VR_IronMana

[quote who="Mtrixis" reply="8" id="3065691"]Game runs too poorly even on medium maps for me to play on large ones - the large map game I finished was completely choking by the end. Anyway, that aside, as a stopgap, go into the custom setup for your large map game and remove an empire or two, should give you more breathing room - also make sure they're balanced between empire and kingdom, so you have a greater chance of peaceful borders if you want to buildup. If you

[quote who="Barrynor" reply="5" id="3061871"]Yes, but I had a large map, 7 opponents, and every nation I met declared war on me within 1 turn. Didn't help much... I had no room to expand into, and outright warfare everywhere. I'd prefer larger maps too. Bigger = more fun, in my opinion. [/quote] That's been pretty much my experience so far with FE in the games I've had a chance to try. I think the game is cool - I jus

I can understand that - but I just think it's a bit...odd that I pick the largest map size and run into two other factions right next to me...

[quote who="malichai11" reply="57" id="3061265"]Maybe I'm just bad at the game, but I've been playing non-stop since the beta was released, and I haven't felt that my heroes are overpowered at the beginning/mid game. They seem awfully squishy to me and I feel like I have to work to get them to the point where they can survive and contribute offensively.[/quote] This. Last game I got a girl (Ledanna, I think her name is) and she...can't fight. I mean, I m

[quote who="Rath3130" reply="21" id="3061597"] Agreed. Player champions should suffer some sort of drawback to being defeated in combat, regardless of the outcome. If it is a victory, then have them unsuable for a time and/or wounded.. And while I think that for a player this is one of the more balanced ways to do it, I think that the AI should be given a bit more leniency when it comes to champions falling in combat. As it has been stated in posts above, the AI can not reload after

I played my first game of the Beta and think it's going to be really solid. One thing I didn't like, though, is that I ran into another kingdom very soon in the game despite choosing to make a large world. In fact, there were two kingdoms that I was sandwiched between. Both discovered right around my starting position. On a large map. So I would like to suggest that in later updates, the map sizes grow larger, especially for the higher end of the scale. Especially now

[quote quoting="post"] I can’t go into much detail regarding it other than to say it that it is much more similar to a Civilization/Master of Magic style strategy game versus a Galactic Civilizations/HOMM style strategy game (i.e. every tile of terrain matters i.e. building near rivers or forests or hills and that kind of thing will matter and there are things like unrest and tax rates and that kind of thing). [/quote] Already. I can not wait for

[quote who="Grizzyloins" reply="33" id="2934986"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 30Quoting Phylast57, reply 26I'll have to review my Sun Tzu. Lu Bu's name sounds familiar to that text though the vernacular reference to his diminished manhood I do not recall Lu Bu played a major role during the end of the Later Han dynasty, he was known as the greatest warrior of his age, but also treacherous. and dumb as a post on every game I&#

[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="25" id="2932628"]Dynasty Warriors handled it well. Lu Bu knifes through like 10,000 peasants and you can't help but think: "Lu Bu is NOT a pussy."[/quote] Until he runs into some nameless officer and he 1-combos you into defeat because his fan has elements on it and shave your life down to nothing in 6 hits... :(

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="9" id="2918384"]Perhaps people were making their traits too powerful[/quote] Kinda hard to know what "too powerful" is for a game that doesn't even exist. [e digicons]:S[/e] Not saying you're wrong because I'm sure that's part of it for some of the traits that didn't make the cut, but it's hard for us trying to just be creative and come up with ideas to know if +2 would be too powerful or +1 or if 15% would

Ah well - mine didn't make the cut. Of course, odds were low with so many submissions, but you don't enter if you don't hope to win - and when you don't, it's still disappointing.

