Darvroth

The AI opponents trading must be closely balanced or it will be GalCiv all over again, where every AI has every tech and bobble the world has to offer = not fun. The concept is acceptable, but the devil is always in the execution. As to ability ideas minor elemental resistance, one per elemental type 20-40% resistance to that damage type. Major elemental resistance 60-80% resistance. Elemental immunity 100% resistance less other modifications, to one elemental type (fi

Thesis, test Beta the weighty decisions of life.....

All, One thing I haven't seen discussed WRT random maps (which I support) is on occasion one or more units will be placed in such a way that they can neither attack nor be attacked due to their initial placement. There are obviously variables about unit type and attack range but without a time limit, retreat or some other designed method of concluding a battle such tactical events are unwinnable and in some games unfinishable essentially causing the game to hang. Darvroth&nbsp

Miss one day on the forums..... I fondly remember X-COM, but it could prove tedious trying to hunt down that last elusive alien.... I have not problem with the selection for tactical combat but it will need some improvement, esp as the battles scale up and we still don't know the full impact of the magic system yet. I look forward to the revamped magic system so the different layers of global, large area and tactical spell effects overlap and clash. Imbue hero may turn out to

For me the deciding factor is the depth and utility of the magic spell tree. It has been extremely limited thus far and had little utility. I expect that to change drastically with the next release. This ties into several other recent threads regarding essence and how it is acquired and and used. I suspect that essence will become a far more important selection for SOVs and champions once embued and then able to cast spells on their own. Time will tell, but I suspect the essence/mana/magic/ex

Winnihym, This is based on personal observations so there is a probability of error. 1) SOV essence (and heroes and SOV children who have been embued) is the source of mana for spell casting. There are modifiers but I don't think it is worse that 1:1. So a SOV with 25 essence should be able to cast any spells that have a casting cost of 25 mana or less. Note this is a different stat that what is used to determine what spells you can acquire via research. 2) When an NPC

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="13" id="2617416"] Quoting Darvroth, reply 12 Quoting Frogboy, reply 10 Or it might declare war (or ask for peace) because the data it's using to determine its relations with you is slightly off. I have a distasteful response to this portion of the bad data. It is frustrating beyond belief to have the AI conduct diplomacy via random events. I'd suggest that diplomatic data not

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="2617391"] Or it might declare war (or ask for peace) because the data it's using to determine its relations with you is slightly off. [/quote] I have a distasteful response to this portion of the bad data. It is frustrating beyond belief to have the AI conduct diplomacy via random events. I'd suggest that diplomatic data not be included in the bad data for the AI to ensure a more consistent relation to th

I did notice the AI chose to max out the city at level two..... The housing improvement tech tree, at least for Kingdoms is by far the most important. Without that it is not possible to advance a city past level 3 and have the city be anything other than a collection of huts.... Darvroth

Lord Exchequer or Lord of the Exchequer... There are lots of good old english words if people only knew their entomology... Darvroth

Brad, Recommend changing pig farms into cattle farms or perhaps a made up beastie. While it may not seem important, the "pig farm" has been done to death already in other games, and perhaps more importantly there are populations on this planet who have an aversion to pork and pork products. Not saying that inclusion will have an impact on future sales, but it should be a consideration. I find it humerous that people will limit themselves to such an extent, but billions do and it obvio

Devs, Couple items of concern: 1) Auto explore is buggy near coast lines. The path feature also seems to be weird near the coast which leads me to item two. 2) I still think there are some hidden geo features as there are blank spots on the map I can't get units to enter or cross. 3) After embueing a Sov daughter the army she exited disappeared. I found it teleported to the other end of the map. 4) It still takes an aweful lot of houses to adv

[quote who="Phalnax811" reply="13" id="2612977"]I think you forgot to give that woman breasticles..... [/quote] LOL

Stardock, I vote for option 2 quoted below: "Expand the race distinctions and provide more assets and code to support players creating their own custom factions made up by their own custom races." Darvrorth