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Give us a dev journal on the magic system or a video showing a complete tactical battle or something please...

[quote who="relmich" reply="51" id="2965020"] EDIT: Anyway you can give a time frame on when the FE beta may be released? This month....next month..?? [/quote] No...the month after that.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="29" id="2963612"] But the thing I think some people may not be seeing -- and indeed, *I* didn't see -- is just how much better FE is going to be than WOM was. When I started work on the v1.3 feature set, my expectations for FE were considerably lower. I thought FE would address the weaknesses of WOM and take the game in a different direction. But what FE has done instead is make me realize that FE is simply at a different level. I.e.

I'm going to be pissed if they haven't fixed this bug in FE by the time it comes out... this has been a bug since day 1.

[quote who="noobshot" reply="13" id="2962085"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 10 Yea, and the website says, Key Features A strategy game in an RPG world. Randomly Generated Maps. 10 Unique Factions. In-Depth unit and character design. Tactical Battles. Rich, story-driven campaign developed by Random House’s Del Rey. Incredible replayability. Single player or Multiplayer (u

Has anybody from SD acknowledged there was a mix-up with this latest patch?

[quote who="Bellack" reply="25" id="2960247"]Better analogy: I have a 1976 Pinto barely runs, The windows won't roll down, AC is no longer running doe to a factory defect. Friend has a brand new 4 Wheel drive Ford Excursion with power windows a bad ass stereo system with free XM radio. And a damn good AC. So why not add these features to the Pinto? Why would you just drive the Excursion which is superior in every way. WOM

[quote who="jpmcconnell" reply="59" id="2959844"]Thanks for the mouth watering scrap that is that monster list... when does the beta start?[/quote] Labor Day Weekend, September 2011.

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="14" id="2959872"] AI is the last thing you do. It doesn't do much good to code AI while the game is being significantly altered. I wouldn't want Brad to put real time into the AI before getting some real playtest time so we can get feedback on whats fun, what we need more of, what we need less of. The decision is, do we lock our design, do AI work, then release playtest for minor tweaks (mana cost o

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="2" id="2958998"]Frogboy said he hasn't started the AI yet, so that's not even close to done.[/quote] I know they won't start it without pink ponies and bear cavalry, but I was under the impression they would start the Beta without good AI.

[quote who="Alfdaur" reply="49" id="2958877"]Wait a minute! Do I see a river in the screenschot you placed there Derek? I think I see a river there in the upper left corner! Does this mean that we get random generated rivers? P.S. I'm revering to the screenshot of Dereks latest reply in this topic.[/quote] Nice catch! Those sneaky SD guys... they fixed rivers!

artwork? wording and text? balance? add 30 quests? what?

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="68" id="2957992"] Quoting Ploeperpengel, reply 57I'm all excited about the new unitdesignoptions but really you guys must stop using male armor pieces on females - that just looks odd. I know this is ressourceheavy to have two graphical representations for each piece of armor but is there a chance for that? Please? Edit: if not - maybe a gender switch in the armor related xml so that proper female armor accessoires could be easily modded in

Which MMORPG do you think will get made first? A. World of Starcraft? B. World of Diablo? C. World of Galactic Civilizations?

I'm hoping Derek didn't miss this opportunity in EFE to make charisma meaningful. Based on everything we've seen so far, I'm willing to bet he's already thought of a few of these. It would be nice to hear more about "attributes" in a dev journal tho... Derek?

Skyrim: looks interesting The Old Republic: very tempting Elemental: Fallen Enchantress: i've lowered my expectations so hopefully i'll be pleasantly surprised Diablo III: not sure I'm going to like this one Tropico 4: didn't even know this was in production. i really liked Tropico 1 and 2, but was not a fan of 3. Heroes of Might and Magic VI: why not? i've purchased and enjoyed the first five in the series. Mass Effect

[quote who="Tridus" reply="23" id="2956326"] At that point this request really boils down to "please rename FE to WoM." [/quote] This is what I would do since FE is basically just what our forum had been asking for in EWOM originally. [e digicons]*_*[/e]

[quote who="Murteas" reply="32" id="2956307"] I would love the beta to be available ASAP, but I don't think Frogboy has had any dev time on the AI of FE at this point, and I think it would be a mistake to give us FE with a non-working ai. I could be wrong and maybe someone else has been working on AI, and it is already at a reasonable level. [/quote] The AI will probably be shameful when the Beta starts, but tha

nice work!

[quote who="Tridus" reply="8" id="2955696"] If FE works out, there's no reason to backport stuff to WoM because people will be playing FE. It'd make more sense to take that effort and put it into improving FE even more, or building on it for whatever game #3 is. And if FE doesn't work out, I don't think the franchise survives. FE is a really important release to get right.[/quote] We've heard about a better world (dev journal),

Even better one... if two trains are heading towards each other and train A is going 50 mph and train B is going 65 mph, how fast will train B going when they crash?

Lower your expectations... think August or September.

and Brad thought there were no good developers left in Michigan... you're hired!

Any chance we could see that video without the black screen across the bottom half?

I never once left my sovereign in a city in EWOM, but it sounds like Derek might be giving us a few interesting reasons to stay back. 1) We get a free champion to start (of course, we had Janusk before so this isn't totally new) 2) We start with 6 population but cities will grow super slowly without a charismatic champion in the city? 3) Perhaps our sovereigns will now have huge bonus producing traits when stationed in a city like +5 tech/+5 arcan