[quote who="askjosh" reply="1" id="3049450"]Personally I would never buy a laptop with an Intel GPU for gaming. A dedicated graphic processor from nvidia or ati would be best.[/quote]
[quote who="JonathanEngr" reply="71" id="3048494"]Frogboy--Did I read correctly in one of your earlier posts that anyone who bought the original Elemental WOM pre-release will get to take part in the Beta? [/quote] lol [e digicons]:D[/e] As if. This is Stardock come on! As if that would ever happen. That is a horribly untrue rumor with no substance behind it what so ever. The only reason people may think that is that if you boug
I could very easily be wrong here but from a screenshot I saw awhile back I believe that when attacking cities combat will take place on dedicated tactical maps set outside of city walls, ie you can see the walls in the background. I don't know why they don't have the maps feature some defensive terrain like some non-destructible walls and stat boosting fortification tiles to place archers or gate guardians on. It wouldn't require any new features but would add a lot more
[quote who="Cruxador" reply="52" id="3048111"]Those restrictions on treaties sound artificial and frustrating. What possible reason could there be that two nations couldn't have more than one standing agreement? What reason is there that it's never possible to offer the same deal to everyone?[/quote] Well for say research treaties if you already have a tech sharing treaty they might object if you then offer another research treaty to another faction, because then the third tea
Frogboys statement doesn't mean necessarily mean that the AIs always team up against humans, just that they will actually form alliances with other players and work together against any player who threatens them as a team. Thus having the highest faction power doesn't guarantee victory. In WoM you could just amass an army and take out each AI one at a time. Now they might be smart enough to realize that in order to defeat one warmonger they should band together or even f
[quote](1) A lot of new art assets aren’t in my build. That’s why there’s so much brown. So no “blasted lands” [/quote] Ahhh, that explains that. I was gonna say that FE terrain is kinda repetitive. Just grass, purple grass, dirt, trees, and rivers.
[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="46" id="3046613"]I think trading with resources would be simple and useful, if not necessary. [/quote] I think he was referring to over-time trade treaties like "I will give you five gold per turn for 30 turns" and such. I don't think they will be removing the existing ability to trade resources, since metal is so important that would be weird. I believe what he means in general is that you won't be able to do complex trades involving citie
Anyway thanks for responding Frogboy. I appreciate it. .
I admit to no real knowledge of AI programming but maybe the problem is in the weighting of the power of sovereigns and champions. I imagine magic is hard for AIs to calculate for and predict. With the sovereigns and champions being as powerful as they are the AI is effectively splitting its army if it doesn't have them together, so why is it doing that? Perhaps when defending against other players the AI needs to play it safer by checking to see if there are possible reinforcemen
Why is the AI sovereign almost never with his army? You seem to win most the time because you kill his army and sovereign separately.
Wow thanks.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="37" id="3046130"](and before anyone ask, no, I'm not going to screw around with resource trading or tech trading, it ain't happening, it's a black hole that could be spent on lots of interesting diplomacy stuff and smarter AI overall). Having lots of different treaties in the game will give players an incentive to be on good terms with other players as well as allow other players to effectively gang up on whoever they consider a huge threat.[
I don't think giving the AI traits would work very well. It would homogenize all the teams. Instead a blanket resource multiplier or starting bonus would work better. Giving the AI a good starting location could work but you would still have to watch out that the bonus is not always the same, ie a gold mine. Giving them a extra random resource tile, or a boost to food could work. A hidden combat multiplier or ability to redo/undo combat in PvE would also work very well I t
I also much prefer more hidden bonuses like a resource boost to higher level AIs over a hp advantage.
Thanks for the great journal!
[quote who="Aeon221" reply="23" id="3043681"]I'm sorry, I didn't realize I had stepped into bizarro world where people liked having irrelevant numbers cluttering things up. Do you people also collect belly button lint? Lemme grab a bunch of obvious should not exist stats and explain this to you apparently very dense people: Strength/Dexterity/Attack/Defense/Dodge/Accuracy Intelligence/Spell Mastery Constitution/Hit Points L
Ya I don't think we have any chance of seeing the beta until after Christmas either, but I hope we get it as soon as possible after the holidays.
I just hope all these sneak peaks don't mean that the beta won't be out until mid January or something. I just finished my exams and now is when I have the free time to play. Plus I really want to get back into modding, I have built up quite a few cool ideas over my break from Elemental.
The TN final episodes had some good moments and a good overall plot but they where full of plot holes, cliches , and unrealistic decisions that tarnished the show. Seriously people in the future must be pretty suicidal/stupid.
Thanks for the info. I have wanted to get into this sort of stuff for some time.
Exact opposite for me, I grew up on Warcraft. Which is why I won't ever play WoW. They don't so much disrespect the lore as piss on its grave and molest its wife and children. Not an exaggeration, even W3 was a pretty big departure from the first two. [quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="3" id="3042104"] George Lucas is pushing to appeal to a younger generation for replacement Starwars fans and that involves making the content very black & white. Anyone who has
[quote who="Gandhialf" reply="32" id="3041667"]This is very important point. The basis for E:FA (and E:WOM) is not some tactical game, but Civilization (4X game). In Civilizations I to IV there is one huge issue: the stack of doom and it's consequences (almost no tactics at all). I know two ways to overcome it: (1) one unit per tile (Jon Shafer ), (2) tactical mini-game. The first option puts tactics on the world map, the second puts tactics on a mini-map. Tactical combat is not the core
Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet Series. I highly recommend it. It's all about realistic interstellar space battles and features a great plot and deep characters.
[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="11" id="3040748"]DsRaider, I think the resource bonus displayed on the tiles is actually the cumulative bonus you get from the tiles around that tile.[/quote] Ah, that makes sense.
[quote who="Magog_AoW" reply="25" id="3041500"]I'm in the closed beta for Warlock:MotA. Starts tomorrow. This will be interesting.[/quote] I was thinking of joining that but Paradox asks way to many questions of beta testers, it scared me off. I am also in exams right now and want to focus on FE when it comes out. [e digicons]^_^[/e] From what I have seen W:MotA looks good, but it almost seems like a fantasy mod for CivV. With its hexes, single u