Tridus

[quote who="Pantasd" reply="10" id="2671483"]not all sovereigns will be mages if i put 15 to str agi and con and have only 5 int and wis iam not a mage [/quote] But you can still cast. The Sovereign is a channeler no matter what you do. I think the current system is alright as it is. A "warrior" Sovereign gets a lot more benefit out of that +8 sword then a "mage" Sovereign does. But if you're not seeing monsters strong enough to challenge the mage with th

If nothing else, you could turn off the 3d engine and just use the cloth map.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="8" id="2670775"]If the XML has any sense, you can just do a script on it and be done in 1 second + scripting time[/quote] Only if all the possible values are in use at the time you run the script. If there's options in the game that the current files aren't using, we wouldn't know. That's where good modder documentation comes into play. [quote]Will the mod tools include XML schemas to allow for Intellisense in tools like Visual St

This isn't really a cheat, it's a shortcut. The player can do it the hard way anyway. I'd prefer more normalization of start locations myself. There is a huge variance in the quality of a start location right now.

[quote who="ScriptWolf" reply="5" id="2670373"]ok stardock i take it back you have managed to create a none resource hogging and bug-filled online store i take my hat of to you i was put off using impulse because of steam which i had very bad experiences with so yeah i plan to now get the money and preorder it ^^, im just wondering to get the beta i preorder straight off impulse right? (sorry about asking this again i properly already have the answer just want to make sure).[/quote]<

I'd love to see a GalCiv 3 with more advanced ship combat. Hell, what I'd REALLY love is where you get into the cockpit of one of your ships and fly around in combat ala Tie Fighter. But that's probably not going to happen. :)

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="78" id="2670398"] Let's hope so, because the "overall" balance is in a bad condition in Beta3.[/quote] It's the first build where most of the game is enabled, so that's not surprising. This is when we can actually take a serious look at it.

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="304" id="2670232"] I understand. and the stories that do make fun of this trope are few and far between. Wheel of Time's Lan is one of the best swordsman you meet for the first half of the series or so. He gets faced with 7 ordinary thugs and he thinks to himself he will probably die and looks for a way out of there. And I'm perfectly okay with Champions destroying legions of men over the course of a game and coming out fine. It fit

No. If you want in the beta you have to buy from Stardock directly. Not sure if Europeans can order the box version from them, but if you can shipping might be painful. If you want a retail version it might be best to wait.

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="293" id="2669878"] Quoting Tridus, reply 291So Annatar and I don't have brains? Cmon Raven, that's beneath you. Eh, give him a break. He's stressed out and medicated. And Tridus, I think we've established that you and I pretty much want the same thing, and I think that Raven has agreed that he wants more or less what I want, and therefore by extension what you want despite his hyperbolic rhetoric . But to be honest, Annatar has

[quote who="Raven X" reply="285" id="2669767"] Yes, my friend, you're right, I Did say that. I didn't mean it quite so blatantly though, I was being a little abstract. When I say "Super Unit", like the Sovereign IS and Should Be, I mean a Single Character that's able to take out 100 Mundane Soldiers by Himself. If we don't have that then you guys better start asking them to REMOVE Volcano NOW, because if it's not removed I'm going to MELT Everyone's Cities with it and Kill Off WHOLE ARMI

[quote who="Raven X" reply="290" id="2669843"] At least there's some people here who still have Brains!!! Sorry, this time I'm Really Done with this thread. Someone can call me an ass hole in the very next post and I'm NOT going to post again in this thread. Between pigeonpigeon, Tormy, Me, and a few others, there's enough other people in this thread to carry on the fight.[/quote] So Annatar and I don't have brains? Cmon Raven, that's beneath you. :(

[quote who="ddd888" reply="13" id="2669752"] still cant agree on having 1 food every starting than whats the point of rarity if you always have 1 when you start?[/quote] One food resource isn't enough to sustain you all game. You'll need to find more, and they're rare and valuable. But having a starting one does let you drop a city and build it up to a reasonable level without hoping you get lucky. For a second city to grow to any real s

