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[quote who="starkers" reply="223" id="3318409"] I've heard a great swag of complaints about Win 8 and 99.9999% of them are about Metro/the Modern UI, and for mine, that's like canning a movie after viewing the opening credits. There is a whole desktop environment beneath Metro/the Modern UI, and if one organises their PC efficiently, one can complete ALL their daily computing tasks within that desktop [you know, the one that's like Win 7 only better] and never have

You know, i'd love if you made a master of magic remake. Not even master of magic 2, just the same old master of magic 1, with new graphics, but otherwise identical(except, of course, without the bugs). I would definitely buy that. THEN, you could build on that base by making an expansion adding new features but keeping the basics intact(like, add more units, abilities, a 3rd plane, etc.). That i would buy too. Just sayin' :) (P.S. that's not to say i don't like fallen

Good luck :) One tip: if you want to put the "my computer" icon on desktop, rightclick desktop, chose personalize, then click the 'change desktop icons' option in upper left corner. I wasted lots of time trying to figure out how to do that when i first installed w8 :)

[quote who="sjaminei" reply="42" id="3305514"] I think people are throwing the balance word around in here too much. Can you counter those lightning hammer stacks? Yes, easily. [/quote] I don't think you understand what balance means. "A weapon can be countered" is not the same as "a weapon is balanced". Because its late and i can't think of a more appropriate example, i'll use a FPS one. Imagine a weapon that kills any player in one shot, regardless of where

[quote who="hntr101" reply="39" id="3305355"] I may be wrong but the lightening hammer at most does +4 maybe +5 for units. It is only champions that get the big +damage. [/quote] There is no difference. The damage of the hammer depends on the level of the unit using it. If it seems that it has bigger damage for champions then that's because your champions usually have a higher level than normal units. [quote who="hntr101" reply="39" id="3305355"]During the game the ch

[quote who="hntr101" reply="35" id="3304418"]First of all, melee is not a separate issue. [/quote] Fine. I'll try to explain it without separation then. Weapon X does 10000 damage. All other weapons do 100 damage max. Is weapon X overpowered? Of course. Now someone adds weapon Y that does 3 million damage. Does this mean weapon X is no longer overpowered? No. It just means weapon Y is even more overpowered than X. But that's the logic you are usin

[quote who="hntr101" reply="30" id="3303701"] I think what Trojasmic was trying to say is that the lightening hammer may seem OP when your hero is at a high level but there are far more powerful things that can do far more damage by the time your hero reaches this level. I have to say there is a sweet spot during the game that the hammer seems like the only choice but only a hero that has no magic or distance type of weapon in the later part of the game will make having a ham

[quote who="Anthony R" reply="386" id="3303706"]Was just looking at the market share stats and its a bleak picture for Win8. More people are currently using Linux. Thats abysmal.[/quote] People don't see a big need to change if their current system works well enough for them(which win 7 usually does). However given the fact most new computers being sold today come with win 8 preinstalled, it's spread is inevitable.

[quote who="moshi" reply="372" id="3303612"]of course, but the "big" changes are the touch-optimized Metro "dashboard", the Metro apps, the store and the removal of Aero and the start menu from the legacy desktop. and the loudest MS fans here do not want MS to continue this path and do not even believe MS will do so.[/quote] You say it's funny loudest fans don't like big features. I say someone not liking big features probably isn&#

[quote who="moshi" reply="366" id="3303486"]it's kinda amusing though most of the MS fans here post Windows 8 is great, but on the other hand they do not want MS to continue on what they started with Windows 8.[/quote] It's perfectly normal, as long as you don't insist on giving everyone with an opinion either the 'fanboy' or the 'hater' tag, and refuse to believe people might actually like some parts of win 8 and dislike others.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="20" id="3303421"]+ per level weapons are always going to be OP in the hands of high-level units.[/quote] It's not limited to just high level, because weapons that would be more powerful than the lightning hammer at low levels can't be used since they have a level requirement! My lightning hammer wielding Markin once found a new weapon, and it was more powerful than the hammer. I was excited until i realized the new weapon can

[quote who="kona0197" reply="361" id="3303407"]I have had a few people talk to me about how they do not like the fact that Microsoft took away the traditional Start menu and do not want to use a third party app to bring it back. They would rather rather stick to Windows 7.[/quote] Which, of course, gives you enough win 8 knowledge to "continue to spread the word to all I know that Windows 8 and Windows 8 devices are crap." [e digicons]:|[/e]

