thebigJ_A

So I'm messing around in pref.ini, trying to get the game looking as nice as possible, but I realized I have no idea what many of these options even do. Hell, sometimes there's two of the exact same option, set by default to different values (AmbientLight, for instance, appears a second time just a couple lines down set at zero). I've got a nice PC I built, I want the game to look better. For example, the shadows on the characters are blocky and pixellated,

When does it go up? All I see is 0.912 on my download page.

I don't agree with all of his specifics (the one-unit-killed thing is a bad idea imo, for instance), but the OP has the right idea, generally. Tactical combat is far and away my least favorite part of the game. If it wasn't for the fact that I can usually do better by playing it out than auto for the tough battles, I'd never fight a battle as it stands. Mind you, it is quite a bit better than in original Elemental. They're putting a lot of

[quote who="seanw3" reply="3" id="3068230"]Apparently we only need to when it says so on the update post. .76 and .77 didn't need it i think. [/quote] I thought that was just for the mini-updates Frogboy puts up.

Aren't you supposed to start a new game after a patch? Not that I'm complaining, this was cool.

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="133" id="3067448"] Quoting thebigJ_A, reply 132Hang on, I'm a bit confused. The patch is in the "Stardock Store"? You mean used-to-be Impulse? Fallen Enchantress isn't even in my Impulse library. It's in its own folder it made when I downloaded the beta. All that's there is my old WoM install. So even if I download the patch separately, how would I automatically get the hotfix? Nope, not Impulse/Gamestop. Go to stardock.com a

Hang on, I'm a bit confused. The patch is in the "Stardock Store"? You mean used-to-be Impulse? Fallen Enchantress isn't even in my Impulse library. It's in its own folder it made when I downloaded the beta. All that's there is my old WoM install. So even if I download the patch separately, how would I automatically get the hotfix?

[quote who="Vaul_Darkhour" reply="128" id="3067274"] OMG.. The last time I checked, Brad hasn't directly replied to the issue rather than to comment on being unaware of the tooltips and to state that challenging has 'better' AI than Normal and with no bonuses... SNIP Now regardless of the challenging tooltip being incorrect or not (it wasn't fixed in the patch so..?), the crippled AI doesn't reach its proper level of intel

Nice. I'll give it a try in a bit. What about the bug where all my (automated) caravans show up on the unit list to the left of the screen, making it almost unusable? They only way to fix it I found was to run a turn, save, then exit the game completely and come back.

Ugh, I don't get people who don't use click-and-drag. It's far more precise and responsive. (Though I'd argue it should be tied to a different mouse button like it is in most games. Using the same button to select units and scroll is a bit off.) Wherever my pointer is, I can instantly move the map, and move it very precisely, rather than needing to suddenly jerk my mouse to the left and hold it there, then back to the right when i overshot, etc.

[quote who="joasoze" reply="7" id="3063916"] @thebigJ_A Its a tradeoff. Would you accept 30 seconds between turns to get a much better AI? There are two things that makes the AI "better". Cheating (bonuses) and more CPU time. Normal should in my opinion be where there are no bonuses and a reasonable amount of CPU time. On hard more CPU time an a touch of bonuses to help the AI. I like the CIV IV way where the AI gets an extra unit to start with on higher levels. The

[quote who="calmon" reply="3" id="3063881"]Well just play "normal". AI needs to cheating to be somehow competive in complex games. ITs the sad truth. AI in a more complex game will always suck because player "exploit" stuff to his best while AI can't do it. Its just too complex. So I WANT the AI cheating in harder difficult levels and making more options for this make things more complicated for common user.[/quote] Why would I want to p

From the game itself: "Hard AI has moderately buffed units and economic growth rates along with an [sic] very high level of intelligence ." "Novice AI has handicapped units and economic growth rates along with a very low intelligence ." (emphasis mine)

Playing with Brad's Friday hotfix thingie (I didn't play enough before that to notice whether this happened or not without it). Every so often, after one of the frequent crashes, when I load the game back up, every single one of my automated caravans will appear in the unit outliner on the left side of the screen as if they were armies. With a bigger empire, there's like ten of them, taking up half the screen and making the outliner useless. Reloading won&#3

The descriptions of the difficulty levels say that, on harder difficulty, you get an enemy AI which is harder, as well as one that gets various buffs in things like combat. I would very, very much like to see these two things separated. I hate playing against a computer opponent when I know it's "cheating". That is to say, when I know that his soldiers actually do 137% more damage than mine, and he makes twice the money i do from the same source, or whatever it is.&

"Change the rotation permanently"? If by that you mean "make it so it doesn't snap back when I move the camera", then just check the box in the options.

So do we start a new game? Should we just make a separate copy of FE and apply these to that?

After playing once for a few hours with no issues, I put the game down for a while. Now when I load it back up, the cloth map (which was fine before) looks like this: Reduced 73% Original 800 x 600 I think it may have something to do with AA, becaus

Lol, thanks!

I was designing some new units, when i clicked on one of those blue snake things by mistake (Ophidians). I'd recently gained the option of recruiting them after my influence spread over one of their lairs. (BTW, there's no icon on the 3D map for the lair, it's just empty terrain.) It brought me to the page where you add equipment and such, and it let me add things to the snake as if it were a person. Most (but not all!) of the armor and items didn't work

Turning the grid on seems to fix it, and occasionally it'll flash the color it's supposed to be if I swing the camera around. I didn't change anything, I never had the grid on when I started the game, and it was fine then. Edit: It's got something to do with antialiasing. When I turned it off, the problem went away. When I tried turning it back on, I found something strange. I tried setting it to 2X (my preferred setting in all games) and found it just w

After playing once for a few hours with no issues, I put the game down for a while. Now when I load it back up, the cloth map (which was fine before) looks like this:

[quote who="BlackRainZ" reply="365" id="2749523"]a 10-20 FPS increase is not a fix? I think your pushing it now. I don't know what your going through honestly, because I don't experience any slowdown at all but a 10-20 fps increase is huge. [/quote] When the cities get big, we're getting LESS than 10fps, so a plus 10 increase still only gets us to the teens. The fps isn't the actual issue. It's a symptom. The real problem is that our GPUs are

[quote who="I Intrude" reply="364" id="2749516"]1.07 will not be tonight it seems, kryo said no. He did however just say that the poor fps due to towns bug was fixed and will be in the next patch, they are currently testing. [/quote] Does "next patch" mean 1.07? Or the next one after? OhpleaseOhplease be 1.07!

[quote who="BlackRainZ" reply="146" id="2749468"] They already said they fixed this problem. It was mentioned in a different post where one of the SD Team found what was causing slow FPS over cities and got a noticeable 20-30fps increase or something. [/quote] That's good to know. But do we have to wait for a big patch with all these other additions/fixes, or will they give this a hotfix, like they did with the archer thing after 1.05? I honestly have no opinion of thi