That already existed in medieval era : family hostages. You "lend" your son to other lord while he lends his daughter. so everyone is sure to remain at peace. If war is declared, hostages are slained.
Why not use the MoM system ? It was a good one, I think. You have a "magical research" value, and you must split it between mana or maybe crystals ? or spell points ? or maybe split between all of that ? and increasing your essence. For instance with 10 points of magical research you can do : spells points (2), crystals(1), essence(5), life spreading(2) or spells points (1), crystals(1), essence (2), life spreading (6) for each 10 points used th
Devs said it wouldn't be before the week of 24th (because of some marketing tour)
All the spells that could help you get intel. Ghost spy, Voices afar, Infrared vision, etc.
Will we be able to add "physical effects" to a particle effect ? You said the whirlwind had wreak havoc : were the units flying randomly ? Can we create such pysical effect in the particle editor ? Or is it just a layer drawn over the battlefield ?
[quote who="onomastikon" reply="35" id="2619690"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 1Just one minor example. With the beta, it would never ever have occurred to us to have a global resource system. Every city having its own resource pool has always been how it's done. Doesn't most of the Civilization series have, with the exception of Food, a global resource pool (e.g. luxuries such as spices etc., materials such as aluminum etc.)?[/quote] Global, but you couldn't "use" them.
[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="26" id="2619883"]The faster spread of Fertile Land will obviously save ALOT of Mana. Depending on the actual spread rate, a SOV may not have to ever use his again for City creation. Remember, none is consumed on already fertile ground. One fear I see with this is on the smaller sized maps. Would it be possible to rate the spread based on the size of map in use? One has to assume that on a Ginormous Map, spread will not be a problem as there plenty of
[quote who="Sareln" reply="1" id="2619279"]Sounds good, might need to bounce around balancing that 100 mat number but that's to be expected. Additionally, I think it'd be cool if revitalized land spread based on the terrain (eg. faster along rivers, slower in the hills etc). I don't know if that's the case currently or not. For overall essence, is there any planned way of acquiring it other than through sovereign levels? It might be interesting if there were special sit
It's a system used some good pen&Paper RPG. And by far the system that makes most sense and gives the most realistic results without having some chess-like system (where you can calculate everything) : you really never (or 1 times on 100 000) the "Warriors vs Tank" syndrom of civ. In a pen&paper RPg it can get annoying to throw 18 dice (but he .. I like to throw dice), but in a CRPG it's not a problem.
About noise in the data : why limiting that to only AI ? Why human players would know exactly what are the units of the opponents ? Wouldn't it give a good reason to really scout if you never really know what you have in front of you unless you fight or you send some special units (spy ?) Before fighting the enemy you only have a rough estimation of his army. And not lik ein HoMM where you know exactly what kind of units they have but some rough data like "mounted/ not mounted
[quote who="Grimgravy" reply="82" id="2617016"] Quoting Anomander, reply 74 quoting postIn War Their soldiers don’t gain experience. Such a concept of thinking about individual soldiers is anathema to the Empire. As such, there is no such thing as a veteran Imperial soldier. However, they can train up special, powerful units (Guardians, Enforcers, and Sions). These powerful individuals will routinely demonstrate the inherent flaw in trying to train groups of
And it's not a RTS.
[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="67" id="2615716"]What's a reasonable standard for 'stable enough', from a single players perspective? (serious question). I just made it to turn 501 with no reloading/restarting before a game-ending problem (froze up) -- is that 'good enough'? Or is 1000 turns? Or...? Once that's determined, what % of the testers should meet that standard?[/quote] With beta, devs only want to know if players can connect, play a bi
I got some quests where I choose to fight and lose the battle. I was teleported back to my town. The place to finish the quest disapeared but the quests list in the kingdom report wasn't updated. So I couldn't finish those quests (ebenwolf and the dark concoction).
[quote]6) Please confirm that essense = mana on a 1:1 ratio. If not what is the ratio?[/quote] Don't forget the wisdom plutiplier (or intelligence, I don't remmeber) If you have 10 essence and an int/wis of 12 you get 10 X 1.2 Mana
It's a recent change. Before we could raise up to 20 points for 1 point each. But you could do munchkins, 15 is already a great value (you get a 1.5 multiplier on your stats : for instance with 15 in strength you get Attack = Attack X 1.5) What I would like is : more points to spend, but each point above 10 cost more (1 point 10 --> 11, 2 points 11 --> 12) and more traits/professions options
[quote]Depends on how it's worked. I'll leave the brainstorming of the implementation to Stardock, but there are certainly multiple variations of a "real" unit. It could be an actual diplomat unit on screen. That could get messy as someone said if you had 20 of them, though depending on how the feature is designed you might never have more than a handful, in which case physical figures are fine.[/quote] Why not, each diplomatic unit could used one diplo points like huts use food. And
[quote who="StillSingle" reply="16" id="2610975"] Quoting vieuxchat, reply 15 Quoting LeegleechN, reply 12 I like the idea of drawing envoys out of your family and other special units. I think it ties the systems together nicely. I don't really see a reason for having "Diplomacy Points" though. Why represent them with an abstract number when there are so many more interesting and concrete ways to do it, like the experience and traits of
[quote who="LeegleechN" reply="12" id="2610798"]I like the idea of drawing envoys out of your family and other special units. I think it ties the systems together nicely. I don't really see a reason for having "Diplomacy Points" though. Why represent them with an abstract number when there are so many more interesting and concrete ways to do it, like the experience and traits of your envoy units?[/quote] Because with 20+ envoys it can become a nightmare. With diplomatics points you ju
[quote who="Tormy-" reply="3" id="2610551"] Quoting ckessel, reply 2 Asking for a mutual peace treaty might take a potent envoy I don't know....Why should it matter that what kind of "envoy" you gonna send? The other Kingdoms/Empires should care about the power/threat level of other Kingdoms & Empires + the relationship between the sides must also have a strong effect of course. Example: If you -the player- will destroy some cities/armies/caravans/whatever of a g
Why not a real resource ? When you research Diplomacy you earn one "diplomatic point". When you ask for an audience with another sovereign it takes time and one diplomatic point. You can even add diplomatic points to help you in your demands. When your request reach the other sovereign then the diplomatic screen opens, you can trade/etc. And when you're done you will earn your diplomatic points used after some time (it simulate the tim efor the envoy to come back". You could trade dip
I spared 20 points. Only used them for a magic book, attributes and a trait. No equipment at all (only clothing) Does anyone used more than that ?
The xml file His story (kudos to Murteas and his translation !): Lil'Fil is like any other Tarthien, except for his size. Subjected to constant daily harassment about his stature, he quickly found refuge with those who didn’t mock him. One day, after having retreated deep into the woods to write an ode to Vilfanna, the woman he loved, a troll came upon him and decided he wou
Devs already said that such gameplay elements will change. For instance Frogboy talked about rivers : water access will probably a very limiting factor to get huge cities.
Does it mean we won't be able to test the game at all in solo ?