Glazunov1

[quote who="Grizzyloins" reply="3" id="3279238"] do the mods download directly to the game or must one still do different cr*p for each mod to work?[/quote] All mods require knowing where to dump the files. Some require more than that. I get your frustration, but no one is forcing you to play their mod, and it's all their effort, being provided for free. So you probably should put up with the shit you'll face for 5 minutes spent per mod wh

More rapid updates of a few items, while working longterm on others, makes sense to me. I did notice the improvements in speed. The game's significantly faster, now, and that's very apparent on large maps. Thanks. :)

Has quite a few factual errors. Yes, what a surprise.

Pretty sure this is a bug. Brad's made clear that the AI isn't supposed to get away with anything the human player can't.

[quote who="Mistwraithe" reply="11" id="3277119"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 7 IGN says their isn't enough interest in FE to justify a review right now given how busy they are with the Christmas releases Ah, I have a bit of a knack at this so I'll translate for you: "IGN says Stardock aren't spending enough money advertising with them to to justify a review of FE given how much money other companies are spending advertising for the Christmas releases"[/quote

So to put it bluntly, are you a real person, who wants to discuss a game, or just a fanboy spamming forums without any real interest in discussion? Your post certainly seems generic enough for the former.

[quote who="pad152" reply="5" id="3278513"]Bet it comes back in a paid expansion! Outside of boats/water movement, coming in the map expansion pack 1, marriage/families is the next most requested item.[/quote] ...Marriage/families? Based on what survey? I'm thinking more spells, more variety of terrain tiles, greater resolution in unit creation, more traits, more sovereigns, larger maps, and plenty of extensive quest systems are probably

If you're using a Pariden-based ruler, you need strong cities. There's no reason to do Pariden if you don't go for the spellbooks on the magic tech progression, which means you'll be doing that much more than other rulers--and dividing your tech advancements. This means slower tech advancement overall; other rulers will probably reach the world achievements and military upgrades sooner than you. Such a thing is unforgivable. You must ch

I've uploaded Oblivion mods to Nexus, with success. Expansion of the site has been over-ambitious, in my opinion, and I've been displeased with a loss of d/l speed from servers for paid members. But the site loads quickly, the operation is managed well, and if the moderators aren't always polite, I've yet to see them take action in a high-handed fashion. And I've been involved in the forums on and off for several years. Of course, I

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="17" id="3278057"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 16As a human player, you can beat any of the AI ones in a straight battle, but if Magnar gets to streamrolling, which he usually does, your chances of winning are drastically reduced. You know, I usually win my games on ridiculous, even when I play races cooked without cheese, and just won a game on insane (admittedly, with a very cheesy race). I am quite used to beating Magnar, early or late, and I always

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="11" id="3278013"] Quoting rvgr, reply 10Bah. Magnar rules. He will eat you all for lunch. And your little dog, too. Magnar is good, but not great: Yup. You can do a lot better as a leader for the Quendar. Death and Fire at level one, warlock/brilliant/hardy/wealthy/clumsy will wipe the floor with Magnar. [/quote] Only if you get to Magnar quickly enough. On a large map, if he firs

Bah. Magnar rules. He will eat you all for lunch. And your little dog, too. [e digicons]}:)[/e]

[quote]Summoner This gives all your summons +2 levels and access to the Summon Shadow Warg Spell. This is also a Newbie crutch profession The shadow warg is helpful in the early game, but soon losses relevance and Summoning as a whole is pretty weak. There are very few summons that are worth a shit. And even if there were good summons, "Level" increases don't really make a unit all that much more powerful, really only gives them more HP. Maybe if you get summon earth elemental and take th

[quote who="Strumpetplaya" reply="14" id="3277162"]Lemme just load up a hotseat multiplayer game, set that up and... oh wait, nevermind. [/quote] You can switch out factions during the game via cheats. Cheats are...oh, but you've heard it before.

Derek and his team made a conscious decision to drop it. I'm assuming the only way they'll bring it back will be if you hire a very large man named Vito to visit each of their homes late at night with a message. But even then I wouldn't count on it.

I've seen so many threads urging that so many traits, factions, leaders, spells, monsters, and buildings are overpowered. It doesn't seem to matter that not everybody plays the same way, or on the same map, or at the same level of difficulty--or that Derek and Brad won't hold guns to our tiny collective heads and require we play each and every thing that somebody finds overpowered. All of it is just too powerful. Throw it out. So this is my

[quote who="Viperswhip" reply="12" id="3276058"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 11I've had the option to build a logging camp appear after expanding my city's zone of control, so keep that in mind. I can only think you must be mistaken. If you mean you built a building right above your city to open up the option on a forest that was connected to your city by touching the top corner, then yes, but snaking to a forest or having them pop into your borders does not happen.[/quot

I've had the option to build a logging camp appear after expanding my city's zone of control, so keep that in mind.

[quote quoting="post"] In the 5 games ive played so far its always the same, once 1 faction declares war, all hell breaks lose and within 25 turns every faction is at war with at least 50% of the other AI's. I even had 1 game where 6 of the 8 AI's where at war with EVERYONE! Ive noticed now playing the e/r game that i was the one to get declared war on first and within 5 turns i had 7 other AI's declare war on me... (all but the one i had a trade + economic treaty

[quote who="Borg999" reply="5" id="3274868"] The fact that it knew where I was and what I was doing and then jumped in right before I could complete my actions seems to be cheating to me. I know that the AI has omnicient knowedge of the playing field, but there is usually coding included to make the AI ignore it. It's the timing of the AI's actions that make me supicious. Why did the AI recruit/kill the hero Exactly one turn before I could? Why not 4 turns or

[quote quoting="post"] The first time it happened, I approached the hero, but he wanted more gildar than I had, so I went back and sold a few things and saved for a couple of turns. as I was approaching him again, the AI recruited him, one turn before I got to him. The second time, I saw the hereo up ahead and redirected my resesrch to be able to recruit him. When I completed the research, I went toward him, and just one turn from reaching the hero, one of the AI's a

I get some CTDs during the game--and most of those occur if I try to move while the AI is moving. Upon exiting the game, I get a message of the executable crashing. No apparent problems after that. The OS isn't frozen. I'm running 32-bit WinXP.

It's very good if you plan on producing a lot of troops to go at melee. Build a Fortress city on a square with at least two essence, and after you've developed it with Enchanted Hammers, remove that and add a couple of Aura spells to really boost those troops still further.

[quote who="Borg999" reply="6" id="3272932"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 5If Tarth has an alliance and good relations with other kingdoms, chances are she won't get attacked by them. And Empires would hesitate to attack her as well, because of the alliances. If you can bribe someone into attacking her, that might start a chain reaction. I don't think that it is possible for (the human player) to maintain good relations with an AI to avoid being attacked

[quote who="Kongdej" reply="70" id="3272977"] Quoting Tuidjy, reply 69 Quoting Rath3130, reply 68Heavenfall, reading that gave me a mental image that possibly just made my entire day. I want to see a halfspider unit wearing boots. Not just one pair, but I want all the legs wearing boots. Four different pairs of boots, too! (Or maybe only three. Do half-spiders have 6 legs or 8, if you do not count the arms as legs) Half-Spiders have half the amount of leg