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It couldn't have any WORSE effect on the economy than the President speaking. Give it a try!

"As things are now a wizard alone builds a city (should be a small group of units) he is supposed to be a leader, but he is alone. Also he builds a city and suddenly there are people in there... still he walks around alone for 100s turns (25 years!!), heroes don't come out from his village or his troops, but instead he has to find them around. The guy is the owner of a city but inexplicably he doesn't have the money to get nice clothes or a horse until he finds money around... That&#3

[quote who="Ausland" reply="2" id="2979367"] And whats up with teleporting, huh?[/quote] I'm sensing a troublemaker in the area...

[quote who="StarReaper" reply="24" id="2978907"] This isnt soley about the fact i got dupped into buying a game i thought would work multiplayer... [/quote] This sentiment is crazy. You chose to pre-order instead of waiting to see what reviewers said of the game. You chose to skip the early, open refund stage where Brad himself was posting in many threads like this one telling people how to get a refund.&nbsp

I'm sure D3 will be successful and have a ton of people playing it. I just can't get passed always on, kicked out of your single player game if you DC concept. I realize that D3 is in some (significant for me) ways a fundamentally different game than D2 was. I remember hours and hours of D2 and LOD LAN games with one of my closest friends. We'd often order pizza, crack a case of beer, and kill a weekend. We can still do that with D3 I

Ive always thought that rather than a teleportation spell they could include an expensive late game city improvement for magic gates a la MOO2's Jump Gates. It accomplishes the "only in your own territory" goal without the side effect of being the ultimate "oh shit" button. If you're main force is out of position attacking in a foreign land, you're still screwed. There are also plenty of ways to limit it to make sure that it's useful, but not

Reading back through this thread I notice that the discussion revolves around D2: LOD, Homeworld Cataclysm, DA: O, and similar stuff and complains that all DLC quality isn't in that vein. It strikes me that this seems like complaining that every game isn't as good as D2, Homeworld, and DA. You're going to play and enjoy plenty of games that aren't as good as any of those three, but apparently DLC has to be on a "classic" level in order to be worth the money

[quote who="Emperor_Nero" reply="34" id="2971537"]But you are paying 10 dollars for a mission that may only be 2 or 3 hours of gameplay, when I can wait a month or two more and get a completely new questline that is going to be 10 times that.[/quote] It's easy to make up numbers. You're using random numbers without any backing to support your argument. You can certainly point at SPECIFIC DLC that was $10 and only gave 2 or 3 hours of gameplay, but I can point at $10 DLC

[quote who="Emperor_Nero" reply="30" id="2971516"]The only DLC I would buy would be a full expansion pack, back in the day I had Starcraft, then the expansion came out so I got it. Added entire campaigns, I mean that is the way it should be. It should add something to the game that wasn't there before. 1 or 2 mission DLCs are a rip-off, but when you get something like Dragon Age: Origins Awakening - that would be worth the 30 dollars you pay for it. It added like another 20+ hours to game

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="19" id="2961241"]People just feel entitled to everything. If you don't want to pay for something, then don't. you have no right to steal it. You do not deserve it. And you are an idiot if you think games are over priced. 20+ years ago I was spending the exact amount of money I am today for 8 bit Nintendo games. If you illegally download a game or dlc, you are not fighting the Man and their outrageous price gouging, you a

[quote who="jpmcconnell" reply="75" id="2971478"] Right now only magic has an early use opportunity cost: if I use magic early I'll be weaker later. All the others (except maybe diplomacy, depending on implementation) are the reverse, the earlier I start using it the better off I am at endgame. My champions will have more levels, my troops will be experienced and upgraded, my economy will grow exponentially. Thus if these systems really are balanced then best path is to special

[quote who="Stant123" reply="4" id="2970979"] They actually do have the authority. The Chinese Government also has the authority to prevent their entry as does any other country. Other countries like the UK will allow it, though.[/quote] While semantically different it amounts to the same thing. They need the cooperation of the host government to operate and in general China has no reason to give it.

