Kongdej

The truth is both gold and mana is valuable resources, and both can be used to each they're ends. They are both good, and if firefly want to play without using mana, thats fine, that is why I like spells like alchemy, I remember there being a different feature in MoM. Gold is just used in huge chunks from the shop, those prices are insane for leather armour. Also I use gold for rushing city stuff most of the time, 75 gold can go into 6 ish turns of production on the "

[quote who="bbr91" reply="1" id="3240456"]I've just cast Curgeon's Volcano on the Pariden capital, with whom I have a non-aggression treaty, and they didn't declare war or anything. They didn't seem to mind me sending their capital into oblivion.[/quote] Who needs a capital :D Sincerely ~ Kongdej

Got to use auto explore since I build these fantastic slave scouts, and at some time turn 60 I had completely forgotten about my auto exploring scout, and by turn twohundred whattheever I get a popup with my old scouts face upon it saying: "Directive Cancelled: Error. No auto move directive." I was first puzzled since I had nooooo idea what was going on until I zoomed back to my fantastic scout. I tried to click "Explore" again since part of the map was still black, and it gave the sa

Hmmm that's where I remember not being able to build the leather piece from ^_^ Thanks for putting this up. Sincerely ~ Kongdej

[quote]I captured a Magnar city this afternoon, it had 0 grain, 0 material and 0 essence !!![/quote] Share save or it didn't happen :P Really it helps because the developers can check out all the tiny details about the map, and the area around the city, etc. [quote]Also, I had my sovereign in another Magnar city, just captured, with its complete army, and ONE Magnar unit (pikemen) attacked the city alone!!! I think they were in a hurry to end their lives [/quote]</

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="12" id="3240490"]By season 100 I'm often gaining between 16-24 mana a turn. Add in that I don't 'waste' my mana in combat and only use it when necessary, I'm usually sitting on quite the stockpile.[/quote] Hmm thinking about this, while I use my mana (actually used alchemy once today, like wow 100 gold >_<). You might be right at the exchange, I don't mind alchemy and it should in no way be nerfed badly, mostly because while

Noticed when constructing scout slaves that when I hit 0/0 encumbrance the encumbrance would show some weird unreadable number, this is in no way major and have little effect, but should be fixed at some point ;). Sincerely ~ Magnar

[quote who="seanw3" reply="38" id="3240452"]How about we get the AI to use the shop and then talk about balance?[/quote] Now that would be unfair xD Sincerely ~ Kongdej

[quote who="seanw3" reply="192" id="3240442"]I have a perfect balance on the modifiers for AI relations though[/quote] How modest :) Sincerely ~ Batman!

[quote who="seanw3" reply="17" id="3240455"]Hmm... Now that city level adds real resources, Civics might be more valuable for that +1 faction prestige. When you start with 6 Grain at least it would be a good choice.[/quote] Civics, and knowledge ;) Sincerely ~ Kongdej

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="12" id="3240368"]Horses should be re-imagined to do stuff like 1) trample enemies without shields or spears. Trample means +50% damage 2) Allow the unit to ignore movement restrictions caused by proximity to other units 3) special abilities like "charge" where the enemy is not allowed to counter-attack unless they are also mounted[/quote] Really interesting stuff, nr 3 of-course needs a new name ;). [quote who="Heavenfall" re

[quote who="sweatyboatman" reply="5" id="3240381"]Also, noticed when looking at it again, rotating the camera, the light source doesn't rotate. So when you get to the dark side all the colorful detail is obscured. That aint right.[/quote] Actually seen that too, thought it was on purpose :) Thanks for checking! I was really just trying to give input on something that MIGHT cause this. I'll shaddap now xD Sincerely ~ Kongdej

[quote who="seanw3" reply="17" id="3240395"]As long as the enemy factions and the monster factions move simultaneously, they will never attack each other. The only way a monster ever attacks an enemy faction is when one of them doesn't move. [/quote] Sounds right. At some point I hope I can turn off simultaneous moves, and AI moving at the start of my turn, for us patient people :) I am sure it would fix around 30 bugs with the AI and monsters... Well 30 might be a littl

