I too think I've seen higher damage than my int on occasion (not sure), but the statistics are not right at all, of that I have become quite convinced. Unless each shard is supposed to only give a hard-to-measure increase (5-10% or something) I don't think my experiences can be written off as bad luck on my part.
After a few attempts at fixing this by modding the xml files I've discovered this. It seems like the relevant lines in the CoreSpells_xxx_tactical.xml files are lines like these (here from fire dart): Unit DefendableDamage <![CDATA[[Unit
Brad has mentioned it numerous times. Quick search found this post for instance.
Yes, but my test was conducted agains critters with 0 defense. If the maximum damage is supposed to be doubled by controlling a shard, then the average damage would also be doubled. It was not. It simply seems to me that shards are not having any effect, at least that's the case for inferno, lightning bolt and chain lightning (I think those were the lightning names), which are the spells I've checked.
I noticed that I was not doing as much damage with my magic as I was supposed to, so I did a quick test. It's pretty simple, I attacked a group of 3 spiders (each had 0 defense) using the fire spell Infernal. I did this both before and after constructing on a fire shard, and I did it several times (more than 10 damage rolls) to get decent statistics. My sovereign had 15 intelligence. The results were: Without shard: Average damage = 8.6 With one fire shard: Average damage = 7.
Hello. So I am enjoying the game, but since I find that I have to crank the difficulty setting up to hard or extreme before the AI really puts up a fight, I'd like to know precisely what kind of bonuses the AI gets at the higher settings. Usually in Stardock games it seems like normal difficulty corresponds to everything being equal between AI and human. Initially I assumed it was a simple economic boost, and perhaps a research boost and stuff like that. But recently I encountered som
Alot of good points there, good post. It presents a good list where most of my little annoyances are also covered. I do have faith though that with all the love Elemental will be getting these things will be taken care of.
Alt-tabbing working properly is a pretty big issue. I usually have the particular game I'm playing minimized through the entire day without ever restarting it between gaming sessions. Sometimes I even have more than one game open at a time. Not being able to alt-tab is a major inconvenience, unless the game starts up in like a second or two (and loads a game similarly fast).