[quote who="AronML" reply="8" id="2782091"]It is spreading trees/flowers automatically in my territory, which make no tiles for the city to build improvements. How to chop the trees/flowers?[/quote] Can't
Basically, influence is a hidden stat. It increases at a constant rate and is capped by housing level/population. At level 1, you get two increases (Radius 1, Radius 2). Generally, you get an influence increase the turn after a level up and about mid-way through though there may be other increases at higher levels. What influence buildings do is generate their own bubble of influence and probably affects the influence stat in some fashion. As it's a hidden stat, w
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="8" id="2780540"]I'm in a game now that I have no metal and no crystals, with an empire of 10 cities. I took over a neutral city because they produced 2 metals. If the AI were to declare war and take that city first, I would very screwed. Are there any techs that cause new crystal or iron resources to spawn? I thought there was, and I thought I was choosing them, but they never spawned anything...but I am easily confused...[/quote] &
You can click on any part of the city to select it. You don't have to select the city center.
[quote who="StarCruzr" reply="80" id="2779303"] Quoting Dsraider, reply 77I like the idea of global pools, but I'm concerned about 2 things. Concern one is that starting locations are getting kinda full what with the gold in .8 and now shards. Secondly, whats the point of imbuing champions if your main dude has unlimited range and can effect battles he is not in? Will imbued champions start using the intelligence of the sovereign as well? Can you unimbue someone? <b
[quote who="AronML" reply="6" id="2778759"]The more you answer the more I want to ask This game really need to be improved on offerring game informations. And dummy AIs [/quote] Ask and I'll answer. I suppose at some point, I should write up a city guide to answer questions.
One of the recent patches put back in territory bonuses. You get a 25% bonus or penalty for being in friendly or hostile ground - this is mostly across be board to attack and defense. Stack this with a few armor pieces, you can be pretty good. Though that early, it's likely to avoid making the AI -too- easy to conquer as it's not like - spells currently not withstanding - the AI has a lot of options and smarts to tough it out.
The trade in the kingdom report is from treaties and such. Caravan bonuses don't show up there. As for the bonus... it can be substantial. I've reached over 100% bonus on a single caravan which, on a city of a lot of base food production, is enough to sustain itself and then some. Note that the bonus applies to both ends so if you have two cities producing food and connect them, you would get the bonus applied to both cities. As well, a city can have more than one carav
[quote who="Istari" reply="15" id="2778623"]Regarding the Genreal Mana Pool (GMP), here a few considerations to ahh... consider. Will the GMP allow Sovereigns to cast spells in a tactical battle that they are not involved in? Will the Sovereigns be omnipotent in their own realms of influence when it comes to spellcasting, (i.e. will city enchantments require the Sovereign to be in range)? Will the Sovereigns be able to target tiles and cities outside their real
Mouseover the bar on the left and use the mouse wheel. It will scroll but it's not really easy to see.
Speculation on such sparse information is prone to get forum goers in a hissy fit over false information they believe is true. :) And one of the things is that it's hard to make any sort of opinion without that information. We can speculate but that tells us nothing and offers Stardock nothing. We know mana is becoming a resource so that it accumulates. But what are the costs going to be? Are there other mechanics to help mitigate costs? We don't know so sayin
Without more details on the specifics, it's hard to say as that's only one part of a bigger system. There are likely many other changes being made to support the new mechanic. Really can't tell what an elephant is from just it's trunk.
So basically what you're saying is that Stardock needs to hire a full time dedicated community manager to handle community 'stuff' like gathering feedback, keeping morale up, and otherwise engaging the community/engaging the developers and acting as a liaison as opposed to pulling Frogboy away for four hours to read forums (or worse, burning himself out by doing it from home) versus doing his AI (and manager) magic. :)
To add to the above, if you place the workshop and then un-queue it, the other buildings become available again.
Basically, you want Stardock to build a mini-MMO style game similar to Tales of the Desert crossed with NWN, or at least, support such an architecture. I don't see that happening any time soon. Not that it isn't an interesting idea but it's well beyond the scope of where the game is to be heading; you're basically asking for a completely different style of game.
[quote who="greggbert" reply="3" id="2775957"]Nearly every moddable games requires mods to be redone or at least recompiled when there is a new game version. True even of World of Warcraft. Devs spending time on ths spend less time on stuff people care about.[/quote] What the OP is asking for is that the game perform version checking, more or less. Right now, the game loads up mods without any checks. What the OP wants to happen is something like: &n
It's basically game theory's dominant strategy. There are a few different factors into whether something is a DS. The DS must always be the best choice either by maximizing benefit or minimizing harm. The DS must always be the best choice regardless of the choice the opponent makes - that is, no matter what choice the opponent makes, the DS is in a better position. Basically, the DS eliminates choice. You're always better off using the DS and the
What we need is for it to figure out "I have X, they have Y. Using X does P damage. To use X, I can do Z. Doing Z puts me in A amount of danger." and weigh different possible Zs with the intent to minimize A while maximizing A. Among many other things. The more we can let the AI work on general information and not specifics, the more adaptable it can be.
[quote who="Kalin" reply="1" id="2775898"] It needs some system like: Each mod go into a separate folder within the Mod directory, and comes with a config file. The config file has basic stuff like version compatibility and a basic description on what that mod does. The game then scans all the config files and shows the available mods on a new mod screen, where we can select which mod to turn on or off. I don't really like having to restart to load a mod, but I can bare it.  
It possible that something weird is going on -and- due to other weirdness, Yocmj is seeing what he/she is seeing. As much as we need to worry about trolls, there's no reason to jump to conclusions and be distrustful of everyone.
[quote who="Istari" reply="94" id="2774978"]Quoting Chibiabos, reply 90No, I can't. As I posted in its own thread, it was not until I encountered the 6th champion that one was recruitable at all. The first 5 had no "Recruit" nor even "talk to" icon under "Actions" if I had the NPC champion selected. They are completely unrecruitable. 1.08 CHANGELOG ADDENDUM: + Most -- well over half -- of the heroes in the game world are no longer recruitable by a
[quote who="Uberwilhelm" reply="4" id="2775893"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 1 I think I would quibble on your definition of "broken". The game is working as designed, it's just not to your liking. Ummm so you're saying the game was designed to crash every 10 turns? Have you not been to the support forums? Really? As much as I want to enjoy this game, it is totally FUBARed and could have used another 6 months in the
Yes, caravan bonuses apply to both starting and end city. This was the same behavior pre-1.08.
Sounds like a bug.
[quote who="starfuryzeta" reply="17" id="2774767"]Would you settle for Wookies riding squirrels battling Nazis? Reduced 56%Original 600 x 776[/quote] That'll do.