Emperor_Nero

[quote who="kku" reply="5" id="3266980"]You must first understand the fundamental nature of the "Rule Of Law". Strip away all of the irrelevancies such as the imposing buildings, the polished wood dais, the black robes and icons, the pomp and circumstance and the dusty volumes of incoherent law books. What is left is the real nature of the "Rule Of Law": the will of one imposed upon another through the use of force or coercion. Notice that this definition says nothing about the concepts

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="24" id="3266946"] Quoting Emperor_Nero, reply 21Several thousand years ago there was a valid reason to not eat pork, because they had no idea of germ theory and if they ate bad pork they'd get sick. Now there is no valid reason, we have advanced medical practices and an understanding as to why it makes us sick. Nagging because of a word, which is just data in lines of code, is ridiculous. I bet there is no one else, or possibly maybe a handful at best, w

Several thousand years ago there was a valid reason to not eat pork, because they had no idea of germ theory and if they ate bad pork they'd get sick. Now there is no valid reason, we have advanced medical practices and an understanding as to why it makes us sick. Nagging because of a word, which is just data in lines of code, is ridiculous. I bet there is no one else, or possibly maybe a handful at best, would notice and complain. I respect someone's religious nature, but I would rat

Welcome to the flock! I put nearly 20 hours in on it without realizing it. I'll play for 3 hours and look up and realize that a significant period of time had passed without me realizing it.

This is really sweet. Remind me of a Civ 4 mod I played back in the day that was centered around rebel groups and spy networks. Haha. Pretty cool.

My favorite play is a magic sov. Expanding fast is helpful if you can, but it isn't necessary to win. The name of the game is scouting. I get 1 scout out ASAP, if you can get two out to cover more land. Once you know your surrounding I usually go for 3 or 4 cities and build my capital as a unit mill and 2 more to get research/mana and then the 4th as a town to get gildar but you don't have to. As far as research it depends on what playstyle I am going

I love playing a fire mage for my sov and then having a supporitng mage with life and air (if I can find one) and the rest are usually melee heroes unless I find a character that is just already built for mage. I don't like having more than 3 mages though.

[quote who="whismerhill" reply="153" id="3265701"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 30Without responding to the particulars...why would new players be increasing the difficulty to challenging? The game defaults to Easy. There's two levels below easy. And above challenging, all bets are off. If I could play scary sounds to distract you to help the AI, I would. I don't own elemetal yet, though I'll tell you why I would maybe increase the dif

That is insane. I am not sure how all of a sudden a community can just decide to hate someone without hearing an entire story. I guess this is where the theory that anonymity gives power to the powerless comes in. I can hide behind a screen name and say anything I want with little to no repercussions.

[quote who="Bellack" reply="51" id="3264825"] Quoting xarilius, reply 26While I agree that most of you probably know the game better than I do as you have much more games under your belt, this whole attitude of "go play 20 games then come and comment on what needs work" is silly. You do realize that the majority of the people buying a game like this may never get past the 5-10 game mark, let alone 20? The value of a criticism from someone that's played 2 games is as valuable as

[quote who="rvgr" reply="1" id="3265236"]Speaking of the tactical battles, I would absolutely LOVE the ability to position my units prior to the start of the battle. It would make tactical battles that much more tactical. All too often do I lose a squishy but valuable unit because it begins the battle in front of my meat shields instead of being behind them.[/quote] I remember there being some discussion about this if I remember correctly and it came down to the fact th

[quote who="Kongdej" reply="20" id="3264850"]Hm this post is odd at best, I have not understand the people who "hate" "Savescummers" or whatever you call people that actually uses a feature implemented in a game. I don't think saving and reloading is cheating, I am not deceiving anyone, and I am not breaking the rules of the game. THAT SAID. I only load a game in FE when the game is bugged, that is fairly rare that I ever do that and the Autosave feature is enough of

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="2" id="3264583"]I love to play this game as an ironman. That said I do as you put it 'save scum', but this is to check out different tatics within the game and see some of the different portions that I would be too afraid of trying in a real game. I also 'save scum' when my kids decide to push a button on me and now I have to live with that choice... or the game glitches out. I really don't like playing all my games on 2

I've never seen it done but my best guess (don't take this as fact) would be the city details screen.

Seems like 3.5 - 4 /5 is the general consensus and I agree. The game was released with a lot of minor issues that needed to be polished.

Save scumming is cheating in my opinion. Strategy games are ALL about decisions (much like roguelikes, which are honestly more strategy than RPG sometimes) and reloading a bad decision is just totally against the spirit of strategy games. Strategy games are about dealing with the decisions you make and making critical decisions. Maybe I am just a 'hardcore' gamer or a purist or whatever you want to call it but I only save to take a break from the game and to avoid crashes. I use a sin

So let me get this straight, I am not sure how this works because I am of the school of thought that you are a piss poor strategy gamer if you savescum to win, but you're saying the game is too easy but you're save scumming? Save scumming is cheating. Reloading every battle to dive headlong into and lose doesn't make sense to me. Strategy gaming and FE is exemplary of this is about dealing with your decisions. It would be like going to Vegas and sitting down to a black jack t

They need to make the movies in the Knights of the Old Republic story. I want to see Revan and Malak on the big screen.

[quote who="ntino" reply="23" id="3264376"] Sorry but I dont have time to sink 80 hours into this game while its not fun to play only to find out its so much more fun on the 21st replay? I also dont think I have to play 20 games to be able to post on these forums. Its not about being to my liking, its about the fact that the game is totally out of balance and no cohesive. The reason why it wasn't challenging on challenging is not because I

[quote who="rahal" reply="23" id="3264234"]I would have preferred a more accessible setting. The usual fantasy tropes (elves, dwarfs, 'n orcs) are popular for a reason. [/quote] I refuse to read fantasy because of this. All high fantasy is the same story painted with a different face. i don't to see elves and dwarves that go and save X because great event Y is about to happen and if they don't do Z then the world ends. I

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="32" id="3263896"] Quoting Emperor_Nero, reply 30XCOM was fun for a couple of hours and then it got boring. It was more like a choose your own adventure book than a good strategy game. You got to do X and Y by choice, but you had to do Z eventually. The tactical battles were just the game grueling thing over and over and it broke up the action with so many little cut scenes that the game just felt disjointed. It wasn't a bad game, but it isn't somet

I've never made a governor. I find no use of them because by late midgame I've built up all of the cities I'll need to steamroll late game. Most of the time I'll ravage a weak AI to get a few good cities that they've built and it will usually give me some good border cities to back up my forward army.

I find archery more valuable personally. I usually end up with numerous iron mines versus only a few crystal mines. I also find my crystal runs out a lot faster than my metal. I tend to start with a few cities in the early game (Usually 4 to 5) and build a couple of those into major producers and by mid game I can steam roll the rest of the cities I need from a weaker AI. That is what happened in my last game.

XCOM was fun for a couple of hours and then it got boring. It was more like a choose your own adventure book than a good strategy game. You got to do X and Y by choice, but you had to do Z eventually. The tactical battles were just the game grueling thing over and over and it broke up the action with so many little cut scenes that the game just felt disjointed. It wasn't a bad game, but it isn't something I would enjoy doing over again. FE is different. Last nig

This is really cool. Are you going to do like a summation report at the end of the game. (Something of a tl;dr so we don't have to go through the entire thread. haha)