[quote who="James009D" reply="60" id="2911392"]This game is awesome... and I absolutely lost my first campaign! 2nd campaign is going much better and I'm enjoying this game. It is soooo much better then Empire: Total War which almost made me lose hope for the series.[/quote] Same here - I picked Oda, got wiped in two turns (was building up to clear the rebels, then Saito attacked, Tokugawa moved in, held off Saito, Tokugawa finished me. Second attempt as Oda

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="23" id="2906959"] I've read that the AI doesn't properly lay siege to settlements - they just charge blindly at the walls and die. True?[/quote] That pretty much is siege until you develop siege weapons. Unlike Medieval, there's not a lot in the way of battering rams or catapults, etc, and battlefield ninja haven't hit the field, especially not in the early phases of the game (where I am right now). Most of th

[quote who="Alstein" reply="14" id="2911376"] BTW Elemental cost $50. The AAA PC titles now go for $60. [/quote] Does that mean Shogun 2 would fall in the "middle market"? It's US$49.99

[quote who="mastroego" reply="18" id="2911399"]The fact that we're here proves that we, at least, believe in the middle market. About the prices, well. Give me the next MoM, or the next Planescape: Torment, and you can ask me $100. I don't care how other games are priced, if I get my holy grails... [/quote] I don't think I could drop $100 on a game, even if it was the perfectly updated incarnation of MoM or the like. <p

AT RELEASE: E: War of Magic: B - I didn't have a lot of the issue most had and thought the game was pretty fun. Civilization V: N/A - haven't played Starcraft 2: B - not bad, granted I'm new to the SC world so I didn't have any expectations Fallout: New Vegas: N/A - haven't played END OF 2010: E: War of Magic: B - kind of waiting for the new systems to hash out to really get back into it, but my feelings about t

[quote who="Zozz" reply="88" id="2889507"] Hence, why I always play games like Europa Universalis as very minor nations.[/quote] That game can be brutal. I remember a game I took The Palitanate in EU3 and set a personal goal of unifying Germany. Sheez, it was WORK. Even went bankrupt at one point.

[quote who="Tydorius" reply="31" id="2888742"] If the memory issues are taken care of, for those that say medium maps, what about large maps with more AI's present? This would allow for that same competitive feeling and allow for even more epic campaigns at the end.[/quote] I'm not a medium advocate, but this is what I want. Big, big, big maps with TONS of AI players on it. Almost like a Nobunaga's Ambition style of game (large map, lots of factions)<

I like #3 from the originals and that "#6" that was posted later.

[quote who="Brillig" reply="18" id="2884042"] Anyway, what I'm pointing out is that "we'll always need more" is a fallacy. There is such a thing as enough. [/quote] Go ahead. Tell us exactly how many IP addresses we'll EVER need. Then we can just go to the point and say 'we have enough' Can't do it? Then better to have overhead room than to come up short. It's just like the Y2K thing.

[quote who="Das123" reply="49" id="2876235"] Quoting Sushikawa, reply 43Last night we had a fair amount of snow, enough for me to call into work, so I busted out AoW:Shadow Magic to see if it holds up to to the infamous rose colored nostalgia glasses...and it does. It had such beautiful maps, city sieges were a different type of battle all together, and the magic spells are sweeping, the differnt races, neutral cities, recruiting camps, game changing things that made the world more than

-A female sovereign with the 'Ugly' trait should have a passive chance to paralyze (or turn to stone? or outright kill?) any unit she's adjacent to, friend or foe. -Female NPC trait: Black Widow - every time she has a kid, she kills the character she's married to. This is a hidden trait, so if your male sovereign marries a woman with this trait... -The higher a female character's Charisma, the higher her defense is when unarmored. -Likes Intimacy: Character must be in

Don't have a lot to add - just want to say that any quest with sylphs in it is good. The world needs more sylphs.

[quote who="Infantes" reply="24" id="2875154"] Also I wouldn´t bother too much about balancing. Absolute balance equals absolute symmetry equals absolute order equals absolute standstill equals absolutely boring. [/quote] Balance <> everything being the same. Balance == all sensible paths to victory being equally viable. Balance wouldn't mean making Empire and Kingdom the same. Balance means

[quote who="Tydorius" reply="2" id="2877312"] Or there's the Chinese triangle. You can have good Chinese food, a good buffet, or a Chinese buffet. [/quote] ROFL Too funny!