Valentine82

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="14" id="3270360"]I am thoroughly confused by your post Valentine82. You claim the game is bland and boring and only reference other games to state that this game is boring and bland.[/quote] Read my post again if you're not trolling I highlighted differences and explained why. [quote who="parrottmath" reply="14" id="3270360"]But I don't see an argument or suggestions on how to improve the game.[/quote] The forums have been brimmi

[quote who="scifi1950" reply="12" id="3270352"] Please see my response in your other Post to the location of Mods. Stardock does support Mods. Modders knew they were modding in a Beta and didn't complain so your comment about patches breaking Mods is pretty silly IMHO.[/quote] Don't give me that BETA Excuse, the game was released as a full game, they charged a retail price, Blizzard didn't get away with that sht and Stardock sure and hell shouldn't now

[quote who="Kalin" reply="7" id="3270303"]Visual similarity isn't something strategy players really care about.[/quote] It's a major factor between immersive factions and non-immersive factions. [quote who="Kalin" reply="7" id="3270303"]Sure, it's nice... but the play style is often considered much more important. If you seriously think they play the same, I don't think you've actually played the game much.[/quote] I have, all empires are nearly id

[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="6" id="3270287"]Just fyi - you can adjust the scale of units on the map. I set mine to large.[/quote] The scale of the units is irrelevant to anything I said.

I just wanted this game not to be so fking boring and bland, I've played the whole game and it sucks, the magic in this game sucks, the factions are all two flavors of vanilla crap, and this is something they could have done easily from the mechanics in the game to give the factions some identifiable differences on the map. The whole game sucks, it's bland it's boring and it's not immersive at all, it has all the mechanics to be a good game and that makes it even worse

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="11" id="3270229"]Environments that would be awesome to have in the game with mods: Arctic, no brainer for my Frost Giants really. Desert, obviously, just straight up cool. Burning lands / Volcanic lands, for Living Stone and maybe a Demon faction as well. Swamp environment, for the Greenskin or Lizardmen. Forest environment, for the forest-loving Elves of course [/quote] Everything y

Oh dear god I'm done with this game I wish I could just get my money back and uninstall for good.

I understand that the guys at Stardock are programmers and not gamers, but what were they thinking? Why didn't they incorporate all the great ideas modders were working on and updating patch after patch? This game is written like it's made entirely from a coder's perspective, not at all from a gamer's perspective. All the factions are boring, the game is just bland. I shouldn't have to decipher all their code or struggle

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="5" id="3270197"] Quoting Valentine82, reply 2Wait I don't want to change the Environment for EVERY empire or kingdom, I'd like to add some diversity to them, like make Kraxis a Desert empire that gets standard "dead" environment bonuses in Desert instead of "dead" environment. Not possible, the total amount of environments is 3 and it is hardcoded.[/quote] Since when? This hasn't always been the case. Wh

Why does Stardock require us to discipher a walls code to change simple environment aesthetics for our kingdoms or empires anyway? Why Stardock Why?

Wait I don't want to change the Environment for EVERY empire or kingdom, I'd like to add some diversity to them, like make Kraxis a Desert empire that gets standard "dead" environment bonuses in Desert instead of "dead" environment.

Ah, How do you change the environment and environment bonuses, and why do you have to be a modder to do it? This seems like it should be a no brainer for Stardock.

Is there any way to make an empire faction change the land around it to desert and get the same bonuses it would usually get in empire in desert instead?

What is it called? What is the "terrain" that spreads out from Kingdom cities within your borders called? What is the "terrain" that spreads out from Empire cities called? Because that's what I'm talking about. Before Stardock decided top Punish modders for modifying it, there were mods to change the "terrain" whatever the hell it's called so that it wasn't two flavors of freaking BORING. Now if you give an Empire Kingdom "Terrain"

By default the Environment inflicts various bonuses and penalties. I find EMPIRES DARK and KINGDOMS GOOD GRASS to be fawking BORING and would really like to Have a Desert Empire with Envrionemt Bonuses in Desert or a Arctic Kingdom with Environment Bonuses in the Ice. I don't know why this isn't in the vanilla game, or why Stardock won't even consider putting anything like this in, but is there some way to add Environment Types with the appropriate b

Yeah, it'd be REALLY NICE if the AI prioritized settling near it's own borders instead of strewing about all over, and if we could make border agreements. It'd be nice if borders worked like National Borders in Civ 5 or if you could cast spells or start with bonuses that permanently changed the terrain within your borders, so you could have an arctic kingdom or a desert kingdom or even a swamp or forest kingdom, an empire that uses kingdom terrain with full

Maybe we should ask Nexus, I shouldn't have to comb through random forum posts or learn the intimate code of the game to tweak minor details.

Gamespot is worthless though, it's a well known fact of the internet that they half ass their reviews and take bribes and do favors for their sponsors. Besides getting beat by Lucius is pretty terrible. Just sayin'

[quote quoting="post"] "Everything in Fallen Enchantress is still bland and uninteresting. [/quote] That answers the most important question I had. You know if they had just taken advantage of terrains a little more, added some spice between empires and kingdoms, something besides "We'z all the same and We'z all boring" Well then at least one empire could be distinguished from the next. <

So what's change? Is everything still boring as hell in Elemental or has the new expansion really for reals changed it this time? I'm somewhat cynical about the reviews I've read, especially given how the industry works, has Stardock been watching Extra Credits ?

I don't understand why they insist on having all Empires use the same blasted land terrain and all kingdoms use the same grassland terrain, when they have desert and arctic terrains that would be perfect for some of them, and could easily implement the different terrains and set terrain bonuses based on individual Kingdom or Empire just like they already did with the two default terrain with faction bonuses.

I know it's a revolutionary and perhaps impractical idea, but I think it's worth suggesting anyway. There are a lot of great ideas for how to improve this boring game and so far modders have done a lot more to make the game fun than Stardock has, so here's my idea. Hey Stardock, pay attention to the ideas suggested here, stop relying on modders to make the game worth playing and do it yourselves. Relying entirely on modders to make the game fun just ends in a complicated mess of mods no

[quote who="crystlshake" reply="124" id="2980255"]I'd recomend trying some of the mods already available to spruce up the game.[/quote] I'm well aware of the mods, doesn't address all of the problems, and like I said in the post, the core game should have more going for it. Modders do a much better job than Stardock and they should seriously take notes from the modders.

I bought the game as soon as it came out and I gotta say in the expansion the factions had better get some depth to them and break away from this two flavors of bland crap or I'm going to QQ about it on every soap box I can stand on. Trust me I have nothing better to do, it'll be in my user reviews, in my forum posts, I won't shut up about it for months. I want an empire that can use Desert Terrain as it's domain terrain type (whatever the hell you call

Here's a Question How come Stardock never does anything to improve the factions like this? And Why are modders punished for using faction terrains besides 1 and 0?