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Err... I now share the common disappointment about magic system... more on that separately. Socketboy, most of what you are asking is interface issue, not the magic itself. Also... building a character for certain schools isn't THAT much of a gamble. Books can be researched (although that is somewhat a gamble) and shards can be found later. On top of that there are spells that need no shards and even schools without shards associated with them.

I took my time to play around with magic. That completely messed-up my head... I was sure we can use essence to create fertile grounds... turns out we can't... BUT, we can use it to make the ground green, now that's something... or nothing... since cities can do the same at the cost of 1 pioneer. Imbue champion looks like another waste... a separate from your own mana pool isn't worth splitting a consolidated mana pool... Ok, I admit it, essence system is in a

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1" id="2678555"]I'm afraid not. The primary purpose of your Dynasty in Elemental is to forge alliances with other players and gain champions who already are imbued with essence. This is a system we can look at expanding in the future but what you mention isn't within the scope we envisioned. Feel free to suggest ideas though because I think the system has a lot of growth potential. [/quote] Erm then how come they aren't

Funny to see this turn into into "read ME!" battle grounds... Anyway some of those sound bizarre especially the one "don't let me research spells". Gee... I have to rapidly hamster meself some magic and see why everyone's so disappointed about current system. Either I'm missing something or I have entirely different expectations of magic.

I have to disagree, well only partially but still, Essence IS available on a decent level or at least can be with a bit more tweaking of numbers. There are Essence potions or whatever those are called they add .5 essence to sovereign. I've had +2 essence in 10 to 20 turns simply from errand quests. THAT means 2 fertile grounds for example. Heck, that's worth something. Think about adding that to a city with 2 more food sources, food enhancing buildings and food specialization. It's hutfest ti

[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="4" id="2678216"]Grognar....and Betty? Heh. Poor Betty. Such a plain name. I hope she doesn't look as plain as her name - otherwise she might have that "Ugly" trait and you wouldn't get 16 kids But, yeah, genetics - with a degree of randomness/ unexpected results , would be pretty cool. [/quote] The successor to the throne of a human sovereign is suddenly a trog... go figure... That'll teach him not to marry and

Buffing Up buffs is imho work for later stages. When balance is less abstract and less obscured than now. I believe that current focus is more on principles than on details. Buffs work, they help, they are "eligible for fun". Making them fun and balanced will be done in due time. Yep, spells are a pain to select once you have a bunch, but right click is a tad to royal for them. Maybe something with CTRL or some other "shiftstate", but then again, AFAIK SD delays interface till the act

[quote who="kryo" reply="13" id="2679122"]As Brad noted, it's been moved to the modding suite (which is disabled in the public builds at the moment). [/quote] [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] Geee... and it wasn't even broken enough... Although it did cry for improvement... mainly with storing, organizing, and modifying...

[quote who="kryo" reply="11" id="2679059"]Sorry guys, seems I still had a 3A candidate build on this machine which didn't have it moved yet--didn't notice until I came across another thread that had a screenshot for this. [/quote] So you mean it's unavailable?

[quote who="joasoze" reply="1" id="2678693"]Might I remind you that the game is not finished. We are testing mechanics still The master quest will be more than tough enough when the game is all ready [/quote] ↑ What he said. Other than that, I share your concerns about MQ. I believe it has to be done across the whole map. Also, you can't warn others before MQ is actually researched, because if it is researched or not is only determined at breakthrough. And

[quote who="Das123" reply="1" id="2678664"]They will be changing the system I believe to allow the influence area to dictate what can be built on these tiles rather than the city linkage. [/quote] Where this comes from? A link if you may.

Wait a mango... errr... mate a winet... errr... whatever... to much posting for me today... What I meant to ask isn't there supposed to be only one of those? I never saw ANY "wild game" extractors because I never took hunter. Are you sure there's one for everybody?

Actually armband gets unequipped even when you put a shield on sov./champ. (and in reverse as well)

Had the same a lot of times. Also had invisible champion who turned visible after recruitment. Unfortunately I can't provide more info on how or why this happens.

You may want to try adding -w command line parameter. That'll allow you to kill the process or to make the firewall rule on the fly. (that's what I did when my firewall got bossy, since I wasn't feeling like adding the rule manually.

[quote who="kryo" reply="7" id="2678989"]Custom factions have not been removed. If you made one previously, the added medallion will have pushed the new custom medallion off to the right. Just click the arrow to scroll over and find it. Reduced 58%Original 981 x 247 [/quote] Mine doesn't even have a scroll button. It has defaults and an empty space. Maybe i should have left those gimpraces of mine alone back at B3... [quote w

1. Most of it really requires more intuitiveness, but I disagree on some points. I'd prefer current interface to daily pop-up. There is Hiergamenon or whatever it's called, which is an in-game encyclopedia... except it likes to give you crashes instead of information on 50/50 basis. Also I'm concerned with auto-something features. Auto switch just pisses me off at times, and auto turn can leave me without a recruit. I'd like some override functions or

Hmm... WAAAAY back when i played FW demo I liked how the small battles go, but once i got to bigger ones... it was too much of a hassle to keep every damn unit healthy, and I couldn't stand loosing them for 1-2 more hits when there are enough healthy warriors nearby to win without those sacrifices. I never gave that game another chance. Actually, now that you mentioned it, I even doubt that tactical battles will improve elemental. Think about it - this game is long enough with

If you want maximum zoom with cloth map. Options->[V] only use cloth map. You don't have to restart for it, so you can switch it back and forth whenever you want. I also think that the game has a setting for a zoom level at which the cloth map begins. Still it would be nice to have a toggle button for it.

The sovereign betrayed his own people to defend his enemy's people? Now, that's a strong sense of honor, albeit a bizarre one. [e digicons]XD[/e] Edit: Joke of the day. Drunk sovereign sits at his capitol's pub. Sovereign: ...and they killed my sidekick... Barkeep: isn't that a crying shame?... Sovereign: Yeah, .. If anyone gets to kill my sidekick that's got to be me!

Well, I understand the thrill of "who's next out of our alliance?" question and diplomatic backplay that it brings along. But I think that this can be accomplished by simply setting up "allied victory" option like it was in SoaSE. Actually, does this game even have "official" allied victory at this stage? As for importance of avoiding Xv1... this game is set up on uncapped resources (only essence and starting advantage differentiate between 2 players and 1 stronger player in terms of

Hard to decipher your English at times , but still... 1. If you have everything then building will be in the color of your kingdom/empire. If you do not have something it needs building will be gray. In this case put your mouse over something you can not build and look for red numbers. This is what you need to have to build. Put your mouse on it and a pop-up will tell what it is. 2. If you did not understand Marks - You do not <

And that does it... I didn't try that myself, but AFAIK you aren't supposed to be able to harvest wild game with warlord . Wild game is supposed to be only for those with hunter sovereign.

Something tells me that this is the kind of bug that will be squashed in later stages...

[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="1" id="2677890"] It is intentional and aimed to throw some variation in research, in order to avoid a perfect research order for each game. The techs are rediscovered and that why you might stumble on higher level tech. BTW, the complexity level you are describing is already here: What are yellow tech at the beginning of a tree are green techs when you have already found some techs in the same field. [/quote] I'll be bri