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[quote who="jshores" reply="117" id="3240481"]Ah, sucks that we are hoping for an AI that will be good later down the road if we mean after release. I am curious as to how it is playing more like a human and less like any other TBS AI.[/quote] Presumably it can perceive a variety of simple strategies that produce positive results, or variations on a strategy it already knows that produce positive results, and change variables accordingly. So that while remaining a rules

Knowledge, simply because it makes everything else quicker to get. I usually go up Civics through Administration, Trading, and Agriculture, then switch to Magic (if I'm running Pariden) or Military (everybody else) for a bit. Then it's back to Civics. You can't really succeed by sticking with only one tree. You have to mix and match, according to a strategy tailored for your race and leader.

[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="316" id="3239743"] Same thing happened to me but when I deleted rivermod folder, all good.[/quote] Did you follow this? [quote]If you are using the Stormworld_Rivermod module, you must also do the following after extracting the folder as described above: open the /Stormworld_Rivermod/ folder, and then open the TerrainTypes.rar file. This .rar file contains two files, one named simply TerrainTypes.xml and o

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="3" id="3240001"]The Furnace staff allows you to cast it mana free and without a casting time as well...[/quote] It does require 3 turns to recharge after being used, though. -That said, I started up an earlier thread on this. It seems to be doing far more damage than it should, given the level of the user--whether that's the player, or a wilding shaman.

You've tried extracting several times from the same download, if I follow you. Try deleting that archive, and download again. I've had no problems with installation, and judging from all the comments up here, neither have a lot of other folks.

[quote who="Emperorjarin" reply="1" id="3239430"]I hadn't read anything about them changing the way monsters salt the earth after sacking a city, but I really hope they get rid of that. [/quote] They stated in the last Changelog thread that for now, when cities were destroyed, soil fertility would no longer be affected.

At the very least, I wouldn't mind an INI file line that lets you choose whether to build the top building, or bring up city details with a double click. Agreed that it should default to the latter.

If I understand you correctly, you're using downloads from earlier versions. There's no guarantee of compatibility. Since this is C3, try starting a new game.

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="2" id="3239215"]bandit lord[/quote] Or Summoner. Both work.

Too bad. I was hoping for a giant standing bear on the diplomatic screen, with multiple choices along the lines of: Grr, grr, grr, trade. Grr, grr, grr, treaties. Grr, grr, grr, WAR!! ...etc.

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="23" id="3239263"] In and of itself, Inspiration is a great and well balanced spell. The problem I find is if you don't have it. You're early game research is painfully slow until you build a second city or a study in the first...[/quote] That's very true. The negative implications of neither you nor your first champion having Enchanted Hammers is just as devastating, I find, since it also affects the time needed to er

[quote]Reduced chance of finding an item while wearing Backpack of Useful Things from ~8% to ~2%. It also cannot drop Strong healing potions anymore. 7000 lines of XML for one item, yay.[/quote] If you're into self-torture, you ought to consider the customer service profession.

[quote who="Wizard1200" reply="27" id="3239112"] Yep, more spell combinations would be great, but they would not help to differentiate mages, because everyone could use them.[/quote] Not reasonably. Because if you're running an assassin, you wouldn't want to spend 8 traits/levels in order to learn (to use my example from earlier) Fire 4 and Earth 4. You'd end up with a crippled assassin who misses some good assassin traits, and can cast spel

Makes sense that if a number of units swarm a mounted enemy, the enemy would be knocked from their horse, too.

[quote who="Wizard1200" reply="26" id="3239051"]Yeah it is strange that there is only one mage path and four non-mage paths in a fantasy game.[/quote] Perhaps because there are a whole raft of sub-paths for the mage, dependent on which combination of spellbooks they know? What I would like to see for mage champions (as long as mages have been brought up) is more combo spells--and summons. So the mage is rewarded well if they have Earth and F

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="16" id="3238959"][Balance] Inspiration is extremely powerful at the very beginning of the game. It cuts your research by half! [/quote] Run that one by me, again? Casting Inspiration on a city cut your research by half? I've been using it in the latest beta, and without fail it's increased research. Of course, if you have a lot of unrest, it won't increase things much. But cutting research?

That would definitely help, but I'd like to see some ability to select diverse defenders that actually did the job. Consider: you make a city improvement, and it works. (Or will, once the bugs are gone.) You've built it, that's it. City defenders? You build them, you spend even more time on one than on your buildings, and they still fall like a stack of cards. Unless of course I'm doing something wrong, but I've been playing the betas fo

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="12" id="3238568"]I hate the concept of "taunting". Such an artificial MMO concept that shouldn't be in any game ever. It's so meta-game hacky, I can't stand it. [/quote] You're obviously uninformed about history, as every fan of Monty Python realizes. [e digicons]:-"[/e]

[quote who="CagedByTruth" reply="30" id="3238561"]City defense is frustratingly hard without a garrison. Garrisons take forever to train and the opportunity cost in economy is huge. [/quote] And then after you build a few units, along comes a bunch of trolls planning to party on the ruins of your town. Doesn't matter that you dropped a few decent units there; the place becomes a tourist attraction for vanished cities. Defending a town adequately should r

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="1" id="3238467"]Yeah, I thought about that, it is so good. But I didnt want to change it yet because I felt like no one was laying Path of the Defender. let me know what you guys think. Do you pick it more than Path of the Warrior or Mage?[/quote] I think it shouldn't be changed, because it's the outstanding feature of a tank: lots of hit points. Take away some of those hit points, and you have an underpow

[quote who="joasoze" reply="21" id="3238495"]But Umber should be one of the main races. THE MAIN RACE actually. Guess they are too cool to be balanced....[/quote] It's bound to be modded in. You know that. :)

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="9" id="3238422"]Stormworld Undead have a spell called Endless Resurrection which can be used on any champion with 3 or more injuries, removes them and renders the target immune to any further injuries. After that, hero gains 50% less experience and can't learn any more spell traits. Oh and it drains one death shard power as well.[/quote] Very well characterized, and nicely balanced.

Yes, this is an excellent development. And just the kind of thing you'd expect in a late stage beta cleanup.

CTRL+N. I don't see this randomness changing, as the differences provide a brought variety of challenges. (So do the chances to get a beginning spot near some Wildlands, or almost at the doorstep of another player.) I like it, as I do a similar range of very good to very bad spots in Civ IV, but I certainly wouldn't mind seeing an option to guarantee a certain level of starting place for those who want that.

I have seen monsters attack AI settlements. I've also monsters simply wander near my own cities, then shuffle around and finally move on. Many monsters are given to random impulses of the moment.