danielbauman

This is more of a UI question, but is there a way to view the grain/material values of map tiles without having a pioneer nearby? Right now the only way I know of to see this is by mousing over the 'settle' button, and it's quite annoying to try to do it this way when my only pioneers are across the map from the location I'm trying to view. I have a feeling I'm missing some very easy way to do this. EDIT: Er... nevermind. &n

Rather than a hard mana cap, maybe just a soft one - say that each turn X% of the mana in excess of Y drains off. Give some mechanisms for impacting X and Y (sovereign traits, items, tech...) and we have an environment where you can build up a large mana reserve, but need to work at it.

I just associate charge strongly with something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNaKHwKJhIw I can dream, at least :-P

That sounds very akin to an Action Point style system such as one of the first two Fallout games had. Unfortunately, I suspect that something like that would involve a pretty huge change to the way that the engine handles combat. I think Bouquet's base idea would probably be much easier to do within the current system - right now initiative is substantially unintuitive, and some of the trait effects still confuse me - +10 initiative on the first turn of combat seems to let t

Two potential things that could help with that: 1. We need more/better defender advantage. I know that there are a lot of mechanisms already intended to create this, but in my Beta 1 games it didn't feel like any of them were particularly effective (in the hands of the AI). The effect of this is to make on-the-fly counterattacks with your stack of doom the easiest way to respond to aggression, and means that you don't really need to prepare much to take a city. &nb

I was actually thinking exactly that when playing Beta 1 yesterday - I really wanted the wilds to be a bit more aggressive. To be honest, I felt like the wilds stuff was just waiting there for me to farm it for most of the game. I think the complete lack of critters intruding into your domain may be a bit overly safe. I remember noticing at some point (slightly alarmed) that there was a ginormous drake army around five squares from my capital. I then realized that it w