There's a small "ZZZZ" displayed next to the city icon on the far left of the screen but yea, it's kinda easy to miss. On the other hand, sometimes you want your city to be idle(there are specific city bonuses that only work for idle cities) and having a prominent pop-up come up every turn could become annoying.
As i see it, the reason why AI armies yield so little XP compared to monsters is that there's an endless stream of AI armies to fight. If the XP would be the same, you could get to insane levels by leaving the enemy AI cities alone and just farming a bottleneck through which he keeps sending army after army. Monsters on the other hand are either an one-time deal, or a very slow spawn if you leave a lair alone, so the XP can be a lot higher without upsetting game balance.
[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="55" id="3254284"] Quoting stax77, reply 52because enemy player AI is no match for a human player still. You must be one hell of a player. I have a 5/1 loss/win ratio on ridiculous in .992[/quote] The reviewers will play the game at the default difficulty tho, not ridiculous. Even if they are made aware that the AI is better at higher difficulties, they will probably not go over challenging, since that's where the AI i
75 metascore, because enemy player AI is no match for a human player still. (I wish the world difficulty was set to insane by default, that way reviewers probably wouldn't find out :p) 60 userscore, because metacritic is full of zero-score-review trolls. For me, it's a solid 85 with potential to grow even higher.
[quote who="Sarudak" reply="12" id="3252620"]I wish people would stop dumping on the new xcom. It's one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had and clearly looks to be a labor of love to me.[/quote] Also, calling it "comming off the mass market conveyor belt"... What? It's one of the most unique games produced in the last decade, ffs. COD is a conveyor belt game. Not XCOM.
[quote who="Colbert30" reply="295" id="3250672"]I still haven't found a good use for those spells. What are you guys using them for?[/quote] I used lower land once. I had a very good spot for a city that was however locked between a river bend and a mountain so it did not have any room for buildings.
If your city has a lot of essence, city enchantments that add +1 fire damage/essence, +hitpoint/essence and +defense/essence to trained units will make even early units very powerful. For instance a basic militia unit built in a 4-essence(with scrying pool) city enchanted with 'heart of fire' will do almost twice the damage of a normal militia unit (5blunt+4fire vs just 5blunt). It makes early game easier, and since the units tend to survive fights much better, they gain levels and la
[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="231" id="3248923"]Reduced the cost of Lower Land and Raise Land to 5 mana Oh no, that's almost free.... why? Is it supposed to be easy to play God?[/quote] Don't like it either. It trivializes terrain.
Largest possible. On a related topic: There was a map generator for war of magic, called Elementerra IIRC, that allowed me to pre-create a map to play on, and it was possible to create very large maps. I absolutely loved to play on those. Would it be possible to include an option for such large maps with Fallen enchantress? Even if it is not part of the normal game UI(i understand huge maps can be detrimental to game performance so you may not want people choosi
[quote]1. use two potions of essence to raise the essence stat to 1 (or higher) or[/quote] You only need one potion of essence in fact. 0.5 essence is enough to enable the champion to increase his essence stat on level-up.
[quote]Biggest gripe is the camera rotation and where it the camera is centered, especially during combat.[/quote] Just in case you didn't figure it out yet, you can rotate/tilt the camera in any way you want if you press and hold the middle mouse button.
A game which i actively played for some 100-120 hours cannot possibly be a flop. Flawed, yes, and with lots of untapped potential, but fun and addictive nonetheless, much more so than many AAA titles i played this year were. But since you refer to 'after all the discussion' in your original post, and not 'after all the time i spent playing it'...
[quote]Elemental: War of Magic will never make big bucks. That original PC Gamer UK article killed us commercially - before a single review hit. But it doesn't matter.[/quote] I wouldn't write Elemental off in this sense just yet. Look at the original XCOM. It took quite a while after it's release before someone discovered it's charm and spread the news. I'm sure that if you stay at it, and improve it to the level of fun original Master of magic had but in new shiny 3d engine(which i
[quote]Anyway making the first hex when walking OUT of a city cost 0 just feels wrong, especially because it only seem to cost zero if you do not stop in that hex, if you do it cost the regular amount of points that tile normally would.[/quote] This is incorrect. Exiting a city is always free. [quote]Anyway my post is more about the logic of things like: I can enter a wood tile and spend all my movement or being able to first move in one plain square AND also by one wood tile
[quote]- Tactical Threshold: I'd love this. It bugs me that my sovereign loses several points of mana everytime his army encounters a wolf![/quote] Tactical threshold slider is in the options menu.
You might want to call HP, get a techie on phone and describe the problem to him. Chances are he already encountered that and knows what is broken/how to fix it. Nothing to lose asking.
[quote]How do I play a user mad map? I copied several maps into the save folder and the maps folder, but dont see them when as a choice when I seek to load a game. Only previously saved games. Can anyone help?[/quote] Put the map file (something.xml) into 'Documents/My Games/Elemental/Maps' folder. Start a new game, and on the first screen(where you choose map size, world name etc.) click the 'Load' button on top of screen, to the right of the bar where you type in world name. From
[quote]npc champions? why can't i hire them? i play the game for a while and there are npc's named "champions" hanging outside my cities that i can't talk to. i have over 2,000 gildars, so i can't imagine that they are too expensive. i have researched adventure to the max, and i still can't recruit the "champions" (they don't have names unless you read their "details") i don't have a problem talking to champions that have names in their portraits, but they only appear in the very beginning of
[quote]Does the hp of enemy units go up with difficulty level? I dont understand how some enemy units have like 300 hp and only 3 units, when my guys have like 30 hp and 4 units. Seems really odd, dont quite understand.[/quote] Experience levels. Experienced/veteran units not only have more HP then regulars when you create them, they also gain more HP on level-up. The difference will be multiplied by the number of levels the unit has, and then again multiplied by the number of
[quote]Okay, so NPCs walk in my influence area like they see fit, but as soon as I make one step into their influence areas I get a diplomacy dialogue popping up telling me to leave or declare war.... Erm... how do I do the same to them when they enter my territory??[/quote] You need to differentiate between NPC's as in the enemy factions, and NPC's as in neutral champions and/or monsters. Enemy factions will never enter your territory unless they are at war with you, or yo
[quote]I don't see it. Could someone supply a screen-shot?[/quote]
You're missing on ice giant if you skip water. It is much more powerful than fire or stone ones. 60-something attack makes it competitive even in the age of squads.
[quote]Is there a way to see what bonuses I selected when leveling a city?[/quote] Yes. When you choose gildar bonus, then viewing the detailed gildar production report shows the bonus%. Likewise when you chose the tech bonus, then tech production report show it etc. [quote]I have a question. Where can I find out which weapon resistances armor has? Eg: piercing, blunt, slashing, etc[/quote] I don't believe there are different damage types
[quote]and you can't imbue everyone[/quote] Research adventuring. Choose the dungeon crawling line that unlocks the square hut quests. Do the 'filthy warlock' one. Reward is a potion which gives 0.5 essence. Have a non-caster hero drink it. Kill two wolves. On level-up, put points ino essence. Voila, a caster! :p
1: Never took any equipment, doesn't make sense to spend permanent points for temporary benefit. But then i am always playing large games, it might make sense on very small maps. 2, 3: Royalty and adventurer are mutually exclusive, you cant take both. I usually go with adventurer, because i believe royalty is broken (instead of adding one point of prestige, it doubles prestige), and because adventurer is still useful to my offsprings should they inherit it(same reason i