Rhadagast

Nice job on the report. What size map and level?

Yeah I was excited about the path showing until I realized it only shows up after you move. It is a small improvement which is nice, but really needs to show up before I have to actually move. Also as I think as is being suggested above, if I could shift-click along my route to set way points that would be the ideal movement scheme (I've never actually tried this but I assume that is not currently an option).

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="16" id="3088058"]On a $40 game we net about $15 these days at retail. There's MDF, which is effectively a slotting fee, as well as the manufacturing, the distributor's cut, the retailer's cut and that's before taking into account the costs of having a retail sales force to go out and negotiate with each retailer, attend their shows, etc. That's just how retail is. They still sell more units than digital (a

Any way you can share in round numbers what the cost delta is for doing retail vs. digital? Do the best buys etc.. of the world charge slotting fee's for boxed games? Always wondered about that.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="12" id="3085375"] Quoting Heavenfall, reply 7If your champion gets 3 moves for every 1 the monster gets, why shouldn't you be able to outdistance him? Another solution, then: Archer units may not shoot more than 6 times in any tactical combat. Because ultimately what it would mean is that get enough initiative = win. [/quote] I can't see a way to justify limiting speed/initiative on say a ho

praise jeebus, paths.

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="64" id="3077996"] Darklands on the other hand. Now there was a classic. [/quote] Darklands! Great game, I would be hard pressed to compare it to FE/MoM/Civ though.

Never played this one, Fantasy Empire that Kamamura_CZ mentions was fantastic. Would love to see a remake of that one.

Space Above and Beyond was a good one. Did anyone watch the two seasons of War of the Worlds (1988)? I really liked the first season, then they totally changed it for season two, for the worse. I remember it scaring the crap out of me as a kid though.

I'm for the range penalties. However I think it should be a lot easier to get bows and we need some magic ones (I think they are adding this).

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="3080651"]Caravans, as a unit, are going away.[/quote] If you can't do something right....I think this should be a nice change.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="3033282"] .... Time is time. Money is money. Everyone has time. Not everyone has money. [/quote] Too true. Though I would say money's only real use is to buy more time. Time is the only finite resource we have, and the great equalizer in this world. With enough money, you're free to use your time however you want. Ironically many of the wealthiest people in the world find that what they wa

[quote who="Jafo" reply="20" id="3080338"] Quoting Rhadagast, reply 19You know, there's nothing to stop you from hiring a CEO and becoming the CTO "head geek in charge", that way you get to do what you love while some other poor sucker gets stuck with the business crap. ....and then you ask...."Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket?" ...[/quote] Well...there is that risk [e digicons]:)[/e]

Brad, I hate accountants more than the next guy, but at "10's of millions" of revenue you need a full time CFO and probably a controller as well for oversight. You know, there's nothing to stop you from hiring a CEO and becoming the CTO "head geek in charge", that way you get to do what you love while some other poor sucker gets stuck with the business crap. That's what lot's of founders in the IT field that I know have done.

Most games the AI is always in the red that I have played

Same here, was not sure if this was by design or not, would like to hear from the dev's. I think most would vote for it changed to auto improve as shards are gathered if possible.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="10" id="3076849"] Quoting Rhadagast, reply 8Good looking list. A few more possibilities ... Animated Swords - nice. But we will call it animated weaponry instead, and make it summon whatever is your currently highest available weapons. ... [/quote] Sweet. Lots good stuff in this thread. <a id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl02__LinkUser" class="hand" title="Click user name to vie

Betting on a beta patch release date....this has to be a first.

Good looking list. A few more possibilities Summon Animated Swords Summon Animated Armor Summon Ent (can cast entangle) Summon Gnomes (very high dex/dodge) Summon Great Wyrm (MoM style) Summon Fire/Storm/Earth Giant (shoots element) Summon Peasant Rabble

Yeah, that would be cool, so we don't waste time giving you dupes.

New music hooray! A bit of voice acting would be welcome as well. Maybe if FE is a commercial success we could get that in a future expansion.

Found city on best grain/gold within a couple turns march Start clearing local area of monsters and quests, give a wide berth to high level monsters As soon as you find your second hero and have leveled a bit, seek out an opponent of opposite faction Depending on how long it took you to find your first opponent, he/she should only have 1-3 cities, if at all possible take out his capital If you take out the capital, game over, if it was too strong

I'm not sure what you guys are talking about on the first point. I've yet to have a monster attack my city, only destroy resources if they are on the edge of the cities influence. Is that actually happening on normal games to you guys?? At least on the games I've played, normal feels about right (except the absent enemy player A.I).

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="2" id="3075753"]I have a laptop with a core2 duo at 1.8ghz (and runs FE fine in win7 & xp)(btw integrated video not a discrete video chip) and another laptop that I have now tested fe in( a celeron 1.8)( has an ati200). and I did NOT get any warnings about minimum system requirements during the installs. and both laptops have 3gb of ram(ddr2 800mhz only) harpo [/quote] Same h

[quote who="xaltotun" reply="24" id="3074723"] The point about MOM is not that it was perfect. The point is: MOM was a lot of fun despite all the flaws. Not everyone liked it then or like it now - but a lot of us did and still do. [/quote] This sums it up nicely for me. When and if Elemental becomes more fun/addictive then MoM, that will be a very good day.