rivers_richard

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="25" id="2920779"]If I have my way, WOM won't ever be finished or at least will be worked on until I can't compile it anymore (see my angst on tryign to do new builds of galCiv II). As much as I wish WOM had been a critical success, the fact it wasn't frees me to tinker with it without the same kind of crazy that would happen otherwise.[/quote] I can only read this as "since I'm chalking this game up as a loss, now I don't real

Seasons actually correspond to a planet's axial tilt, not its motion around the star. There's no reason why there has to be a fixed relationship between seasons and years.

[quote who="Diardiamond" reply="40" id="2862690"] Also Emperor of the Fading Suns, if you install one of the two mods that make it worth playing. Oh, my god, I thought I was the only person to play that game. I couldn't get too far into it, but what I saw was so amazing... YESYESYESYES !!! ... i'm a firm believer that EotFS should be remade with todays graphics (I've stated as much in a few places in the SD forums allready^^). No other game has had

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="14" id="2861794"]With the benefit of hindsight here's how I'd rate the game: v1.0: 4 out of 10 v1.1: 6 out of 10 v1.11: 7 out of 10 It's getting there. I'm thinking v1.2 will bring it to an 8 out of 10.[/quote] You do realize that Metacritic user scores rate Galciv2 and its expansions at consistently between 7 and 8 out of 10, right? So you think Elemental is currently about as good as Galciv2? Or d

[quote who="Rhoon" reply="1" id="2862657"]There's also the bug where the "glowing" effect on the ground from the random drops which don't go away after you've explored the tile and moved on. I'm sure getting rid of these would help reduce the memory needed to render the particle effects I assume they are?[/quote] I just started noticing that myself. I think it's a new 1.11 bug. Pretty sure it didn't happen in 1.1.

I've never used it either, but to be fair it does say in the description that it summons ALL unstationed units. Which would logically include caravans. I wasn't sure whether that would include all unstationed enemy units as well, which would be a really powerful spell.

I've been coming across a lot of ridiculously high defense and dodge ratings on various enemies throughout the game since 1.11, to the point that even some common bandits are effectively immune to melee damage.

Only particular squares near each town will trigger the quest. Have you tried dancing around to find "the one" ? I had to when I went through the campaign. Honestly the campaign is kind of worthless since it doesn't even really teach one how to play the game, because one doesn't have access to most of the game features from within the campaign.

[quote who="wnmnkh" reply="12" id="2860320"]It's 40 bucks. Not 50. Are we on same page? http://impulsedriven.com/galciv2ul P.S : and also the game worth 50$ if you love 4x.... there aren't any better 4x other than Civ4 with expansions. [/quote] Actually I am a really big fan of Sword of the Stars and its expansions, and I think it's right on par. Also Emperor of the Fading Suns, if you insta

As much as I like the even-numbered Civ games, I can't stand their forums, which are usually full of people who think that having played Civilization has made them history professors.

You're limited by the amount of gold you have, just like casting Heal or Regeneration is limited by the amount of mana you have. I agree you shouldn't be able to consume health pots in combat, especially for free, but that's not what the OP was on about.

[quote quoting="post"] Froggy since in the past you have asked about this sort of thing, i dunno if anyone has mentioned it but lately i find when i face multiple battles in my zone of influence i always buy meat jerky to heal my troops in between fights. Might be another reason to add a cooldown to shop items spawning in the stores. [/quote] I'm not sure what the issue is here. You're trading gold for health. Why wouldn't that be legitimate? Are

[quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="30" id="2862228"] Quoting rivers_richard, reply 29 Clearly you've never played Chrono Trigger. Eh. I'd have said Fallout 1/2. Or Alpha Centauri.[/quote] Great games, to be sure. Especially SMAX.

[quote quoting="post"]Elemental will be the the best PC game ever. It will. The very best PC game of all time is sitting before you. The number 1 game ever made.. in fact the number 1 game on any format ever. It will be the best game ever. [/quote] Clearly you've never played Chrono Trigger.

I'm guessing it's the 1.1d executable with a few extras tossed in to call it a real update. I guess smaller, more frequent fixes are better than bigger, longer-wait ones, though. Not needing so many fixes would be even better, of course.

The ones I made in 1.1 were not deleted in 1.11, so this is perhaps a bug. In fact, I lost nothing in the update except that I had to re-do all the stuff in the options menu.

Good idea, but what if you have zero shards of that type? What if you have every shard but Earth in the Spring? Can you then cast the Spell of Making?

Why should units have to make way for each other on roads anyway? Are these roads one man wide? Units can occupy the same tile without being in the same army, even if they're at war with each other. I've seen it with my own eyes. So why shouldn't they be able to walk through each other?

It doesn't seem to me that it's a diplomatic capital problem so much as a perceived value problem with the AI. They value it highly under strange and counterintuitive circumstances. When the AI declares war on me, for example, even if I let them win for a good while, eventually they'll value my DC very highly (like 11 to 1) and I'll be able to buy a peace treaty easily. Shouldn't DC with someone you're at war with be especially worthless if you're not losing?

It seems to me that any quest that asks for a gewgaw ought to generate the places where the gewgaw can be found. Otherwise the fact that they're so random means the questing experience is inconsistent and frustrating.

Unit pathfinding doesn't have the proper weight to shun non-road forest tiles. My units will try to go through the forest rather than walk slightly around it, even though the path around would be faster. They also don't always seek road when they should, but usually are good about that. Even on large maps with few opponents, starting locations tend (in my experience anyway) to be clustered together, with a lot of empty wasteland at the edges of the map. Contact happens too early in th

Yeah, that's all it takes, although you might want to backup the original exe. Impulse will put the original one back if you ask it to, but it's just good practice to backup core files before you modify them manually. Even if it's a developer hotfix.

Thanks, kryo. After very thoroughly wiping all display drivers from the system, and reinstalling the latest Catalyst, the problem is gone. So this one was my fault, for not properly uninstalling display drivers before I updated them.

The idea of Myrror was what I always considered the coolest part of MoM.

Pestilence, Chaotic Shard, Shadow World, Subjugate Wizard, Pariden's Fury. In roughly that order of priority.