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="2" id="2970965"]And why aren't they (iCE) going after the very large number of 'people' doing outright pirating of intellectual property in China? Its this another example of , screw the small fry? [/quote] Because they have no enforcement authority in China? The host government has to be willing to cooperate, no? A not insignificant part of China's growth over the last two decades has been based on NOT enforcing pa

[quote who="Souls-Stream" reply="34" id="2970961"] I'm very disapointed to see those useless spells come again like Raise and lower land... Ok, they're fun to play with to modify the land but they're useless unless you have mana to waste. [/quote] I disagree. The straight terraforming spells are certainly useful. They allow you to shape the land around your cities, clear space for a new city/outpost (if you're trying to push back the fog of

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="30" id="2970954"] Fourth, some farcasting ability for your sovereign might be handy, like in AoW. Ie, your sovereign isn't in the combat but he can still cast spells into it, but at an increased cost the further away you are or something like that. [/quote] I'll second (or third or fourth) this question. I've always liked the general idea and thought it should be tied to a high level once per empire/kingdom building that

This looks great. My only question is regarding defensive strategic spells. Has there been any thought around implementing any? The ability to enchant an area to protect it for offensive spells (Curgen's Volcano, for example) or to enchant your land to make it harsher to invaders? Summoning haunted woods that make it harder for an enemy to travel through or force them to lose units/face the spirits of the woods (as an example)? If I design my

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="64" id="2957588"]A unit's look should represent its abilities, not simply be a sheet of numbers from afar. I sure hope there's some fresh 3d stuff going on in FE.[/quote] I agree with this. I hope that traits that should alter a characters appearance in some way do just that. [quote who="Sethai" reply="46" id="2956441"]Ultimately, whether a trait in considered meaningful or superfluous is a completely subjective decis

I bet Brad will say that he's not happy with the AI. [e digicons]O:)[/e]

[quote who="EternalRequiem" reply="17" id="2926598"]would be damn nice to have a fort type building to defend on the boarder of your ZOC which is smack dab next to another factions ZOC. Of course it's a special building that isn't part of a city therefore you have have a small army you've sent out build the building. This is nothing unusual because the Roman Legions would when they were deployed build forts when they dug in when invading or defending an area.[/quote] I&#39

[quote who="EternalRequiem" reply="9" id="2926599"]no comment... for congratulations... rather uncreative trait, anyone can come up with the idea to pay gold and hire bandits... I am disappointed [/quote] Submitted the exact same trait, did you? What?? No??? Well then I guess ANYONE can't come up with it... But I sure you would have if you thought it would win. Congrats xmorg. Wasn't the one I picked, but I like it. Besides, the

[quote who="SerinMaldy" reply="100" id="2925356"]Are we, the consumer, ever gonna see this game finished? Anytime soon maybe? It has been over half a year since you release it. What the hell, really! You should have dumped your time into this game immediately been done within a month and moved on to other endeavors; however, you have slowly putzed around with this game, while making an expansion and working on other projects. WOW! I wish you would have just waited til it was done to release i

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="5" id="2922513"]Jesus, really? Brad's giving me two free games. You are really searching for a reason to bitch. Do you read what you write? Does it sound justified in your head? What the fuck do you think is fair? What should Brad do? You don't want to make FE a standalone? Well, I think most of us agreed, including Brad, Jon, and Kael, that WoM was too flawed in design and to really make a better game, they

How could I be expected to pass up $6 for Sword of the Stars Complete the other day. Damn you, Impulse sale popup! I was waiting for Shogun 2, but managed to grab a deal and get it for free when I bought a new cpu for my computer.

[quote who="alborrelli" reply="82" id="2919617"] +10 seeing as Froggy keeps saying that money's not an issue and they they want(ed) to get WOM right, I still fail to see why the hurry to do FE when WOM is still in the state it is in. I'm putting my money on 1.3 being the last thing officially worked on/released. Also, what does " The second reason is that War of Magic has a lot of potential to continue into the future on its own track." mean? Does "own

[quote who="Azzazell" reply="4" id="2919578"]Is it worth to install this patch?? Game is better? or 1.11 is better?[/quote] The 1.2 beta patches are mostly stability and performance. Most of the patch notes have looked just like this one. You won't find overly many feature changes (there are a few) but quite a bit more stability (if you've had stability problems with 1.1).