As many I'd prefer setting the units by my own - but hey that's some stuff maybe for 1.2 - for now it's fine. So thank you for the updates, when will there be a Beta update for us to play with these changes and see if they break anything? Today? Please?
I love posts that give the people behind the scenes credit. God job and nice insights :-)
Looks like some very good changes, looking forward to them. The game always was almost over when you get scallabas mace or whatever it's name is (1h mace, 32 attack, cast shrink on hit)
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="86" id="3237044"] (...) I can't say I agree with the original poster, particularly with regards to our development process. We have a traditional QA/development process in addition to having public betas. (...) [/quote] I love the open betas. Good way of instant customer feedback and really a big thumbs up. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] Maybe my original post seems more negative than I actually am about the game and Star
[quote who="Mmrnmhrm" reply="67" id="3236144"] (...) Even the OP goes out of his way to list the inability to have multiple weaknesses in character creation as if that's a bug instead of a design choice he just happens to disagree with. (...).[/quote] Just nitpicking again, but then the label should be "Weakness" not "Weaknesses" - it's just something that was bugging me. Just like the combination of natural leader or other stuff I don't want to get
[quote who="Ausland" reply="52" id="3235807"]There are still a lot of bugs and polish left. I to hope they take a bit more time.[/quote] That's exactly what I hope. When I read the announcement of the preorder some time back citing a release this fall I was mildly shocked. But then I was like: "Nah, they know what they're doing - let's wait for Beta 5 probably the game has moved further then you think". But then when I got around to play Beta 5 I was shocked regarding the
[quote who="kryo" reply="39" id="3235526"] Seriously. I really don't think Test Driven Development (TDD) is practiced at Stardock Large systems do not always lend themselves well to automated unit testing; games are a particular example of this. Due to the number of variables involved, enormous setup to test certain components or scenarios, etc., some or many parts can only be effectively assessed through traditional testing.[/quote] I would never disagree with thi
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="3235041"]Beta 5 is meant to be the polish phase where all those last bugs get ironed out. Which is why it is important that we keep talking about them. If you have any more, please do post them.[/quote] I know. But seeing the amount of new bugs in every release I still say we need a Beta 6. I post as many as I can, but really my game of FE is already ruined for me again since without quests it's no fun and my sovereign is strong enough to easi
Hi there, yesterday I got up again and played 6 hours of Fallen Enchantress... and I must say I'm a bit shocked about the state of the game. Yes I know this is still Beta, but the final Beta. I'll try to keep this short... but I really hope that the launch gets postponed. I've been here ever since I've heard of the original Element as it's kind of my dream game... so I really want this game to succeed. <span style="font-size: medium
Unlike most people I'm highly skeptical. At first because this is a huge change late in the game design process, I hope that it pushes the estimated release date back by quite a bit. Moreover some of this sounds like it is making city spamming more attractive again, didn't we have lots of changes in order to prevent this? I liked population controlling so much because then it was fluent... now it's like "new city level - huge booooost!". I might be wrong as
No sir! I barely have time to play anymore - spending time on multiplayer waiting for people and people getting mad at me when I leave with rescheduling basically impossible due to my schedule? No, thanks! :-)
[quote who="NaytchSG" reply="98" id="3136055"] Hi One Lion, I had a similar issue with no notifications and crashes with the diplomacy screen... check out this thread and see if this helps: https://forums.elementalgame.com/422516 [/quote] Thanks mate, didn't have to check the forums extensively! :-)
I'm sorry to say this but once I get this votign site working, I will have to vote "Fair" (I was always "good" on the previous polls). Reason being simple, my personal feeling is that there are way more bugs in the game, at least for me, than in the previous betas (fewer crashes mostly though). my turn gets stuck and I have no way to end it my company always runs off to some location where they absolutely shouldn't go Notifications messed up
I'm not sure as my knowledge of Windows internals gets rusty (a good thing to me) but it's not about how much memory the operating system but how much it lets applications handle, which is different. I'm not 100% sure on the limits for XP vs. Win7 though. (for Coldsteel (in leetspeak))
With me it works when I alt+tab out of FE before starting any game (main menu), then alt+tab back in. Then I can also do this during the whole game session without problems. Also W7 64-bit.
Custom Faction is definitely missing from that poll... As I always base my custom faction on the Tarth I put Tarth but the abilities etc. of my faction are totally different. I hope that we stay flexible in designing custom factions and do net get limited by the Race we base them on.
It's presumably due to the $ --> Eur conversion - according to Google 39$ are around 29,7 € right now and they may use different exchange rates.
Hehe Always nice to see you posting about different defects that made the AI behave in a weird way.
I always play on large maps with 10 opponents (the 10 standard factions and I play my own). I usually don't get that far because it becomes boring for me as it is clear that I'm dominating everyone (playing on challenging, I always wanted to try hard but then the new patch comes with better AI so I stay at challenging). In 0.86 I'm still strong but not totally overpowered so I keep playing - currently turn 235 everything running very smooth even on my laptop. If I get fart
[quote who="sweatyboatman" reply="6" id="3104185"]I'm pretty sure frogboy has said that the game will make use of more memory on 64 bit systems. (...) [/quote] Yes he did and it does. Running Windows 7 64 bit with a dual core, runs smoothly just had 2 crashes in .86 so far, both when trying to save a unit design but not really reproducable. Internel intel graphics card from the sandy bridge processors, those things have come a lon
Personally the Ai also got the great mill before me (on hard) which I find odd since I was the most bad ass faction in the game all game long, it would have taken my 2nd best city something like 60 turns to build it so I decided not to. 30 turns later or something the AI had it, not impossible (well 10 enemies) but kind of unlikely imo... still kicking their asses though ;P
I noticed strange behaviour aith alt+tab, it might be coincidence but on 0.75 it worked every time: I get a crash when simply alt+tabbing out of the game. However, if I alt+tab out of the main menu before I start a game then I can alt + tab without trouble from the game. Have to check with 0.86
Thank you for making such a poll, I love it when companies do that. As for my vote, it went to the AI as challenging still bores me and I see lots of irresponsible behaviour by the AI ("Sure we can build an outpost right in the early game with nearly no troops next to this bone oger"). I'm amazed though that so many people want so much faction differentiation, I don't really care about it to be honest - imo it just becomes a balancing nightmare.
[quote who="geosch" reply="64" id="3097257"]"For most people, stability hasn’t been a major issue." Well, I'm glad to hear that most people don't have a problem with stability, but I do. The game crashes often, mostly in battles or reloads. I have updated my video driver. What else can I do to minimize crashes? Windows 7 premium, i7-920, 12 gb ram, 100gb free memory, and a Radeon 4850 (1GB)[/quote] <
Sounds good carry on guys. Already noticed that NPC factions weren't taking over monster lairs, good that it's fixed. Let's see when I can get to thoroughly testing this Beta and maybe the next. Keep it going!