Loren1350

I don't understand why mounts give initiative bonuses; why can you attack or cast faster while mounted? Weight capacity makes sense, and may influence initiative that way, but as a direct modifier it isn't very realistic. Movement makes sense, dodge makes sense, prone resist makes sense (though something less than 100% might be nice). What about combat bonuses for having higher ground? I see horses as being more practical/solid, and wargs as the more agile option

Adding more sources of unrest (say, per population, like Civ or MoM or...), and perhaps then adjusting the unrest penalty for taxation, would probably be a good step.

I agree that all cities should have access to spell effects. That's just fun and thematic and magical. The problem as it stands is that Essence serves both as an enchantment limiter and an enchantment strength, making the power of Essence essentially squared. Here are a few of my suggestions; note they are not intended to be all used together (though some of them work nicely together), they're just a few ideas. To increase access to enchantments: Allow any and a

[quote who="CariElf" reply="98" id="2820715"] Quoting Loren1350, reply 87 In short, I don't like the two-tile limitation, and it seems to me that the influence boundary calculations might allow it to be removed. But apart from that, I am curious about [player] boundaries: How will you break ties in influence conflicts? The reason the limit exists, which is actually 5 tiles, is to prevent cities from connecting. This would not help two cities w

[quote who="CariElf" reply="86" id="2820303"] Since all points are relative to the center and the radius is 2, the max distance of any point will be less than or equal to 2 already, just because of the way that the loops are setup. This does not affect the limitation of how close you can build to another city. While improvements exude influence, the influence is not specific to that city, and with this code, it will be possible to have your own zones of influence overlap

Ok, here's my two bits. Give each city some kind of "economy" stat, possibly hidden. Make it sqrt(population * total production) or something else deemed reasonable; since population will be generating taxes in 1.1, maybe "economy" would just be equal to gross gold production (though this would ignore mining cities and academic capitols). Based on this stat, each city gets a number of free, invisible caravans. These caravans each pick destinations (friendly cities or outposts; see bel

Your language of "marking" everything in the bounding rect imply to me that you've bypassed the Euclidean calculations. I'd suggest that for the sake of adjacent borders, you're still going to need a proper "distance" calculation to get things to work right. Personally I'd rather have a game use Euclidean distance for idealistic reasons, but Elemental already isn't a Euclidean game for units (see: treatment of diagonals) so you should be using the Chebyshev distance. It's still comput

Or it could be a world generation option. That way you can decide each time if you want to have an adventure-centric game or a city-planning one.

It's more work in the animation department, but I would also/instead like to see a system more like MoM; the attack and counter attack are displayed simultaneously, in one "battle" animation. Like keith, sometimes I'm irritated by how slow combat goes, especially for small fights that I'd otherwise use autocombat for (except sometimes I have a specific plan for mana management -- so perhaps another suggestion is to have an asked-each-time option for that). For that matter I would also

I had a case (sorry, no savefile) where a Pioneer I'd produced was standing on a coastal (not beach, but the last walkable tile before the ocean) tile. The "found a new city" action icon was not shadowed, but when it was clicked nothing happened; no "your city is too close to another city" or other message.