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Can we make the NPC's 50/50 male/female, so their is no inherent advantage to starting one or another sex?

The origanl post sounds fantastic, that is for a game that is not called "elemental" I love the 'pick 3 and get 3 shards' aproche, that wins it for me.

[quote who="Winnihym" reply="51" id="2679120"]Make the frequency of all shards much more common. Like maybe 1 tile in every 10-12 on the overland map is a shard of some type.Winni [/quote] I hope you meen in every 100-144 squares (10x10 - 12x12), otherwise thats way to common. Might as well buy them at the markets 2 for $1. They should be a rallying point, something to fight over and give a usefull advantage.

Essences was originally supposed to be what separated the plebs from the power brokers, go for broke make it a major part of the game. The amount of essence should be a measure of your power, it is what separates the Sovereigns from the adventure. Some adventures *may* start with 1 point, Sovereigns will start with 10. When customising it would be the highest cost stat, 10-20 points a level. Essence should regenerate, 1 point per 5 turns. Medium level spe

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2677333"]I'm with BlackhatHedgehog on much of this. Each city costs more to build than the next. It's just that you start with so much $$. I popped it up to 1000 to start to give myself a little extra time to start doing a proper job on the balancing of the cities because, the economic buildup is ridiculously slow right now. There won't be a "tax" system per say. Instead, we need to reward players more for building up

Id like to see anything that is allready equiped removed from the items list, no point having to scroll though all your stuff just to equipe something new.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1" id="2680587"]Yea, the plan was to divvy out experience by the level of the units. That is, the higher the unit, the more experience they gain from the battle since they probably did all the real fighting. [/quote] I still think their nees to be bonus exp for taking dammage, but not dieing. You learn more from your mistakes in battle then you do from a walk in the park

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="18" id="2680765"] Especially when bestowing essence on a unit only gives it 1 essence. May as well not give the essence and save it for powerful, game changing spells, 1 or 2 of them anyway. Best regards, Steven. [/quote] But once you give it to them, they too can earn it as they level up.

[quote who="Anomander" reply="28" id="2678671"]It really pains me to read that MP and TB are token efforts, this was the only reason I preordered and now they are relegated to lets see if people want them expanded after release. Nowadays MP is essential imo. [/quote] Now that is only because the AI is usaly so piss poor its not funny. A good game needs to stand on single player (that is where all the work is). Adding single player to a multipalyer game is a waste of time, but the

Ive noticed that the high CPU usage for the title screen seems to have gone up in this realise, I'm running at 50% CPU usage when its not in focus and a whopping 80% when it is in focus. For a screen that's only scrolling a background image, that's a lot. As their is no crash, any other info I should be providing? Windows 7 CPU: Intel Pent. D 3.4ghz dule core. Windows rating 4.9 Video: NVIDA Gforce GTS 250 Windows rating 6.8 Sound: Soundblaster X-Fi Xtr

With the current Empire is not evil thoughts, have you cosiderd that the revived land for your own factions are green and for the other side are black?

Their should be a way to incress the strenght of them over time, perhaps each fraction shoudl get a new Tech from Magic every X turns so they grow strenght over the game, This would be multipled by Difictily and such..

World. Air and water: Drought - affects a 20x20 area and stops the spred of fertial land, will slowly kill fertial land that hasnt been built on. Fire *with* earth: Forge iron - Prduces X of the metal resorce. Fire: Fire storm - removes forests from target area , causing X damamge to all inside. Chance of spreading? Water: tsunami - Target city loses all ports, fishing and 1/4 population, 1 in 10 chance units lost, no production of any

As far as I can tell, your cities influence must surpass the resorce you wish to build on by one extra space..

Ive noticed no matter how armed your hirlings and summond minons are you cant enter combat with out a weapon your self, even if you have reserched "tatical" combat spells, this woudl indicat that the game is not taking those spells into consideration. I think everyone should have a combat level with out a weapon, after all you can still pick up a rock and throw it of try and stangle someone to death. Maybe an attack value of 0.25? for no weapon at all? And any one with trianing ie ass

**Interesting Choices. Being forced to spend essence to build a city is not a choice interesting or not. I’m inclined to find some other use to revive land rather than forcing users to use it to effectively build a town. That is, we’d let the player build cities on the foresaken land. That’s a pretty big game change but when you add the new game behavior that the sovereign can only found their kingdom (after that, only pioneers can build cities) it makes things a

it seems that these "improvments" that can be built on, can only be built on when your cities influence passes over *and* beyond the squares they sit on. To me its a bug, if your influence passes over part of the improvment you shoudl be able to build on it, ive also noticed if its in the middle of two of your cities influence you will not be able to build from either!

[quote]If you fight directly a foe and kill him you gain 10 XP. If it a normal unit that fight this battle and kill the foe, you gain nothing (it is the current behavior I think) If it is a unit summoned without essence that fight this battle and kill the foe, you gain the 10 XP as if your were participating in this battle If it is a familiar (unit summoned only once with a cost of essence of 1) that is fighting and kill the foe, you gain 20XP. Natu

[quote who="RentheUnclean" reply="26" id="2664378"]1. Allow magical mastery to be choosen AFTER finding a shard (ie. start with 3 generic slots to be choosen later). Could create suspense as you try to decide if you commit a slot to the first shard you find or hold off and hope for another shard around the corner. [/quote] Agreed, you should be able to chose X slots or get one free shard for each chosen one in your first city (you have found these shard, but they need

*•Current Essence = max mana. This is terrible. Needs fixed post haste. The reasoning why this is so terrible is simple to follow* I agree that the Essence cost seems high, I think they should be in 0.x not full cost. But the idea stands quite well, somethings need you to put your soul into them, and should reflect that. *•Stacking Enchantments. Ugh... really?* Just a simple but to get rid of I hope, I didn't even think of trying

Ive jsut started a game, and my world has been called 'Ibonk' , I'm wondering if they are using a randomish genrator or just a realy long list

exclent, why isnt this link at the top of the beta forum?? we neeed it their in bold <>G

I was worried id picked up a trojan or somethign that I coudlnt get rid of, the change overnight was dramatic to say the lest.

Is it just me, or has the stablity of 804 fallen though the floor? Im geting slowdowns on the opening animation, world build times takening 5 times longer, crashes all the time.. Oh well, it is a major change and all, but a big complemnt to the guys who have handled the window/non window code, this is the first moden game I can play on my dule output card and resonbly use it without having to window it. I can play full screen and scroll off the edge of the game and into

The hourglass is cool down time IIRC, and its buged as in it shows 255 for "only cast once"