LordCobol

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/the-death-march-the-problem-of-crunch-time-in-game-development.ars Any comments from the devs ?

Got a windows crash message while cycling thru units in the trade-item screen. FWIW, a few minutes earlier I had seen one of my units with the wrong graphic, so I'm pretty sure something was corrupt. no crash zip file debug.err http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/debug-trade-crash.err quicksave from a minute earlier

If I load a save game, stacks of heroes who should have 6 or seven moves only have two for that turn. Always happens for several versions now. Sorry I didn't get around to posting while it was still in beta. XP, 32 bit. No mods. Playing with cheats enabled but not actually using any cheats. save just before next turn http://dl.dropbox.com/u/892

How many of these weren't in 1.19n ?

Take the special ability with cooldown of choice, like savage strike. Use it then keep moving the unit away so it won't get killed. One turn before the ability appears to be usable again, you can use it if you click on another unit and then re-select the unit with the ability. One more example of how info on the screen is not updated properly until something else happens, but its a little more than that, because you really can't select the ability and use it until

Remember, if you have a camera in the computer and get infected, some hacker in another country could use it to watch you. If M$ thinks I'm going to put one on my home desktop so my PC will know I am me when I'm the only person that ever uses it, they can think again. [quote]"Amish walks into his home office," Microsoft writes in one of many fictional scenarios outlined in the Windows 8 slide decks. "The proximity sensor on his PC detects motion, and wakes

[quote]this tactic would allow a king to escape a much faster army by sacrificing some units to slow down a pursuing stronger army[/quote] What ? A non-suicidal sovereign ? I couldn't stand the shock :)

[quote]children getting a few free levels based on their parents level, and some slow base xp gain for inactive heroes[/quote] Those would both be fine, The 2nd has been suggested before, and was in MoM & AoW:SM, so it plainly doesn't exactly ruin games it is in. Mostly I still think the existing system is ok. Rookie units should gain some XP from just being there and seeing it for real with arrows whistling overhead even if they don't accomplish much t

Most of what bugs me about EWoM is bugs of varying severity, and technical details, not feature-set or high-level design decisions. With FE using the same engine and (probably) a lot of the same other code, I fear that FE will have the same issues later if they don't fix them FIRST in EWoM and then port the clean code. Besides crashes & OOMs (and related issues like not being able to load a game while in the game because it leads to crashes), my issues are 1:&nbs

So I load a save game and hit next-turn with my sovie and some heroes next to a hostile city that contains Relias and several ordinary units. Relias attacks me ALL BY HIMSELF. He is the top-rated faction in the game, but why not bring his troops ? Just to be sure, I exited, loaded again and he did it again. the save I loaded http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/QuickSave-

Happens to me a lot too, in 1.19n and earlier.

What AlLan said.

Yes, please fix. Then fix the other places where data shown on screen doesn't update properly, like your hit points not going up when you eat salted pork in combat until you eat another one.

I've had this and posted about it twice. I called it "jitters", but "tremor" works too. https://forums.elementalgame.com/407764 https://forums.elementalgame.com/406390

I had one of those a few versions back. It was great! And much better than 8 little battles against 10 units would have been. Instead of capping army sizes in cities, raise the cap on army sizes in the field, since the computer can obviously handle it.

I "always" exit and start clean when I want to reload a game, because I have heard of problems, but this time I decided to measure said issues. I know someone did this before, but I haven't seen a recent posting, so.... The general sequence was: start game, load a quicksave, note memory usage, handles & threads without doing anything, load and note, etc, until bored. Then save an "after" save and try to exit, except it OOMed on me while exiting. <p

That's why I use numbers in my own stuff. 1.19.001 thru 1.19.999, followed if necessary by 1.19.1000, etc.

They are often ok if you just chop a syllable or two off the end.

No, not that one. I mean the Doctor Who season premier.

I just keep flash disabled for all my browsing -- by disabling the add-ons in my browsers. Feel much safer that way, and don't miss it at all. Used to not have it on my machine at all, but now that Chrome comes with it...

My earliest crash ever. Early in a new "1.19n" game I lost to a bandit, exited, ran it again, loaded my quicksave, bought a spear, and went into "trade items" to decide who should get what. It blew while I was cycling between characters. the quicksave http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/QuickSave-trade-item.EleSav debug.err <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/debug-trade-item

I think the game handles XP just fine as it is. If it worked for MOM, don't fix it.

Same here. Creative accounting by the quartermaster :)

Actually, what I meant was -- downgrade the drivers. Much cheaper :) After 3 years, new enhancements to the drivers may mostly target feature of newer hardware, and driver coders/testers might not be as careful as they should be about compatibility with the old stuff.

I used to have similar a error message in Galciv 2 when I had an old ati2600 card and updated my drivers. Fixed it by reverting to older drivers This was late 2009. (Have since upgraded both card and drivers). I see you have pretty current drivers and a card about 3 generations behind, much like my old card was when I had the problem.