Cruxador

Yeah, I agree with this. It's good that the mechanic encourages you to build in advantageous places, but making lesser cities waste prestige this badly isn't an optimal solution. Making a production city in a place where food supply isn't necessarily top-tier should be a viable tactic. We shouldn't have to plan to make every city become a level five to avoid wasting our prestige. seanw3: The problem with that is it results in prestige being wasted. If you don't bui

I don't like anything that starts "Remove". However I like the ideas for replacement. Make Cloudwalk give a big move bonus, and be able to build gates. Good ideas all around, really. I'd give a gate a mana cost of 1 and no mundane maintenance; in order to be able to use them you'll have to build them in multiple cities. If they have a fairly high amount of labor required then you can't put them in newly captured cities quickly enough to matter in the short term

[quote who="seanw3" reply="26" id="3061530"]Elevation seems like something that will easily be possible. The map is designed around having versatile terrain, so why couldn't there be a hill with a bonus to defense and accuracy? Tiles do absolutely need bonuses and penalties. This is already a feature, just not used on any maps. [/quote]I was not aware that this was a feature that already existed. In that case, making use of it is an obvious thing that needs to happen.<br /

[quote who="Cackfiend" reply="126" id="3060546"]Its absolute blasphemy to make a PC game that doesnt have multiplayer. People play Consoles for SP.[/quote]That is the exact opposite of the truth. PC games are predominantly single-player, while console games usually thrive on their multiplayer. This has been the case since Halo replaced Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament. [quote who="Cackfiend" reply="128" id="3061603"]Cool, and guess why me and 100k's of other people

[quote who="jtmk" reply="3" id="3061582"]I have the game registered with the Impulse client and not with the forum. I was not aware that in order to receive a free copy of Fallen Enchantress that I had to have been registered on the forums when I purchased it. I only recently registered with the forums when it appeared to me that was the necessary case. Is there someway to be able to show you (Stardock) that I did register the game with Impulse when I first purchased it?&nbs

If you note in the description of "Path of the Governor" it does not say it has a progression. All the others do. So I reckon this is probably intended behavior, even if it's a bit of a questionable choice.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="21" id="3061330"]As far as support tactics, I don't see lots of change happening to the core mechanics. We have all cried out at one point or another for the long list of tactics, LOS being most desirable to me. The best one can expect from this Elemental is probably some good buff spells for intelligent enemies. I would also like to see some more mundane abilities for creatures, like special attacks and defenses. But don't stop asking because ther

The forum software has shit the bed as usual on this post, so sorry for that. Notice where the quote tags are and pretend they work. It isn't saying whose quotes I used in all of them, so people responded to directly in this post are seanw3, Strumpetplaya, Rishkith, and id_est in that order. [quote who="seanw3" reply="5" id="3060848"]There is a simple solution here. 1. Make the AI better. Already happening if you downloaded the Friday Frogboy patch.

[quote who="JcRabbit" reply="63" id="3060431"] Quoting Cruxador, reply 59That's a nice theory, but it's not actually true. Torrents require pirates to provide their own bandwidth, and for piracy they're used far more than digital dropboxes. If torrents were the holy grail of piracy, file sharing sites such as Megaupload would all be dead by now. But they're not, in fact, they're thriving. Why?[/quote]Because they're used for legitimate file h

First of all, I would like to say that War of Magic's main problem in my mind wasn't a gameplay concern, it was blandness. And that's fixed. Derek and Dan Stern have gotten that taken care of just fine. But the main gameplay issues that Fallen Enchantress were supposed to fix remain. The best unit is still the one that you pile all your best stuff on. Once your best stuff starts taking up too much encumbrance, stick a horse under them. This makes you

I play almost entirely in clothmap, but I prefer it off. Is it hard to see positions with the non-clothmap?

Heroes may be tough early on, especially with a lot of successful adventuring, but if you're up against tough monsters before you're ready, champion growth isn't very fast. And later in the game, when you can equip your units well and can train them in groups or squads, heroes greatly decrease in comparative viability.

Don't use Rapidshare. With MU down, the next best option is Mediafire. [quote who="JcRabbit" reply="25" id="3059362"]Pirates would be much less willing to distribute pirated software, movies, whatever, if they had to host it themselves, i.e.; pay for the bandwidth. I bet they would be less willing to 'share' if bandwidth costs came out of their own pocket.[/quote]That's a nice theory, but it's not actually true. Torrents require pirates to prov

I want a better notification too. I'm not sure the sound is playing, because I haven't heard it at all. If it's playing it blends in with the background music.[quote who="db0" reply="3" id="3059737"]There is actually a reason not to build in a city. Almost everything you build has maintenance. If you build too much, you will run out of money.[/quote]Yeah, but there's no reason to not be building things. Even if you have all the buildings you want, you always need more soldiers

Yeah, I had this problem too. I don't know if they don't work, or if it's just damn near impossible to figure out, but either way something needs to be changed here.

For a first beta release, it's magnificent. As a game, it still has a way to go.

Also you can't upgrade units if you're outside of your territory.

I haven't experienced much trouble, but I'm running a 64bit OS, so if I had trouble things would be really bad. Are you guys taking that into account when you talk about whether you've been having issues? Seems important to mention, to me.

Besides a small cyst here and there everything seems pretty okay. [quote who="WhiteElk" reply="6" id="3059267"]So has anyone had a flare up of One More Turn Syndrome while playing FE?[/quote]I did, but the game eventually crashed and ended it.

So far there's a fair handful of small issues with the game, although overall it's quite solid. First, the aesthetic things; stuff that doesn't directly impact gameplay. Some menus look a bit glassy and sci-fi, some menu items could be redone to fit FE's aesthetic better. In particular, sliders in the options menu and the sovereign creation screen. In wide resolutions, on the title screen, all or part of the elements at top and bottom may be cut

What do we do if it crashes and there's no .zip file?

[quote quoting="post"]5. Tarth males cant wear the ladies satin shirts anymore[/quote] But what if they want to feel pretty?

This is some bullshit. MegaUpload was taken down (along with a lot of people's legitimate data that they were hosting there) with no sort of trial or anything of the sort, simply an accusation. And the fact that this comes while MegaUpload was in the middle of pressing charges against Universal for unrelated reasons seems to imply that piracy concerns had nothing to do with it. Really can't say I blame Anonymous from taking issue with this. I don't know what t

Ah yeah. Eagerly anticipating my return home so I can actually enjoy this thing. On that note, it would be cool if Stardock made some sort of app so that I could start a download remotely. Then I'd be able to start testing as soon as I got home, instead of probably downloading late into the night.

[quote quoting="post"] # 5 FLANK FLANK FLANK If you run into enemies with missile weapons (archers for instance) learn to flank. Units have a kind of..area of control that is subtle. You can’t simply bypass them but instead have to go around. Similarly, if you have the archers, space your units such that your melee units can act as screens for the enemy units because they will definitely want to take out those archers.[/quote]Oh, flanking is in? Awesome. From Derek's des