Mistwraithe

[quote quoting="post"]I'm starting to think that it might be better if cities were not entirely destroyed after a successful attack by monsters (or any other non-faction units).[/quote] Excellent idea, wish I had thought of that!!! [Sorry, couldn't resist the sarcasm, no way you could know assuming you are new to the forums but unfortunately this, and other interesting variations of it, have been suggested dozens of times and for some reason Stardock have shown no

The problem with the AI is that it too often does blatantly stupid stuff. I think there are two parts to a strategy AI which affect the players opinion of it: 1. Does the AI do stupid things? 2. Does the AI provide a challenge? (without cheating to a ridiculous level, I would add). Most strategy AI's struggle to really nail #2 because it is very hard to write an AI that can compete with a player in a complex game. LH is probably about on par with similar bu

I agree with OP in that it would be nice to have more items. But I also agree with many others that I bought the loot pack (and the other DLC) primarily because I could afford to and wanted to support Stardock. Particularly as I got the last two games for free - I think WoM deserved giving us FE for free but giving LH as well was a bonus. If I was buying purely on value I would have definitely bought the Quest pack (because I really felt the game needed more quests to play wel

I knew it was your fault stein220...

As others have said summoning is very worthwhile, if only for the fact that it distracts some of the enemy and helps either delay them or at least delay some of them so that they arrive at your front lines piecemeal. Of course that might not work as well for the AI vs the player but there are still plenty of reasons why the AI should try summoning.

When I returned to the game last week after a long hiatus this was one of my biggest annoyances too. Several times while traversing or even just arriving at choke points I ran into a neutral troop going the other way... and every time the neutral unit stopped there and as far I can tell stayed there blocking the chokepoint indefinitely (certainly 20+ turns anyway). I'm pretty sure there is some bug at play, in one case the neutral unit wasn't even completely blocked but it sti

[quote who="merlinme" reply="11" id="3393601"] Quoting Mistwraithe, reply 10Unfortunately it really turns me off making any game harder by just giving the AI crazy stats and as far as I can tell that is what the top difficulty levels are like. Don't pretty much all of of this style of game do that? Civilization certainly does, which is the closest comparison. I believe the Civ AI cheats with fog of war, too. [/quote] Sure all games cheat at higher difficult

I've never really felt threatened by the AI. By monsters yes, sometimes monsters which were unleashed by the AI and proceeded to beeline towards me. And of course there was that one game where I started in a big valley with only one settle area in the valley (ie my capital) and only three routes out, all of which were blocked by monsters which were beyond my ability to defeat. I did eventually get my sovereign through one exit and found another fertile area... which a dragon right in the

Nice post. I haven't had time to play in ages but managed to find a half a dozen hours for a game last weekend. Overall my thoughts were similar to yours, LH is a pretty good game but there is plenty of scope for it to become even better with more polishing and refinement. One thing which really annoyed me was that by half way through the game AI scouts had just stopped moving. Maybe they had scouted the whole map? (seems unlikely, there was still plenty I hadn't seen)

I agree with everyone. ;-) One point worth making is that part of the reason arcane monolith is so useful is that the alternative, pioneer based outposts, are so expensive. I'm firmly on the bandwagon of all the people who think that outposts should also be buildable by a cheaper unit (eg engineer) that doesn't cost 30 population.

I hate bugs. The fewer the better.

[quote who="SerinMaldy" reply="150" id="3321075"]On top of that the game usually cheated horribly. Worse game I played during the rise of RT (no S as there is little to no strategy in these type of games) was DUNE. I forced myself to accept my empire was struck with no long term memory as I had to rebuild each map and relearn all my tech, but on the final map the enemy had a full city, full tech, and had the world killer Nuke/Bomb. On turn 2 or 3 <

Agreed on all counts but particularly the caravans!

I think there is some special code which identifies if you are running FE/LH on a non Stardock computer and if so it makes the AI pioneers semi-invulnerable. There has to be some explanation for why Stardock don't see the same problem, it has existed to various degrees of seriousness ever since WoM came out...

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[quote who="Kantok" reply="5" id="3382473"]Yes, because Steam trading cards would do you a world of good if you're not using the game on Steam.[/quote] LOL

I can see Frogboy's point. However the counter argument to this is that you don't see many reviews saying the AI in so-and-so strategic game is too smart (too hard maybe but that invariably means the AI is cheating up the wazoo which is usually compensation for a LACK of smarts). Whereas I frequently read reviews criticising strategy games for having poor AI. So I agree with Frogboy's final point that perhaps 'good enough' isn't really good enough. BTW it is wo

Good post. Looking forward to seeing these long standing problems fixed, it is what is needed to make an already good game great.

[quote who="rowyerboat" reply="86" id="3380395"]Dude...it's a game. And a SINGLE-PLAYER game at that. If it FEELS like an exploit to you....don't do it.[/quote] Heh. I think I summed it up best by saying we disagree. I see your point, I just don't agree with it. To give you some idea of my perspective the most fun I've had in strategy games in the last 5 years has been playing Civ 4 and Civ 5 game of the months from the CivFanatics website. Preset maps an

[quote who="rowyerboat" reply="82" id="3380271"] On a separate note, I agree with Frogboy's stance on not placing high priority on player exploits. If a player is saying "Why isn't this game harder...but I just can't help myself from training 3-man units and then upgrading them to 6 to save oodles of crystal etc..." then that player simply has a problem. I'd definitely rather see improvements made in the actual AI, and players left to their

I think FE/LH would be better with a limit on how much mana can be expended on strategic spells each turn, like MoM has. Nonetheless, it is good to hear that the AI has learnt to cast spells! (I don't have time to play right now so haven't experienced myself :()

[quote who="Azunai_" reply="4" id="3376639"]or reduce growth to 0 if a pioneer is in the queue?[/quote] Not a great solution IMO but it would at least fix it. My complaints with reducing growth to zero are that it isn't obvious (ie to people who haven't read the release notes, although at least there is a precedent in the Civ games of growth being diverted to production when building settlers) and more importantly it penalises use of the queue while rewarding and encou

Civ IV dropped building maintenance and I feel overall that Civ IV has the best economic model of all the Civ games (including Civ V) so building maintenance is hardly necessary for a good strategy game. Basically building maintenance isn't much fun. I much prefer a model where the limit on your buildings is how quickly you can build them, which then creates good tension with how quickly you can build armies too (given the single queue).

[quote who="greggbert" reply="25" id="3378404"]Is population really that rare of a resource? I always have a city that's near maxed out.[/quote] I never have a city that is maxed out because I just queue another pioneer. In fact if one were to play seriously they would queue pioneers such that they never had a city over 30 pop (except briefly to level each city to the next level). Having said that I agree that I usually have a few cities which have more pop (potentia

[quote who="thadianaphena" reply="7" id="3378121"]Just like Dragons and Titans? If you want to say you were talking about Elemental world and not RL, then I doubt there is Santa in Legendary Heroes. [/quote] I don't understand. Are you trying to say Dragons and Titans are made up too??