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[quote who="charon2112" reply="24" id="2806848"] Wait a minute...I also just noticed that under my child's picture in the game it says, "first in line for the throne...". Now it really seems like your children were designed to take over for your sovereign. [/quote] Prior to one of the recent patches, children could defect to a defeated AI faction and become the ruler. Therefore it can be concluded they did implement inheritance, but it is over ru

The AoW source has yet to be released, so it would be impossible to copy it without breaking the terms of use agreement.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="50" id="2806586"]Requests. Secondly, it would be helpful if there was a tag to turn improvementtypes into mutually exclusive buildings. For example, I could have a CHOICE of building a War College, or building a Sion training facility. I would recommend that the tag be fairly simple, for example: . I would also like to see this tag be repeatable, so that we may choose between three or more buildings to be exclusive. Ps. Idea

[quote who="dadoo2" reply="24" id="2806453"]sure some graphics cards occassionally fail to implement every aspect of direct x properly, creating some problems, but this is rather rare, and on the whole, this is for new, state of the art features, and you are bringing it on yourself when you try to use them(leave an option to shut them off so you can easily check them), if you write for directx, it will work on compliant graphics cards. [/quote] It is not just hardware,

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="18" id="2806374"]For all the people making excuses for piss poor releases, I've had a number of games that worked just fine, out of the box even, no patches necessary or registration required to take a broken product and turn it into an actual game. Is there a chance that there are hardware problems, sure but not always. Elemental, FFXIV and a host of others are not suffering from some unfair disadvantage of working with PC hardware though, the proble

For Sarog you can alter the party along the wway and remember that only your sovreign can pick up the reward (so I suggest you send them in alone to get the quest and to get the reward, this worked for me). Also some seem to think if you save and load after getting the quest then it breaks.

[quote who="Delmoroth" reply="21" id="2806345"]Though console gaming hurts pc gaming, it wont kill it without a lot of changes. There are types of games that just wont work on console unless you dramatically dumb them down as to fit the console controllers. I mean really what PC gamer doesn't die a little inside when they see a game they were waiting for with hit PC and X-box or PS3? You know you will see a game striped down to fit consoles and the contro

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="18" id="2806320"] DirectX could do with some competition in the 3d programming interface. Anyone remember when games ran best and only best when running with Glide? [/quote] To get the level of access need to have a graphics library that comes anywhere close in preformance to DirectX, you have to pay Microsoft to get the licence to use the needed API; therefore it does not really matter to Microsoft. And DirectX if free so it would be ha

[quote who="GCFL" reply="14" id="2806292"]why are people saying the Kinect will fail? I for one plan on purchasing it? Too expensive? please... the vaulted wii forces you to pay over $100 alone just to get a wii fit. You do not see people having issues with that...in fact when it came out stores could not keep it in stock. The long term price of a Kinect and xbox device and the wii are very similar when you start looking at the add on devices for the wii. It will

The reward per the xml is 25 materials. Hardly worthy of a 4th level quest.

[quote quoting="post"]a Publisher's role is minimal in comparison to the physical world, and their duties could foreseeably be incorporated into a Developer's role instead of requiring an entirely third party company.[/quote] As a note, if it is like the book publishing industry (and from what I can tell it is to some extent) then even if they no longer create the physical product there are still services they currently render that they can do for less. For books, it is things li

[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="10" id="2806244"]might finally be released in a playable bug free state[/quote] For an example of why this shall not be, try looking out "bush hid the facts" on Wikipedia to find out about a bug that was in Notepad from Windows NT through XP. Simply put, some bugs are beyond a game developer's ability to fix and may be hard to work around.

[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="15" id="2805960"]The main problem in fact would be addressing the lack of action typical of the first 100 turns. [/quote] Having monster lairs and making it practical for soveriegns to have some gear / spells when the game starts + monster lairs would solve this.

1) Make simultanious turns optional. 2) PBEM & Hotseat multiplayer. 3) Better map making capablilities. 4) Better city building. 5) Better diplomacy, questing, and magic.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="9" id="2805575"]Why limit a unit (champions) that are already pussies? I can put every ring, amulet magic item on a champion, raise him to level 10 and a unit of 12 soldiers would dry-rape him unless I abuse some cheap spell. [/quote] They may want to consider level caps for non-heroes (but it would be unit specific, so dragons and other creatures go higher than the normal units). Say like level five for the average soldier and c

2 rings is a common number in games. Really what is needed is to not have the adventure tech spawn a crystal mine, but rather require the upgrade to find them at all. The a crystal cost would really reduce the quantity you can have per unit (which is supirior to an artificial limit).

Inheritance should be in the game, but be optional (possibly with three settings: none, AI only, and everyone). And something needs to be done other than erasing nations when they lose their leader as that is just no fun at all.

[quote who="Porter20" reply="36" id="2805201"]is there a new patch out to fix it [/quote] 1.09E is its name.

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="80" id="2804102"]What do the colors for the pop numbers mean? anyone figure it out? appreciate it [/quote] It shows if the town needs housing.

[quote who="Porter20" reply="34" id="2805116"]any fix of this yet as l have no internet access and a friend get me the patches, atm my game is unplayable in the campain mode [/quote] It is fixed.

[quote who="DKL" reply="19" id="2804920"] Or another common one is that what was expressed in the 90s with sprites would have to be rendered as 3D models which is vastly more expensive. Dominions3 is completely sprites-based and has 82 overall score on metacritic. EU series don't have shiny 3D, and are well-received too. AoW:SM is sprites-based, and you can see sells stats on Impulse yourself, I'm sure they are good enough for such old game Whenever I see fra

[quote who="1SuperG" reply="4" id="2805053"]I haven't bothered with horses since the initial release as they didn't seem to get you anything of real value for the cost. Has this changed? [/quote] +1 move and combat speed. This is very worth while as it keeps your forces from moving at a crawl.

[quote who="Chancelor" reply="2" id="2805030"]Thx for helping me.Can you put the army you already have on horses and your soverien?? [/quote] Heroes and Sovriegns can buy mounts at the shop, but you will need to train new troops to have mounted units. You will need the mounted warfare upgrade to use the horses. Note: Kingdom uses horses, Empire uses wargs.

[quote who="Redwind85" reply="6" id="2805045"]what does fixed internally mean [/quote] It means they have fixed it, but we will not see it till next patch/hotfix.

Maybe items could be given a survival chance. Things like padded armor and clubs would virtually never survive, but uniques (particularly the items for the Master Quest) would always survive. Also, you should get the stuff from your own dead.