Well I showed back up to list the 1.08 bugs, but I see they are noticed by all. Balance Summon monsters do not even consistently rank per their level of spell. Gold drains are all over yet your "improvements" do not match up for a conquest win. AI still cheats like a DM with it's cities and resources. [so can we get a "balance city" tool in the build menu to keep me having to destroy 8+ shanties eve
Mana regen is something they set in the first writeup and have not changed since. Even though casting has totally changed and mana is used by creatures (bear slam uses mana and can only be done overy 3 strategic turns, what does he hibernate too?) Obviously as various stats have gone percentage bonuses, mana regen should also be percentile. But let's face it changes were made in the last week to nerf the Casting aspect of the game (summoning removed onstart, nature's ally
[quote who="TLamming" reply="150" id="2721389"] ... I wish we had a forum devoted just to the people freaking out, so they could feed on each other's rage and just completely go nuclear. Would solve the problem of finding the best way to pass the time for the next few hours/day/2 days subtle troll post[/quote] I hear ya. if only there was a physical meet place with running water to hose it down afterwards to gather al
[quote who="Cruxador" reply="18" id="2721317"] Quoting solidsmooky, reply 17Which ever one has the largest breasts. This is how I pick for all of my games.Breast size isn't related to any non-aesthetic aspects of the character. You can think of stuff beyond that to plan for.[/quote] But are not Breasts just made of W!N ?
[quote who="Storm" reply="125" id="2721310"]What I don't understand is if the early release people are using Gold version, why not just release the gold version to us and just keep working on 0 day release for Tuesday as expect.[/quote] normally this means they found a game stopping(or at least fund destroying) bug in Gold and need to get a complete stable set of code out to us who will be the first vocal feedback for the Game. Even if the code set is not 0-
no worries they still have about 50 minutes till mid morning is over for them ;) I shall invoke Murphy (actually a corollary) and now go buy a good book to read, thus when I get back viola!
Wait you have not been able to make a custom sovereign that wins against any of them? My custom wipes out 3/4 of the map's opposition w/o every using a built unit The only time I ever had to go back was the Emp already had a bleedin' dragon. it's not about total points , it's where you put the point! /seriously is there a way to use a conistent map and have a fewest turns to wipeout the opposition?  
Shining Jacq the homocidal maniac, a very charismatic intelligent and "wise" leader with 4 talents and 4 weaknesses. And you better hope your leader is all the way on the other side of the map.
The reason for no flying units is that as soon as you leave the ground your cut off from any Essence. Decay and Corruption immediately start ruining your airborne unit. As for Game Balance, you need more missile capabilities plus Essence Spells that counter flight before you can allow Miss Hero and her flying UniPeg to go frolicking across the skies reigning Death and cute pink bunnies on all below.
creatures too slow ? give them the right leader! Organized Hero tracker adventurer with a speed of 11 at the end game. My mob of summon creatures and one other imbued hero blitzes the map! Hell I started at 4 movement as I recall. +cloak, +backpack +ring +necklace +warg
I never had a child inherit Essence, Am I missing something or was that not done in .98C? I just gave my eldest daughter all the books (and potions) I found and cast Imbue Champion on her. That and a couple of minor elementals and she became the scourer of spawning forests zones.
Until we get some early on missile units (stone throwers, slingers, spear chuckers) then a wandering summoning hero who can meditate (spell research) will get a Blitz Win every time. If there is no deterrent to the caster hero(and summoned allies) , then early opponents are toast. So the whole AI recruits the nasty creature nearby to keep our Hero away seems the likely result.
So concerning ATT & DEF versus STR & DEX. Any reason to put points into STR & DEX at all? A 2 hander is equal to 15 str and a full set of armor is equal to 15 dex. So only in the early game (bare fisted and naked) do the stats do you any good. Considering stat cost, I would rather summon some Muggles.
[quote who="harpo99999" reply="25" id="2714097"]actually I just like to see all the world map which is the ONLY cheat that I use. harpo [/quote] I just finished a beta4 where Kraxis had fled and I could not find him. The damn map was nothing but narrow valleys and lots of oceans with mountains blocking peninsulas all over the place. And a "See the Map" cheat would have shown just how messed up this world was and ended the g
Good intro tutorial Best starting spot I have ever seen in a game lately (.98 version) I still question the multiplier for shards (nodes) since on a large map you can have 4+ of one type. And a linear multiplier just encourage Min/Max strats.
RE X Nodes giving X times multiplier for spells. Frogboy's algorithms need more bell... curve. /Just completed a Large normal where my custom sovereign Jacq only founded a city when the cost went up to 25600 Gildars for my pioneer unit to have done it. Yep she conquered that many AI players ;) with nothing but allies and summoned beasts. Jacq of course is a homicidal maniac on Essense.
the combat AI is non existant, hope your coding includes that. Or even the coding that puts casters in front and summoned monsters/melee units in the back getting fixed before release. Just get one caster with a 9 square AoE spell and the mobs will chase you around forever. but it is still the engine that worries me, and not just OoM crashes. The UI popups stack and block each other and then the UI Focus
gui better than original release out of memory errors not so much. At this point I expect a post release rebalancing based on players feedback, since perceptions of min/max seem to have skewed "values".