Here are the minimum specs listed when you click "Purchase" up in the way top right-hand corner. But of course, I'd recommend much higher memory: System Requirements OS: Windows 7/Vista SP2/XP SP3 Memory: 1 GB Available RAM Processor: 2.4 GHz Processor Video Card: 128 MB 3D Video Card (GeForce 6800/Radeon x1600 or Better)
As to adding 1 food cost to starting cities: Right now a Kingdom city requires (assuming you've researched Housing): Level 1 (10): 0 food Level 2 (25): 1 food (+1) Level 3 (100): 2 food (+1) Level 4 (400): 4 food (+2) Level 5 (1250: 11 food (+7) Adding a 1 food requirement to the level 1 city and not changing anything else would make the total food requirement for that city 12. My starting city will, at present, always have a f
[quote] Except it didn't work when I tried it [e digicons]:)[/e] . Medium map, four AI. The first three were on my west, south and east borders right from the get go. Seeing how treaties was the first tech I researched, I did as you suggested. I also put observers in all of my cities. The moment the treaties had expired, all three AI declared war on me. I was forced to wipe two of them out, and was working on the third when the game crashed big ti
So you know, fix one problem create another... Now I can't figure out why my turn will not end, and it turns out I have a caravan sitting in what appears to be the tile of another city, only it isn't apparantly legal for it to form a route, so it is just there. And since TAB doensn't find it, have to hunt and peck around map to find why turn isn't ending. There needs to be a difference in the game between caravans that have established routes and ones that have not.
load the save, you will immediately be attacked by "Princess of Capitar" who has a baby pic.
http://filebin.ca/drxqdt/debug.err Sov died in tac battle, game froze, crashed. Here's the last bit of the debug: MISS - Carrodus's counter-attack missed Black Widow. Debug Message: Annotation state is attack hit for unit 102 Black Widow Debug Message: Annotation state is true for unit 102 Debug Message: Annotation state is attack hit for unit 102 Black Widow Debug Message:&nb
I saw the AI build dragon roosts in 1.08 but never actually field dragons. Yet to be seen in 1.09. AI still treats 1 single observer (3/0) in every city you have in the early game (say, -100 turns) as you are stronger than they are. I realize AI overhaul is coming in 1.1, just saying. This is on "ridiculous". I've been trying to explore alternative strategies, as that is what I think will give Elemental the best "legs" (as in, the same reason I still play MoM 16 years later).
http://pastebin.ca/1953015 Had not noticed this before 1.09; win 7 64 bit user. New game, no mods, in-game custom sov and faction
Ah, so it is because I never before had more than just my Sovereign with the Royalty trait that I never noticed it was a percentage? Got it.
Just noticed I have a 200% bonus to prestige in my capital. Current prestige is 24. It should be 10 (palace 7 plus two royalty heroes). So that's another problem, even if the +200% bonus were correct it isn't calculating it correctly. All other cities are correct. Edit: on second look, all cities have +200% - I am guessing the two royalty heroes are somehow appying as a percentage instead of a straight bonus maybe?
Will do, thanks!
I've been holding off entering my code until I've actually read your book (which I haven't done yet because I'm so busy playing your game!) - is any of the content going to spoil the read?
I'm starting this thread to document how we, the players, are currently winning. Then Stardock can take note and adapt to make the game more challenging for everyone. [e digicons]}:)[/e] So far all of my victories are on "ridiculous" AI settings. I favor smaller maps, but I've won on large with the maximum number of opponents as well. Diplomatic Victory: This is actually pretty darn easy. I would rate it as easier than conquest victory because you don't have to bother
Temple of Essence is now one per faction instead of one per city. edit: also, hiring a Champion with Royalty does raise all your city's prestige as advertised. woot!
May want to add "made Temple of Essence one per faction instead of one per city", since it seems you did :)
I don't know how random it is, 9 times out of 10 Janusk looks like that in my games. But yes I have occasionally seen him look differently. Also if you shaved that Star Trek guy wouln't he kind of look like the jack-ass reporter from Die Hard? Maybe it's just me.
I would say for the most part all of your observations are correct and the spells are not working as intended. They will likely be fixed in version 1.1, when there will be a massive magic re-balancing. Or try them again after 1.09 comes out tonight or tomorrow. As a side note the way it works right now casting Confusion on an enemy pretty much makes your units invulnerable for three turns, so enjoy that while it lasts. Good luck hitting me mister -296 attack bone ogre! :) &nbs
Speaking of shorter animations, there has been an incredibly long delay after attacking/counterattacking with a unit on a horse or warg, does that get fixed also? Thank you for the update!
As someone who likes to play games and doesn't know squat about programming them, thank you very much. I mean good lord, I've sunk probably 60-100 hours into Elemental ALREADY, crashes and all. That's as much if not more gameplay than I get out of most titles, so it has definitely been worth the money. Anticipating how it will improve just makes it all the better. Even though my long history with Master of Magic predisposed me to this game, if it were total junk I wouldn't be playing it.
I thought of that, but this game was crashing every 3-5 turns by the end, so I restarted Elemental (and my computer even) many, many times, and the baby pics loaded each time. Or maybe I'm crazy, its all possible :)
Here is a save that had the baby pic problem: http://drop.io/hikmdk6/asset/ceresa-2-elesav However when I just loaded it the multiple Batrue's had portraits again. My only speculation is that having started a new game since that last save somehow altered it. Does the dynasty system keep information between games? I don't know, but I swear they had baby pics. I assume you have some magic way of finding them but in case
Let's just make sure we get Elemental 1 where we all want it to be before we start talking about Elemental 2 please :)
Vicious! :) Although if you think it through, 30 is not unreasonable for a 4th child if every parent's level-up went into essence. Also I've noticed the AI seems to pump Essence almost exclusively so it is from the AI's side of the family that I'm getting my large base on grandchildren; personally I tend to not raise base essence over 10 because of all the eventual temple bonuses.
The reports of 800+ mana are probably not BASE mana, but adjusted after buildings. Remember by the time these kids grow up some of these players have 30-50 Temples of Essence, so even 20 base mana can become 500. In the game I'm quoting at the start of this thread the highest base mana I think I saw was about 33. I'll post the save tonight when I get home from work, it has at least two wandering champions with baby pics (and they are both Batrue or whatever his name is, the guy that married m
[quote who="lord ebonstone" reply="8" id="2789100"] (This allows for real "specialization." I can dip into, say, Combat and Adventuring if I want to focus on Physical Heroes and basic-unit Armies. If I just want large, well-trained, mundane armies, I can dump everything into Combat. If I dump everything into Magic, my overworld spells are amped up -- faster rituals, faster mana, etc. Combat + Magic could give me stronger tactical spells.