Nessin

In my first game of 1.4 I've encountered a enemy city that is landlocked (two tiles separating it from the coast) that somehow has a Transport ship it in. Whenever I go to fight it I'm forced to auto-resolve and every time I do I easily beat the defenders but the city remains under the control of the AI and I'm no longer able to progress the game, the end turn button and shortcuts do nothing. I uploaded the saves if they can be useful. "One" is j

Now that you can upgrade troop size the best way to balance horses would be to remove them from the regular resource mechanic and add a limit on the number of units you can have based on number of resource nodes. For example, one horse node with the basic building means you can recruit one troop unit with horses. An upgraded horse node means two units. Doesn't matter how many individual figures are in the unit, and no racking up resources for later. You either have

One of the primary goals of the swarm system is to prevent heroes from getting all-powerful. Now you need to provide your own support troops for swarm bonuses of your own and preventing the enemy from swarming you too much. You should look at the problem from the other side, why do you want your hero to be able to single-handedly kill large groups of enemies without support or why are you so against the idea that you might have to sacrifice some troops/work differently for a victo

The point of the innate city defense, in lieu of any more substantial evidence, is to have random citizens grabbing whatever weapons they can scavenge up for a last minute defense. Which basically means make-shift weapons from items not made for purpose or hunting equipment (knives, bows, etc...). There is no reason or expectation that random citizenry should be experience in fighting, have any sort of armor available, have a random selection of weapon types available for you to c

[quote who="goodgimp" reply="34" id="2906027"]What I hate about MP figures for TBS games is that the only source (typically) they're able to poll in terms of data is ONLINE. Admittedly, this is anecdotal, but I don't know anyone who plays TBS games online with random people. I do, however, know piles of people who play TBS games cooperatively, generally over a LAN or LAN simulator. Those people are not being tracked. That being said, it has to be understood t

@eldrone: I admit that I do like your paint-over version better, but what about when you animate it? Once you go from static to dynamic, I imagine your styling would look a lot worse than the current in-game shot.

[quote who="hairrorist" reply="82" id="2749424"]You've already completed every book on a subject that uses language correctly?[/quote] Wow, really? So now I'm expected to not only learn proper grammar I'm supposed to go through every book out there on a subject I care about and find out if they have proper grammar before I pick them up to read? Or maybe I should get a book and immediately put it down/return it after I find out it doesn't have proper grammar?

[quote who="Morberis" reply="73" id="2749391"]It's clear you people have no reading comprehension. Angie/Unnammomer reviews laughably horrible books, it's part of what she does. She doesn't spit when she says his name and she's entirely reasonable. [/quote] Perhaps you can answer the question then. I understand the points she makes about the plot of the book and, as I pointed out myself, there is nothing exciting or special in the content of the b

Avoiding the other issues aside from it the http://www.unamommer.com (haven't read the amazon review comments) shouldn't be taken into consideration. I get that to some people the grammar of a book is important, but as long as its in general english (as in understandable and without pointless dialect/slang injections) then what the hell do grammatical errors every now and then matter for enjoying the book? (Unless you're an en

[quote who="TLamming" reply="21" id="2744773"]I think stardock is afraid to use things from MoM which is a shame. I wish they would take the good stuff from MoM. The stuff you listed above was great.[/quote] Maybe because using too much from Master of Magic is illegal? Not that I don't think they could have taken more inspiration from the game, especially with regards to hero units, but there is a limit...

