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[quote who="Kentarion" reply="1" id="3395375"]there are to ways you don't need to take even one magic profeciency: and obvious: if you have the spellbooks faction strength[/quote] I considered this feature, but its too expensive for nation. Yes sovereign may take all necessary combat and governor features, but nation will be weak. Also situation from start will be more difficult. But if I start with Earth+Life, then I recruit Rally (Air), then Arcturus (Fire+W

[quote who="Kentarion" reply="5" id="3395389"]I always want to try a new way. some ways are hard to reach thou... i rly like a sweet starting position WITH a river. i love rivers. but sadly i often have to reload for that.[/quote] In this case its good to use editor. Choose starting position manually and go.

What sovereins and kingdoms do you create? Why? My Kingdom: I usually take Mancers race for my kingdom for their mobility. Take "Archers" for better bows, "Enchanters" - for 2 staffs and Skrying pool to get additional essense. I also take "Quick" for more initiative. Then I always take "Lucky" but now may reconsider... What may be better? The best drawback seems "Uneducated" because it could easily be compensated.

Warrior class heroes are great with Lethal III. Already on 5 level you may have +15 to Attack. Start with Wealthy and get 500 guildars for equipment. If your warrior can cast spells, he may also be a decent wizard. Its good to equip heroes with melee weapons with good initiative. So you can cast spells more often. Assasins may also be good, but you need to train them a lot and forget about magic spellcasting. Warriors with spellcasting abilities imho are the best universal troops. Wh

Well just another suggestion. This one gives more comfort to a player and somehow prevents from reloading the saved game. Suggestion is about looting treasure. Especially from the start player wants to find any useful weapons and armor as treasures. If I reload a game I may find an inforced chainmail instead of useless trinket or bottle or scroll. It also may be dissapointing that after defeating a strong opponent you find an item which is useless to you. So what I propose. Th

[quote who="Kentarion" reply="45" id="3395262"]city upgrade prison is a good way. - if you have a big empire you should build more than one prison city upgrade, i dont remember exactly but i think it reduces the unrest by 10 % or reduces the effect of to many cities malus on unrest... i guess there are 2 different city upgrades... but where to look? there is no documentation...[/quote] Yes at Fortress of 4 level there is bonus of -10 unrest in all cities. I've read at fortress lev

[quote who="fenwe" reply="10" id="3392882"]Of course, it drives me a little batty that most of the AI's ignore viable essence squares and plop down just about anywhere. A 3/3/1 is over all better than a 4/3 or 3/4.[/quote] Here come to help the Insane level of difficulty )))) The problem lies even in not choosing better tiles but even in low priority of expansion. AI is not quick enought to build more and more pioneers. Even more, these pioneers may stand or walk purposelessly bef

It would be nice to more personalize different races. May every race can train special creature/henchman, have additional production/income/research bonuses. Lets imagine humans be good traders, ironeers good workers and smiths, mancers good explorers and rangers, others be good at research, at looting treasures etc. There may be even different types of regimes. In Master of Orion there were feudalism, dictatorship, democracy, unification.

Another suggestion about crossbows. Its current special ability almost never happens making crossbows less useful. Replace its special ability to "Sniper shot" (100% critical hit). Really crossbows are easy to aim since you don't have to strengthen to hold the bowstring. Shot from crossbow may make opponents fall 1 square back.

Give all races all types of clothes, faces and hair to construct custom units. Now I'm playing with mancers and they have scouts and spearmen with hair type which is not available in unit constructor. Why not to give freedom of customisation to player? Unit's editor is one of the greates features of FE.

Let non-hostile units to move through cities and outposts. Cities grow and block the way. It's very hard to move through allies territory since player needs to bypass allies cities.