[quote who="Raven X" reply="270" id="2669347"] Heroes and Champions and Sovereigns Are over-powered when compared to everything else and that's a Good Thing. Though I would have to say you're taking what I said a "little too far". I want Super Units, yes, but I also want both the Player and AI the chance to use these units effectively.[/quote] You said you wanted champions so powerful that only other champions would have a chance of taking them out. I quoted it above. I don't see

[quote who="Raven X" reply="266" id="2669156"] Tridus, my friend, I still think if done "right" it's the way to go. We already have Mechanics that allow the player to raise a Volcano and destroy a city. That right there is one God Like Unit taking out a entire city with thousands of people if the defending Sovereign doesn't stop the spell from being cast. Right?[/quote] There are defenses for that though (spell defenses on the city, attacking their shards so they can't cast

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="265" id="2669072"] This conversation has been derailed by teleportation. Ever since Frogboy's example, that's been the core complaint from people who want champions to be mildly glorified soldiers. [/quote] No, this was going on before teleportion came up. In fact the teleportion post was itself a response to this (which is why it also include a mention of all the complaints about high power NPCs showing up). [quote]You're the only one

[quote who="Raven X" reply="261" id="2668989"] The boss answered it right there, my friend, "Teleport". If a high ranking uber mage type can blow up armies with volcanos I would expect him to teleport or learn to fly or something too eventually.[/quote] Doesn't help you if you're pursuing a millitary path and not a magical one, which people have previously campaigned to make a perfectly viable path to victory. Only it's not if your big army gets completely steamrolled by some god

[quote]+ Changed citybuilding to require all cities to be contiguous - no more outlying resource hoards (must be done with pioneers now).[/quote] Does that mean snaking is back?

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="254" id="2668856"] 1. Where's my army? If he was able to develop such a champion, I should've been able to build an equally powerful army.[/quote] Since the stated goal that we're arguing against is people saying that a champion should be able to fight 1000 soldiers on his own... what army? There is no equally powerful army possible. That's the entire problem with the idea. [quote]2. Where's my magic? If he was able to develop s

[quote who="Sareln" reply="249" id="2668824"] Quoting Sushikawa, reply 248 Quoting Frogboy, reply 246 Overpowered champions and sovereigns that can take on huge numbers of regular troops sounds perfect to me. As long as the game's AI is horrible, yea. But it's not so fun when it happens to you. I mean, good grief guys, we had people screaming because there were tough creatures spawning in their starting locations and those creatures don't even t

[quote who="Raven X" reply="241" id="2668688"] I honestly Don't See a Problem with having a Super Powerful Champion by End Game. Remember back in MoM by End Game when you could make Super Powerful weapons and Armor for your Champions that made them Invincible and Unstoppable? That was fun as hell. Although I do understand that's completely UN-Balanced, but how "Fun" game-play is should be More Important then Balance. In a game where "Magic" is a strong deciding factor, things

[quote who="Raven X" reply="228" id="2668340"] When it comes to balance though, if everything is balanced correctly, I don't see why it wouldn't be scalable and still maintain balance whether it's 400 vs 400 or 10,000 vs 10,000. [/quote] Becase there's also a stack limit of 10 "units" in the army. A champion is 1. Just how powerful would a champion have to be in order to be worth 1000 troops that also count as 1? Of course that's really jus

I prefer the second option, actually. Though I seem to be in the minority on that. :)

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="190" id="2667745"] Why shouldn't a powerful army face peasant opposition? Defending is already easier then attacking. Higher lvl cities give % hitpoints (pretty sure about that.) When you attack early, you invest a few lvls in Warfare instead of other categories. You also have to FIND an opponent and travel over to him. That's more then enough time for the other players to mount a defense. [/quote] A powerful army is one t

[quote who="Raven X" reply="169" id="2667633"] Not at all, my friend. What people aren't understanding apparently is you can hit Auto Resolve in the Middle of a Battle if You want. This means you can control the battle long enough to make sure you're going to win without taking massive losses, THEN hit Auto Resolve so you don't have to "Mop Up". It's a choice given to the player. I don't want each and every battle in the game to take forever, nor do I want each and every battl