I think city management is getting a bigger reaction than it ought to have because the UI places a bigger emphasis on it than Stardock tends to. When you can no longer select the tiles that buildings go on, it will feel like a smaller experience and it won't feel so empty. That's not to say this is necessarily a good thing for players in itself, but I do think it doesn't need to be an overwhelming focus.
Not voting yet. Quests, city management, tactical battles, and random events all need love. Faction differentiation does too but could come with some of those other things. I have a major issue that could be stability or performance depending on how you look at it. There's too many things that need a vote for me to cast a single one now.
On the stability issue, I don't have crashes or anything that I know how to properly report, but I do get massive game-ending slowdown often enough that I can't really play the game into the second act. [quote who="relmich" reply="43" id="3096933"]That screen you show where you are selecting your sovereign, is that currently in Beta 2 (0.86)? My selection screen looks much different. I really like the look of the one you show.[/quote]I had that problem too. I think
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="25" id="3096543"]It isn't random. They ate all the black people first. See any black people in Elemental? Nope, cause the racist bears ate them![/quote]That brings up an interesting point. How come the humans in Elemental all have a European range of skin tones and facial features? Is there a reason, or is it just the assumed default for Fantasy?
People trolling come from all walks of life. It's a normal facet of interaction, even though the name is quite modern. As for the the "Entitled Gamers" which I assume is referring to those fellows who were complaining about Elemental and insulted Stardock when Frogboy was apologizing repeatedly and giving out free expansions like candy, well, if those were trolls they were shitty trolls. What did they think those posts would elicit? I really doubt that those posts can all be attributed to
[quote who="Gandhialf" reply="26" id="3096525"] Quoting Cruxador, reply 25quoting postWe’ve grown up thinking that plate male is always the best and you should just toss that on to everything.But... That's pretty much true, assuming you can afford it. Like, the benefit of putting full armor on an archer is pretty small because you don't want your archers in combat. But that doesn't mean that full plate (with the historically accurate padding underneath) isn't still
[quote quoting="post"]We’ve grown up thinking that plate male is always the best and you should just toss that on to everything.[/quote]But... That's pretty much true, assuming you can afford it. Like, the benefit of putting full armor on an archer is pretty small because you don't want your archers in combat. But that doesn't mean that full plate (with the historically accurate padding underneath) isn't still the best option for him if you have the good steel and smiths
Regarding the stuff earlier in the thread: I actually like that monster lairs are often undefended. It feels good to sneak in behind a monster and grab their stuff, then high-tail it out of there. It's a gamble, if I succeed I get good items at no cost, but if I fail, I end up losing units and/or stuck in the city healing.
[quote quoting="post"]Comment here if you think you’d be interested in something like this.[/quote]If, through some strange turn of events, Windows 8 becomes good enough that I actually use it or somehow circumstances force me to use it despite my considerable desire to not do so, and Microsoft hasn't added this functionality natively by launch, then I would consider this to be essential. But by preference I will just continue using Windows 7 and if I were to upgrade then I'd up
Heh, I satisfy all those requirements (including the plus things, although my PHP and XML knowledge is pretty shallow) but I don't have the degree. And I could be better with Photoshop and InDesign, I guess. I mostly use Fireworks and sometimes SAI.
[quote who="Tasunke" reply="56" id="3087638"] Quoting Cruxador, reply 51As for the trogs, I don't see them as an Indian-like caricature so much as just a group of strong blue-collar type folks who have a lot of strength and see everything as a nail for that hammer. I see them as hard working folk who do what they have to but (as Empire) are more willing to accept that things won't always work out for everybody, and will take hardship as it comes. <br /
[quote who="MikusR" reply="9" id="3093424"]Maybe they are doing it AI Wars way - using Steam for achievements and matchmaking but not protection.[/quote]That would certainly be acceptable. [quote who="Neilo" reply="2" id="3093345"]I hardly think the OP is rude. Certainly though, if Brad was going to respond, he would have done so in that other thread. I'd say his silence is answer enough Steven, at least i have taken it that way.[/quote]He did do so in the other thread.
[quote who="FutileEmotion" reply="1" id="3093232"]I'm not really sure this needed a new thread, or that this dog needed further beating, but here goes: Supporting something is separate from following it. I support Alcoholics Anonymous, but that does not mean that I don't drink! The Gamer's Bill of Rights is a set of ideals. If Stardock, as a publisher, finds it in their interest to release on Steam, then they have to play by Steam's rules.[/quote]S
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="105" id="3093145"] 3. Spells. They all feel pretty unsatisfying. Maybe more animations and soundeffects could spice things up. But in all the whole execution of spells is not very good at the moment. It needs more varying things going on. I'm not sure how to respond to this. It is a visual thing? The spells in FE are certainly as varied or more than your typical RPG let alone a fantasy strategy game. I can only go by what
Nah. I look at attack, defense, and hit points. The threat levels don't seem to really mean anything.
Yeah, the should AI should know when what they can make is nowhere near the quality of what they're up against, and they should take some measures to not get into a war then.
Yeah, wither shouldn't stack.
One of the things that was supposed to improve in the current beta (0.86) was interface. The sovereign select screen was fixed and is now much better, a panel with a realm overview was added, and a line of dots was added to indicate movement paths. All well and good, right? Except none of this was really done that well. The sovereign select screen, despite featuring a big cinematic image of the sovereign selected (which is very well done and has some good particle effects) s
It seems like there's some sloppy code somewhere in the Corruption spell. It doesn't function elegantly, with the new shard sprite failing to appear on the map on the turn the spell is cast. More importantly, if you cast it on a shard which already has a shrine built, the shrine is destroyed but you are not able to build a new one. You can select the death shard and the "build" button appears but it doesn't work.
After exiting the game due to slowness, I found that the end turn button no longer worked, and the automatic turn end that comes upon using up all movement had not happened.
The person who wrote that doesn't know what he's talking about. People are upset about the declining quality of Bioware's writing, the increasing hubris of their administration, and their poor treatment of customers. Hepler just gets the trouble from it because she's an appealing target and convenient scapegoat. She's fat, ugly, Jewish, and more importantly she's an abysmal writer who quite clearly was given a job by her husband, and then has the gall to accu
Not too sure about the razing, or about the four accessory limit. I'll see how they play out.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="44" id="3088054"]On the other hand, with more CPU time I can still vastly improve the AI from where it is now. The AI is still awful at trading equipment with other champions or selling items. The strategic spell casting isn't nearly as sophisticated as the tactical AI spell casting. The diplomacy stuff can be made a lot more sophisticated.[/quote]Seems to me a lot of that stuff only really needs to be calculated about every ten turns or so. Perhaps
[quote who="Alstein" reply="18" id="3088076"] Quoting Campaigner, reply 17tation 4 and Xbox 720 will have STEAMlike ways to forever stop secondhand sales. I believe it, but am not certain. It is rumored, at least for the 720.[/quote]It's quite certain that there will be something. What that is and how pervasive it might be is yet unknown, but we can be sure some mechanism will be present.
[quote who="StevenAus" reply="158" id="3087714"]Hey, Frogboy, it's 2012 you know! Get with the times! [/quote]He's hoping that after the release of Fallen Enchantress, this will no longer be a niche genre.