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[quote quoting="post"]There are a lot of UI improvements, one of my favorites is the city idle popup. You now get warned when a city has nothing let in its queue, and you have the opportunity to jump right to it. [/quote] I would think a popup that tell you that there ARE idle when you try to end turn and asks "Are you sure you want to proceed to the next turn?" would be better (with the ability to mark cities as idle so they do not cause the message). Then you only ge

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="36" id="2821746"]...a trainable royal council[/quote] Now that is something that sounds interesting to add to the game.

[quote who="Sethai" reply="31" id="2821442"]trouble is that because population grows at a fixed rate per city, it is far better for players to have their settlements all growing: if you build a house in all three of your cities you will get faster pop growth as a whole than if you built three in one city (because then only one grows). when specialist slots are added and pop becomes more important, it will become even more evident that more settlements = more faction pop growth is breaking the

As its own metric, sanitation is likely to be an annoyance that people who do not want to play a city builder do not want. For a mod it would be fine to have effects specific to it, but for the core game it should only be applied abstractly, if at all. The reason cities need sanitation / health services is to support a large population, which is what food does in the game. As food is already fairly abstracted (and is consumed by buildings), lets have sanitation buildings make the housing you

[quote who="kenata" reply="9" id="2821320"]In general, 4x games have used sanitation as a method of curbing rapid growth. In the civ series, you had city health as the problem which required hospitals and clean food sources. In the TW series, you build sewers and baths to help prevent an outbreak of plague which is probably one of the worst things that can happen to a city in those games as it affects stationed units as well as the populations. ---- I think this is kind of

Yes, no, and maybe. Yes the overpowered nature of spamming cities when compared to building a few good cities has been addressed. No, it is not going to be balanced; in the long run more cities will be better if you can hold them till they are well upgraded. It will just be that building lots of cities will push back the time at which you can achieve big cities (thus linking which strategy is better to game length). The problem with the AI spamming cities at every resource nod

[quote who="MrShaw" reply="24" id="2820630"] However, I assume like Steam you register the game to a specific account, tying it forever to that account? Thereby preventing any resale if you dislike or get bored with the game. Does that also mean that if I buy a used copy from amazon, I'm getting screwed cause I can't use it with Impulse to update it since that one will be registered to someone else's account? [/quote] As I understand it, Stardock does allow the r

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="9" id="2820440"] I would love to see some reports that this stuff is happening, at least in long games on large maps. I haven't managed to get more than a few games of a given build past a few hundred turns, and I've never seen a hint of the dynasty system affecting the fallout from an AI sovereign going down. [/quote] It does not happen; whatever the dynasty sytem may do when a sovereign dies is trumped by everything they own being remove

[quote who="konjad" reply="9" id="2819935"] It's a crap with slow download rate and every time I reinstall the game I need to wait at least 2-3 hours of download time instead of just installing it from .exe within 5 minutes. If I ever won't have an internet connection when reinstalling the game I'm screwed because I cannot update the game. And it's another useless program running in background which uses my computer's power. <br /

[quote who="random_target" reply="44" id="2819896"] For example, if I have a resource north of my city outside the ZOC (or whatever name you use), building houses and other improvements toward the resource will also help expending the ZOC to that area? [/quote] It already does matter, just not as much and not for typical buildings. You can build a line of buildings out towards a resource and then build a missionary/town hall. [quote who="CariElf" reply="73" id="28201

[quote who="Istari" reply="32" id="2819782"] Now, I vote we throw around new name suggestions to replace ZoC. Here are a couple. (Z/A/S/C/PGOI) Zone/Area/Sphere/Circle/Perimeter/Gravity of Influence (IRA) Influence Radiation Area (PPP) Peer Pressure Pentagon (requires code-change to accomodate new shape) (BBS) Big Bully Sphere (FSM) Flatulence Spread Matrix [/quote] Domain of Mastery (DoM).</

[quote who="Fearzone" reply="18" id="2819628"]I don't recall anyone complaining about influence calculations. Except for occasional funkiness where lines criss-cross, it seems okay to me as it stands, and I'm not sure what problem this solution is solving. [/quote] The problem comes when you build your city to the edge of the zone (and possibly even beyond).

[quote who="Phylast57" reply="18" id="2818108"] Directions: -Place the folder "Green Orcs" and its content in the Elemental mods folder and run the game. -The Elemental Mods folder can be found in Documents -> My Games -> Elemental -> Mods. For Windows 7 your Documents folder can be accessed from the start menu. Ok--admittedly I am a noob when it comes to this kinda stuff. I have done the above but when I run the game no orcs. Suggestions? [/quot

[quote who="Sldemkt" reply="4" id="2818068"]What platform is the game for? [/quote] [quote quoting="post"]traditional paper/dice[/quote]

[quote who="Alstein" reply="13" id="2818030"]The problem is that it's really rare to get horses/wargs, and when you do, it's usually the wrong ones. I'd say just let everyone ride horses. Wargs could be a little better, but very rare. [/quote] A better idea would be to have a 'breeding grounds' resource tile that can be used for both kinds of mount producing structures.

Leadership abilities that provide small bonuses to the army would be nice.

Divinity 2: Flames of Vengeance was released today; however, Impulse seems to think it is not time yet. It should be availible, but it is not. (I meant to put this under PC Gaming, but it seems I was mistaken as to where I was posting)

Regarding the training time added by equipment, it should not be the same for all experience levels you can train troops at.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="44" id="2817245"]But, I think someone mentioned that the Expansion would be called the Fallen Enchantress?[/quote] [quote who="BoogieBac" reply="36" id="2817075"]...we determined some aspects of the plan didn't flow with what we wanted to reach in Fallen Enchantress.[/quote]

[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="4" id="2816727"] Now I'm confused, you used the word Royalty correct? letter R, letter O, letter Y, letter A, letter L, letter T, letter Y, spells 'Royalty', a word which can actually be found in the game to describe various hero's in the game - Hero's that your children are still not allowed to marry!! So it would seem that there is still no logical or even vaguely logical reason we can put into words to explain why your children cannot marry he

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="22" id="2816688"] Please ignore another post I currently made about tomorrow here, in 14 minutes... [/quote] Too late.

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="29" id="2816686"]Only 17 minutes until it's this Thursday here Come to Papa... LOL [/quote] You missed the memo; the beta has been moved back to next week.

[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="1" id="2816650"]Only your faction leader can marry a hero. The children cannot marry hero's because, um, because, um, um, aaarrh, um because.... 'syntax error - no logical argument found' [/quote] Because at that point they are expected to marry royalty and achieve high levels of inbreeding.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="2816278"]Current update is for the v1.1 beta to be made available to the public in the next week or so. Right now, with Kael having just started, we're working on transitioning day to day management from myself to him. [/quote] Eh, one less thing to distract me from studying for Monday's math test; though Divinity II's expansion pack comes out on Friday so I would likely be too busy with that anyways to try the beta.

[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="4" id="2816535"]Thanks for the replys... It makes sense. But then the problem is that it creates a disincentive to ever using your Leaders magic in combat, preferring to use up the manna of other units first? But at least any units with enough manna for teleport, should not really be with the leader, they should have their own separate group. [/quote] It is possible to rearrage units by taking the one you want