I don't agree with stopping Pioneer spam, but stopping city spam for sure. The AI builds a city on every buildable spot it finds. I like how fast Pionners are for gaining those resources, but not when they are used for cities. Not sure how this would balance out but maybe make the number of cities you can build yourself (not acquiring through warfare) limited to techs in the tree? Sort of like how army size works.
I would very much like an ability to take an existing group of units and upgrade them to a larger group once I unlock the tech for it. I think it would need to be temper somehow. Maybe when you take a group of level 8 Archers and upgrade them to a company they lose half their experience level making them level 4 to reflect on the new recruits who arn't used to working with an established group. On the other hand you maybe don't need that realism seeing as how yo
I think if mages gain the ability to cast a spell, they should have their own private mana pool per tactical battle, or only be able to cast a certain amount of spells per battle, ala MoM. However I think giving the new mage units the ability to cast spells , makes them a little closer to champions and a little further away from army units.
I agree that mage units need some love, I see them being very fun and potentially very powerful. However at this point if we decided to start allowing them to drop aoes at higher levels and wear armor (seeing as how there is no penalty to wearing armor and spells, thus why used robed mages?) they would be a very uber army clearing unit.
I think casting times are a good way to temper a fireball. A "Mage" Champion with a few levels under her belt melts mobs with fireball. If you could drop one every turn, or even sooner, if you had a lot of initiative it would be even more murderous than it already is.
It crashed right after I cast pillar of flame on a group of enemy units in my territory. not is thats what caused it but here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9648511/FallenEnchantress0_85-2012-02-24T16-33-15-352.zip
- Caravan Management . I think this may be here just not all the way yet as there is a screen in game that says coming soon. but I would like to be able to manage all my caravans and see who's using how many routes from a screen other than clicking on each city and hovering over their money income to see who's trading with who.
Yay! The rewards for that quest sounded pretty cool!
Yes, as it is now if a friendly unit is in the target area you can't even cast the spell!
I'm really enjoying the general vibe of the Beta so far and I feel its going in the right direction. While playing I usually jot down how I feel about certain aspects or how I won a game or how the AI lost the game is some cases. I understand too many chefs ruin a soup, as if you add in a little of every spice it usually tastes like shit. :) So I can also see how hard it is taking forum feedback and working with it. Everyone wants the game to play how they want it to
This is a lot tougher as the AI has quite a few Champion stacks of doom roaming around. I've also noticed them using my custom units from other games, which is cool, but actually pretty deadly for me, as I made them to fill in the gaps while waiting for the next unit type to pop.
My thread here may explain why. I figured it out after a bit. https://forums.elementalgame.com/416360
Actually he's usually out leading my army, especially at the beginning, after finding some equipment hes the best unit I have. Its actually been very fun and I plan to resume play in few minutes and see if I can't get me a second city somehow.
Not off to a great start, I have only one city I have mountains to my back but desert all around, by the time I got a pioneer all the good land near me has been gobbled up. I did manage to take a newly build ai city not sure if I can hold it. Playing like this is a different beast, I also choose for my starting rare path of the Govenor for a little extra challenge. :) However fielding an army at the beginning of the game is expensive and time consuming
I'm starting my next game up and I figured I'd mix it up a bit, keeping everything at the default values for the game, and bumping up the AI to hard I decided to use only the Sovereign and no other champion units. I can use army units but any other champions cannot be hired. I'll let you guys know how it goes, fell free to share your experiences and thoughts if you decide to try this. My last game was pretty much a hero only game, it was fun, it felt sort of
https://forums.elementalgame.com/416874 This also confirms what I found, but I dug a little deeper into the bug cause as well. It seems any quest that has you do multiple fights, will corrupt your save game. There is another quest that has you do back to back fights (sorry forgot the name at the moment) and if you save after that one and try to load it up it will cause the same error. <
I kind of like the whole lord of the rings feel you get from getting heroes together and getting to work. I just wish late game was like the later movies where the heroes also had to rely on armies to finish the job.
Okay looking back on all my games, the one thing I can think of they all had in common was that I did the Tournament questline and shortly after that my saves get borked.
[quote who="Fistalis" reply="3" id="3068264"]I ran into this on one my games.(both the save and autosave for that particular game ran into this)Started a new game and Haven't had it happen since though.[/quote] So its not just me. I have yet to finish an actual game. Mind you they are all on default or slower speed. Maybe after so many turns its getting unloadable?
Can a kind soul please donwload and try to load my save and see if you get the same error so I know what to troubleshoot?
I'd be interested to see what other Beta Players have been up to this past week or so. So post some cool, funny or epic screenshoots and share! If there's a story to go along with them, all the better! This is my first (and so far only) fight against Torax. It was a cool fight and very cool how he was integrated into the game. He drops a neat trophy. Wish to see more of these! <img src="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a156/StormbringerGT/Elemental/FallenEnc
Huh?! Any advice on this...
Is there any info on whether or not there will be a boxed collectors edition of Fallen Enchantress? I know I'm getting Fallen Enchantress for free but I would absolutely buy a collectors edition as well. I pre Ordered War of Magic and took part in that Beta and I also bought myself a copy of the collectors edition of War of Magic (that map is awesome!). Any news, Aye or nay would be appreciated!
Continuing my game now. I gotta say this one has a lord of the rings vibe, lots of mountains segregate the areas nicely, and I have a party of champions questing about until I get my armies up and running!
bumping this up, maybe someone knows what it is, as it keeps popping up randomly when I load sometimes forcing a restart. Sometimes I can load an autosave however.