[quote who="seanw3" reply="189" id="3240390"]The worst thing is that spell resistance may not even be working. I think something changed since beta 3, because that is how I did it then. I can live with the Accuracy thing though, as long as I add some elemental resistance to staves, it should play about the same. [/quote] Aw, I just liked the idea ^_^ [quote who="seanw3" reply="189" id="3240390"]Soon I will have 3 troll lairs. Since trolls are the only way to get tactical regen

[quote who="Ausland" reply="12" id="3240361"]I had some ophidians take out one of my cities, and even though I could no longer settle in the same spot, for some reason it created new spots to settle around the city which I couldn't settle prior. It actually worked out better for me, I was able to create two good cities from it instead of the one mediocre one I had before [/quote] Funny, but thats the effects of borders, not the city (Yes borders do this, try building outpost

mid-term technology really depends on map layout, but after some playthroughs I usually go: 1: Civics. (Civ Tech) 2: Knowledge, then Mining (Both civ techs) 3: Training, then leatherworking (Both Warfare Techs) 4: If I have horses, then horsetech, if not then go to 5: 5: Pump civ technology until you reach: Education, Cooperation. (Both Civ Techs) From here it varies a lot, meaby magic tech, meaby go for craftmanship, meaby more warfare tech.

Never use this spell, I can find better uses for my mana ^_^ Gold I usually have enough of, from spamming cities. Sincerely ~ Kongdej

More movement, more movement, more movement, gain xp, gain xp, half-kite stuff to get less attacks in combat to save more hp, charge archers round one. Stuff like that I think the movement for boosted units is too high compared to the non-boosted version, I always try to maximize it right now since more movement = more xp, which also gives more of all the other attributes for heroes. Sincerely ~ Kongdej

[quote quoting="post"] You can sell resources to AI sovereigns for really good prices. For example, you can sell Crystals for 5-12 Gildar per piece. So Crystal Quarry really gives 5-12 Gildar per season. Imho overpowered. [/quote] I think not, you are effectively boosting the AI's ability to pump out mage troops, also as I noted you can only sell to them when they have less than 50 crystals (or so). Sincerely ~ Kongdej

Next unit button that picks from all the units, and another button that "Moves the unit" in the selected direction would be nice. Interface buttons plus keyboard shortcuts, I don't like keyboard shortcuts with no button attached to the same feature. [quote]On a related note, Could you make the explore button more obvious when it has been selected, by choice or accident. [/quote] YES! Although I never really use it :P I do click it by mistake sometimes. Since

[quote]shards raise base damage for those staves[/quote] Why? I can't see what benefit this would do to the strategy of the game :S. I appreciate all your ideas, but lets talk about it ;). [quote]Maybe add in a wand using tree that ups init+spell mastery when using a wand for mages/assassins.[/quote] Mage staffs, I said this too, I really want some mage weapons, so GJ ;). [quote]For magical staves: give upgradable options for fire staves, ice staves, and lig

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="1" id="3240183"]I did not know that it did it this way. I might use this "feature" to my advantage by researching a tech with just the extra points of my other research.[/quote] How is that an advantage? :S [quote quoting="post"] When you finish researching technology A, remaining research points are spent to next selected technology B. If you reselect technology from B to C in the same season, remaining research points don't go from

Hm you make it sound so cool... But I want to keep my vanilla game so I can report bugs... ARRH >_ I am always thinking I want to be able to pick trained unit traits that boost resistance to some element, what do you think about that? (As a non-crystal costed way to protect against elemental damage, whenever you see some empire going all-out fire axes, fire staves, fire magic... Shame to hear about staffs and accuracy... :( Sincerely ~ Kongdej

[quote who="seanw3" reply="26" id="3240315"]I save the feeble tower for when I have a city with no essence. It makes up for the lack of cleric.[/quote] Bah, township them up, taxes doesn't hit unrest :D I usually township non essence tiles, so they can boost all the essence tiles, although I do find a few essence tiles each game. Sincerely ~ Kongdej

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="8" id="3239539"] Loss of a city even if rebuildible is still too harsh[/quote] I actually like seeing monsters being... Hard, evil, rampaging, killing cities as punishment even if you can't beat it. That said, I don't like the land is blasted, making that perfect spot die just makes me sad :S Also half of the problem is... [quote who="CdrRogdan" reply="9" id="3240295"]How about when a computer wipes out a lair by building next to it,