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[quote who="darkehound" reply="45" id="2931783"]Yes that trait was removed several patches ago. Why? And with this patch the last ruler with it had it removed. Is that clear now? Can any of you apologists give me any reason why? Just to make a broken game even more painful? Why is it that this game is so painfully bad? Right now on this PC i have Medieval 2, Civ 4---yes fall from heaven, Galciv 2, Civ 5, Sins and WOW loaded. All of these are Hugely replayable and just outright fun.

Yes, if they have the correct types. If it has LAN or Hotseat, then some. If it has PBEM, then alot. And I expect it to be like Single player, only without TC in PBEM.

Yes to being able to specify the duration (thus making it cheaper to get a short one). Having a ROP pact without a NA pact reduces the value of being able to pass through their lands (they might declare war and attack) and more dangerous (they may move troops into your land and then declare war... and you lose valuable cities). Therefore NA pact should be a prereq for ROP pact, if separated.

See https://forums.elementalgame.com/398473

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="1" id="2822561"]SecuROM = no buy. [/quote] Then keep it in mind, as the DRM is only for a limited time period, after which it will be removed. [quote]As some people posted already on the forum, for our previous games we deactivated the DRM at some point and we'll do the same for this one.[/quote] http://www.larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.p

1) I do not know, but I suspect it improves movement speed and possibly the output of the caravan. 2) Each research has a base chance of being researched. Every time it does not show, the chance of appearing increases (this may also include times it does appear, but you do not select it).

[quote who="Sethai" reply="114" id="2822343"] so it looks like the lots of channelers strategy will be much more balanced, but there will be no real incentive to go after the hoarding-power strategy, which is a shame. please tell me there will at least be SOME advantage to not imbuing? ---- i also see no reference to combat speed as a stat? does this mean (as i may dare to dream) that combat speed (or iniative if it is being reinvented) is no longer a stat that can be

Currently, Diplomatic Victory is like voting a player as the winner which makes it seem kind of hollow and undermines the concept of 'allies'. It should require all remaining factions to be allied and, once this happens, then they all win (rather than just one). Then it will be something players might actually work towards in multiplayer as they do not chance losing. To keep the option of winning without killing everyone or having others win, I prepose there be a Domination Victory. T

Those that what only one winner without killing everyone or doing the Quest/Spell victory are looking for domination, not diplomacy. I will be posting about that in another thread soon.

[quote who="econundrum1" reply="65" id="2822097"] What spells they can cast seems like a very big difference to me. e.g. If I have a champion who can only cast level 1 spells and his up against one who can cast level 5 spells who is more powerful and has more options. How high a level spells a champion can cast very much impacts their power. I would also add that the concept of essence is still in the game it's just not a stat any more, your soverigns ess

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="6" id="2822010"] The arguable problem with this is that it feels like an "everybody wins!" consolation prize. Not that I disagree with you, but there are people who strongly dislike that sort of thing. [/quote] But that IS the essense of a diplomatic victory. Unless everyone wins the allying with other players in multiplayer would be risking giving away victory, thus limiting it to only something that can be achieved against the AI or w

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="39" id="2822003"] Note that some spells will have scale with the caster's intelligence. Based on how things are now, I'd imagine that this "some" actually means "every single one where that could possibly be the case". -------- Yes... until you research a more powerful spell. If the game can reach a point where that doesn't happen, then that's a problem, but it's not a problem with this particular system. And we've seen no indication that that probl

[quote who="RikazeMA" reply="4" id="2821989"]Yes. You read it properly. I've lost twice to the Kingdom of Altar, via Diplomatic Conquest. While this obviously wasn't their true intent, it happened. So no, the AI is not capable of actively pursuing a victory other than Conquest, but with the correct circumstances, they can still get a Diplo Victory. But this goes back to my previous statement; Programming a 'Play-to-Win' AI will not be anything approaching impossi

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="34" id="2821985"] How does imbuing work now? [/quote] Imbues are to have a mana upkeep. ----- Unless there is a stat that effects the ability to use magic other than the one that unlocks spells, then once that is high enough to use the biggest spell then caster heroes will be investing in non-magic stats (likely DEX and CON) and will never, ever need or want to become better at magic again.

