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bc_1

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Reply to About a week left in FE Sneak Peeks Stardock Forums

I purchased FE via steam, so I can tell you steam does not even need to be launched to play the game: it's only used as a game content delivery system, and only needs to be used for installing and updating the game. All of which is just fine in my book (I don't like having steam run in the background when playing offline games such as civ SP)

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Reply to [bug?][1291] What happened to pioneer pop cost? in FE Support Stardock Forums

While ideally it would be nice to increase game difficulty with a more competent AI, without altering game mechanics and keeping all options open to the player, that's unfortunately wishful thinking. If we want to play more challenging single player games, that means higher levels and tradeoffs to be made. To avoid excessive penality to player experience, these need to be based on an analysis of both game mechanics and AI weaknesses, not on what "should feel right". I have been pl

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Reply to [bug?][1291] What happened to pioneer pop cost? in FE Support Stardock Forums

Screwing balance in favor of the AI: that's exactly the point of higher levels (although I would agree that artificial limit in total # of cities, if confirmed, should be fixed to something not limiting in terms of gameplay) I am not suggesting to replace all existing AI perks with this one, only toning down slightly the long term perks in favor of more initial perks

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Reply to [bug?][1291] What happened to pioneer pop cost? in FE Support Stardock Forums

[quote who="OliverFA_306" reply="40" id="3324197"]That would only slow initial expansion. Not sure if it's worth.[/quote]Initial expansion is vital to winning the game on higher levels [quote who="OliverFA_306" reply="40" id="3324197"] If I remember correctly, gold/research production increases exponentially with each city level, so a level 5 city is like 32 level 1 cities. [/quote]To my knowledge city level only gives you a free building which gives a few perks...

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Reply to [FE 1.29b] [bug] Kraxis doesn't settle in FE Support Stardock Forums

Another exploity use of them is for the diplo victory: since you can ally every leader save one, pick that one as the easy pushover. (actually the alliance mechanism is yet another game feature in need of a balance makeover, as currently implemented it's only a domination victory shortcut)

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Reply to [bug?][1291] What happened to pioneer pop cost? in FE Support Stardock Forums

Tinkering with pionner cost or gating them is not a good solution. Balancing mechanisms are sorely lacking in the game and must be added. There are several simple solutions to be copied from civ, as well as other ideas: - increase the benefit of large cities: tax, research, food & production becomes strongly (ie linearly or more) correlated to population size (kinda makes sense btw...), replace faction prestige by city prestige f(population, buildings) or give some buildin

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Reply to Winning on Ridiculous in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

With the "heroe shopping" strategy (see my post reply #5) it's possible to win consistently on ridiculous/ridiculous with max AI opponents. It's also possible to win at Civ 5 on deity regularly if not consistently, go have a look at civ fanatics: there are contests to win deity on all sorts of maps sizes with plenty of AI opponents and standard settings, and quite a few players win a lot.

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Reply to Are experience increasing abilities good picks in your opinion? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Ok I did some math for you... If deltaXP = 1.4 * lvl² + 8 * lvl, then it follows that the sum from lvl=1 to x of deltaXP(lvl) is: XP = 0,4*x^3/3+8,4*x^2/2+(0,4/6+4)*x So when does an XP bonus outweights the lost level ? The easiest way to find out is to plot these equations. Resuts: the best case for breakeven are (the best case is taking the bonus at next leveling, otherwise breakeven increases): po

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Reply to Winning on Ridiculous in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

And how is it working out ? It's not too difficult to out expand the AI and set up a strong start, but overwhelming every AI is another matter... What I am also having troubble with is understanding how they cheat, in order to determine an appropriate strategy. OK they get 200% HP, unlimited gildars, immunity against monster attacks... but do they also have 100% techs on turn 1 ? it seems that some of them are able to start building towers for the mastery spell as early as turn 10 or 20 ?

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