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making the earth totally barren for several spaces is too much for me especially now with the painful unrest percentages for taking over a city... something's gotta give. either lower the unrest penalties or lower the effect on terrain that razing does.
How about starts out at 25% and goes down to 10% instead?
i'm glad you caught that bug where AI doesn't get all the goodie huts.
I am never going to take this trait. 50% to double damage or critical damage is not worth 50% to damage myself. It should be something like: a ) 50% to do 8x damage to opponent / 50% normal damage to self b ) 50% to 6x damage to opponent / 50% to knock self prone c ) 50% to do 4x damage to opponent / 50% to do 0 damage
Yep, I've seen this many times with various monsters... please fix it. Nothing worse than missing out on a piece of salted pork...
I still see the AI missing goodie huts/lairs and would like to see that fixed. I'm also seeing the AI freeze on a tile for 100+ turns (sometimes the whole game) and would like to see that fixed. And finally, still hoping for some UI help. Think Civ V. The stuff down the left side of the screen needs some serious work. Am I the only one that ever has more than 10 cities, armies, quests, etc.? It's hard to scroll, not very intuitive... a ) hig
a band of trolls just rolled my city early game... the monsters don't need any more help. play 10 games you might have a different experience. what level are you playing at? i'm playing on challenging.
[quote quoting="post"] I couldn't take their main city because it was full of mages but then for some reason they started to remove the mages from the city 1 or 2 at a time and I killed them one by one until the city was weak enough to take. They also still really failed to use champions to back up their troops. [/quote] This happened in my game too. Relias took my city and had 9 armies in it. Then he started popping them out 2 at a time for no r
[quote who="DsRaider" reply="45" id="3139705"]-0.911 -0.92 -0.91.01 -0.912 Can't make up your mind? [/quote] You think .912 is going to be sweet? Just wait until .91210!
Do you guys remember how the terrain would change over time in SMAC and some of the Civ versions. I think having forests and swamps that grow or deserts that expand would be cool.
Screenshot #1 is an excellent idea. I go crazy every time I have to pick a city upgrade and no nothing about the underlying city I'm trying to upgrade. I really hope they start doing some UI work ASAP.
[quote who="seanw3" reply="25" id="3138367"] City defense if getting better, but losing a city is so detrimental to a nation, it should be harder to do. [/quote] This really depends. If we're talking about worthless city spam by the AI then it should be easy to take them out. The best idea is to prevent the worthless AI city spam in the first place, but that's a different discussion. If we're talking about a megatropolis (<- new
Hi Brad, It seems we're getting a lot of repeat votes (same as last time). I know you're big on MetaCritic scores so why not create a poll that asks people to vote on what score the current game would get (i.e. 90). That might yield some more interesting results and you'd be able to quantitatively see if the game was getting better in public opinion with each beta release or not.
I still have the problem where the AI is not collecting goodie huts or empty monster lairs. Wasn't that supposed to be fixed?
[quote who="relmich" reply="148" id="3132264"]Someone turn on the bat light or maybe the frog light. I need to know whether Beta 3 is "likely" or " it's going to be tight" or maybe "we need another week". I just want to know whether I can look forward to diving into Beta 3 or just continue on with TOR, ME3, or AOEO.[/quote] Lower your expectations dude. It will keep you from being disappointed. P.S. You still playing TOR?
[quote who="seanw3" reply="56" id="3126721"]I would rather see less bugs. Go ahead an release on Friday if it will improve game longevity. People are going to be very critical. This is the internet you know.[/quote] Tight doesn't mean "release on Friday"... tight means "release in 2 weeks".
[quote who="Chalkbot" reply="3" id="3120227"] I don't get it. Are the forests made up of individual tech-trees?[/quote] I think the real question is can you see the forest through the tech-trees?!
Is this the bug I reported about some AI troops moving to some random tile in the game and then just staying there for the rest of the game and never moving from that spot?
Sounds like I'm in the minority here, but I don't like the idea of 1 tile cities in Elemental. I love 1 tile cities in Civilization, but this is Elemental. Let's be different! I like being able to place buildings. I like being able to see my cities on the main map changing and growing. I like that I have to build them in different configurations based on the terrain or strategy I choose to employ. If snaking is a problem, then I vote for the opt
Aha! Everybody laughed at me when I reported the Reprisal bug earlier. Now somebody else has encountered it so hopefully it will be taken more seriously. Thanks for restoring my good name seanw3. :-)
Dudes, he's joking about the 1 tile cities. They are not changing to 1 tile cities. April Fool's Day is still a week a way and you're already falling for it.
[quote who="laesta" reply="6" id="3113080"]Has anyone seen the AI try to specialize with cities? From the end games I've played so far and the cities I've stormed, it appears to me the AI philosophy is "If it can be built, it shall be built."[/quote] Yes, I want this fixed. I hate taking over AI cities which were built on 3/3 or 2/2 tiles and have everything built on them. I'm fairly certain the AI is not playing by the same gold maintenance rules we are so tak
[quote quoting="post"] 5. More variance in the tech research. We need more options. I would like techs that exculde eachother and other goodies. If I commit to the lord of fire and research fire shield tech (gives a few fire spells) then the lord of wind will not grant me access to the tech air travel. You get the picture [/quote] This is one concept from MoM they seemed to have overlooked. If you remember, you had t
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="3113002"]They can make some pretty strong, simple strategies now. If you fart around in the early game, they can make you pay. [/quote] Yeah, that's the problem. Mid-game and End-game AI are pretty weak. It's pretty easy to turn back the onslaught of spear maiden/pioneer stacks of doom if you know what you're doing.