Mtn_Man

[quote who="TroubledWaters" reply="13" id="3257298"] Quoting seanw3, reply 10What other companies are giving a free game to 100,000 people that purchased it from a totally different source? Taleworlds? Cyanide? Creative Assembly? Bethesda? Rockstar? Stardock is pretty much the only company to do this.[/quote] Seriously? All those other companies gave away a free game through Steam to people who had bought an earlier game directly from the develop

[quote who="Encadi" reply="9" id="3257277"]Anyway to fix this please?[/quote] Buy it from Steam. I do wish I could have installed it through Steam using my Stardock CD key, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. [quote who="Encadi" reply="9" id="3257277"]Which is specially what shows the 0 comitment from stardock sicne you have to manually download and isntall patches. really terrible company..[/quote] Never mind. Looks like you're just anot

[quote]But I am very wary about buying sequels (Civ V, Mount & Blade)[/quote] I'll throw this out there again since Civ V seems to be the current whipping boy of strategy fans: Civilization V: Gods & Kings is one of the finest 4x strategy games ever created. That said, Fallen Enchantress is certainly not "dumbed down", and especially not compared to War of Magic.

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="41" id="3256746"]Looks like it went on a bit of a diet... ~36MB --> ~25MB[/quote] It renders slighty faster, too, though still not fast enough for my liking.

[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="61" id="3257040"]And I say to you "You don't run my life buddy BOY!" I'll complain as much as I want when I want and I'll give a LOW review score if I choose to because of having to redownload and Reinstall because I wasn't WARNED about it until just recently. Otherwise I WOULDN'T have kept up with the BETA downloads. So guess who can 'GET OVER IT NOW" buddy BOY! hahahahah[/quote] The self-entitlement is strong with this one.</p

[quote quoting="post"] Greetings! Today’s the big day. In fact, 2 hours from now 1.0 will go live. Now, to save yourself pain and aggravation please do the following: UNINSTALL the beta. Completely. That also means go into the my games\fallen enchantress directory and rename it to something else (or delete it entirely). Don’t take any chances. Start from a clean setup. [/quote] Ah, crap... really? So I guess leaving my comput

[quote who="you28" reply="77" id="3256780"]It has quite a few bugs (none of the ones I've mentioned have been fixed) and quite a few oddities in the interface (none of the ones I've mentioned have been fixed; esp the ability to use books in the trade menu or a very quick method to switch to equipment window). Then there is a personal preference for hex or oct over squares.[/quote] So are these bugs or feature requests?

[quote who="zonk_1000" reply="67" id="3256681"]I don't need the latest bleeding edge graphics or art style in my strategy games but the graphics/art in FE are the biggest reason why I'm not all that impressed with the game so far. I'm not even sure why the look of WoM was kept when a lot of people panned the graphic style of it. That being said, I have pre-purchased the game and hope to see past the game's visual shortcomings so that I may enjoy the other things it has to offe

Oh, thank you! A well-written and comprehensive manual! I played a little of the beta and enjoyed it, but the underlying mechanics were largely hidden from me which hindered my ability to make correct strategic decisions. I'm going to enjoy the game much more now that I actually know what I'm doing. On a different note, the manual seems to render [i]very[/i] slowly. I've had similarly sized manuals that render much more quickly. I also agree w

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="17" id="3252701"]Now that we are talking other strategy games, can someone tell me how we still don't have f'n SMAC2 yet?![/quote] Alpha Centuri was Sid Meier's way of making a Civilization game during the brief period in his career when he didn't own the Civilization IP. There's really no point in it now because they'd just be competing with themselves.

[quote]Civilization IV was ambitious and they stripped it down to make the mass market friendly Civilization V.[/quote] Personally, I'd put Civilization V: Gods & Kings at least on par with Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword.

[quote who="planeswalker2001" reply="25" id="3256501"]Also i've read somewhere on the forums that there was some talk of allowing us to use the Cd-keys that we get on Steam, so we can also get it from steam or did i mis read something?[/quote] Brad said about a month ago that wasn't happening. Probably due to Steam not wanting to give free bandwidth to people who didn't actually buy the game through them. Anyway, I just tried it, and Steam didn'

[quote]If you order it sooner, it'll be the last Beta (0.99) and it'll upgrade to the 1.0 version.[/quote] Ah, I guess there was no point in my uninstalling it last night. I just assumed it would be like any other game where the beta and gold version would be incompatible. I guess I should have known better. Oh well...

[quote who="mlepinski" reply="67" id="3255932"] quoting post I've gotten a lot of questions from people over the past couple of years about why we are giving away Fallen Enchantress to the early adopters of War of Magic. They say people won't remember War of Magic (it was 2 years ago). They say it won't "buy" good will back from those who didn't like WOM. I pre-ordered War of Magic. I didn't like the game at release. I DO remember War of Magic.

" Fixed an issue that could cause naked, headless custom sovereigns when restarting a game" Oh, come on, that's so awesome, it should have been categorized as a feature.

[quote]...autoresolve has gotten a lot better.[/quote] That's great to hear. Auto-resolve in War of Magic was basically an auto-lose button.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="22" id="3248887"]My let's play videos explain the game concepts fairly well. Once the game is released I will do some more to set players up with a basic guide.[/quote] Videos can be helpful, but I'd really prefer something I can read at my leisure away from my computer -- even if it is a PDF document on my tablet. I guess what I'm really asking is are there definite plans for a gameplay manual to coincide with the game's release?

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="16" id="3248513"] Quoting Mtn_Man, reply 15For instance, a quest reward is either a nice bow for my sovereign or a boost to my "reputation" -- or was it influence? I can't remember -- and I'm thinking, "Why would I not take the bow every time?" Actually, you should take the money every time 300 Gildar can be used to rush buildings and can push an important city a dozen of turns ahead of where it would get by itself. Bu

[quote who="Kongdej" reply="1" id="3247391"]I was thinking of putting together a gameplay guide, and would love all silly kind of questions you stumble upon as you are playing the game, from your new eyes![/quote] I would just like a comprehensive manual explaining the general mechanics. I picked up the beta this past week, and I'm ignorant of a lot of things that would help me make correct decisions rather than, say, arbitrarily picking one building over another simply beca

[quote who="rebelito" reply="27" id="3242059"] I just hope that that parrot is not the same that coded Civilization 5... (just kidding... or am I?)[/quote] Civilization V with the Gods and Kings expansion is actually a pretty great game.

I like the general idea of random events, but I hate the idea of suddenly losing a game because 5 dragons unexpectedly spawned outside my capital.

[quote who="BlackRainZ" reply="124" id="3214620"]We aren't getting FE from Gamestop I think. I think we are getting it free straight from Stardock (well those of us getting it for free)[/quote] Oh, I just assumed we were getting it through Impulse. Straight from Stardock is even better.

[quote quoting="post"] (9) Before anyone asks, no, you can’t transfer your FE serial to Steam. I can’t go into the details on why this is so don’t ask. Just assume it has something to do with gold plated rocket cars or something.[/quote] Ah, well, that sucks. My guess it has something to do with GameStop not wanting to lose a bunch of accounts to Steam.

The cloth map looks great with more color and detail.

[quote quoting="post"] Will Fallen Enchantress require Steam? No. We plan to make Fallen Enchantress available to purchase on Steam. But it won’t require Steam to play.[/quote] Will those of us with a Steam account and who are eligible for a free copy of Fallen Enchantress be given the option to download the game via Steam instead of Impulse/GameStop?