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Anyone know how to add a Custom Soverign to a Custom Faction so the AI will play them?

[quote who="Star Adder" reply="246" id="2733883"] I was agreeing with you up until your FOX News comment. HELLO CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC are nothing but liberal propaganda rags. They wouldn't know real news if it hit them in the face. *ROFL* FOX "News" isn't news at all. It's opiniotainment. That's why on my agenda the station is called FOX Opiniotainment. [/quote] And CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS are not? Yea right.

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="207" id="2732084"] Quoting Yalbik, reply 205 Quoting enigma691, reply 196 Another game with a inflated review, just starcraft with a facelift, not such a bad thing but did they really need 12years to do it? To be fair, I seem to recall Blizzard releasing a couple of other games between Starcraft 1 and 2. I think one was some sort of monthly pay multiplayer fantasy thing. It's a little l

[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="160" id="2731735"] Quoting rpanic, reply 151 Since when is it ok to release a game in this shape? The article is correct I have told my friends the same. I was shocked when they released this game in this shape, makes it look like they have no respect for their customers, it was all about selling the game and making a buck, I guess they don’t care about the future. I have been a loyal Stardock customer since GC1 first came o

[quote who="cwg009" reply="146" id="2731477"] Quoting Bellack, reply 141 However in this day and age of PC gaming the masses will not forgive a 'botched' release. This is patently untrue. Some games with horrid releases go on to be massive successes, the most famous being WoW - their release was a real stinker, but the game was fun and addictive once they solved all the server issues and inital game-breaking

[quote who="jaythewise" reply="87" id="2730932"]I have yet to see any bug other then the ALT tab crash. But man the AI is bad, really really bad. If any AI city is near me I just waltz right in and take over as they do not have much D. The AI is very docile as well. Although I have seen a few AI controled factions get conquered by other AI factions. [/quote] Last night I was playing on Normal setting. And My Sovereign was out with Janak (Who I remamed) and two archer u

[quote who="Cryptomancer" reply="82" id="2730924"] Quoting I Intrude, reply 30 I don't see that article as overly harsh in any way at all. Most of what he said is true. [...] Sincerely, A loyal but concerned Stardock customer. Not "harsh in any way at all" ?! What about the following passage, in the PC Gamer article ? " But putting junk like this in a box and charging money for it is not okay, however rapidly

[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="72" id="2730874"] Quoting arentol, reply 70 So the PCgamer guy has been playing on two PCs and had issues ever 10 minutes or so. I played 1.01 on two different PCs for a couple hours on each and didn't have any issues (both OC'ed Core i7's, one with ATI card, one with Nvidia card). Sounds like a personal problem to me. I'm playing on

[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="63" id="2730838"] Quoting SqueekyRat, reply 54 Quoting rossanderson48, reply 50 Quoting niteshade6, It's the small developer that gets the flying fickly finger of screwing in the review world. The Majors get a golden ticket pass like they were going to the Willy Wonka Factory. I have to vehemently disagree on that. I have played ETW, CIV series and a LOT o

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="52" id="2730783"]My biggest problem with the article is the quote he took out of context. Qt3 isn't just some random site. It's my home away from home. And Ben Sones isn't some random forum poster, he's a friend of mine (FB friend and all) and when he called v1.0 an "early beta" I admit, it ticked me off and I snapped back. I shouldn't have said it and I regret saying it, but for PC Gamer to take that comment without any context and put it out there is c

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="40" id="2730698"] Quoting Obiwan, reply 39 would you buy half a car? I've never understood why cars are the go-to analogy for video games. [/quote] Because it is an easy comparison. Cars are complex machines as are computer games. And everyone knows what a car is.

[quote who="db0" reply="160" id="2730281"] Quoting Bellack, reply 159 That is why I said there should be minumum damage based on what the max damage is. So your right 1d100 would be bad but 60d100 or 70d100 would be fine. Ok, I think you confused some concepts which in turn made me misunderstand you. 70d100 means 70 100-sided dice. It means a result between 70 and 7000. [/quote] I'm sorry I did kinda typed that

[quote who="db0" reply="157" id="2730114"]Yes, combats can be messy but there's always a minimum amount of skill your soldiers have and this is a strategy game, where obscene amount of randomness are frustrating. Random results, while good, should always be in moderation. Doing 77-100 is OK. Doing 1-100 isn't. Doing 77 means that your dragon did a glancing blow, while doing 1 damage means your dragon's pinky claw hit them on their ear. It's a bit silly. The problem is that it seems

