[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="14" id="3332521"]If they allow you to actually see the thinking, the pluses and minuses, behind the AI's dealings with you, as it was in Civ IV, I'll seriously consider buying the game and its expansions.[/quote] You can see this in Gods & Kings. It doesn't show you actual values, but you can pretty much tell by the intensity of the colors. And the factors affecting the AI's disposition actually make sense too. Also, certain leaders ar
[quote]Unreleased: Only certain types of AI personalities will aggressively target the spell of making victory path Unreleased: Towns people automatically destroy the Forge of the Overlord components when they're conquered to prevent them from falling into enemy hands[/quote] Brilliant! This should balance things out a little. Please don't forget the time to actually cast the Spell of Making (10 turns is too fast) and the cost of the Forge of the Overlord compo
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="40" id="3321327"]Probably the only real solution would be to get rid of auto-resolve.[/quote] Please don't. Broken as it is, it's still very very useful in dealing with small threats.
[quote who="StevenAus" reply="28" id="3320996"][Bug1]There is still the bug - if a tech finishes researching on the same turn as you win a Spell of Making Victory, after showing the victory cutscene the game shows the tech screen and then hangs.[/quote] This is exactly what happened to me as well, except the cutscene didn't play either, the game just hang. I had to end process...
The speed at which the AIs get the towers is certainly off. This needs more balancing to ensure a proper and fair experience. Perhaps the idea to pursue the Spell of Making victory should be tied to a certain random trait the AI leader gets , or else all the AIs will pursue the Spell of Making, which is... odd. Also please take into account that if all AIs start building towers, all other AIs will start declaring war on them, which is not fun.
I finished a quick game on a small map on Challenging and Resoln built the 3 towers pretty fast and then got attacked by another AI, but they got me pretty worried. I think the towers are too cheap as they are now (only 50 gildar) and also the Spell of Making takes only 10 turns to cast (even though the victory condition description still says 25). It should take at least 15 to give you time to react, even if you have early warning.
As seen in the images, upon selecting Death Disciple and hovering over Earth Disciple, Syphon Strength appears under Earth Disciple. When selecting Earth Disciple and hovering over Death Disciple, Syphon Strength appears under Death Disciple. When selecting anything else, Syphon Strength doesn't appear under any choice.
[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="18" id="3320742"]You changed pioneer production from 30 people to 30 gold. Or do I need to update to 1.2 before upgrading to 1.29?[/quote] I can confirm this "bug?". And I did have 1.20 installed before applying 1.29.
The diplomacy changes seem awesome. I hope they actually work well too. It's great that you're finally addressing diplomacy. EDIT: I hope everything we see in this changelog will make its way into LH too.
[quote]Now, the diplomacy works by players building up a rapport with different players over time. This means that you can check on the relations and it may say Neutral but show a ton of negatives (or positives) there that point to where your relationship is going in the future.[/quote] Does this mean that if I pleased a player over the course of the game, it won't turn around to kill me just because he's stronger? I really love that you're finally fixing diplomacy a
[quote who="DuchessCorset" reply="149" id="3317988"]please tell me you added crossbows to the ranged weapon armory[/quote] You didn't actually read the post, did you? Crossbows have been added to the game and they are powerful short range weapons, they strike through 5 enemy units in a line. [quote who="dimstog" reply="152" id="3318036"]I understand the convenience it brings to developer, and it is borderline convenient for the user too, but locking all
[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="135" id="3317830"]So, by that statement, can I install steam, download the expansion via steam, than remove steam from my computer, than install the expansion and play?[/quote] Yes you could but you would have to reinstall and run Steam for every update that comes out. It's not some hidden malware that runs in the background without you knowing, funding terrorism. You can just start it up only when you need it.
[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="117" id="3317710"]That's really too bad if that's the case. I will not install Steam on my computer.[/quote] You really should give it a try, it's a great platform. There are many Steam exclusive games out there which you might miss. Just Cause 2 is my latest purchase for example...
[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="108" id="3317612"]So, in otherwords, since I purchased the NON-steam version of FE, installing the expansion LH will still not require steam?[/quote] No, you still receive a Steam key when purchasing LH. LH is stand-alone. Having FE only gives you a discount so to say, but LH is Steam only. Many Steam games work without actually running Steam, so it's only required to install and update the game. We'll see how LH will work, but I'm hoping for
[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="103" id="3317580"]Then there's the great divide in the community between people who use Steam forums and those who use Stardock forums - I didn't even know there was a Steam forum for GalCiv 2 until very recently.[/quote] I agree dividing community is not ideal. The same things happen to games published by Paradox Interactive because they have a great community on their forums, but then some people use the developer's forums. But the Steam fo
[quote who="jwdR1" reply="59" id="3317286"]Yes, you can prevent this by running offline, but if you want to see what is new or what mods are available, you have to log in.[/quote] Actually if you right-click any game and go to Properties -> Updates you can select to not update that game. I don't own Skyrim, but for every game I own I can do that and I don't have to be offline.
You people need to realize that you can set Steam to not update your game if you don't want to. Steam also works offline just fine. Online authentication is only required for games that have another DRM implemented like Anno 2070 did, Steam does not impose this. Steam also supports beta patches and you can opt to receive beta patches automatically if you want to. It also supports updates to AMD drivers automatically and its memory footprint is under 30MB of RAM. It has
[quote who="jwallstone" reply="34" id="3317206"]Faction prestige - removing this is the only change I would disagree with. Faction prestige was a very inventive way to softly constrain expansion. By replacing this with more unrest penalties, the game is moving in a more penalizing direction (e.g. Civ 3). The best game design is one that presents the player with two strong choices, not one where a strong choice is balanced with a weak one by just being penalized. In this case, the c
I'm very pleasantly impressed. I love every change you've made to the game and really looking forward to playing the beta. You've touched and seems you've actually improved almost every aspect of the game and Steam integration is great, since everything is on Steam now, which is a great platform. One question though: Have you touched diplomacy in any way besides removing Influence? It has major issues like the AI breaking truces, which the play
GalCiv III! [e digicons]XO[/e] You know it has its own subreddit, right? Also, please keep working on FE as is. That is keep patching it, keep releasing DLC and expansions, and please make expansions matter, like they did in GalCiv. The game has a lot of potential and you guys can make it into something really really great. But you have to invest time in it. PS:[quote who="cugeldaclever" reply="21" id="3314742"]...But fix diplomacy before you do.[/quote] Please
I know this isn't the thread for it but I would love to see city governors being introduced in the near future. Either Civilization style or GalCiv style, either way, although I like GalCiv style better, they would make the late game so much less boring. It's so bloody daunting to make a queue for every city you conquer and when you go on a killing spree, you suddenly find yourself with double or triple the number of cities you had and have to manage every one of them and it's suc
1. Diplomacy . It needs to be less random and more predictable. Also more useful. The AI is generally too aggressive I think, to the point where you can play the whole game without even bothering with diplomacy, because most people will declare war on you anyway. They're only friendly if you're more powerful than them. I think caravans and other pacts should have more impact on relations, and the AI should care a little less about military power, and
