[quote who="mindlar" reply="26" id="3231149"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 21 The biggest UI bugaboo I have with FE right now is how hard it is to get rid of city enchantments and unit enchantments. There is a way to get rid of city enchantments? I just assumed they were intended to be permanent because I couldn't find any way to get rid of them. [/quote]
Regarding the "three-turn minimum building cap", Seanw3's analysis is so "Dead-on", that it is worth repeating (at least in part - the editing is mine - I'll take the blame for that): [quote who="seanw3" reply="38" id="3231175"] I understand the logic of a 3 turn build minimum. Such a mechanic is there to make sure that production levels don't allow one city to ever outproduce 3 cities. It's a cap on the ability to power
Again: Wow ! There are a striking number of improvements that you have identified in this Fallen Enchantress Changelog for v0.98 (Beta 5). Thanks for your continuing hard work in making improvements to this game; as well as for the increasing number of Bug-Fixes that you folks have been tackling, of late. Really, the work (of your whole team) continues to be downright impressive ! <span st
Thanks for this great Original Post, Mr. Paxton ! This is some Heavy Stuff ... and I mean that in a good way. I like learning more about game design (in the world of PC's). I'm old; and I used to design some great warfare-type board games in my younger days. That subject has always interested me (along with history, geography, and resource allocation decisions); and this Post sheds more light on how individuals (and teams)
[quote who="CyanPile" reply="76" id="3230198"]This is my first game. Now I'm trying to survive against the computer "expert." I very unlucky? My first city http://s55.radikal.ru/i149/1209/f9/a0a2a25f34e2.png 5-2-1.. which means blue twirl? Science? second http://s003.radikal.ru/i203/1209/67/3cdd9c656e0e.png third http://s43.radikal.ru/i099/1209/1a/f8b41004970a.png How much better to be my
[quote who="parrottmath" reply="70" id="3229758"] I understand the desire for competitive starting locations, but I prefer the randomness of the starts. ...
[e digicons]:D[/e] I think I am going to name my next Custom Sovereign: " General Rant " ... You just never really know where you are going to find a great idea ... [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]
[quote who="cardinaldirection" reply="31" id="3228041"] Quoting Raledon, reply 30 You could create maps, but you will most likely be asked to also place goodies and resources and and and... and in the end, people will learn the map, so for replayability you will need to create many maps, which is a lot of work. Map making is an eternal art. [/quote] [e digicons
Horror ! [e digicons]8C[/e] Oh, the horror ... Scared the stuffing out of me, until I got down to this bullet: [quote who="Frogboy" reply="13" id="3227699"] + Player's sovereign now named "Randolph". This is the player's character in all games now to simplify game setup [/quote] Only then, [e digicons]o
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Interesting Question: Glad you asked ... Of the choices you offered (all adding up to 8), I think 3 grain, 3 production, 2 essence is usually best. Most of the time a balanced start is best, because you really do not know (beyond a very small area) what you will encounter. As Cauldyth suggested (in this magic-oriented game) essence
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Credit-where-credit's-due Department: DevildogFF caught this review by Keith Turner of Space Sector, back around Sept 3; and he posted about it at this link: https://forums.elementalgame.com/430710 A fair amount to d
[quote who="UmbralAngel" reply="40" id="3223244"]Bravo for fighting it out. If nobody settled these cases then people would stop initiating them. &nbs
Nice Find, DevildogFF ... and thanks for sharing! I really do think this is one of the best PC strategy game reviews that I have read. IMO, it is remarkaby detailed, and genuinely fair. As a result, it is also genuinely helpful/useful. As seanw3 suggested, it will help to build early awareness (more sales !), and that in turn should further incentivize Stardock to keep plugging away at i
Well, Parrottmath, there is another constrictor on city density, and that is the minimum distance -- between cities -- that is permissable. Until v0.951, the minimum distance was 8 tiles. When v0.951 was released, the minimum distance between cities was reduced to 6 tiles. As a result, it is now possible to build considerably more cities on a given sized map, than was previously the case (assuming the availability of adequa
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[quote quoting="post"]Sometimes I like dense cities. If I want to control a large state, I don't mind the pioneer-spam/land-grab in the beginning, so long as every faction has similar opportunities. However, sometimes I might want to play a more empty world. Perhaps there should be a setting for "settle-able" tile density, apart from resources? [/quote] I think this is an Excellent Suggesti
Thanks, Frogboy, for providing some screenshots of what the Map Editor looks like. Learning that you have a great Map Editor already built into E:FE really brightened my day. Great News! Thanks for sharing ... [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]
[quote who="UmbralAngel" reply="60" id="3218555"]I suggest you tie random events to forum posts so that the more people complain the more monsters harass them in-game. [/quote] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] Now, that was a Major Chuckle ! ... and of course, Justice would be served, if your suggestion were implemented ...
Of all these possible features, the one I would most like to see is a really capable (and user-friendly) Map Editor ! I would love to see one in E:FE, that is as good (for example) as the one in Civ 4. If Stardock can come up with that, I think the issue of Replay-ability will have been pretty much settled ... once and for all.
Weird bug ! Funny you should mention it, because I just had this bug appear in a game I am playing now. The Tile Yields disappeared in three tiles ( only 3) of a cluster of five, when my Sov rode across them, from the SouthEast, to the NorthWest, after I fought a battle on one of the tiles. (Strangely, the tile yields on
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[quote who="Tattyhat" reply="25" id="3217912"] Have you any idea how horrible this game looks without anti aliasing? [/quote] [e digicons]:D[/e] For performance reasons, I have never once left on the "Anti-aliasing" feature, in the control panel. I've always turned it off. On the up-side, you can't miss what you've neve
[quote who="leeboy26" reply="26" id="3217773"]Excellent. Is there a thread where we can suggest events or are we too late for that? [/quote] Frogboy's Original Post (OP) of Aug. 23, 2012, entitled: "Coming Soon: Fallen Enchantress on Steam" included a list of 15 questions (well ... 15 numbered paragraphs ... not every one was literally a question) including a Question #5, which requested ideas for Random Events. You can fin