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Happened once on me. Doesn't necessarily mean the outpost is doing it, since it could be happening out of sight elsewhere, as well.

Perhaps he was gruntled, then dissed the game.

That's a zombie baby in the front row? I thought at first it was an arcane monolith. [e digicons]

[quote who="crimsongekko" reply="407" id="3265474"]did you read the rest of the post?[/quote] Of course I did. But your line was too much fun to pass up. ;)

[quote who="crimsongekko" reply="405" id="3265464"]a drawback based on my impressions of the earlygame with default settings: it's a slog through mites and wolves and other weak mobs, always autoresolving and taking nearly no damage grinding for XP, plus all those spawns slow the game down.[/quote] Oh, don't worry. They won't always be weak. Can someone please cue the thunder?

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="14" id="3264923"]Isn't Porcipinee the one that starts with that item that lets you cast buffs on her and they cost no upkeep?[/quote] Yes. She's also the one who has inefficient production, and no combat bonuses. She comes with some long term benefits--arcane monoliths, the crown, the apprenticeship in various spell schools--but has severe shortterm limitations. On a small map, she's a disaster. On a la

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="7" id="3264843"]There is nothing to see here. Move along. Growth and Shrink should not be stackable (bug); other than that, they are fine.[/quote] Exactly. If someone wants to use powerful magic, they should be able to. If you don't want to use it, too. Not everybody in the world has to play the game the same way. Fix the stacking issue, and the spells are fine.

[quote quoting="post"] All three times I have played the default Porcinipee - does she just naturally suck? Magnar's CITY MILITIA are better than my Destiny Guard units that take 7 bloody turns to build. Also - I keep cranking out units but my military strength rating doesn't go up at all while Magnar's keeps skyrocketing.[/quote] Magnar is probably the most powerful to play, if you figure out a decent strategy with his slaves. Procip

I like loading saved games in any game I play, after I fall flat on my face. Because I know that the only way I'll learn is if I can get it right, and move on to my next falling-flat-on-his-face event. If I just end it all and restart, I'll never get a chance to make more advanced, and different mistakes. I'll be like Mr. Dick in David Copperfield: slightly barmy, always restarting his thesis because in the first page or two he starts discussing Charles I's h

[quote quoting="post"] Just read this review. [/quote] It's not a professional review, so really, just a series of opinions. Some are factually incorrect. Others seem to be the result of exposure to the game for such a short period of time that the writer didn't understand what they were seeing, and gave up rather than digging any deeper. Much of it just makes me want to wonder what game this person was actually playing--except that, given

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="2" id="3263310"]They really focused on the fact that champions aren't well tied to the progress of your empire. And they're sort of right, but I don't think that's nearly good enough reason to rip the game like they do in that review. Really, champions and the empires develop side by side but not necessarily together. [/quote] You raise a good point. And I have to wonder whether the Civ game mechanic of units being al

[quote who="aerowreck" reply="10" id="3262929"]If you steal life magic, can it be upgraded when leveling up?[/quote] I recall this being discussed while the game was in beta, and the consensus was that sovereigns who have Life or Death magic from game start could not level up their opposite, even if their champions had that. In fact, if a Life sovereign had a Death champion, the champion couldn't level up Death. Can anyone confirm this is actuall

[quote who="Supreme Shogun" reply="18" id="3263125"]Some badass spiders from D&D would be cool like sword spiders and wraith/phase spiders. [/quote] No D&D types! If I see a monster out of D&D, I will convene a meeting of all the factions to get it expelled to WoM. Now, if you want to create sword-wielding dragon pony spiders, we might consider that. Especially if they're ninjas.

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="15" id="3263200"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 13I did. You can snake them, but you can't snake them to rivers or forest to gain that bonus. Right...nice save.[/quote] He's been complaining about the no-snaking thing for some time, so he has known manual placement exists.

Drywall. They're basically good as drywall. Nice that you can research all those techs, just to get something that has no more hitting power than a bit of compressed gypsum plaster and paper.

I don't mind wages per unit. After all, you are getting units without expending the resource of time in your cities. But the amount is way off. In the last beta I pointed to 4 gildar/unit on a merc, and just disbanded constantly. It's the kind of mechanic that's broken, whatever a development might wish, because no one will use it as it is.

No. Kraxis is allied with the Empire, after all. The faction can only get Death magic.

I'm with DSRaider. I don't see anything like that we can touch. I suspect diplomacy will get some loving attention from Derek and his team in the near future, and I'd love to see that in the mix, but it's entirely up to them.

With time out for the other activities proper to pampered nobility in his father's court. But the phrase, "X did nothing but write during the remainder of his life," or "Y focused entirely on ruling during 30 years on the throne," has never meant that's all they did. ;)

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="14" id="3261286"]Okay then, sorry about that. I usually tend to take things as written/said, so I sometimes reply seriously to some satire. It is the way I am, although if you make another similar comment, I will take it more as intended. [/quote] I'd hoped the eBay bit was a dead giveaway. [e digicons]:-"[/e] I'll try to flag these clearly in the future. In any case, Procipinee really is the weak

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="12" id="3261259"]All factions have been updated to work with the new faction trait costs. The points each faction gets by default has gone from 2 to 3, however only one faction weakness can now be selected (so a maximum of four points if you choose a weakness). The factions whose traits went up by 1 point also had faction points go up by 1 point. Yithril got an extra trait (Tough) because none of his trait picks went up in cost.[/quote]

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="9" id="3261242"] Yes, but it fixes the bug to need both Enchanters and The Decalon to get access to the spellbooks. If you want the spellbooks and the scrying pool, you would still need both traits, but that is the intention. The cost is still the same, as the available creation points has been increased, too.[/quote] Ah, so Derek intends to make the arcane monolith + scrying pool + spellbooks cost 3 now, instead of 2. That's

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="7" id="3261031"]Or you could open Techs_Amarian.xml, find the Spellbooks tech and change "Enchanters" to "TheDecalon".[/quote] I can't access the game files at the moment, but doesn't that leave you needing Enchanters if you want to get arcane monoliths and the scrying pool? In which case, you're still paying 3 points, more than under the beta where these and the spellbooks were all part of Enchanters, for 2 points.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="6" id="3261139"]I would like to point out that you should buy from stardock directly if possible. That way steam doesn't take 30%.[/quote] This is correct. In general, it's a good idea to buy from the source (or donate to a source), rather than through a distributor, since in the latter case you're paying for the pipeline.

The bug's been noted. Though for what it's worth, I just think Procipinee's taking multi-vits.