I am a fan of useing profsenel beta companys like I-beta for most funcnality testing. But finale tested need to be done by real players. There feedback is not has well structured has the profesnel testers. But game exsperts have became kind of a close ciricit coumninity. with no understanding of the perspective of game players who don't know or apresate how well writen the scrip for the left option box is. Thay just know it wood be better on the the right side of the screen
FrostyThundertrod
The problem many game seres run in to is the devlopers thinks thay need to reinvent the game each time. if your releeseing games back to back you do need to but if you let a few years pass between games This is not the case a weel rolls becuse it is round, Making a octogon weel to be "new" leads to bad results. If fraxis had just made CiV III with 2010 grafixs. It would have been a allaround great hit. But insteed thay had to make the game new and improved. I remaber when I saw
V1.1 that game get to the screen with the name of the world and just hand there I have to use task manager to exit out.
Its a Vram probblem with vido cards over 512mb. patch 1.2 is suppost to have a memery dump fuction to prevent this.
The AI use tacticel spells early in the game, but late game it uses all its mana on city buffs.
Sound like you firewall is blocking impulse, Try adding to your exstions list
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh213/Thundertrod/Elemental_1291998556.jpg This wolf is right at the start of the game it is way to strong. it can take out both Janusk and the soveren. untill I have the eqipment teck. In fact the wolf is stronger then bears and darklings. since it has 6 att 2 def 28 hp and has a wolf it gets a speed bost in combat. the beging monsters I think shoudl
I wood allso add that wolves are a bit to strong. many of the wandering wolves right at the start of the game have 24hp this should be more like 14hp.
I do use a dagger amed troop has Tarth to burn up the enemys counter attacks. Befor the sovren moves in for the kill.