[quote who="Natjur" reply="147" id="3112596"]Wait? So the AI's that I am currently playing against in Beta are NOT local? And they learn? Hope they don't remember that I back stabbbed them last time and get the jump on me first this time[/quote] *translated from binary* Not until we get kill-bot factory synched up with the knife factory. *translated from binary*
Wow, slight mauling of Windows 8. Guess I shouldn't be too surprised.
[quote who="Cruxador" reply="20" id="3079759"]Something that neglects to mention, though, is if you do something sufficiently weird, a computer will never guess it. Such as, for example, using a character not represented on keyboards. ☺♥♠, ▲, ▬, or whatever.[/quote] Most password requirements tend to forbid stuff like that, though. You're lucky if passwords are allowed to contain punctuation marks. Keeping one or a few passwords
Something to keep in mind is that if injuries are too crippeling, they simply create the "reload save before battle" impulse that a dead champion has. A champion that becomes effectively useless after one or two lost fights might as well be dead.
Just had a crashed upom trying to start a new game after the tutorial. Mailed the zip.
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="2" id="2826623"] Quoting Phylast57, reply 1 idk--I'm not that smart (maybe Heavenfall knows?). I've never seen a negative balance of gildar--let alone one of that amount. It was my understanding--according to the manual--that troops would revolt or go on strike if they didn't get paid. Sounds like a glitch...1.1 is right around the corner anyway How to tell when you're playing a game too much; someone randomly
[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="2" id="2793807"] Somebody in another post said there is a "retire" option in the unit design menu. It would be nice if the manual included things like this as it should. [/quote] I am aware of this and I retire the AI's designs as soon as they come up, but it's still a nuisance. It gets extra annoying if you research a number of weapons/magic techs in quick succession and you need to clear up the AI latest wonderful design that takes 10+ Eleme
+1 for (optionally) turning off automatic designs. I hate it when the AI clutters up my unit selection every time I research a new piece of equipment.
[quote who="KingHobbit" reply="9" id="2792865"]Nice find Vashtyphoon. Does any know what race he is? And if that is the closest thing to a Fallen Hero, I think there is room for a couple more. [/quote] He looks like a Sion to me, with that skincolour, facial structure and tattoo. He doesn't seem to have the nifty powers though, guess you have to attend the Sion Temples the Fallen factions build to get those.
[quote who="ozzlok" reply="11" id="2777344"]Teleport/ spirit dance is very important in protecting cities early game and needs to be adjusted again. I understand that mana thought 5 mana made it too powerful but 15/20 makes it useless. Perhaps 10 would give it the balance we were looking for??? [/quote] Perhaps an early 5 mana teleport spell that transports only the caster? That way you can have magic users assist where needed, but you can't have one army be everywhere at once. S
[quote who="PiersAS" reply="21" id="2771393"] Personal I think it should be 15 points per spell book if not 20, and only the two magic orientated leaders should start with any spellbook. I also think you should only be able to cast an elemental spell if you have access to that shard, so I guess I am a hopeless case. [/quote] Elemental: War of Mundane Tech?
[quote who="joasoze" reply="9" id="2769361"]This is working as intended I would say. You can fogbust as in CIV IV I believe. Station your forces in the surrounding areas and it should reduce the amount of monsters. Or have I misunderstood? [/quote] Sadly monsters will quite often spawn right near or even next to or at the same place as armies(player or otherwise), turn after turn after turn. The only place monsters will not spawn is in territory held by a human o
It's a bug and it's been reported with any AI faction, though personally I've only seen it happen with Empires. It's a nuisance, and I hope it gets fixed quickly.
The problem with absolutely huge AI armies is something that is often related to a particular bug. The computer player goes into negative gold and can continue spending indefinately. A symptom "on the field" for this is the enemy fielding multple large squads of hugely expensive troops (such as Scions) in each army, usually very early in the game. It's not unusual to see an army with five units that each cost 20+ gold in wages each turn, clearly unaffordable in normal circumstances. Secondary
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="7" id="2762344"]If by October I haven't received any kind of signal about my LE, I'll start to worry seriously. Very seriously. Meanwhile, here we have people receiving more than one copy of the game. *sigh* Glad for digital download at least. [/quote] Should be any day now for you, seeing as we're both in Europe. (and two weeks after release/sending is pretty usual for USA->Europe packages)
[quote who="kryo" reply="5" id="2762239"] It's hard to say just how that could happen as the boxes are packed and shipped by a third party fulfillment center. But please contact [email protected] so they can investigate. [/quote] Done. (Including order numbers and other information)
Not sure where this should go, so I'm just defaulting to General Discussion: (Shipping irregularities forum?[e digicons]^_^[/e] ) Anyway, I ordered Elemental as a Digital Download + Retail box, and my boxed copy arrived today. Much to my surprise however, it arrived twice . I received two boxes, each containing a copy of the boxed game. T
It's a screenshot of an early build of Elemental.
There are only two yellow icons currently active on my cloth map (apart from a zillion air shards): The dragon's dungeon and the master quest's fortress. Both these quests also specifically told me to "return to sender". Entering them does nothing, as previously described. I visited several yellow quest locations as part of both quests. The quest log is, of course, no help at all.
I currently have 2 quests active where I have finished all the required stages, but the game won't let me finish them. Specifically: I saved a dragon egg for a dragon, and now all I have to do is return it to the quest giver. I have gathered all the peices for the master quest, and now all I have to do is return the pieces to the starting fortress. In both cases I bring the champion that has all the items (and did the quest from start to finish) back to the dun
Is it just me, or does the "Unknown" area scream "something nasty will turn up here in the campaign"? [e digicons]}:)[/e]
[quote who="blk_sheep2004" reply="60" id="2640005"] Quoting Saije, reply 56 I hate the way business works... I want to live out in the jungle. It seems ridiculous to have to pay a retail store to sell and make profit on your stuff. That would be like tipping your tax collector. I prefer living in a small world, by myself... Without annoying fools around that I have the urge to kill. So what do you actually th
[quote quoting="post"] WINNER. TAKE. ALL. This is the part where we want to hear your opinions. We do ask that you keep an open mind on what we ultimately go with. My opinion is that the attacking player has the onus to finish the battle in N turns. After N turns, the attacker morale starts to go lower and lower at which point the defender can come out and make mince meat out of them. The question is, what should determine what N is? Or should we allow retr
All DRM is good for is to enable managers to tell the shareholders they are "doing someting" against piracy. Sure, it doesn't actually work , and the link between piracy and lost sales is nowhere near what is stated ,but that's hardly the point. The point is letting the shareholders (who are unlikely to have any actual tech or market knowledge) know they are being "tough on piracy". Investors reassured, bonus earned, everybody's happy. Well, except the custome
[quote who="lokideath" reply="6" id="2539103"]I hope Stardock won't publish it, GPG and Stardock have nothing in common. [/quote] You mean apart from Demigod?