[quote who="Lord_Agamemnon" reply="142" id="2727907"] Quoting wesleyshaver, reply 139 There is a simple way to solve the problem with wildly random damage and attack rolls. All rolls should be based on coinflips. Instead of using 1d30 like it is currently a roll should use 15d2. Problem solved. This is basic game design, how it escaped the supposedly "strategy" devs is beyond me. Wildly random rolls isn't strategy it's luck. Inci

[quote who="pad152" reply="97" id="2726754"]Please add a list of Hotkeys to the Hiergamenon, so they are available in-game! [/quote] It is avaliable in game. Look at the top right hand corner of the screen. You will see a '?' just click that.

[quote who="MrManNo1" reply="86" id="2726702"] Quoting KellenDunk, reply 82 Quoting MrManNo1, reply 1You guys deserve the rest for going out of your way for us. Thanks again! You can make new races in xml Thanks for that, but I didn't ask how to make new races... [/quote] Actully you did, You just don't realize you did :)

[quote who="diamondspider forgot to speak about the biggest of all bugs : if switch to main menu from a game that lasted more than ten minutes and I get a crash..." reply="70" id="2726437"]So.. No tactical battles in MP until "at a later date"? Honestly, auto-resolve ruins these kinda games, making them utterly uninteresting to play since you are basically just throwing your entire hard work building your kingdom into the hands of a dice, deciding if you live or die. Wont be bothering wi

[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="69" id="2726430"]Congratulations on release day! (although a lot of work remains to get the game into the shape we want it). Two important points (of view) on the tactical combat: 1. like many have said, please lower the spread of damage possible, it is just too random, which sooner or later becomes seriously annoying when bad luck messes up your master plan. 2. I find the retaliatory attacks to be slightly ann

[quote who="SAJ14SAJ" reply="64" id="2726313"]I am sorry, but I cannot agree with any of the positive comments in this thread for one simple reason: the product has no effective manual or documentation, and that isn't even MENTIONED in the change list. Lest you believe I am here to trash Stardock, I will point out that I have been buying your games since GalCiv on OS/2. I installed OS/2 to play the darn thing. The game is completely unplayable without any sor

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="34" id="2725244"] Quoting DragonRider862, reply 26 quoting post Ice Bolt spell removed New spell: Stab of Ice, short range spell, causes enemy to lose turn in addition to damage. I take it that this is the prototype for the sort of thing you'll be doing with all the generic magical nukes in the near future? They could really all use some love. The campaign really embarrasses i

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong but I did find an issue with casting spells on heros. For example I did the Imbue Essence on a stack that had 3 heros in it but the spell did not ask who I wanted to cast this on. I also tried it with the Protect person (or something like that) spell and it also would not ask who I wanted targeted it just randomly picked one. Please do make us have to break up a stack just to be able to target an individual. I looked in the online help area and the .pdf manua

[quote who="Fra2" reply="42" id="2726052"] quoting post Now, a couple words on multiplayer. The servers are up but we are not going to enable multiplayer until next week. Part of this is, to be honest, team exhaustion. The early release meant a lot of people who were expecting this weekend off to rest from the grueling last few weeks had to come in. So we’re going to let them get a couple of days off later this week and open up the MP

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="20" id="2725651"]Lord Nova: you can see the differences between the difficult levels (and, also, make them harder/easier if you want). Program Files\Stardock Games\Elemental\data\English\CoreDifficultyLevels.xml [/quote] So at what difficulty level does the creatures (Neutral or Independants) of the world start attacking the players (AI and Human) to include attacking cities? I noticed on normal they just stand th

[quote who="OnyxBMW" reply="24" id="2723274"]I managed to get by so far in the campaign, but that just comes from prior TBS knowledge and trial and erroring the crap out of the game. I still don't know how to accomplish some basic features though, like learning new spells by a process other than random campaign contributions. Then there's marriage. A concept I know exists, but no clue how it works or how to set it up. The lack of documentation is staggering...but then I have another problem.

[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="62" id="2717707"] You seem to be the real troll in this thread. Actually no I'd say you were since you admitted you know nothing about the two games. Thus you have no real ammunition to make accusations about him or the games or anyone else. At least he provided some links to view. I personally look for user information an accept it long before I accept the biased reviews of palm fed socalled professional