the only way at present is to declare war on them, beat them down and then demand surrender from them, then you get the sov with a broken spirit and needing to heal for about five turns before they can move. harpo
I have killed dragons inside 15 combat turns with one sov and eight companies of archers with the sov casting haste on each of the archers and slow attempted on the dragon and each of the archers hitting the dragon at every opertunity and the sov also casting heal/wellspring whenever one or more archers get injured. note to self will have to look at making a army wide haste spell and an enemy army wide slow spell as a high level perhaps level 4 air + level 3 earth. harpo
usually my dragons cast fear, then waddle up to within two squares of the army and breaths fire onto the entire enemy army and FRIES most if not all of the army, and the accompanying archers fire one or two volleys of arrows and battle over
derek, please lock the ai programmer(s) in a room and refuse to let them out until the monster ai will attack the NEAREST town/outpost that releases them, and afterwards has a bias to attack the faction that triggered the release ie a hatred of the side that caused the wandering so if a player releases a dragon near another player's town the dragon will target the player, BUT if it was released by an ai then the ai will be the target and not only destroy the outpost/town that released it
[quote]When an army without a champion gets loot, that loot goes to your sovereign (instead of being lost) [/quote]finally it is possible to send army stacks without champions to clear the various huts for when you do not have enough champions harpo
I also have had tsis issue in 981. harpo
I also have seen this. harpo
why are you trying to claim that you are local? you claim to be in americant. the heart of hell is just down the road a bit near booligal. harpo
perhaps a simpler solution to the lack of need for troops could be that each attack by a hero/single unit can only kill ONE member of a multi-unit eg those packs of mites often have three/five members in each of the two/three units(3 health) in the mite armies, so a single hero would take between six and fifteen attacks to kill one mite army assuming curgen's hammer(50 attack) as the weapon in the hero's hand( and at present it is two or three attacks as it each group that gets crushe
in my latest game(on a challenging ai,dense magic,dense monsters large map) I saw a clambercoil dragon!!!! wandering around from about turn 50 (resolin had released it by building a town within 3 tiles of the dragon cave) ( seeing the dragon wander into my first town's zone almost made me quit the game from the oh SHIT there goes the game), but about 30 turns later resolin declared war on me(they only had a power rating approx 20 more than mine(resolin had five tow
started a new game with a new custom sov and custom race played through till had conqured resolin and yithiril , killed a clambercoil dragon that had killed a town of mine, and was clearing one of the wildlands, and was also adding buildings to a city's build queue and had a lockup where windows said that elemental fallen enchantress had stopped working copied the <a title="9812 lockup" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8023186/fe%20crashes/b4/Elemental%20-%20Fallen%20Enchantres
I also have this issue on the machines that have stardock central installed on,and have manually updated to the latest beta. harpo
played a game with one other kingdom and four challenging empires against a custom sov & race, at end of game my power rating was 3840 the last empire was magnar with 20 and tarth was 219. was researching the economy boost +10% EACH turn, (all non-repeatable research was completed),magnar decided to attack one of my smaller armies that was surrounding him (that had three of my fast heavy horse archer companies armed with ignys bows and fire attack accessories (i also had 20 fire sha
my vote was good, partly due to the lack of sufficiently fine-grained vote options eg range of 0(horrible) to 9 (perfect) would have scored a 7 or 8, and partly due to my being able to stop playing to get sleep after only 9 hours of play. i remember playing the first civ for 12 hours straight then falling asleep on the keyboard, then having to get up and go to work after only 2 hours of sleep. until I get the 'can not stop playing till I collapse', I can not rate the gam
another suggestion that might help the player would be' to sort the weapons by their attack value' so that the players do not have to hover over each of the weapons in turn to find the best weapon to equip their hero's & sov with (it might even help the AI to improve it's attack and reduce the defeats it suffers) harpo
in another thread reporting this issue, derek reported that they had been able to duplicate in house and fix the bug, so hopefully we will see the fix in the next patch. harpo
this has been happening for a while, and SHOULD be flaged as bug in the save/load areas.. harpo
continuing the opinions of the logos, the first two have a visible hint of creativity, whereas the 2012 logo says that I(the user of the logo) have NO creativity and am VERY BORING, avoid at all costs. to remove the boring, the logo NEEDS a second colour just to rest the viewer's mind and eyes and to hint that there is still some creativity present. harpo
how about glassing(finish) the current logo? the matt finish is so DULL I think it would look a bit better. harpo
the white horse is probably a warhorse, and I think that one of the races can get spider mounts, but have not played as it only seen it in the diplomacy window. harpo
I usually play a custom female sov by the name of 'fro gal rar' that has all the spell types, procipinies crown, a hammer and the free hero hiring and she is from a custom race that gets the scrying pools archery and masterwork chain mail armour and warhorses, and in almost all games I finally win with a score of 18000+ and a rating of draginol(btw we NEED some HIGHER ratings than a mere 10,000) harpo
derek, thank you, you have helped to finally explain WHY the few games I wrote back in the late seventies, just did not gel for me, they worked BUT there was no fun in them, and then I migrated to utility/application programming where fun is NOT wanted. harpo
in my experience in fe .95X (ie the essence versions) for a first city i usually try for 2 or MORE essence with 3 or more hammers and atleast 3 food,(yes a nine or higher total resource rating) and the preference is essence, then material, then food as some of the city spells give per essence so a city with 3 base essence(I usually find one or more of these locations each game, but I do NOT use the ctrl n)+ scrying pool (+1 essence) has not only four spells, BUT if you pick the spells that ar
depends on how much space between sides you want, and have played a couple of games with all stormworld AND stock sides and a custom sov/race on the large maps size, BUT there was bearly enough space to build two towns before had to shift to war mode to capture towns to continue to expand MY faction harpo
my vote was for max essence,food is nice, material better, have found in some of my games a 3 essence, and very definitely GRABBED and defended as hard as possible these locations, the 2 essence gets good defence also the one essence also kept, one sessence also defended reasonably well but 0 essence gets the scrying pool and light defences only just to tempt the monsters to attack it (but they never do any more). harpo