Dhraconus

I really enjoyed EWoM when it first came out, in spite of the issues and I've been thinking about playing EWoM again after many months but I just have a few questions for those still/currently playing first (rather not get burned out on the game now when it looks like good things are coming, especially in EFE). 1) The AI, how is it now? This was the biggest reason I put the game down. I'm not looking for an AI that can just stomp all over me ne

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="6" id="2828108"]Let me ninja this topic for a moment. What is stopping me from hiring all wandering NPCs that I ran across? You probably need to pay some gildar upkeep like for normal units, but is there anything else?[/quote] Heroes cost gildar to hire but have zero maintenance cost. So there is nothing stopping you fro hiring all of the wandering NPCs you run across. In fact I strongly recommend you do so, especially the ones th

Longstrider Boots used to provide +0.25 combat speed as well. But I agree, now that they no longer provide that bonus they are just over-priced Traveler's Boots (which should still be made available to other races, or an equivalent). Weapons have a similar issue. I can't remember the numbers off the top of my head but a war staff costs less than a spear and I think the same as a regular staff but has much higher attack than both. Note: this is during sovereign creati

A beta patch crashes? Really? Are you sure? You mean to tell me you ticked the little box that said " Pre -Release Versions" and downloaded 1.09n effectively agreeing to join a public beta for the 1.1 patch and the game had to audacity to crash ? What is this world coming to when we gamers can't even enjoy beta testing without suffering through bugs and crashes... [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/

This makes me happy [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

As far as I know the answer is 'unfortunately, no'. This has been mentioned a few times as something that should be fixed, hopefully it will be in 1.1 or soon there after.

I notice you mention your CPU and your RAM for the minimum/recommended requirements but totally neglect to mention your graphics card. I see this a lot and truth be told the graphics card is one of the most important pieces of hardware in PC gaming, if not the most important. If your graphics card is seriously sub-par, an on-board, or worst of all one that shares your RAM that could be the problem. Killing Floor says it needs 64mb of video RAM (required) but 128mb is recom

Assuming city 1 is your city which produces the most food and not just "the capital" I would go for image 2 with an addition. You have 4 cities in that image and only 3 trade routes. So I would do the following: Origin -------> Destination City 1 --------> City 2 City 3 --------> City 1 City 4 --------> City 1 City 2 --------> City 3 This would give City 1 the max food production bonus it could get from the available c

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In a way I agree with you on this. There is definitely an issue when it is advantageous to subjugate a race which is supposed to hate your own. On the other hand I really can't see a simple solution to this. Making it so you can't build any buildings of your own would be to severe and just promote a scorched earth policy towards the other faction. I've seen someone suggest making a 1 to 1 between the buildings so you can't have both 1 tech producing buildings in a city

[quote who="Alstein" reply="194" id="2823890"]This is not an issue of law, and whether it should be legal or not. This is an issue of whether the punishment fits the crime, which is blatantly does not, thanks to corporate interests. [/quote] It's amazing to me how many people seem to have missed this point. 24 songs worth $1 each results in owing $1.5 million. Steal 24 songs worth of CDs from a store and it's petty theft, a misdemea

I have noticed a trend towards Tarth failing at life. I have had a few games where they did alright though. Generally it's Altar, Umber, and Magnar that dominate (for an AI, still miles below me even on ridiculous). Yithril, Pariden, Gilden, and Capitar tend to be the 'mid-level' AIs and Tarth and Resoln are bottom of the barrel if/when they live long enough to get into the barrel. Kraxis tends to be a 'wild card', I've had games where Kraxis was among the top AIs and

I'd say it depends on what you're expecting from 1.1 in the first place. If you're expecting it to change the game significantly and give you a feeling of "OMG best game ever" then yeah it will be underwhelming. If on the other and you're expecting it to improve the game a bring it another step closer to "best game ever" then I think (hope?) it will be just that. For me personally, as long as the AI is significantly improved (doesn't have to be perfect) so it gives me some

