Norhg

[quote who="Lord_Asmodeous" reply="31" id="2743673"]Exploration has only ever revealed Gold for me. It could be a fluke, but I've had it happen that way 100% of the time.[/quote]Same here. Once I waited 'till I had 5 cities and researched it. The other time I did it when I just had my starting city. Both times I got one gold mine - the second time at one of the secondary cities. Did the same thing with Lost Bounty and received a single fruit orchard and apiary at my capital - w

[quote who="GalahadtheElder" reply="19" id="2743847"]I totally agree, i did mention it before, here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/393134 First (second post) about the demons, then in the last post until now I had discovered those summons had it as well. It's totally crazy as I calculated there.[/quote]Are demons really a problem? The quest 900 gold each and come late in the game. You can usually build multiple raids for the same cost even with plate mail equipped units, and you

[quote who="Lord_Asmodeous" reply="17" id="2743720"]That's only true, again, if they get the first tactical turn. If the vigilant army attacks first, everything dies before they can even go.[/quote]Yeah, that's absolutely not true. Even a simple 9 man zealot team with clubs (which you should be able to build by time you research Vigilant Minion) has 90 hp and 18 attack at a cost of 36 gold. Ten hp off of that is nothing, and you are very very unlikely to have more than a couple of Vigilant Mi

[quote who="enroninvestor" reply="9" id="2742658"]The invincible strategy to winning as Empire is to bulk up your sovereign with lots of wisdom and minimum int; empower every champion he hires; level these champions once so they can put points into essence; and have everyone summon one of these little monsters. Have your champions/children keep empowering others just as long as their own mana remains at 5, so they can resummon this all-powerful unit when needed and spirit-walk wherever

[quote who="Tridus" reply="5" id="2743490"]It's a fun issue. If it took 200 turns for your kids to reach maturity, the system would be largely a waste of time.[/quote] I have never had a child grow up quicker than that, though I suspect it has to do with my gamespeed of Epic.

One piece of advice, save all those books that enhance attack for your dragon. A book that's worth 1 attack for a a champion will do something like double the dragon's attack value. This is especially sick with the +8 to attack book, which will put the dragon at attack: massive.

I would be happy if hitpoints were increased by something like a factor of 5. I realize that it would prolong battles, but the problem right now is that most units act like glass cannons and there's never protracted battles with proper troop lines or flanking.

[quote who="Corbeaubm" reply="12" id="2742977"]Still wouldn't matter unless the AI stack attacked on the strategic map, thus gaining the first tactical turn. The minion army can almost always wipe the board on it's first turn.[/quote] I had three VM do just that with the ultimate quest's finale.

I would love to know how the stats of your children is actually calculated, seeing how I ended up with 3 children below ten strength when both parents had strength above 40.

Units heal the quickest if they stand in your towns. There's also heal spells if you research spellbooks and research high spell levels, though I have never tried them.

[quote who="cjlindem" reply="6" id="2741042"]MOM and AOW both had a magic resistance stat. Seems hard to understand how Elemental devs decided it was not needed.[/quote]Because Elemental uses the defense stat for magic resistance. If you want a spell that pierces through defense, there's already true damage. Spells that don't deal damage hit automatically.

[quote who="Dereliction" reply="22" id="2740072"]This seems to be the consensus, at least for revealed resources. Notables and quest locations obviously don't work by that same standard, though I would question if only new quest/notable locations of level X (X being the newly achieved level) can appear, or if it is a range--such as level 1 to 2 for mapping, instead of just 2--can appear in some weighted fashion. One thing is for sure, there is still a fair bit of mystery and a lot

The game's channels much more of the Civilization games than Master of Magic - that'll probably remain true even after a couple of expansions. Atm the game's focus is on city building, research, and army-building. Elements like heroes and magical gear are underutilized, there are no powerful magical items and even the strongest hero is at best as good as a three man squad with equal gear - but he's probably quite a bit weaker. Some things are very similar, trade especially. Ci

[quote who="Lord_Asmodeous" reply="4" id="2741054"] ^ This. I have actually stopped taking the Organized trait because it's really Over-Powered. Why is the +1 movement trait 15 pick points, but Organized, which is EONS more powerful (especially if you're Men and drop the 10 gold in the beginning to get Travelling Boots on T2) costs only 10?[/quote]I have stopped using it too and to be honest, I don't miss it. It doesn't make your armies bigger, it doesn't help when you are picking up goo

I had this problem too but it went away when I restarted the game. Did you try that? Might not be reproducible if that solves the problem.

[quote who="kmls1980" reply="6" id="2737668"]do we have to park "mama" in a City or does it have to be the Capital, before kids can start popping out ?[/quote]She can giving birth during a military campaign, even if her husband's parked on the other end of the map.

[quote who="Slainangel52" reply="9" id="2737678"] Quoting Norhg, reply 8I haven't yet seen the resource revealing techs reveal resources outside my own influence. Is that how it's supposed to be or have I just missed those other resources? I've yet to see it reveal something outside my influence as well. Kind of disappointing if you research it early.[/quote]Well, I pretty much get the same few resources every time I research the tech so it might be that they give

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="3" id="2737670"]They also get some spellbooks that are unavailable to custom Sovereigns on creation.[/quote]No they don't, you get death or life automatically depending on which faction you play.

I haven't yet seen the resource revealing techs reveal resources outside my own influence. Is that how it's supposed to be or have I just missed those other resources?

[quote who="cwg009" reply="12" id="2735141"]Empires get the blink spell instead of teleport.[/quote]The spell's called Spirit Dance but yeah, you can only learn it later on.

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="15" id="2735114"]Being Tarth (with the Great Warrior upgrade) doesn't actually do anything It's bugged.[/quote]Actually, you get the bonus when you are playing a tactical battle, it's just that the bonus doesn't show up when you inspect your units.

[quote who="Glyptar" reply="38" id="2734947"]200 health rings, 100 attack rings and 50 defense rings on them (which is completely affordable with all the risk-free "adventuring" money, and they're completely unkillable while killing everything they come across with one blow.[/quote]If I was you, I would have bought some 20 dragons instead.

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="33" id="2734777"]Except in combat, strength modifies weapon damage to arrive at attack value. So you still need weapons, and decent weapons are really expensive if you're expanding. And every heroes ability to deal is limited by the fact that if they fight, they lose HP and have to retreat. Not until you get medic packs can you really send champions out into the world to adventure and not have to baby sit/return them home at the first sign of real trouble

Some of the adventurer champions are quite strong with stats in the 15-19ies at level 1 and fair gear like leather armor and same-tier weapons. If you can recruit one of these champions in the first 40 turns you can easily take out most other sovereigns. Even if you don't go on a conquering spree the champion should pay itself by killing monsters and in the long-term it should be your largest income source.

[quote who="unacomn" reply="5" id="2734700"]Two words: Copyright Infringement.[/quote] Game mechanics aren't copyright protected. You could conceivably patent the, but then you need an actual patent - there is no automatic patent protection similar to how copyright works.