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[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="2" id="2779084"]Have you noticed the yitril soldiers with Kwarizarm (whatever that sword is). This sword costs 2275 in the item shop which makes it impossible to get pre-midgame imo, but I've noticed it's fairly common on yrithril soldiers. The game I played now had one guy hit & kill my fire giant on the second round. I'm assuming the AI is arbitrarily beefed up on Ridiculous settings with additional gildar becaue I have no idea how they could even eq

Have you noticed the yitril soldiers with Kwarizarm (whatever that sword is). This sword costs 2275 in the item shop which maket it impossible to get pre-midgame imo, but I've noticed it's fairly common on yrithril soldiers. The game I played now had one guy hit & kill my fire giant on the second round. I'm assuming the AI is arbitrarily beefed up on Ridiculous settings with additional gildar becaue I have no idea how they could even equip one guy with this sword at 2275 much le

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="29" id="2778781"]Probably a better way to look at it is that shards will provide N mana. Spells, therefore, will cost M mana and come from a global mana pool. Because mana is global, strategic spells no longer need a caster but can simply be "cast" on the map which gives rise to all kinds of things that just didn't make sense when the caster had to be physically located nearby. [/quote] How does le

There's not really enough info here for me to understand how it's going to work & it's implications:+1 mana from shards seems very weak if it's offset with -1 to champions imbued with magic, and summoned monsters are -1 ? So, if you both imbue and summon just one monster that means you're losing -1 mana every turn? This doesn't seem right to me. What about champions that summon monsters? do those champions get +1 from the shard and -1 summoning. There's not enough detailed info given here

[quote quoting="post"] Other games on the highest difficulty are actually difficult. Meaning if you crank it up that high you should be prepared to lose and lose A LOT. It should be a case of "careful what you wish for" [/quote] Actually, it's been my experience that most strategy RTS & TBS games don't have good AIs on any difficulty, those with good AI are few & far in betweeen

Something happened to the archers. There was another update today (I had already updated to 1.08), and I had an archer 4-man group with attack 24, using longbows attacking a group with defense 8, for 15 rounds, 30 attacks nothing but misses!!! Do I need to restart another game now that this one is on turn 200ish? I should've hit just about every time with 24 vs 8.

I noticed that there are significanly less level 0 starting goodie huts. I was actually out of metal for 18 turns at the start of my current game, I couldn't find a wrecked caravan .. should've build that workshop right off .. less huts, less gold purses, less wrecked caravans, less ancient battlefields ..

[quote who="dalamb" reply="4" id="2777801"]Thanks for the comment about centering -- but even after being told about that, I would try to center the square I wanted and the map would still jump sometimes; it appears to be very finicky. [/quote] This has been irritating since the first game, the only workaround is to zoom the map down so that the city covers the whole screen, then it won't jump.

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Nvidia GeForce GTS-240 8 GB RAM intel core i5 650 3.20 GHz. I only had one out of memory crash on my second 1.08 upgrade game last night, but I've generally been trying to save every now & then to avoid losing time in game due to crashes. I do have to exit from the game after manually saving because the game graphic seem to be distorted after I visit the "options" & "main menu" tab and return to the

[quote quoting="post"]There is a lot of work that needs to be done on the game, so I'll understand if this "want list" is not high priority. That said, here is my wish list: 1. Please return the Sovereign Organized Ability to the way it was before 1.08. 2. Please bring back 5 mana Teleports. They made the game much more enjoyable. 3. Please install a slide/scroll bar on the "empire tree" on the strategic screen. Such a bar exists on the tactical scr

[quote who="Panda_Power" reply="32" id="2777087"]Are we going to run out of nouns? Now we have a tweak for the update for the patch for the game? What if the tweak needs fixing? [/quote] I'd guess that there are too many different types of systems, configurations, and everything else for everything to work properly on everyone's system given the (too) wide array of possibilities involved. I have games that I have cannot even play on my old computer. T

[quote who="ProfRansom" reply="25" id="2776796"]Just tried it with a new game re-set on 1.08b. No spells are hitting.Then, restarted again, this time without a custom soverign. Still no luck hitting with spells. Includes Flame Dart, Lightning Strike, and Fireball. Medium world. All normal difficulty. I'd be curious to hear more from those of you who are having success with combat spells: which are you hitting with? I rely pr

