willie sanderson

[quote who="Chehalden" reply="69" id="3319926"] Quoting GFireflyE, reply 51 I really don't like the concept of the AI ganging up on you. Was just playing GalvcivII the other day and that very thing happened. Took a lone transport and took over a minor race. Next turn the AI has a secret meeting and determines that you're over-agressive behaviour will no longer be tolerated and EVERY major race declared war on me. . Wasn't right OR fair cause just the tu

[quote who="Chehalden" reply="69" id="3319926"] Quoting GFireflyE, reply 51 I really don't like the concept of the AI ganging up on you. Was just playing GalvcivII the other day and that very thing happened. Took a lone transport and took over a minor race. Next turn the AI has a secret meeting and determines t

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="55" id="3319780"] Quoting willie sanderson, reply 52 I really don't like the concept of the AI ganging up on you. Was just playing GalvcivII the other day and that very thing happened. Took a lone transport and took over a minor race. Next turn the AI has a secret meeting and determines that you're over-agressive behaviour will no longer be tolerated and EVERY major race declared war on me. . Wasn't right OR fair cause just

[quote who="Borg999" reply="53" id="3319775"] Quoting willie sanderson, reply 52 Oh I sure do as that's what makes these games fun and challenging for me. I'm so sick of wanting "balance" in a computer game when players know damn well the AI can't win a "balanced" game against thatm. When you have AI attacking other AI that's just plain stupid as it just whittles down your opponents into one strong AI that you'll destroy anyways but if you have

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="14" id="3319829"]A game in which people are rulers of nations due to their skill in magic, should mean that magic is powerful enough to effect all things. So, if I create a magic focused Sov, in a game about magic wielding Sovs, I should be weaker and unable to defeat powerful creatures without having to also be a great warrior? I've always hated that in games. My Sov should be able to gain power enough to destroy any other creature

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="15" id="3319857"] Quoting willie sanderson, reply 12 Don't you think Gandalf would have loved to have been able to "shrink/blind" that Balrog? lol He didn't because it's just not realistic magical fantasy to allow godlike creatures to be downgraded so much to the point a human could just squash them like a bug. Are you implying that Gandalf was a human? [/quote] Are you implying he's not? ;

[quote who="sjaminei" reply="13" id="3319818"] Quoting willie sanderson, reply 12 realistic magical fantasy Lol. Do you see what you are typing mate? [/quote] Yeah! You got a problem with it mat? :) There's even a point where fantasy isn't plausible. :)

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="3319478"]My problem with the shrink/blind thing is this. If those spells don't work on powerful creatures, then why have the spells at all? Why waste the mana, why even get the ability? Maybe they shouldn't work as well, but to eliminate them from working on boss level monsters makes magic less effective and worthwhile in a game where it should be extremely powerful. It also lessens the tactical/strategic element of

[quote] I really don't like the concept of the AI ganging up on you. Was just playing GalvcivII the other day and that very thing happened. Took a lone transport and took over a minor race. Next turn the AI has a secret meeting and determines that you're over-agressive behaviour will no longer be tolerated and EVERY major race declared war on me. <img src="http://web.stardock.net/images/smiles/themes/digicons/Oh%20No

[quote] Ultimately in my test game, Pariden won by casting the spell of making. I’m requesting some tweaks so that there’s more warning when the various factions are constructing the towers leading up to it since this caught me by surprise and I only had 10 moves to do something about it. [/quote] In MOM it did quite well letting you know ano

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="183" id="3315777"]Just ran across another playability glitch that really bugs me... 1. The AI does not abide by the 5 turn wait before razing rule. FIX IT! [/quote] No I disagree this is WAI. ;) No fix required. AI needs some advantages player doesn't get. All in favor say "I", all opposed??? therefore the "I"s have it next issue on the docket. ;)

[quote who="DevildogFF" reply="199" id="3317905"]#1-5: You guys need, need, need to revisit the races in FE and the world of FE. You're making some serious improvements and I really think that this will go a long way towards righting the few "wrongs" with FE, but without true racial uniqueness, it still feels like it falls....short. Give us a unique twist on Orcs, hobbits, dwarves, lizard people, etc. FE suffers for this. Please do someth