The reason you don't want to build cities all over the place is simply lack of food. A level 1 city, unless placed next to resources, can only grant you 1 Arcane/Tech/Gold/Materials per turn. Unless I just haven't seen extra buildings for level 1 cities further in the tech tree yet. Level 2 is barely better and from level 2 onward it starts taking food to build them up. Building lots of cities means you have tons of near useless cities who don't recoup their costs for

1. Hit the spellbook button right next to your mana bar, just like on the strategic map. 2. I believe that is controlled by the combat threshold option in the menu. 3. Mana = Essence

All the benefits of hexes versus squares are dependent upon other factors being included. The reason hexes work so well in more traditional wargames is because those wargames model stacking, flanking, frontage, force projection, etc... The other item, as mentioned in the thread, is distance. Which, against sagittary's statement, is EXTREMELY important for representing movement from point A to point B and not as a representation of actual distance. Moving

A) The edit came out long before the release of Elemental. I don't know when the last line was added, but here is an article showing part of the change back in 2008. http://www.1up.com/news/stardock-updates-gamers-bill-rights B) Stardock (or at least Brad) believes the game to be "finished" and so do a lot of other people. The problem is they get overwhelmed by everyone else beca

I posted the same thing in the comments in RPS, and I'll post it here. The Bill of rights is still where it has been for a long time: www.gamersbillofrights.com What's even worse about this thread here is BRAD HIMSELF HAS LINKED IT IN THREADS OF PEOPLE ASKING FOR A REFUND AND THEN GIVEN IT!

[quote who="ScottWAR" reply="127" id="2729067"]Sorry,...but after claiming that the 'just patch it in later' attitude is wrecking the industry,...and saying that they will delay until its ready,...and then releasing with it NOT ready,...and saying they will patch it in later...................................... do you not see the problem...............its called being lied to. Claiming the game has random maps in the features,......when it most clearly DOES

[quote who="shafk" reply="3" id="2725501"]If you can't expand the city due to lack if food, there is a spell which allows extra food production. I will give one extra Point of Food which might be enough to Expand the city. As has been stated in other posts food is meant to be scarce due to how barren some areas are. helpful hint: When Founding a City always ensure there are at least 2 food sources nearby.[/quote] At least two? One food source

When you put in the code in the book it gives you a breakdown of what's coming, it mentions Book 2 is broken into three sections, with each section referenced with two characters from the book.

Photos? Who works with photos these days? QUEUE VIDEO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkKsxrAa9b4

[quote who="Jharii" reply="33" id="2723182"] quoting post Now the game is released im seeing soooooo many idiots just complaining for the sake of complaining. For example i saw one guy, just a moment ago complain that he got a duplicate map. So what? Im sure if you randomise it again you will get a different one. Is it really worth coming here and complaining about it? Grow up i say. You should probably educate yourself a bit before attacking, lest you become

Summoning - Did you actually select somewhere to summon your familiar or press other buttons when nothing happened and (probably) canceled the cast? Enchanting - Same thing. Food - You'll always start near one, and you've got to make that one last until you find more. One map food resource should be able to power up a couple of cities to level 2 initially, at least. If you don't have any food anywhere near your starting area, and didn't delete your map seeds, then

[quote who="Todd Hawks" reply="32" id="2723038"] Quoting Nessin, reply 28Todd: Really? The wrong decision not to include completely random maps? I can see the draw of random maps, but unfortunately I've played too many Civilization games (as one example) where you get an hour or two in only to find out you (or the AI, thus killing any real challenge) were royally screwed by the map generator and have to restart. Or maybe you think its actually EASY to get a r

Todd: Really? The wrong decision not to include completely random maps? I can see the draw of random maps, but unfortunately I've played too many Civilization games (as one example) where you get an hour or two in only to find out you (or the AI, thus killing any real challenge) were royally screwed by the map generator and have to restart. Or maybe you think its actually EASY to get a random function to generate a usable result every time? If so, then let me h

Still morning out here where I'm at. Hell, if you really want to get technical it isn't "officially" past noon in the US for another 3 1/2 hours.

[quote who="lswallie" reply="36" id="2710986"]So let me get this straight. A beta tester gets on these forums and gives input in hopes to improve the game and the dev basically says too bad - we aint changing it go play another game. I bet your one of those "can i have ur stuff" kinda people. More than once I have seen that same response from frogboy. Sure you may not change everything the poster said - but why come here with a sharp quip and dismiss the poster. He has some good points