventuring tech doesn't really need a "fix" the AI should just stop researching it for you.

[quote who="Clinton16" reply="18" id="2775886"]I've played one game since the new patch. The only champion I could recruit was Rilis. I'm still seeing the debt piling up on certain factions as well. On top of that, my sovereign or any of my sovereigns children cannot access armor in the shop. All weapons are there, but not armor. This is only happening with champions with a direct relation to the sovereign. Champions from other factions (through arranged marriages) do not have this issue.<br

I've been asking for some type of in game mod manager for a while now. The game seriously needs it. The nightmare of mod management now is crazy. It needs some system like: Each mod go into a separate folder within the Mod directory, and comes with a config file. The config file has basic stuff like version compatibility and a basic description on what that mod does. The game then scans all the config files and shows the available mods on a new mod screen, where we can

I'd just like to +1 the above... there really needs to be a Summon Rilis spell.

Organize should have just been changed to +1 move for all units. That way it can't be abused with a MrT Sovereign. Still, removing this effect has pretty much made the +movement rings/amu completely useless. Unless you plan to shell out some 2-3k Gildar for 1 movement in an all hero army. Even then, it's better to use mounts.

Yeah, pretty much. with an imbuement strategy I never even bother researching harbor.

Lord of the Sea is actually Minor Water Elemental, there is no actual minor water elemental spell as far as I know, it's just a naming discrepancy I believe.

You don't need that many cities, if you plan to take over others as soon as possible focusing on your capital alone is often enough. Even if you plan to build your cities, it depends on the map size and number of AIs. The food/gold city is usually your capital anyways, you want a city with tech bonus (near a library or two), but you can usually get by without an arcane city unless you happen on a couple of arcane temples (not likely) Most of the useful spells can be gotten without a serious a

That's easy enough to do with a quick mod, just toss this into an xml file in the Mods folder. Land City &nbsp

[quote who="NDYag" reply="33" id="2772621"] Your XML editor has a "green grass" background. Which means you're naturally going to design your tile to look right when it's surrounded by green grass. No wonder it clashes when you drop it into the wasteland. I think that if you made the XML editor operate with a wasteland background, it would be much easier to create tiles that don't clash.[/quote] Sorry, but that's actually a pretty bad solution. Wh

Pacing makes research (tech and arcane) takes longer or shorter. It's not uncommon to have a later tech taking 10-15 turns on epic, where as on fast, it is very short (5 or so). So if you want to draw things out, it would be better to play on Epic. Also, rushing is a major no-no if you want any sort of challenge, the AI doesn't do well enough to counter this, and taking over a few early capital gives too much of an advantage. Of course, no matter what you do, the AI will still be lacking, so

Yeah, I've seen the AI build several archers squads in an army before, it doesn't help them at all, just like how they have vigilant demons even on kingdom sovereigns. All that happens is that the player will shoot them first then mop the melees afterwards. Even if you get them to stop using melees altogether, the first strike is just too dominant right now that they wouldn't be able to come out on top in the end.

I'm sorry, but the reason you're having trouble is because you're doing all kinds of things with no real focus. It's a bit like trying to play chess and start out trying to promote all your pawns because you heard that you could, but that didn't turn out so well so you send out some other piece randomly and they got slaughtered. Just because you know the rules and how the pieces move, doesn't mean you know how to play. That doesn't make the game hard, it just means you need to learn more abou

First of all, 12 men in a stack x 12 units in an army = 144 men on each side. That's 288 men, way more men than what's in the picture. It only looks more "epic" because they are spaced out and seeming to fill the screen, that's nothing more than an optical illusion. Secondly, you CAN have more than 12 "units" in an army with the current system. I upped this to 16 the other day to check, and the game lets me do it just fine. You just have to make sure to edit the formati

I'm actually so lazy that I have the auto save at 1 turn, the game always crashes at certain turns for me, the first is around 145-160, then, depending on which turn I load up on, it would last some 60 or 70 turns after that. Usually I'd be so dominant by that point that there would be no further point on continuing the game, so I mess around with something else in a new game. It's kinda annoying because the game doesn't even bother to use all the available memory (it u

Hmmm... am I the only one thinking we're going to need some kind mod manager in order to keep track of which one we want to activate? Just shoving it into a Mod folder and a Quest folder isn't going to cut it. Remembering which xml file does which isn't exactly the most ideal solution when the number of mods start growing.

I just want to quickly add that if the devs are reading all of these, I feel your pain. There's a lot of good ideas but some of these sounds like it'll need a new game and a half to implement.

I'm with Nick-Danger on this one, I'm not sure how you can come up with the conclusion that the lv1 teleport spell is bugged and only intended to teleport sovereign only. Let's review the facts: Lv1 Life = Teleport, moves army with leader, costs 5 Lv3 Death = Spirit Dance, moves army with leader, costs 5 Lv7 Air = Teleport Friends, moves army with leader, costs 15 For this I can conclude: A ) All teleport spe

Hmm, I've noticed that too. Sometimes, I'll get maps that spawns nothing but wrags, and sometimes I get maps that spawns all horses.