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[quote quoting="post"]Greetings! And there's some exciting things we hope to announce in the coming months. [/quote] Galactic Civilizations 3 ? :)

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="103" id="3237367"]One must take great care in weighing the value of forum feedback. Whether we released FE tomorrow or a year from now, you will always have people who think it's not done. [/quote] It's all about replay value and the test of time. For example, I am now playing Age of Wonders:Shadow Magic, but I'm not playing Elemental:War of Magic ( and I purchased the limited edition of E:WoM, and I like the unique dinasty syste

[quote who="Mistwraithe" reply="97" id="3237280"]Interesting post. Don't agree with all of it but I agree with some of it and surely that is all one ... I would not want to see the quest system cut. It just needs to be improved. [/quote] Of course it needs to be improved. Save the girls and marry her - activate the dinasty system. Get the dragon to serve you. Get the blueprints for a new weapon/magic item for your troops. Get a flying transport unit. Quests should be ti

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="92" id="3237142"]I am gladdened by your warm thoughts of GalCiv. I can assure you, each faction getting its own unique tech tree is somethign I desperately want to put into an Elemental game at some point. [/quote] Unique tech tree and unique units - for example Resoln is now the only "different" faction. There are many more improvments to be made - to outposts, to summoned units, more different city choices, maybe some flying transport

Swords are best because having a shield means more defense/dodge and you're basically invulnerable. Bows are still useless. No analysis for staff of souls ? :)

I am against making heroes even more overpowered. Last game I soloed everything with my custom sovereign, without needing any other units. It was boring.

Just for the record, I had the same bug.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="13" id="3219405"]Age of Jewelry - event - All champions may now equip 4 accessories instead of 3. Fabulous! Activate Dynasties in the game [/quote] The unmodded game will have no dynasties ?

There are no high-level monsters - a custom sovereign is simply invulnerable at high levels.

[quote who="joasoze" reply="10" id="3232801"] I am all for anything that makes the game tougher and soloing harder. [/quote] Nerf the heroes versus trained units that take now ages to train ? :)

[quote who="joasoze" reply="7" id="3232791"] Protecting yourself, clearing out an area, feeling the achievement of surviving. [/quote] I guess that can be done with a custom sovereign that's soloing the game as well, no need for other units or heroes, or even for another city.

So a buffed sovereign with the crown of Procipinee is the ultimate game unit. I wonder if such a sovereign can be actually killed by trained units - any trained units.

I've had random behaviour in 0.952 - reloaded many times to see the differences. The same city was left alone by monsters or became a lightning rod for the wildlands fauna. Back to custom races and shielding the city wth units having the master scouts ability - that actually worked.

[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="6" id="3232355"]Production nerf is great.[/quote] It's great for a slow game, but it makes heroes even more overpowered. Imagine Sauron walking all by himself to Minas Tirith, smashing a few soldiers along the way - how underwhelming :)

[quote who="Kantok" reply="74" id="3231514"] It's amazing how every Beta release produces its share of "the world is ending! It's WOM all over again!" crap. Step back from the ledge people. Play this next release, offer feedback, and see where it goes. [/quote] Actually this beta is the last one, and 0.98 is quite close to 1.00. And btw, why is the dinasty system "nonsense" - after all, it was good enough for WoM ? Let's talk

[quote who="Gorshmak" reply="72" id="3231499"]forcing them even more into the hero only strategy. Please PLEASE allow us the freedom to choose the way to win without forcing us down one path by making it an almost requirement. [/quote] I understand the developers were inspired by the Sauron/Morgoth type of hero that butchers an entire platoon with each swing, but even they had huge armies, an industrial base and were carefully planning the war instead of rushing.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="66" id="3231464"]What do you want exactly? [/quote] Rebalancing heroes versus high-end groups, no 3 turn build/train limit, more unique buildings per faction like the scrying pool, the dinasty system enabled, better road building, random spells like 3rd book of the magi always in game ( like A Dance with Dragons in WoM ), no identical quests in the same game, more aggresive monsters, the ability to recruit high-end monsters like obsidian g

[quote who="Alstein" reply="64" id="3231456"]someone will make a quick mod to get rid of this so not too worried- these features are really unpopular. [/quote] So basically we're back to "I consider it ready for release and if others disagree, don't buy our games".

[quote who="mastroego" reply="61" id="3231403"]If these are the last features to go in, then sadly I have to say it's pretty underwhelming. [/quote] Dissapointing actually - forcing city spam, agressive expansion and making heroes more important than ever instead of nerfing them versus groups of high-end units. And why the 3rd book of the magi is not always in the game ? Troy was rebuilt many times in the real world :)

[quote who="seanw3" reply="60" id="3229838"] You could always turn dynasties back on in the ElementalDefs.xml file. In beta 5 we will get a new game modifier that will let us turn them on from anything, including quests. So, you could get married and have offspring from a quest. [/quote] That would be awesone, but for the moment quests are bugged in beta 4 - I tried a custom faction, purchased some quest maps and I was able to finish 4 of them before the game went into non-i

Same for me - the assasins blade quest does not finish.

The quest is still bugged - nothing happens when you kill the 3 targets and return to the stone ring. Worse, new quests do not start.

Golems are useless in the endgame, because they cannot equip magic armor. There is no upgraded version of golem like the obsidian one - basically one needs to design a unit with high defense and a simple weapon like the boar spear or - even better - one with elemental damage. A few levels later and this normal unit can kill high level heroes without gear - the AI tends to leave them quite naked. I used im my game as Gilden a single unit model - armored horsemen. I think I lost one uni

Right now champions/sovereigns are overpowered, being able to kill whole groups without a scratch., for example Magnar wiping 5 Iron Golems by himself. It's Elemental deja vu, one champion with the 5000 gold sword and the magical plate armor murdering everything by himself.

Tarth is the best at pioneer spam , because of the master scouts trait, but they need better endgame unique weapons - one obsidian golem is wiping a whole bunch of archers. The slave units concept is also pretty cool, but IMHO the factions are still too similar. I managed to crawl back into the game by saving and reloading - sometimes the end turn bug is absent.