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The tool tips aren't up to date. Just pick Challenging and you're set.

Agreed. With both of you.

Kudos for being able to read through my cryptic notation. It got a bit messed up with the +dodge things, sorry about that [e digicons]|-)[/e] I haven't looked at the actual numbers in the game yet. Maybe it's just too difficult to get a meaningful dodge now? To keep the game interesting though, units should be hitting a lot more often than missing. It's very boring if a combat drags if no-one can hit.

Isn't Challenging a full AI without bonuses? If it isn't, then I think we would be better off having a difficulty level with the best AI, but no bonuses instead of splitting the options. That said, the situation isn't as simple as one might think. Some things are just incredibly difficult for the AI and some small help - not a bonus giving numeric advantages - may be necessary in order for the AI to function. Typically these include Fog of War cheats. Besides, huma

Let's go through examples to see if the suggestion makes sense. 'High' units are high level units. 'Low' units are low level units. Current system, only accuracy raises: Low vs Low fight: Medium chance to hit for both. Low vs High: Medium chance to hit for Low, High chance to hit for High. High vs High: Both have high chance to hit.

[quote who="Replicators" reply="5" id="3131078"]Graphics/Engine/UI Optimization. Current Fallen Enchantress runs poorly, especially near late game, focuses on wrong areas of graphics usage (Too much details on towns, too little details on terrain, shaders, and textures), and the UI is often plagued with long wait times.[/quote] I've actually thought about this very same thing: focusing on areas that are not important. It seems - I may be wrong here - that they are spending a

I like tactical combat way too much to get very excited about Warlock. But the UI and graphics of Warlock look way better than FE. A bit crowded, but they seem a more functional. As an example, I just watched a short demo on youtube and noticed they show unit paths before the unit moves, not after. A small favorite nitpick of mine..

Great moves! Really glad to see stats straightened out, both in dropping excess ones and clarifying the ones that were left.

[quote who="larienna" reply="26" id="3126119"] OK, maybe complexity was the wrong word. The idea was restrictions did not necessarily made the game better but rather different. I am even exploring ways to design games by having as few restrictions as possible to the player's actions.[/quote] Ok, that makes sense. One thing I learned during a brief time spent with improvisation theatre was that sometimes limitations are necessary to feed creativity. If two p

[quote who="Cavil" reply="15" id="3126465"]Things i remember from Disciples games is the amazing music and dark design, trying to forget the rest... [/quote] Nothing wrong with 1 & 2.

Restrictions don't have to increase complexity. For a simple example, consider a game that has units that can move to any adjacent squares. Then change the rules so that units can only move directly forward, left of right. Movement has been restricted, but it hasn't become more complex. There's an interesting geeklist on Boardgamegeek about Depth vs complexity . Th

It's been said by the developers that xp gained is divided by the amount of champions in your stack. So 2 heroes getting ~50% xp is exactly as the devs have said. The wither thing is probably a bug. The spell probably affects the stats that are used in calculating what the base xp is. Why do you think the xp system is weird? Seems to be working exactly as intended with the exception of a small bug.

Looks like you still get to see the movement path only after you've started moving :-(

The equation may not be the most concise way of expressing the desired formula, but I think it does a good job of expressing design intent: Throwing knives do 6 damage plus 1 extra for every two points of dex above average.

Agree with OP. No reason for just one soldier to throw a knife/axe/whatever. It actually makes more sense than with melee weapons.

Sorry about sounding negative, but I don't agree with this. Master of Magic managed the champion vs unit attacks. Battle of Wesnoth manages different attack counts for different units - albeit with a slightly different combat system. I feel the problem is the huge leaps the values take with e.g. weapon attack scores. Higher tech tier weapons have incredibly high attack scores when compared to the lower ones. I don't see any reason why this can't become balanced.

Nice analysis. I think you're spot on that the first taxation levels shouldn't punish the player so hard. I believe quite a few players keep taxes completely off for long times because the low taxation levels are not worth it.

In the current build, "challenging" is full AI with no bonuses.

The reason people don't like your suggestion is because it would add complexity and repetitive tasks (moving back and forth) to an area of the game that isn't very important. Gameplay trumps realism here. Your heroes need to go to the toilet sometimes too, but it's not in the game because it wouldn't add to the fun. The example is a bit exaggerated, but I hope you see the point.

[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="2" id="3105182"] Quoting Publius of NV, reply 1The auto select next unit is so annoying that I have it turned off in the game options. Same here. It seems like units forget to move (which may or may not be happening), but it's also really annoying when you move one unit, discover something, but the camera focuses on your next unit instead. These are some things I'm hoping will be addressed in the near future. It really detracts from the

I was just reading a thread on Sword of the Stars II forums. Turn time by turn 203 was reported as 7 minutes. Pretty impressive work, Frogboy :-)

I'm annoyed by unit movement path only showing after a unit haa started moving. Seems a liitle pointless at that point, only slightly useful for movement spanning multiple turns. The path should become visible when mouse button is pressed down, not when it's released. A lot of games manage this, best implementation I've seen has been in Civ 5. Also if you uncover stuff, keep the camera still at least a fraction of a second before jumping to next unit, so you don't have to manually scroll back to

[quote who="Neilo" reply="5" id="3095306"] How would that even be possible? Brad doesn't specify where he gets the crash reports, but is it not a given he is referring to those emailed in by the FE beta testers???[/quote] FE gets Smart Exception support

AI doesn't design units by itself. As long as that's the case, it's going to have to copy player designs in order to remain competitive. IMHO this is a good feature as it helps maintain challenge in the game even after you've nailed some really effective designs.

[quote who="UmbralAngel" reply="2" id="3094193"]Once that stability improves I think I might take a leap of faith and pre-order the game! [/quote] The game really is very stable by now. I've never had the latest version crash on me, and I've played it more than many released games. The view from the developer side is very different, since a single developer sees the crashes of every user. I develop and maintain a piece of software that has a couple thousand users