This suggestion may be more complex, because you need to teach AI to use these strategies. I suggest more strategic options: attack city, blockade city, raid city. Attack - leads to battle with the garrison as it happens now. Blockade - leads a blockaded sity to stop produсing income, research and mana. This may be useful when attackers forces are weak, and defender has no troops for counterattack. Raid - if during a war an enemy unit reaches a tile with resour

Another thought. Now about heroes, who I think are relatively weak vs. common troops and very expensive to equip. I suggest equipment costs in shops should be redused - halved. Let AI heroes update their equipment to the best automatically and free of charge once any of them visits a city. I also suggest increase of Attack value per each level of experience. There is not much opportunities for wizards since mana is rare. Classes Defender and Commander are weak combatants. It needs a l

I suggest 3 diplomatic settings which could improve gameplay. AI should react to human players expansion. The first occurs when a player goes to war with any opponent. Thus others consider him a good target to attack. The second occurs when a player attacks an ally of that kingdom. AI Allies should react by declaring war to human player. The third occurs when human player just builds more cities. 1. You participate in war. - (This results in -10 to relations). 2. You are at wa

1. Best of all are warriors if they can cast spells. Mana may be low. But they have always good attack. 2. Useful are wizards for additional spells. 3. Occasionally useful assasins, thargs are best with double strike, perhaps. 4. Very rarely useful, almost useless defenders and commanders. Defenders expected to buff whole armies, but they buff only themselves. Commanders are of doubdt specialization. They are specialised for city government and for battlefield which ar

Let shields add 10-20 dodge or defence against ranged weapons. All weapons except swords have a special strike. Add a thrust attack to swords, which is 50% armorpiercing.

Crossbows are rather useless unless they gain more Attack and armor piercing. AI should make fortresses from the best villages or just buld more fortresses to produce better troops. Or let AI build only 1 city and onecloister and make fortresses from all other settlements. How to control unrest in huge empires if I like to play XL maps? Is there a repeating research technology that reduces unrest in all empire? E.g. Advanced administration? (I just don't know).

AI is too peaceful. Empires vs.Kingdoms should have -5 in relations. Also AI gets impressed by a player very easily. It should be impressed only if hoplessly weaker than a player. AI should be agressive -5 particularly against human player (we don't trust you). Emmpires should use horses. Wargs are less useful than horses. Let wargs give a bonus +1 to Attack (they bite).

1. After I reload a game, AI may not attack or build cities. 2. All hero classes exept warriors are weak. What if all heroes gain +1 to Attack per each level of experience? 3. I made a scenario and assigned a pioneer unit to AI. But at the first turn AI sent that pioneer to suicidal attack and lost it. 4. I can't place shipyards in the editor. 5. What if every race would have some dodge value? 5 for example. 6. If I produce pioneer, population is subtracted, thus I can increase growth in my

"Too easy?" - in my practise this is just one part of a problem. In some situations its easy to win, but in other situations it is easy to lose. There is not much options for continuous struggle where is is not obvious who will win. But this is the problem of almost every strategy game.

I try to count. Do I like encumbrance? Yes, its good for reality. No, most my heroes need many tweaks to carry equipment. Is it good for AI to remove encumbrance? Yes!!! Encumbrance should be removed.

What is balance of the game? May be it is the value of how much the winner may be stronger than a loser? If I begin to win the game becomes uninterstingly easy. I build 7-men units, I equip them with best bows, I equip them with best artifacts, I build them in enchanted cities, which give +4 to fire damage, +4 to initiative, +4 to armor, they are able to act first at the beginning of the battle - and they simply wipe away any enemy unit with 1-2 shots. Enemy rarely has a chance even t

All MoM, AoW2, FH have great potential, but all suffer from various drawbacks. MoM is easy and unbalancedat at the same time, and after reloading a game AI often retreats. In AoW2 AI doesn't use many things and it doesn't even build pioneers (but by modding its possible to make AI build them), but perhaps AI of AoW2 is the best of all three games. And it has the great and easy to use map editor, scripting and modding tools. FE has many great ideas - starting settings, unit constructor

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="4" id="3328605"] That's the way it was before, but then they introduced autoplacement of buildings (with a Manual Improvement Placement Advanced Option), and decided that it would be better not to favour those who did snaking (since the AI or players not using manual placement couldn't benefit from it). Basically, it's a design issue, and I don't think snaking will be coming back to the core game any time soon.[/quote] I hope d

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="2" id="3328534"]As of now this is working as designed. You can install the snaking mod to change this mechanic. [/quote] Strange... The Snaking mod should be part of the core game.