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[quote who="RooksBailey" reply="80" id="2773707"]So, again, is DW worth the investment? [/quote] If you can bear Real-Time part - yes. I LOVE some game concepts there, but I'm too used to my slow TBSes, and whole RT thing annoys me too much. There are pause and ability to slow it down, but I still feel overwhelmed by amount of events and stuff I need to do. Automation is not so bad in exploration, trading and mining parts, but as for wars, diplomacy and expansion, you

Someone reported it working on Wine in wine app db, so it does not seem to be a lot of work to polish some compat issues.

[quote who="Kalup" reply="5" id="2768945"]Laid off or fired - I just wanted to give the news, that there seems to be a situation in stardock that leeds the managment to lay off/fire some of their game designers. I think that´s more interesting at the moment than to discuss the differences between two words (meaning something similar). [/quote] These "news" were already addressed by Brad in dev journals few days ago.

[quote]A summon hero/summon champion/incarnation spell chain would be helpful aswell. I want my Torin The Chosen!!![/quote] That and resurrection spells.

[quote who="jutetrea" reply="16" id="2768787"](are there bigger groupings then 8?)[/quote] Yes, biggest is 12

Biggest problem is slow animation and no way to skip it. When you have full squad of archers, making your turn takes ages. Especially for mounted champions. Second - lack of any 'tactics' in 'tactical combat'.

[quote]What are these people doing, and why are they willing to drop everything to join you, and once they do why are they infinitely loyal?[/quote] Well, world is barren and destroyed, so I believe they have nothing to 'drop' anyway. Since channelers are the only source of life and progress, its natural for people to gather around them. It would be natural for such champions to request wages or fiefs for their service, but fiefs concept would not be trivial to implement in EW

Horses should be at least gatherable for Empires and vise versa, so captured resource would not be THAT useless (so you could trade horses for gold/wargs for example). Kingdom/Empire-only resources are very annoying.

EWoM's art is one of few things which were done right, and it reflects setting quite well. There are some annoying clipping issues, and some weapons like bows do not work with some poses, but these things will be fixed sooner or later.

[quote who="Yehudah" reply="27" id="2754734"]This means that the only tree worth researching is the military one. Broken.[/quote] Not exactly, military requires proper economics to support it, so you have to research Imperial tree too.

[quote who="Ahroo" reply="32" id="2754262"]Love how everyone conviently misses how they waited to review other games.[/quote] Brad himself encouraged reviewers to review CURRENT game and do not wait till big patch. So they did what SD CEO said, whats the problem?

[quote who="brucetristam" reply="5" id="2754464"]I've been scouring the net but no fix of this seems available. I'm using windows Xp sp 3, updated all hotfixes, intalled VC++ redist up to 2008, .net up to 3.5 sp. still not working. how can i run game??? Weird thing is that it can run on my friends comp which has windows 7. is this game supposed not to run on windows XP?[/quote] I've had this problem on my XP. There are TWO different VC 2005 runtime versions. You need securi

[quote who="Mivo" reply="35" id="2754227"]How many open source games are funded by companies? I can't think of a single one. [/quote] Warzone2100

Such limits are stupid thing. Do not want. Food already limits city development, there is no need for hard caps.

This game feels more like Civ series than HoMM or AoW.

[quote]The saving grace is that in this niche (fantasy TBS RPG crossover) there is really little competion[/quote] Dominions 3 still beat E:WoM hands down.

[quote who="Ishantil" reply="2" id="2748971"] Yes, I would like to be able to build a ring of mountains around my palace.[/quote] I didn't check these spells myself, but descriptions say they do exactly that - 'raise land' and that one from morrigan spellbook which raises mountains.

[quote who="therealphyzik" reply="2" id="2753950"]Wait... do you mean, each indivual influence zone??.... Say I have 5 cities grouped together with one large influence zone vs 5 cities each with their own individual, non-connected, influence zone.... Which would benifit more, if at all?[/quote] I mean overall zone. AFAIK, it spawns exactly ONE resource on the map, regardless of the size of your empire.

Each resource tech just spawns single according resource within your influence zone, not affecting anything in later game.

[quote who="Blaze of Glory" reply="24" id="2753912"]2) There is a BIG learning curve. Those who were in beta at least get a feel for the dynamics, but it is still tough at times. Newbies have no tutorial and the game is certainly not a typical game. So they have no idea of how cities build, grow, what techs do etc.[/quote] I didn't participate in beta, and didn't read manual, figuring the game by trial and error (and I love to do so. Manuals are spoilers and should be forbidden).

[quote who="Ahroo" reply="12" id="2753907"]1.07 came out today so the review of 1.06 is just like I said earlier. Pointless.[/quote] Oh really? So they smuggled proper magic, diverse factions, proper tactics, good AI and multiplayer in it w/out saying so in changelog? Today's patch does not address ANY of issues pointed out in the review, so its not 'pointless', its still 'spot on', and will be so for monthes, at least.

[quote]who's to say another dev doesn't step up next year and do better[/quote] Games are announced early. Usually, release date is apporimately known at least year before. And the fact that game is being worked on 2-3 years before release. I did not see any announcements of other fantasy 4X, and release schedule lists only 2 space 4X in whole 2011. No fantasy one there. So its quite safe to assume E:WoM is alone here for 2010/2011. And most likely, 2012.

Hard? This time I played VERY slowly, exploring all these notable locations and quests I've got in my zone of control. Basically, the only challenge you have is at the very beginning of the game. In all my games I've started next to other Empire, and had to kill him off in some first turn

[quote]Don't get me wrong, more awsome games to choose from is something everybody wants but what am I missing?[/quote] This is only fantasy 4X released in years to come. If SD does not manage to finish it, we are left to play same old games again.

[quote]Microprose[/quote] It does not exist since 2003. >copyright infringement Copyright DOES NOT cover concepts/features/spell effects. It covers art, text, and to some extent names. Art is old and useless, and text/names are not that big deal for SD, I'm sure they are capable of inventing their own. To 'protect' a feature/concept/effect, you need a patent, which is too late to file now. Plus, any evidence of same thing existing before your