[quote who="Akitoscorpio" reply="2" id="2727069"]Ah the old Quoting kryo, reply 1AFAIK children have a small random chance to be born to any marriage after it's made. Being a wizard and all you need not be in the same tile to procreate. Ah the old "A Wizard did it" excuse. "Wait a second I was away for 5 years why do we have 3 children now?" "Ummm Magic?" "Ah okay then" [/quote] This is
Ok, I'm confused now. Why do you think you need resources to expand? I keep expanding everywhere, whether there are resources there or not. It allows me to build more workshops, merchants and the like, which are simply free resources, and eventually my cities grow and I can use them to train soldiers.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="2726759"]Day 0 update is today (day 0). [/quote] Whennnnnnnnnn?
[quote] Quoting Bellack, reply 90 Retaliatory attacks should stay in the game as is with one exception, Unit should only be able to retaliate if it still has action points left and these attacks should cost action points. Damage spread should have at lest a min damage after all we already have a Miss mechanic in the game so what is the point of having a hit do '0' damage. If a unit can do 0-6 dam it should actully be 1-6 (or d6 in D&D terms.) There should
[quote who="epmode" reply="67" id="2726386"] Quoting diamondspider, reply 456) This is not a bug, but may as well be: the random numbers in combat are WAY too random. Why bother with having subtle elements like 25% increases in defense on a unit when a unit with a 36 attack can easily get only 5 damage when they are in the open? Even when the enemy has low armor and is of similar level. I don't mind some randomness, but the amount here makes many of the subtle tactic simply not worth wor
How does the Vengeance Coating work? I'd really like to know myself because at the moment it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I thought I had to activate it in combat but nope.
[quote who="Slainangel52" reply="9" id="2726704"] It charges for the ability to draw soldiers from your entire population instead of just the male portion. Basically you can have bigger armies.[/quote] Interesting. I had no idea that it had an actual gameplay effect. I thought it was purely aesthetical/flavour. You see, this is why proper descriptions are needed.
Unfortunately it seems that you can only get female units if you use select a race with the "egalitarian" trait. The rest of the races are sexist as far as it seems.
Is the day 0 patch out now? What version are you at? Just excited to see if all will be ready when I get home from work in 3 hours :)
[quote]So is this thread about piracy, tacos, or imperialist privilege? I really can't tell anymore.[/quote] Mmmm...tacos...
[quote]The only thing privileged about myself was being lucky enough to have the desire to work hard and being born in a country where hard work paid off.[/quote] Living in an imperialist nation (i.e. a nation with armed forces all over the world to control its interests and extract wealth) = Privilege Living in a first world nation which provides anough social safety net to allow some of the lower classes to move upwards = Privilege Having a job where y
[quote who="Renevent" reply="83" id="2726393"] LOL...must suck to be angry at the world and be resentful of those who can achieve success. Us 'privileged' folks will move on...people like you on the other hand have the rest of your life for jealousy and resentment. [/quote] Brilliant. Kids on daddy's credit, schooling me on "achieving success". As I said. Whatevs. Piracy will continue no matter how much clutching of pearls and gnashing of teeth happens. L
[quote]Wow you are quite delusional. Pirating software is thievery, it's illegal, and morally wrong. There is no argument you can make that justifies the action.[/quote] You can rave and whine about it all you want, but you won't stop it that way. Not without any arguments. Learn to live with the fact of piracy, or don't. I don't care what nonsensical moralizing you use to feel outrage along with the rest of your privileged buddies. Doesn't affect pirates in the slightest who will j
[quote]Nope, you clearly admitted it would have a negative affect, you simply excused it away as an obsolete model.[/quote] It would have a negative effect on obsolete business models. Right. The industry as a whole would be just fine. It obviously doesn't work in the real world because the analogy breaks down. [quote]Personally if someone said "yeah I pirate I didn't have the money and just wanted to play it", I would at least know I am speaking to a person with their head
You read what you want to read I guess
[quote who="Renevent" reply="67" id="2726276"] That doesn't make any sense at all dude. [/quote] That's because you made a bad analogy. The real world have physical and scarce goods. It's expected that the anlogy will break down. [quote] Pirates aren't making a living giving away their own good...they are taking other people's goods and illegally distributing them to the masses. Half the crackers do it for shits and giggles.&n
[quote]In both cases someone is trying to sell something, and along side it the exact same thing is freely available. In either case it has an effect on the person who is actually trying to sell the goods, rather than just give it away.[/quote] If I can make a living by giving something away for free, I don't see why I should feel sorry for you for still trying to use an obsolete business model. I wouldn't feel sorry for the expensive auditorium which was forced to close business by
Again, the problem with Iron Lore was their own fault for using DRM. If they had no DRM and people had just used a version which was not set to fail, then they wouldn't have such a word-of-mouth issue. They failed to recognise how much free advertisement is done by Piracy and they paid the price. It's their fault. Sorry. The only thing debatable is to what extent piracy is harming the gaming industry and not if it's harming the g
Are you playing good or evil? I've noticed that logistics is an option for good races. Evil also get it but under a different name
Personally, I think the most realistic option for the late game (where you start getting stacks of units that is), is to allow champions to "join" them as a leader, similar to how it's done in Warhammer. Basically you would have an option for your champion to merge with a unit, which would then do one of two things. Allow the champion to attack as part of the unit without running so much risk of taking an one-hit kill from a stack, or simply give some pretty hefty "leadership" bonuses to the
All of those claims you mention are debatable as well. The fact that big companies are making decisions based on half-arsed arguments is not surprising. They would have made bad decisions whether piracy existed or not as have been making them for quite a while. Iron Lore was a fool for not understanding how powerful effect piracy has on word-of-mouth advertising either.
[quote who="Ondaderthad" reply="21" id="2725297"]Re: Game Piracy You might be interested in reading this (rather long 10 pages) article about Piracy and first day releases. http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html by Koroush Ghazi It goes through the Economics and Scales of Piracy as well as examine the different DRM schemes from different Game Publishers. [/quote] Meh, <a href="http://dbzer0.com/blog/what-are-the-econom
It seems the author got it right. Even though the journals mentioned that they were trying to make a game that did not require so much town-spamming like in Civ, and where you wouldn't be so penalized if you explored with your hero at the start, in gameplay terms it's much better the settle immediately and start spamming out settlers ASAP. The first game I played, I only had 4 cities spread out around the map and that really clunked my economy. Since there doesn't seem to be an overhead with
I agree. I'd love to see some more spiky/shiny/demonic armor and weapons and the like. Hopefully this will be added either via mods or via updates.
I've started getting the CTD with "DX Error: Invalid call" on Alt-Tab after today's update. Here's my latest debug .