Rishkith

If anything we just need a 4th tech tree again to me more like Alpha Centauri.

They're both available to kingdoms, and I have done this in my current game.

I like this idea

Just fine. The AI isn't competitive enough to really cause me to reach the end of the tech tree. It will be nice when we get it competitive enough to make the end of the tech tree more viable, but I don't have a problem with the pacing. It could be sped up a little bit, but it is fairly close to optimal so that it would be easy to make it too fast.

Dynasties were removed for a good reason I agree with. I don't think it is because they don't want them at all, just as I would like to see them. But if you do too many things it becomes harder and harder to do any of them well. If Fallen Enchantress is a result of slimming it down to that, I don't want to see them undo it.

I prefer city build mode. The regular map placement has a lot of issues with placing building close to mountains. It wants to think I'm placing on the mountain. Personally I like building placement and would never want the game to auto-place for me.

Day 3 Didn't play as much today. Finally got unburied from enough snow to go to work. Still playing Tarth, Magnus declared war on me and I have yet to find him on the map. The game needs more "alerts". I don't have a clear idea of when turns begin and end, and if it isn't a production queue the game isn't good about alerting me. Clicking on a unit on the right side alert icons should change focus to that unit. I clic

The overland spells are crazy tough. I use Pillar of Fire on enemy armies and then just go in and one-shot stuff with archers.

Day 2 Found the spellbook and can cast directly from it. It wasn't obvious to me away from the other controls down by the map. More attention should be brought to it. Maybe illuminating new spells learned from ala MOM? Played Tarth and oh what a difference from the Ironeers. Ranged champions are weaklings Used a tactical damage spell and then engaged the army. Had to kill off units with 0 health (bug) So now I&#3

Disagree. In fact I hate doing anything other than Tactical battles because auto-resolve wastes tons of mana to win. I've not yet gotten bored of tactical battles and with some more tactical choices added in I shouldn't ever need to.

I want to qualify this after playing Tarth. Ranged combat heroes appear to be quite weak, quite worse than Archer units. Melee champions are death on roller skates, just keep leveling and equipping them constantly and nothing can keep up. I think if we started differentiating hero types the problem with power-leveling with gear might fix itself more. I think there should be these types of heroes with very different types of gear: Assassin, Spellcaster, Guardian,

It is a rather neat ability and I like the random chance if you can keep hitting with it. Rather than nerfing it, I'd rather leave it as is and develop ways of countering it. Such as a successful counterattack interrupting Maul. It is okay if some monsters can be devestated with luck. It is also going up against Bears in close combat fearful even with a strong champion, which is something I like. There just need to be tactical ways you can plan on countering it.

Considering the cost of army upkeep versus the cost of champions, champions as many as you can get are the only way to go. I would like to see a better balance struck in upkeep costs. Maybe reduce the cost of armies stationed in a city? What are the downsides to going with a champion as opposed to an army?

[quote quoting="post"] We will be lurking the forums (and third party forums as well -- Si vous savez ce que je veux dire) to gather as much information as possible on everything from bugs, user interface tweaks, game play suggestions, to feature requests and sitting down to determine what to put in there. [/quote] Please don't get bogged down in the third party forums like it seemed you did during WOM beta. Not dissing the importance of collecting feedback from all ov

A bunch of thoughts about FE in general after playing 2 games. First kudos on getting back to beta 1 of WOM. This is the type of fun gameplay I sorely missed after War of Magic had moved into beta 2 and things got very bland and more broken. Fallen Enchantress is already more stable than WOM was at launch and more fun than WOM has ever been. New games seem to always crash around turn 30 and then the game gets stable (I just restore from save game). The game can play f

Nevermind, it was Kaspersky. It didn't close when I thought I disabled it. I had to go into kaspersky and disable protection while leaving it running.

I am running XP with SP3 and Kaspersky anti-virus. Closing Kaspersky yields the same results. I've downloaded the installer twice with the same result. Each time I start the program it locks up the file window and sits in task manager taking up 72k and doing nothing. When I force close I get the following error:

There seems to be an issue with the installer but I don't know what it is. Application hangs everytime I try to launch the installer. I'm going to assume it is corrupt as others have had issues with and try downloading it again.

No response from support yet, but the problem has been corrected and it now shows up on my downloads.

[quote who="Wits" reply="3" id="3058599"]Anyone else have issues downloading? I can't get the download to start; when I click on the "Full Beta" -button, nothing happens. I can download WOM just fine, but not FE. Doesn't work if I click "Save Target" either. Probably just an issue with server load, but making sure anyway.[/quote] Can't get that far yet. My account states I have a pre-order, but FE doesn't show as a download.

[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="7" id="3058586"]Rishkith, send them an e-mail. Sounds like there is an error with pax-preorders.[/quote] I put in a support ticket because I don't know what email address to contact.

Never got an email. File isn't listed. I pre-ordered way back at PAX 09. So it seems beta is only for some pre-orders.

[quote who="SD_Skittles" reply="65" id="3058535"]Just to be clear, you don't need the email to get the BETA. If you pre-ordered the game before August 24, 2010, the BETA will automatically be added to your Stardock account (the email you registered the game with) around 3:00 PM EST today. [/quote] Did not work. I pre-ordered Elemental at PAX Prime 09 and did not get the email and do not have access to fallen enchantress on my downloads.</p

No email, even though I pre-ordered at PAX. The date curiously enough shows 12/13/2011... which is a bit odd for the PAX pre-order. I will check at noon to see if things worked properly and I get in.

Would the easy way be to leave the AI dumb and just reduce the "threat radius" if there is such a thing for caravans? and if there isn't such a mechanic it should be added. Large armies should scare away small groups of wild monsters and small armies should look like prey.