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="10" id="2776758"]Generally the "iniative rocket tag" of casters (and to a lesser extent, large numbers of archers) is a severe problem. I've been able to win just about every battle by picking off enemies at a distance. Monsters with 1000+ hit points will definitely make the magic nuke less of an end-all, but that doesn't solve the problem of armies of soldiers getting swept aside by this stuff, or sovereigns and heroes just dying in an instant. [/

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="9" id="2776681"]Honestly, Im rather happy to hear about a monster with over 1000 hp, (and nothing ridiculous like over 100 defense). how did u end up killing it? [/quote] I wasn't able to kill it, it took my city which was a city I buit very far from my main homestaed because it had the water shard. I actually had the fire shard also in one of my other cities, so I was actually doing extra damage against it. It was defini

[quote who="TheBirthdayParty" reply="2" id="2776495"]seconded. [/quote] Well, I just got attacked by some ridiculous monster that was obviously added to the Rothkar side for balance reasons (Dakulion or something: had over 1,120 hp, 24 attack, 23 defence, soaked up more than a dozen fireballs before I ran out of mana, and that only reduced its hp by about a third. Killed an observer group, stone giant, fire giant, and whatever that other smaller summons m

Is this supposed to be a sarcastic thread? There is absolutely no difference in item shop costs with version 1.08. Ceder longbow is still 152 gilder, same as it was before .. btw so is the price of everything else too. The only changes I've seen so far are 75% reduction in gold & experience from combat and a flat 1mp cost across terrain types (basically units go a bit faster through woods now).

[quote quoting="post"] You now get only half the gold from battles, so its harder to get gold (though another official SD thread indicated there are more gold resources; I managed to snub one near an AI's first settlement before their borders extended there ). I think this could help make regular non-hero troops more useful ... instead of just letting monsters roam near your settlements, send your guard troops out to intercept. Because each battle gives less gold, you need t

[quote who="thisisretarded" reply="32" id="2774955"] Quoting Stmorpheus, reply 30 well personally "hundreds per turn" doesn't seem very balanced in the first place. also the monsters are used for leveling up. i thought everybody was pissed that game was to easy, now its getting more balance, is it to hard? was refering to later in the game after having researched the appropriate adventure tech. but anyway:

I've read just about every post in this thread over the past 4 pages and I think 90% are completely useless, non-objective garbage which bring nothing of use to the game or its players nor do they even cover the thread topic which was adding an “epic” scale to the game. Who gives a crup if the thread poster miss-used the “majority” as the title in the topic & lumped all of us in the pot? It’s fargin useless. Why anyone would care or find fault with this

I tried uploading my avatar in the joseur site & checked the my-account settings on this site, going to test it out now, as it doesn't seem my avator is showing up in older posts. ... seems to work fine now, but it's not retrofitting older posts.

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="71" id="2774342"]The game is a little confusing when it comes to armies, stacks, units, etc. Here's a refresher with all the technology unlocked: 1 Unit can have up to 12 Soldiers 1 Army can have up to 12 Units So, in total, we can have a maximum of 144 Soldiers per battle per side and 288 Soldiers per battle. I don't really understand why an Army should be limited at all. You

I enjoyed dw very much. I think it's the best 4x space game since MOO2 (MOO3 sux), and I've played a lot of them as strategy games are my genre-of-choice or forte. As a matter of fact, I've been playing DW since just before EWOW arrived but put it on pause as I've been playing EWOW heavily for a week or so since I got my preorder. I'll go back to DW once I unlock all the techs in this game and see everything that I've missed so far. I think DW has a much better AI than EWOW does rig

[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="259" id="2774090"] If you can create a 50 man squad that doesn't become a "nuke" in this game, I'd be all ears. And going along with this, making the AI competent enough to use it & counter human's using it against it is more important than adding this new unit. The games AI is already a "walk over", I don't want to become a "steam roll-over". The number of men that cna actually attack the enemy would be lower than 50. You're

[quote who="Raven X" reply="251" id="2774018"] In a turn based system like we have now, if you have 400 men on the field, and each of those 400 are split up into groups of 50 men each, that's only units to give commands to, which the current cap on amount of units is 12. The number of men in each "unit" doesn't matter when you're giving orders to each unit as a whole, see how that works now? [/quote] The big problem I have with the con

[quote who="Raven X" reply="244" id="2773959"] Quoting stax77, reply 242 I'm happy with the unit sizes as they are in the game now. I don't see how displaying 20 figures instead of 4 figures would make the game better in any way. And correct me if i am wrong, but you can currently have 144 figures per side(12 units of 12 figures), that's 288 figures in combat, which i believe is more than the figure count in the screenshot with the dragon. More if the de