larrypeters

Well that's good to know, but I'm not sure you can tell that from the interface. For the forge, I'll verify this, but I'm pretty sure I haven't researched mining in this game. (Since I don't have any ore nearby.) So should I have been able to research the forge tech? For the granary, this city does have a farm but it may be bugged. I'm just now noticing in the second screenshot the farm has shifted and is now partially covered by another building.

I had two buildings that I wasn't able to build last night for no apparent reason. (I'm sure there's a reason, but the interface isn't telling me what it is.) Screenshots are attached. Later, LAR

Then take a bunch of pictures of yourself holding up a piece of paper in front of stuff. Later, LAR

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="8" id="2660857"]Given the latest revelations of Google, I think I will pass. My voice mail is for my ears only, not the worlds.[/quote] I think you're putting malicious intent where there is none. Despite their offerings, Google is really a technology think-tank. A bunch of really smart people making things they think are cool. Unfortunately really smart people don't always think through the ramifications of their actions. Now i

I made a short video of the volcano too... this was mainly to test taking a video though. Later, LAR <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ccC0Czsw3K0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" a

Sweet, Google Voice is the service I've always wanted a use for but never had one. Seems pretty awesome for sales people though. Later, LAR

I remember the manual/strategy guide for the original Age of Wonders... I think they gave it out as a pre-order bonus at the last minute or something because I remember getting it rather unexpectedly. That thing was nice and think, with pretty much everything you wanted to know about every unit. If the limited edition is definitely coming with something like that I'll be all over it. Later, LAR

[quote who="Demiansky" reply="44" id="2659250"]Larry, the numbers are completely and utterly abritrary. Whether it's 100, 500, or 10,000 is irrelevant to the mechanism I'm proposing. Look past the hypothetical examples and toward the concept, please.[/quote] Oh ya, it makes sense. I wasn't attacking your idea, I was just floored by the number of units you're giving out.=) But in any case I think this: [quote who="lwarmonger

Goddamn thats a lot of work you've done there. Later, LAR

[quote who="Demiansky" reply="40" id="2658854"]For instance, let's say the cap is 500 units at some point in the game. If you stay within that cap there is a small green bar next to your army that represents that all is well. Now, if you go over that cap by say, 100 units, the bar is light green.[/quote] 500 units?! Over by 100 units?! Is this really how people see this game being played? I'm thinking if you have 100 units you'll have

[quote who="Gorstagg" reply="7" id="2657916"]I use a program called Fraps.[/quote] Cool, thanks. I've used Fraps to drive my G15 keyboard. Later, LAR

Gorstagg, I was wondering how you capture your videos. Later, LAR

I found this sweet volcano while I was playing and thought I'd share images.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="22" id="2656949"]AoW 2 was notorious for that. Stack limit of 8 in a stack. ....[/quote] If I'm remembering correctly, couldn't you attack with multiple stacks at once in Age of Wonders? I do agree that a limit of 8 units per stack is way too low, but let me respond to your example with another example. In Civ IV a popular strategy of AI is the stack of doom. We're talking about 30+ units in a single stack. The only defense against th

My biggest problem with ribbons is when I know something exists, but I simply can't find it. In 2003 I can scan the menus and I'll usually find it pretty quickly. With ribbons I have to... parse what I'm looking at. I don't know about anyone else but I find that the icons are kinda visually distracting. Also, sometimes things aren't in the ribbon I expect and sometimes they aren't even listed on a ribbon. I've had plenty of times where I've had to click on a

I'm pretty sure this is on purpose. Limiting what resources you have available forces you to adapt to different strategies. Right now it seems overly limited because there aren't any other strategies, such as magic, you can use. Later, LAR

[quote who="CyrusNunn" reply="4" id="2655819"]I'd also like color blind support, and these are great suggestions. I can't tell between the yellow and the green techs, myself. Please implement these changes. Approximately 8% of your playerbase will genuinely appreciate it.[/quote] So does that mean your icon looks all the same color to you? Larry

[quote who="nullspace" reply="20" id="2655642"]One good change would be to make every city founded (or conquered) cost essence. That's the major ongoing cost to founding a city, and it shouldn't be so easily avoided. [/quote] I definitely do not like this idea. I'm all for using essence to get ahead early in the game, but to continue taking away what's arguably the most valuable resource in the game is a bit drastic. I kinda like the idea of food bei

I still prefer using the keyboard to move the map. Control-wise, I guess you could say I play strategy sames the same way I do FPS' on the PC. Later, LAR

While I'm not color blind, I know plenty of people who are. /sign

Sweet dreams Raven. I have two ideas, one feasible, one probably not so much. First is why not use the cloth map for uncluttered status updates. I see this working in two ways. Some kind of marker, like a circle, on units that have completed their tasks and are waiting for instructions. Then, while in cloth map mode, the active status icons would move next to the location they're referencing. When you go back to 3D mode they pop back on the ri

@ John_Hughes I'm not sure I agree. If you have two cities or ten, defending them isn't that different. With the assumption laid out in this thread that more cities = more $$, you can then use that money to buy adventurers and champions to defend those cities. Later, LAR

Unless you're putting these cities right on top of each other, the cost of building so many cities so quickly is your Sovereign's essence. While it doesn't matter in 2A, but once magic is in using that much essence at the beginning of the game will probably end up being to your detriment. Later, LAR

I see I wasn't the only person surprised by the highlighting. A little bit of a tangent, but when the beta's further along, say in Beta 3, it might be useful if we had a way to start an advanced game. Starting with 20-30 cities and a mass of units. It could be as simple as Stardock providing a save for us to use. It se

MY EYES!!!! I LOOKED DIRECTLY AT THE BLUE HIGHLIGHTING! [e digicons]x_x[/e]