Hurray!! You've been stickied... [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

There's actually an old game I really wish someone would remake, or make a game like it, that to me is a shining example of what "need better graphics" has done to gaming. Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance. I don't know how many people even ever played that game but it was a weird mix of turn based strategy and third person adventure. I don't think a game like it would be made today simply because it it was almost more than one game, and the need to graphics would just make

[quote who="shapechargeeod" reply="289" id="2813101"]How do you delete factions you have made?[/quote] The only way I've found is to go to "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Games\Elemental\Race" or whatever your equivalent is (different if Vista/Windows 7/different install path). Then find the file named for your custom race and delete it manually. In my case I have a file called Yggdrasil.XML which is the faction "Children of Yggdrasil" that I created.&nbsp

[quote who="FishSlayer" reply="9" id="2812890"] My problem is this. I have a battle. I got 4 units, They got 12. I kill 6. I took me 9 minutes of real time (lag, strategy etc...) I now have the AI in deep poo-poo. MY Army value is 275, His is 94. My morale is 56, his is 30.... I hit A/R so I don't have to waste another 4 minutes (I am assuming the memory leak/lag is bad as I have been playing 4 hrs...) When I hit A/R, I will take some damage (even though I would not have

I've never trusted auto resolves. AoW:SM had the same issue. I used to play Syrans and have 24 Lightning Catchers defending a fully upgraded city. It really didn't matter what the AI attacked with that defense is instant win when you do it yourself, but hit auto-resolve and sometimes you lose. (for those who don't remember lightning catchers had an AoE lightning attack that paralyzed so you just paralyzed and slowly whittled down any attackers and they never really eve

[quote who="Peter Cohen" reply="13" id="2809113"]When I start a new game, I'll always save the game, then spend 20 or 30 turns just exploring the immediate area. The idea is to find the best starting point for my first city. Then having done that, I reload and bee line for that spot.[/quote] You could save yourself some time by saving using the reveal map cheat (add the word cheat to the end of the shortcut and push Ctrl+U) then just look around the immediate area and keep your mini-m

There are several "early game strategy" threads around you should have a look at. Also consider looking at Gyb's FAQ that is posted on www.GameFAQS.com it may have some information that will help you out. Otherwise in it's current form the game becomes quite a bit easier if you focus on researching up to spell level 4 (or 5?) as soon as possible and research Imbue Champion (empire starts with it, kingdom can research it immediately), Summon

The more I think about the social and psychological factors at play in this (some I mentioned in a previous post and those mentioned by k10w3 and starkers) the more I find I have to accept the fact that piracy is/was an unavoidable byproduct of the world as it is now. I know many people will disagree with that statement but the fact is if you look at sociological, psychological (neurological and social), and criminology literature you will find that the existence piracy in its current s

First, this IS a decent 4x game as it is. That being said, I agree with everyone else, wait until 1.1 (also when the demo is coming out apparently). It shouldn't be much longer and a lot is going to change with 1.1 and you can't go wrong with a demo.

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="19" id="2807701"]Personally, I like having a lot of goodie huts. But, there's just something not quite right about matching goodie hut availablility to a tech research improvement. It's like matching perception to research, just doesn't make sense .. people eat food not buildings. What would make more sense to me would've been to have a "perception" trait and a "search" function (right down there with the "shop," "trade," and "guard"). A hero could se

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="44" id="2807159"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 38Only this game will make me happy. No, only Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga (once it is released) will do that.[/quote] Seriously, you just made my day with that. I was not aware of this yet and now... Well let's just say I'm happy (and that is a huge understatement).

I think most of the people left on the forums will agree with you actually. I'm like you, I think this is a good game now, with a definite need for AI which is in the works. The game thoroughly hooked me from the start even with its problems. On a side note, you mention you know only a little. I suggest you take a look at Gyb's FAQ on GameFAQs. It's still a work in progress I'm pretty sure but last I looked at it it was still very useful and covered most of the