[quote who="kenata" reply="33" id="2821982"] I am not sure why some people are unhappy with removing essence in general. It was a fairly arbitrary limitation on the power of the sovereign, and was a fairly OP stat as far as pre 1.1 is concerned. I mean why would anyone want to put points into anything else. Since none of us have actually played the new version, nor seen exactly how global mana works, I think it is safe to say that any outrage over the removal of essence is probably veile

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="24" id="2821973"] Good Lord, where did you find this information???? ..... She's blinding me with science !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o I can't even find a reference to "barracks" in the appendix of my manual ......... aawwwww hell's bells, there's no appendix either. You must have the teacher's edition of the manual huh? [/quote] I got that formula from observasion, it is no

[quote who="Grump2913" reply="26" id="2821956"]I'm pretty big on manuals being useful and addendums being added (or parts being rewritten) when significant changes take place. Will there be a .pdf file that functions as an updated manual so that players who have been watching the development from the side won't have to dig for information and can have it handily at their side when playing? This would be a big boon for the community and disheartened players. [/quote] Frogboy has

[quote who="darklander0" reply="27" id="2821958"] I think it makes more sense in a thematic way. Let' say you're building a Warlord/Warrior Sovereign and you put a heavy focus on your Strength I think that a small bonus to Warfare would be nice because in a thematic way it shows your Sovereigns dedication to "Way of the Warrior". [/quote] Eh, give them a warlord trait that helps with Warfare research then, but for everyone else it should not.

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="51" id="2821953"]he he he, now I'd be all out there promoting the fungii right to life if there was a "genetic alteration" research tech in the tech knowledge tree. ... wow, if I could just create a new rolling-blob-of-fungii life form with 500 HPs which is immune to fire and has 4mps on the tactical board .. Hell yeah, I could get all behind that !!! [/quote] If there is battle fungi, then I demand that there be the k

[quote who="RikazeMA" reply="23" id="2821945"]In hindsight, it does make sense though... Perfect, logical, rational sense, and I really don't know why I didn't see it coming... Hence the surprise.[/quote] How does it make sense? Other games with global mana that I am familiar with have a limit for how much a hero can use per turn, which is what essense could still do.

[quote who="prichardsdv" reply="151" id="2821282"]I'll be happy when Steam does have the monopoly. I tried stardock for the first time today and it's a nightmare. Still have not been able to download game, hidden 3rd party download site, awful navigation anf no support at all. I can't believe there is no live support. This site sucks, never again. [/quote] Are you refering to the same Steam that for the latest Divinity II hofix you had to manually download

[quote who="darklander0" reply="21" id="2821940"]...For example 10 Strength would give you 1% bonus to you warfare tech research.[/quote] Huh? No. Why would it?

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="19" id="2821937"] If it's any help, it was an empire city, that much I remember. I can't remember though if I built a barracks in it or not before constructing troops. Even so, how does that reduce training time from 24 turns to 1? That's a helluva lot more than a 100% boost to construction speed. [/quote] I thought it was Construction Time = Production Time - (Production Time * Production Bonus), with a minimum of one*. Therefore you would only ne

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="17" id="2821930"] The essence nix deserves a nix. [/quote] This. With the preposed stats the only diffrence between casters will be how high of level spells they can cast.

[quote who="Napean" reply="16" id="2821928"]With a global mana pool essence is not as useful anymore, unless it's used like AoW's Casting Specialist stat, where it would limit the amount of mana a champion can pull from your global mana pool per turn. At least, that's what I think. [/quote] All posts so far indicate that is not the case, though it SHOULD be. Frogboy has previously stated that essense will be boolean: you have it or you do not.