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="3317692"]Please don't flame AOW here. I happen to be a pretty big fan of it. The more successful it is, the more people will be drawn into this genre. [/quote] You know others which are usually fanbois I could accept that from but YOU Froggy? How can you be a FAN of that series? It has the worst AI in the history of fantasy games. Now if you really played it a LOT this was easil

[quote who="UmbralAngel" reply="19" id="3318018"]You shouldn't make assumptions about the quality of the game before you (or any reviewers) get their hands on it. Age of Wonders came out a LONG time ago, many of the employees at Triumph Studios are probably completely different, and they have been working on this game for several years now, using modern technology and methods.I liked AoW but it was lots of diversity in units with little tactical variety for using those units. The whole li

[quote who="AlienFromBeyond" reply="15" id="3317889"] Quoting willie sanderson, reply 7 mainly because when I open up this text box the font is less than a centimeter high like this and I can't read it. You know you can hold CTRL when you scroll to change text size? That way you can read (maybe you should get glasses or sit closer to your monitor) without making it a pain in the ass for the rest of us to read. [/quote] <span

I'd like to see the AI not send out it's Sovereign or even champions out solo after a certain amount of turns from the start of the game. I'd like to see the AI ally with itself more instead of playing war with itself weakening itself for the humaan player. I'd like to see the AI use more enchantments at the right moments and on the right units an

[quote who="PocusFr" reply="3" id="3317608"]why you Sir gets the privilege of writing all your text in bold and large font? This is aggressive behavior, particularly in regard to the unfair disparaging of the fine game which is Age of Wonders. [/quote] mainly because when I open up this text box the font is less than a centimeter high like this and I can't read it. Sooooo I change it to THIS SIZE

[quote who="King_Felix" reply="1" id="3317602"]Well, thanks for the link. Actually, AoW SW is a very dear game to me and some of the maps and scenarios made by the community are great.AI could be better, but that's the fact for FE as well. I like FE alot, especially the modding simplicity. I also believe Legendary Heroes are a step in right direction. However, I'm sorry to say FE hasn't been able to grip me in su

http://www.ageofwonders.com/aow3live/ While Triumph Studios did make some fair graphics they never mastered a challenging AI and thus their games of the Age series were mediocre at best. I played the entire series and seriously the 1st one was their best one except for the fact it had no random map generator thus one had to play the same crappy maps ove

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="3316430"] Quoting Mytheos, reply 6 libcurl.dll Error same as above... Really starting to about loose it, played Elemental and ended up paying for an alpha that was abandoned a month after release,.. And now FE which has half worked at best through 5-6 different patches, and this time I feel like I am paying to play a beta. I have enjoyed several Stardock games in the past and I cant comprehend how this is from the s

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="3316799"]@psychoak Amen. I love Master of Magic more than most. But I don't kid myself about the shape it was in when it shipped. Luckily, it was a very FUN game. But it was, by today's standards, completely broken. If it came out today in the shape it was then, you'd be talking 50 metacritic. Even back at the time, it got panned for being so buggy. There's a reason there was no MOM 2. Peop

I'd be interested in knowing how many players are getting CTD's with Nvidia cards vs ATI/RAEDON cards? Could be a pattern that something is wrong with Nvidia cards and this game. :)

[quote] 3. Monsters seem to still be too passive. In my current game the AI walked up and planted a town one square away from a dragon lair. The dragon got up and wandered off, instead of demolishing the town. I would like to see displaced monsters become much more aggressive than they are now, after all they are refugees, forced from their homes. Traditionally such entities be

Age of Wonders Shadow Magic having a challenging AI? hahaha When I see someone talk about it having a challenging AI I am not sure we are thinking the same game. That is the most easiest unchallenging fantasy game of them all. At least in MOM the AI won't put up with you invading their territory like you can in AOW:SM. I made an alliance and set 3 full stacks to one of the AI's capitols and even waited a few turns and then declared war and destro

I thought this game wasn't optimized for 64bit? Did you sneak in a fix while I wasn't looking?