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I just don't build my cities too close to the forest personally. Glad to hear there are spells that sort of do it for those dedicated enough to pursue it.

I felt the same way while it was still shiny and new, but now that I've played for a while I've concluded the game itself is actually quite bad. The engine is amazing, the potential is there, but currently the actual game design, mechanics, balance and AI are all quite bad and shallow. I do really want this game to be a success and end up as a classic of the genre, which is why I'm still on these forums. I guess we'll see what they can do to improve it over the next 6 months.

Sinful, I agree with you completely on point 1 about modding. I hate being told if I don't like it I should mod it too. Mods are great and all but I have no skills there myself and no interest in learning. If people make good mods for this game I'll eventually check them out, but I also expect a polished and fun base game from Stardock. You may be right with point 2 as well, I certainly hope the game is much much better by christmas, however the more I play the more I get the feelin

Incidently, I really wish population mattered in this game and you could do normal 4x type things like tax them. In this game population is mostly irrelevant, it's all about grabbing those resource nodes and getting your cities to multiply the hell out of them.

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="3" id="2748386"]When your city levels up, take the 20% (30%, 40%) gildar production increase. At City level two there will be more structures that produce gildar. Focus on those structures, don't over do it on the other structures (the prestige ones, the military ones). Gildar right now is just slow to increase on a per city basis. When you start getting multiple cities, or multiple gold nodes, and research the mining techs and refined mining t

Caravans only multiply food income, not gold.

Found cities where there are gold mines (ideally 2+ within the city's influence radius if you can find it). Level up the city and take the +gold% option each time. Build all the gold multiplier buildings (e.g. trading post, bazaar, mint, etc) in the cities with gold mines to multiply the output further. Also have some stacks killing mobs out in the wilderness for extra gold income.

I think Pyromancers list of tips is an excellent summary of what you should be doing. I wanted to add more emphasis to the point that population is completely irreleavnt in this game, getting a good mix of resourece nodes is the key to a good start. Right from turn 1, I start spamming some peasants to go scouting in all directions and figure out where the gold mines, food, materials, libraries, temples, and mines are (in that order of importance) and quickly have pioneers coming behin

I wouldn't call this an exploit really, just a badly designed and very overpowered unit. My suggestion is to remove the AOE and make their ability single target only.

I find generally there always are very few arcane temples on the map. Lost libraries are always abundant in comparison.

I would love to see MoM2 made, but I have no problem with EWOM trying to go its own way and not copy MoM too closely. As long as where they end up is with gameplay that is as fun, engaging and as full of interesting choices as MoM was. They still have a long way to go to get there. We'll see where they get over the next 6 months.

About the only other thing you can do is scout out more of the map and go grab cities with arcane temples.

[quote who="Sythion" reply="1" id="2747490"]I disagree. I think Stardock is generally getting more leadway than any other company would get, because they have the respect of players and reviewers alike. They'll still have my respect, even after Elemental, but I'm not going to suger coat this: This is one of the worst games I've ever played from a balance/gameplay design perspective. Also, delaying the game would have resulted in a much different game, so long as people were able to

[quote who="TOWDrac" reply="2" id="2747511"]Hmm, I do see what you mean, but I do think that more haters are flocking to Stardock than I've ever seen. Justified criticism they do very much deserve, but not the sheer attacks and such that are thrown around. [/quote] You need to get out more. Go check out the forums for just about any MMO launch EVER. Then you'll see what real whining, ranting and foot-stomping is all about. Elemental's launch is quite tame in comparison.

I don't think it's working as intended. The tooltip for the ability says it's supposed to give +1 to prestige, but the city info page says it's giving +100%. Doubling your prestige is certainly very very good and may indeed be overpowered.

This thread is making me seriously nostalgic. I think I'm going to go buy MoM again! Sadly I'm pretty confident that I'll have more fun playing MoM again despite its bad AI and balance issues than I am currently playing EWOM now that the shiny newness has worn off and I'm left feeling that the game is currently quite shallow. Luckily I purchased EWOM knowing I was getting this game for the long haul so I'm not too disappointed with all the current issues. However, I heartily a

Oh, I don't think it would be hard to make huge maps. I just think that there is currently not enough content and balance to make playing on a huge map very much fun. You'd run out of techs alone before you've even explored a fraction of a map that size.

Good post OP. I mostly agree. The tech tree is one of my biggest concerns at the moment after AI. I agree that it presents false choices, but disagree that there are 5 tech trees. Right now there is really only one tree in 5 flavours. The only choice is in the order you go down the trees based on your current priorities, but it doesn't take long for tech to be racing along and I would think everyone is backfilling to grab techs they skipped earlier. In other words, everyone ends up getting ev

I think the large maps are plenty big enough. I have around 12 cities in my current large map game which is already enough micro and 4/5ths of the map is still hidden.

Personally, no not really. I go back and forth between the cloth map and zoomed right in. My video card is not having the FPS issues some people are reporting. So I can get right in close and the models and textures look great.

Mainly they just need some transparency as to how it's calculated (because right now, who knows?). And also some sort of hall of fame to track your scores so you can try to beat your record.

Yes, please no more fanboy-this, troll-that. No one really cares. Take it to PM if you really need to argue with each other.

[quote who="Zazen13" reply="46" id="2744332"]Very Classy post. There's only two developers I trust implicently when it comes to long-term product Support...Stardock and Paradox Interactive. I've been a gamer since computer games were invented, the complexity has increased almost in direct proportion to computer power. I pay to be entertained. Some games can only entertain me for a few hours or days, for example shooters or limited scope adventure games, so I expect a very pol

Same problem. Can't progress past turn 287. Dragoakani's suggestion didn't work. Very annoying.

The problem is back for me today after working fine for a while. I was trying to adjust my video settings to improve performance and when I reloaded this happened. So far deleting screens folder not helping (although I'm not sure I'm clearing out the right folder since the directory paths you gave don't match up with what I have on Vista). May be a coincidence, but I didn't have this problem before patch 1.06 and before updating to ATI catalyst driver 10.8.