The manual page 7, says you can pick Land Mass (Continent, Islands, etc.), don't see this in the game, it was in some of the Beta versions. Would like to see this add back in the game yes, I know you can create maps with the editor but, picking map size and map type (AKA Land Mass) are pretty standard fare in strategy games.
Finally we see a list of buildings in a city, is there any way to see what the buildings provide (bonuses) to the city? Example : Building____Resource_____Bonus Farm Food +1 Workshop Materal +1
Some things: 1. Green Bears, I don't get it? 2. Would have expected creatures like Spiders, Shrills, Draths to be part of the Empire and not Kingdoms or does this have more to do with race now? 3. The spell Book doesn't look any different, from the beta? Still can't tell what book magic spells are from Book of Fire, Ice, etc. Are there Shards for the book of life? 4. Getting into a war so early in the game, less than a 100 turns in, (map size, independe
Guilds Did they make it in the final release? They were in one version of Beta and disappeared in the next. I liked the idea of special buildings giving access to special units. Dungeons Never saw them in the Beta's but, hoped they would be in final version, I mean what's adventuring without dungeons? This would also make Elemental a little closer to Birthright, where champions when adventuring on maps different from the
[quote quoting="post"] We’re supposed to go gold this week and we’ve been burning the midnight oil. Once we go gold, we can move to the day 0 version which is, as far as I’m concerned, the “release” version. There won’t be much difference between the two other than AI. But frankly, if I had my way, none of you would be able to play the game and it would all be just AI vs. AI. they prefer it that way… You humans
You can use the lower land spell to lower a shore hex to a beach hex, that allows you to build a Harbor when you have the technology. Harbors no longer have to be part of your city/town, just within your kingdoms zone of control.
Will there be a Beta 5?
I like it! [e digicons]:P[/e] and you didn't even have to use the Editor! Now all we need is an aquatic race!
Created a custom map, started a new game, loaded map, 100+ turns in, most research areas are level 2 or 3, yet completed research shows nothing? Shop also has nothing. File http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8105715/B4NoResearchCustomMap.zip Contains Save game file Debug.err Custom Map CreateMap1.xml
This just seems like something carried over from the Civ games, been there, done that! I don't really care that a another kingdom was the first to build the "fill in the blank" achievement, I'm too busy building my own kingdom.
[quote who="seanw3" reply="3" id="2701856"]In the 1.1 we will probably get a decent curve to these monsters and how often they spawn. I would remind everyone though that we need such critters in the game to level up our heroes fo bigger battles. I usually leave my offspring in my territory to deal with the spawning. That way after 10 or so games of whack a mole, I get a usefull unit.[/quote] Yea, I've done the same thing, I still think dungeons that level to play/party
The game really needs dungeons vs. killing the repeated spawning of creatures. Some times the creatures re-spawn all around your party or even in the same hex.
Why should I have to build a town to claim a resource? If you build a town than you have to build troops to guard it. Also towns have to be at 6 hexes apart, so to get some resources you will have to expand the town so it's zone of control covers the near by resources. Then it's building houses, farms, etc. to expand the town. Expanding towns is no longer as easy unless it's next to a food resource. I liked the old way better, having Pioneers capture and build resource
LDiCesare 100% Agree! When you create a new map, there is no feed back, "Map being created" , "World being created". etc. with out looking for hard drive activity lights, one might thing the Map Editor as hung because it take several minutes to create a map.
I attacked a another kingdoms, won the battle with damage, the kingdom and my complete party w/sovereign disappeared! Game crashed 1 min. after exiting the game, no dump file. File http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8105715/B4SovereignDisappears.zip Includes: - Save Game file - Debug.err file
It's not a bug, food is now a scarce resource, don't build houses until you need them, then only build what you need. A little later in the game, there are spells that improve food production and research under Civics but, even improved farming is now a rare item in research. It's ok, food stays at almost zero until you get the spells and researched food/farm production items. Town/city growth is now slowed down a lot in Beta 4. Don't forget to build your city/town in around f
Shouldn't we have new beta version so we don't have multiple versions of beta 4?
Right Now Zones of Control extend to water hexes, blocking movement, is this correct? If the only shore hex is blocked by the zone of control of another kingdom, you can't land on an island without going to war!
Beta 4 Gameplay Comments and Issues 1. Ships - It's more trouble than it should be to dock a ship at a shore hex. - Ships have pathing issues, you can't move ships from the strategic near land/shore hexes, have to zoom in and move them one hex at a time. 2. Enemies Not Appearing on Map with some zoom levels - Some enemies can't be seen on the map in heavily wooded areas unless zoomed all the way in
That's not the issue, Pioneers before Beta4, could capture and build on resources out side of your kingdom and now they can't. Why should I have to build a town just on get a single resource, every see an island with a single resource? Who wants to build and manage 50 mini towns?
All three quests location appear in other kingdoms zone of control. See Saved game http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8105715/B4Questproblem.EleSav
Ships - two issues - Can't dock ship near shore - Can't move ships from strategic map near land, need to zoom in and move it one hex at a time. Saved game File & readme.txt http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8105715/B4_can%27t%20_dock_ship.zip
Pioneers can no longer capture and build resources on the map in beta 4? Not sure I like this change, now the only way to get a resource is the build a town next to it. This forces you to build more towns and sometimes in useless locations just to capture the resource.
Special Abilities 1. Stealth - allow units to sneak up on an enemy. 2. Steal/Pickpocket - allow a unit steal items/gold from a unit vs. preforming an attack . 3. Beast Master - ability to capture & train creatures vs. just killing them . 4 . Raise Dead - Create a skeleton from dead units on the tactical map. 5.
Impulse is still showing me 0.98 Beta at 9:39 MST, with no new updates and Elemental is still showing 0.98 as well?