[quote who="petrossa" reply="336" id="3302761"] Ms is in it for the money , not to be nice and give everyone an OS practically free of charge. So if it can't come in one way it has to be another way. Simple business sense. And the only way they can approximate the staggering profits they made by monopoly abuse, is by monopolizing the applications [/quote] And how much money will MS be making when they remove the only reason why their custom

[quote who="moshi" reply="331" id="3302639"]it could happen. the switch from OS9 to OSX or from DOS to Windows was far bigger.[/quote] I'm not sure about the switch being 'bigger'. I never used OSX, but the switch from DOS to windows did not prevent people from running their DOS applications. Even today, many are still using them on their computers(heck, the software our accountant uses at my workplace was originally written for DOS and she still uses it tod

[quote who="petrossa" reply="323" id="3302289"]Problem is that the whole substructure for aero (and with it the entire old desktop) is planned to be taken out. So one day you'll find yourself with ModernUI and no old-style desktop. That's the way MS envisions it. First let people adapt to new version by keeping old in, then phasing out old and leaving only new. Which is perfectly logical. It makes no sense to keep two completely different UI's in one OS. In

My personal experience: I was using windows 7 on my home computer and was happy with it. When i upgraded this fall(new mobo and all that goes with it) i decided to give win 8 a try, for no other reason than getting some hands-on experience, since at work i am taking care of some 90 or so computers and sooner or later i'll have to deal with win 8 on them anyway. On my home machine, I installed win 8 on a separate SSD, leaving the original system drive with win 7 intact, so

Also, defeating ophidians yields 30 (IIRC) crystals.

[quote who="Phleem" reply="6" id="3298287"]Is there any chance it could include some attention for the "Life" side of the magical pentaplex? There are plenty of death worshipping, spider recruiting, slave sacrificing sort of faction traits, but the good side doesn't have anything at all, and the Life spells are pretty weak and vanilla as well.[/quote] Yeah. Case in point: Binding trait generates troops when building a shrine on any shard color except life :)

There's a building (missionary hall?) that a town can have that generates 1 influence per turn, but i believe it is a 1/faction limited.

[quote who="Borg999" reply="2" id="3293173"] Quoting Kalin, reply 1They do, they gain 50% of the exp heroes do though, so they level up a bit slower. Thanks Kalin! Another question. The number that is under the basic units icon (city view) - is that the unit's level, or does it correspond to the unit's size (e.g. group, company, etc)[/quote] The unit's level is displayed on a horizontal XP bar on the unit's information

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="12" id="3293085"] But my point remains - enemy AI heroes have actually become stronger, and so have units, with their additional traits. Its the AI economy and infrastructure growth that have nose dived.[/quote] Just to reiterate, i was talking specifically about insane world difficulty, not AI opponents difficulty(those i have set to challenging). I guess(hope) the AI players do not get any a

[quote who="dihir" reply="7" id="3292992"]Actually, Tuidjy has said that monsters never had triple hp, and since I was not there then I will bow to his knowledge.[/quote] In this case, he is incorrect. I am 98% positive that monsters did have triple HP. I know because when i started playing insane for the first time, i specifically went and checked monster stats to see why they have so much HP. It said right there on the stat screen in the HP breakdown section"insane difficulty m

[quote who="dihir" reply="5" id="3292967"]monsters have double hp on insane in 1.02, and it looks like this change went in in version 1.01: https://forums.elementalgame.com/434823 ("Insane AI reduces HP advantage from 3.0 to 2.0")[/quote] Ah. So it was intended after all. Must've missed that in the patch notes. Thanks.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="3292891"]Yes, they were nerfed to compensate for better AI. You can change it back in data/english/CoreDifficultyLevels.xml[/quote] That's why i am asking in fact. I knew Brad wanted to account for the better AI by making the game easier, however he specifically mentioned he wants "...tweak easy and below to be easier because of these changes" (

I always play on insane world difficulty these days, and i could swear the setting tripled the monster hitpoints. Now however it only doubles them. I am not sure what caused this, whether the map DLC pack or frogboys unofficial 1.05 exe. So i wanted to ask - is this intended? I kinda liked it the old way...