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But that's my point: there was no popup message. There should have been.

[quote who="Kestral2040" reply="27" id="3252837"] Quoting TheJaker, reply 15 Quoting Glazunov1, reply 13 Where is Soren Johnson when you need him? I think he's still at Zynga... Derek would know I'm sure [/quote] Oy! I never asked about Soren Johnson. It's that nasty quoting mechanism on this forum at work, again, confusing everything! [e digicons]v_v[/e]

This has happened twice, now, in two separate games. In both cases, the creature I was attacking was a lone timber wolf.

[quote who="jshores" reply="25" id="3252776"] I expect it will be my 2nd favorite TBS to mod behind Dominions 3.[/quote] Check out Crusader Kings II--a very unusual TBS, in which combat, though important, is considerably less so than managing diplomatic relations with the dukes, counts, barons, bishops, and mayors of your nation. And King of Dragon Pass, an unusual game that's a mix of TBS sim and RPG. I can almost guarantee you it will be nothing e

[quote who="TheJaker" reply="15" id="3252685"] Why are you assuming he's missing those games just because he didn't mention them?[/quote] Because he defined exactly the games he included: [quote]If you like strategy games, what are the choices? Disicples II, Civilization V, Sword of the Stars II, HOMM VI, Endless Space, Warlock, Total War: Shogun.[/quote] [quote]Other than CK2, the others you mentioned are prett

[quote who="Xan" reply="7" id="3252601"] There's a lot more than that. I suggest you check out all the Paradox titles, such as the Hearts of Iron series, Europa Universalis III, and Crusader Kings II; the KOEI games, especially the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Nobunaga's Ambition series; the many war strategy titles published by Shrapnel Games; and the excellent American Civil War game, Forge of Freedom. And they're all essentially "modern times,"

[quote]If you like strategy games, what are the choices? Disicples II, Civilization V, Sword of the Stars II, HOMM VI, Endless Space, Warlock, Total War: Shogun.[/quote] There's a lot more than that. I suggest you check out all the Paradox titles, such as the Hearts of Iron series, Europa Universalis III, and Crusader Kings II; the KOEI games, especially the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Nobunaga's Ambition series; the many war strategy tit

This is also the part of the beta cycle where all the bugs and balance issues are intensively worked upon. Concept, feature set, UI: these are past.

If we could stop bashing people who prefer Civ IV to Civ V--in fact, if we could stop discussing the Civ games altogether--perhaps we could get on with the actual content of this thread. Just a thought.

Killed a timber wolf, and got the popup after moving to its lair that I'd found one item of interest. But there was no popup for the item, and no item appeared in the inventories of either my sovereign or first champion.

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="6" id="3252284"]Requires Town.[/quote] Told ya'. ;)

[quote who="JackArbiter" reply="8" id="3252145"] The only authorities who advocate omitting the final comma are newspaper style guides (which wish to save column space) and some English writers (who waffle on the rule).[/quote] And one of my magazine editors. [e digicons]:|[/e]

What size was the city you were trying to build it in? That's a factor, as I recall.

Problem was solved, in any case--with thanks to Derek for his timely response. It appears I had to regenerate the My Games/Fallen Enchantress directory completely. Simply removing existing mod content and leaving "Use Mods" unchecked under Options wasn't sufficient.

[quote]Really sounds like your files got mixed up. Maybe you should do a uninstall and re-install.[/quote] Did last night, after the update crashed. No difference, this morning, but thanks for the suggestion. [quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="9" id="3252215"] Please try the following: 1. Delete your "C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - Fallen Enchantress\Screens\" directory and restart to see if it fixed the issue.

Just found something interesting: I can load without problems my last saved game from .0983. It did use a mod--Heavenfall's--and yes, that's despite "Use Mods" being unchecked, and the required mod files no longer being under C:/My Games/Fallen Enchantress/Mods. However, starting a new game still causes a crash. There's also a slight, brief stutter to the intro music after "New" is clicked. Don't know if that will help,

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="3252184"]What language version of windows are you running? Do you have mods enabled? Did you modify any XML at any point?[/quote] 32-bit WinXP Pro, SP3, standard American English, no mods, no XML changes. Same setup that worked fine pre-.990. I can't say that .990 was the culprit, because as I wrote above, I didn't have a shot at playing it prior to downloading .0991.

Problem is still there. I can't say whether it's related to .990 or .991, as I didn't get around to playing the former, due to a heavy workload. Didn't exist in any of the previous betas I've played, however, and that goes back several months.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="20" id="3252077"] Quoting seanw3, reply 16Any crash talk needs to be backed up with series of zip files. I don't see any here. Did you e-mail them in? You don't need to anymore, Stardock gets it automatically. [/quote] I hope that's the case, because after the lengthy download and reinstallation, the same CTD occurs repeatedly from the main menu.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="18" id="3252019"]You could try searching for a the folder called screens. It should give you the FE game directory for one and the FE program data directory for the other.[/quote] I'm afraid I uninstalled about 90 minutes ago, after finding no link to the archive for WinXP players, and no archive after doing a brief directory search. I figured that as nobody had put up that information since the request was made four months ago, chan

The programdata subdirectory indicated in the Reporting thread is for Win7. If anyone can tell me where to look for the appropriate archive on WinXP, I'll be more than happy to upload it. I asked about this once before, and suggested amending the thread accordingly. No response was received. I am reminded of Kraxis' canny observation when the Kingdom forces left him stranded: "What am I, chopped liver?"

I suspect so. Unfortunately, I can only download the full 991 package, so if the problem is in there as well, I'll be no further along. We'll see.

Crashing with the .991 update. The opening menu loads, I click New, loading proceeds for roughly 15 seconds, and then CTD. I'm uninstalling and downloading the full beta now.

Shortly after selecting "New" from the startup menu. The music begins to stutter a bit, and then the game CTDs. First time that's happened, and I've been playing the betas for more than 4 months. Also happens repeatedly. Using 32-bit WinXP.

I saw it a few betas back, as well. Nasty event, even killing off a group of level 9 champions. Went back to my last saved game to get around it. The surprising thing to me was that as long as I tried this out, none of the AI players were destroyed--because the spiders did destroy two of my cities. The kind of event that's largely unsuccessful, I think, because it simply causes players to reload to avoid it.