RavenX

This could be great if done right. Very interesting post Demiansky. You should have posted this in the Elemental Idea forums though.

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[quote who="kyogre12" reply="4" id="2444469"] So you're saying I should bombard Kyro with PM's to get it stickied? I bet he'll like that[/quote] lol No, not saying that at all. Actually Yarlen stickied it after Boogiebac said it would be useful. I think in order to get your list stickied you'd have to have a lot of Mods to keep track of. When the Mods start adding up though it will be a good idea and you might be able to get it stickied then. A piece of advice though my friend, i

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="1" id="2444365"]RavenX, I'm not really sure if you are "officially" making your mod or not. I saw a post of yours when I was searching for mods saying that you want to create a Dragonlance mod, and you had some ideas down, but it was also a thread about modding in general. So if you want me to take yours down, let me know. [/quote] When the time comes I'm going to "attempt" one yes. Depending on how many Dragonlance fans we have around here I may even

I'm gonna say next week, maybe the week after at the longest. Go Stardock, Go! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

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[quote who="kyogre12" reply="36" id="2444018"]But you have waaaay too much free time [/quote] One man's Free Time, is another man's Work :P

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="10" id="2442453"] The moment you have 5 settlement crammed into a corner, that 'rpg' feeling is broken and it just feels like traditional TBS city-spam. So, if you're finding that cities are a good 10-20 tiles apart and it takes a few turns for units to get from city A to city B, then I feel we're doing something right, not wrong (again, IMHO). [/quote] I agree with you Boogie. The problem I foresee though is people building citi

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="28" id="2442637"]I was fairly certain the Sovereign had to be present on the battlefield to cast a spell. Or 90+% of spells anyhow. I guess a long-distance morale effecting spell like Sauron's would be ok. [/quote] I'm actually hoping that as long as a battle takes place in a Sov's sphere of influence that he could cast in the battle like he was actually there. Or perhaps you can get a magic item your army or hero could carry, like a mirror, that would

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="16" id="2442376"] That's actually one of the big 'under the covers' change. Before, unit movement was tied to the animations, so if you clicked TURN before all the units were done moving, the data would get de-synched (and all sorts of bad things could happen). We've cleaned it all up considerably, so clicking turn like a fiend is officially an option (since the data can now keep up) [/quote] That's excelent news, brother. Well

Makes me glad I didn't waste any money on this one.

[quote who="Demiansky" reply="1" id="2441728"]It might be a better method to allow the sovereign--- through an early spell--- to imbue settlers with essence and then let the settlers do the work. [/quote] I was thinking that too. Great idea.

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="14" id="2442226"] the space balls stunt double isn't that scary. [/quote] You ever hit on a "girl" in a bar just to have her turn around and be a man? It's scary as hell....not that uh...I ever did that or anything... Besides, I get the impression that avatar doesn't do Shirley justice. :)

In a game where you can nuke something with magic it's hard to pre-calculate battles. Doing the math and having the AI balance a mundane army system is easy, but that doesn't include the possibility that your Sovereign could remotely cast a battle altering spell and win the day. Unless they somehow produce a number value in a battle system for every spell and ability in game and then factor in the likelihood that it would be used by the Sov or other magic caster I don't see how it cou

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="10" id="2442219"]right now the whole essense system isn't really very functional. I mean its in the game, but all it does is create cities. Once they've ironed out the other uses of it (namely the whole spell system, enchantment, and hero boosting deal) I'm sure we're going to see some dramatic changes to how the essence to deploy cities is handled, both in cost to start a city and general amount on channeler. [/quote] Agreed. I was goi

[quote who="louist" reply="8" id="2441955"]Don't get me wrong, the vision of E:WoM in its final state is what drew me here, but to get in early, especially so very, very early, was going to be a special treat. [/quote] Believe me brother, you aren't missing anything at this point. Stability is a Serious issue at the moment. The next build will clear some of that up we hope so we can get some serious testing in. In a way you should kind of be glad you won't have to pull your hair

[quote who="Shirley" reply="10" id="2441978"]I saw that chicken thing and I literally LOL'd. [/quote] Maybe he's not running from the chicken, he could have seen your avatar :P

Well, this is what I see happening. It cost Essence to build a city. Say you build a city that is in a good position but some improvements you want are still a few or more then a few squares/hexes away. Now you have to build another city pretty close to a city you just built so you can get those other improvements. How will this affect Game Play? We're going to have too many Cities sprouting up and our Sovereign's will be Essence starved from building so many cities

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="7" id="2441868"] Guy running away from a chicken is WIN. No kidding, its bloody brilliant. Reminds me of legend of zelda, i was scared to death of those dirty invincible fowls why didn't they go fight Ganondorf? [/quote] lol you chicken kicker :P

[quote who="red1939" reply="13" id="2441852"]Spell creation system as in Oblivion...? NOooooo! Playing with cost/range/power/critical chance/duration sliders, in order to create the most unbalanced spell, is something that I really don't want to see in this game. First, it's tedious for players to read through tons of topics, just to know if their spell composition isn't screwed. Second, balancing such monstrosity (system) is a task for true heroes (or fools). With sufficiently big selection

[quote who="milksama" reply="13" id="2441605"]No "and then!" [/quote] lol nice. I was thinking the same thing.

[quote who="Dash" reply="18" id="2439632"] Final Fantasy VII? Yes Please! [/quote] I think if they re-make a FF game they should re-do 3. The one that was on the Super Nintendo. That was the greatest FF of all time in my book. :)

Ok, we've got new categories on the research screen, less info cards, looks like more buildings, new resources on the map, and new items for units. You know that part there where you click through the turns real quick? That's normally when I get a crash. If I click through the turns slowly it seems a bit more stable. Then again I'm sure your build is a lot more stable then the beta were working with now so I'm fairly confident we'll be able to test and critique more things in the

Awesome videos :)

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