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technically levelling up your settlement gives you "Two game tiles" which is 8 squares, while levelling up to a full city (size 5) gives you an additional 16 squares.

Basic Shape, and then perhaps re-texture ... with, of course, the hassle of actually getting a proper animation. The nice thing tho, is that you can add alot of extra appendages, or dimension (Shape) without having to play "optical illusion" with the skins or textures.

Well, if we do have a "Dodge" stat, or what not, I would prefer if Armor didn't give a static -2, but instead percentage demerits to "Dodge" ... although honestly I don't see how Dodge would be implemented without separating Attack into two different stats as well. For instance, wearing Cloth or Leather armor would not effect your Dodge stat, while Wearing Light Chainmail decreased it 10%. Wearing Heavy Chainmail (or Scalemail?) would decrease your Dodge by 20%, and by Wearing Basic P

hehe. In any case, join with me by stating the need for a Chilling, rapidly expanding "super-enemy" in elemental :) (I am sure that there is one within the lore already, but still ... just in case. FFH had the Infernals, even though they had an easy counter (Mercurians) and weren't that much of a threat in most Sand-box games)

Heh ... the difference between 30 minutes and 1-2 hours is just a matter of map size and player count.

I love how James Cameron's Alien(s), Starship Troopers Bugs (the movie, not the awesome book), the Zerg, and Warhammer 40k's Tyrannids all run together in one happy family. Obviously some of these races have relatively civilized, cognitive thought (Bugs, Zerg), and others are mindless machines of death perpetuated by their need to feed and expand (Aliens, Tyrannids) ... they are all organic reptilian/insect machines of flesh with the potential to rend Humans armed with Modern (and Future) te

Percent Bonuses make sense, Flat Bonuses make sense. They both make sense. some games have (need X stat to equip Y item) ... personally I don't like that. However (I have X stat which makes Y item stronger by N) I like. All in all though, I would be agreeable with a flat bonuses system (N attack from X stat + N attack from Y item).

CHAE TOR !

Hmm... so taking into account the "Chaetor" (misspelled for dramatic effect), instead of about 50/ 50 the poll was more 80/20? In either case, this Thursday we will have yet another Beta 1, so yey for us. Hopefully the Chaetor has been dealt with, for the Chaetranid Race has a tendency to rapidly expand and infest the various star systems, consuming all in their path. Hopefully in future installations we won't suffer encounters of Chaetranids ... although I suppose the possibi

Emotions? This is the Imperium! live for the emperor, breed for the emperor, die for the emperor ... thoughts of "sophistication" and "romance" are the seeds required for CHAOS!!!

Its true that most RTS strategies, on stratagems, are blazing cluster fests of fury. I do indeed like this sometimes, although not for a full 2 hours or so (usually). Personally I like to separate economy from military, so when the two are essentially the same (like in most all RTS) ... while it can be a lot of fun, at the same time I feel that I would like to have 100% of my time devoted to the military. I suppose this is why I was able to get into Dawn of War 2 even though I persona

While it may be silly, from a realism perspective, not to have religion, I can understand that its on the same level (strategically) as other "real" elements that will not be included in the gameplay. I will not be surprised if we still have divine spells, temples, ect, but simply no competing form of Organized religion. This is sensible for the main launch, although I wonder how much religion is present within the book or lore ... depending on this will depend on the direction religi

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="3" id="2590489"]If the equipment remains as it is now with only some items having cost/bonuses (I don't think so but just in case), it would be interesting. If all the equipment must have a cost (except simple clothes, obviously) then you'd be right, Outlaw. But then we also have the debate of "If I spend points for equipment of my Sovereign and later I can give him better equipment in game, am I not gimping him in comparison to someone who only

The amount of Armor/Weaponry you still have post-Cataclysm is part of your background. There must be some significant reason for you to actually still have equipment like that. From a gameplay perspective, if you spend the points for equipment, you are Saving 100 or 200 turns in "badassery" and your Sovereign would be able to kill ALOT of things, including partaking in bumrushing an unfortunate neighbor that didn't so equip himself. Now, a Sovereign that does not get these equ

True, it might be better to make the race of a city Static. Heck, a Kingdom might take over a fallen city of Urxen, and get Urxen troops, as well as potentially an Urxen Champion!! It would be VERY hard to recruit an Urxen champion though.

I ... don't know? what to think of it right now. But that's because part of your post distracted me with "base terrain." Speaking of base terrain ... there better be SOME reason to want swamps, or desert, or plains, or woods. Even if its just tactical battles, and what spells you can cast (fire spells are more effective in desert, water spells are more effective in swamp). Personally I would like some global/map/strategic difference, instead of just a tactical one but maybe that's jus

@ John Hughes .... currently %Increase buildings Add their % bonuses ... there is no (1.10)^n stacking. I prefer this Add in these situations, if only to make things easier to balance.

The problem is that its can of worms material, and your only going to need to get more detailed before its going to work in the way you want. Which building are the citizens going to move from? Are you recruiting drill instructors, bakers, butchers, carpenters? Farmers, Merchants, Bankers, Teachers? Maybe 5 teachers and 10 bankers? How will you know? No ... I say scrap this whole idea before it gets silly.

Indeed. This idea is full of win.

I ... doubt there will be a "First Person Hack n Slash" option for the Tac Battles, unless you just mean Camera Perspective, then sure. I am relatively certain that the Tac Battles will be more or less 3-D with lots of Zoom/Camera options.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB8rEtC-d3Y&feature=related We should just buy Spore programming or something :p

The rules of combat will be handled in turns, but from what I understand movement will be more-or-less in real time if you choose it so.

I remember a NON-tile based system in Total War, and it was pretty good imo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB8rEtC-d3Y&feature=related

Are there currently any Negative Traits that grant more than 10 points?