Couldn't research Caravans after 3C (.92) came down.Still in the Civ tree right? Units with Moves left after Attacking, should be able to Move. They have been granted Moves via leveling for a reason. Kiting is a MP issue, not SP versus the AI. Don't like it at all. Pace is better. Made me think, "Oh right! This is a Turn based game, What is the hurry..." ;)
What if the Cost of Maintenance per City was based simply on total Prestige points in use? Currently, Prestige is a Cities growth element. The more Prestige, the faster the Pop grows. Pop. = Level. Level determines Tech based buildings allowed. So, if I want low maintenance fees on 1,2,3 or more Cities, the only way to keep costs low is to slow the growth element
Refugee Camps (Basic & L1 Quests) --> Camps (L2 - L4 Quests) --> Inns (L5+ Quests) as a combination of Turns since taking ownership and progression inside of the Adventuring Tech Tree. (level is used as a term for purposes of separation based on Difficulty and or Rewards gained) It would seem strange to have a refugee camp be "consumed" but never become anyth
Also noted this behavior. I suspect a Bug/Glitch. I have just been sending them to a random City as there is no way to know where they originally came from.
Was having issues opening EoW. Seems Impulse was trying to get an update and failing. It resolved itself (EoW) anyways but now I have had a strange twist. Crashed -Bad Zip below. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8370296/Elemental0_806-2010-07-14T11-24-47-870.zip <span style="font
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="17" id="2680182"]How is changing "city spam" to "village spam" a viable solution to.. spam? Besides, Frogboy already outlined the solution: resources play a much bigger role (meaning, your cities don't magically make stuff out of thin air), and in return you can claim resources in your own territory. No spam needed.[/quote] That just means one would want more territories quicker to avail one self of those resour
[quote]"is that disabled in this beta?"[/quote] Yes. It hopes to return in 3B.
Yup. Had it happen to me so I reloaded and just never went near that yellow icon again. :)
[quote]"I could care less about balance."[/quote] In some instances, like the one mentioned, among mates, it is fine, but the reality is MP will involve those who are strangers, those who expect the MP game to be "Fair" and want "their" game to be the deciding factor, not the RMG's game. I must say I do like the idea of letting the Players have a GO in MP and then see
What has to be managed carefully though, is if you add maintenance costs per city "owned", how do you reward a player for taking and keeping "captured" cities vs forcing them to have to Raze every one he/she takes over or risk tanking their Economy? Will captured Cities be dinged for maint. costs as well? It was that way once but I don't seem to notice it as much in 3
The point Brad made is that come launch day, for MP play at least, there has to be an even playing field. I agree 100%. If Random Maps is your thing, and you don't mind starting with the enemy, all 4 of them possibly, starting in your immediate neighborhood, then cool beans. As long as you can handle the shit load of "dropping" players, that will result, if you aren't
And I thought the Bears name was Cal, but that may Vary.. . [e digicons]:X[/e]
[quote who="Raven X" reply="79" id="2679983"] Quoting John_Hughes, reply 78Well I could see where watching 5,000 guys doing the current death animation, all at once, would be hell on the morale of the other 5,000 guys... LOL! P.S. At .2 Gildar per head for maintenance, a 10K man army would cost 2K Gildar per turn. Good luck with that. <span style="fo
[quote who="Mandelik" reply="68" id="2679947"] Quoting John_Hughes, reply 26N.B. Please have it so the conquered Resources put up a Warning Pop up. On a more general note, yes, we need more warning pop-ups. (I love the new pop-up when your city levels up and you can choose a special bonus ) An exemple of this need&nbs
Well I could see where watching 5,000 guys doing the current death animation, all at once, would be hell on the morale of the other 5,000 guys... LOL! P.S. At .2 Gildar per head for maintenance, a 10K man army would cost 2K Gildar per turn. Good luck with that. [e digicons]:typo:[/e] 3B lurks... twitch twitch [e digicons];P[/e] [e d
I am of the firm firm belief that Brad and Company are keeping some things to themselves for a reason. Many folks join a Beta in the hopes that they will get a look at the Final product before the Final product become Final. Well that is BS and I actually have come to appreciate the fact we get bits and bytes of the Full deal so as to allow even those who have been tortured from Beta 1.0 through the current 3A to h
[quote who="Recnelis2" reply="7" id="2679719"]Yes but now take into account the fact that you are losing casters due to loss from wars with other factions. Now how plentiful is essence?[/quote] And I have to ask. What does that have to do with Essence? Keep your Casters safe, they have RANGED attacks for a reason. You have Champions and Hero's to do the grunt wo
At this point I think just waiting for a non-fluctuating version will be best. :) Every load now is different but makes defining issues, other than Memory leaks and crashes more than difficult. Adventuring Techs now pop up locations like Magic Mushrooms. Trying to clear them is a Joke as is trying to keep up with the Level Up messages for the Monster. Let us see the Mod Tools for a week and lock it. Then perhaps we can help Balance and polish. But you have to decide at
Beta 3A even has new Pop ups noting that SD is aware of Critters with huge HP's and the like. Balancing those types of #'s is morning coffee time type work. Not that everyone will agree what "balance" is anyways. Without a true Enemy (AI) to piss you off, become your Ally, suck your toes, how in the Hell can you have Immersion and Depth? Let's assume the game will ship with an AI. ;) <span sty
Full Window Mode is very poor. Crashes in +/- 25 turns, if that. In Windowed mode, better, 400-500, slows as you go turns, then BAM! Memory out. I did read that they have found a Major Memory Leak and a code bit/byte that was totally out of whack. checks with N^2 or some such nonsense. One last update before lock down should correct those. ;) <span sty
And given that some current quests provide a list of bonuses to pick from, and the Fallen already have sacrificial (100 peasants must die) items/magic/stuff already, it would seem the code to do something like this is, pretty much anyways, already available ... "Bow you cretents, or be smote down before your deity Alliwishish"!<
[quote]"I'd like to see castles/fortresses act like specialized cities. That is, when you build a CASTLE, it is made in the same way as a city, but has its own set of buildings, such as towers, ballitae, murderholes, etc."[/quote] Probably a tad late in the Dev cycle for all that, but it seems quite doable to allow at least Watch Towers. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]
@Star Adder If Zargon is trying to be helpful, then you certainly are not. A cable can have one pin go bad, not prevent connection to be maintained, but directly impact packet transmission integrity. The affect seemed to be to software, not hardware (his rig). In an effort to be helpful myself, I suggest, going into your
[quote who="shimwooley" reply="46" id="2678831"]I am very poor and have a NVIDIA 6600GT video card. I wondered if the final release will work decent with this Card, because the Beta 3A doesn't work very well ?[/quote] That is a tall order indeed. The 6600GT was intro'd in 2005 with 128MB ram. While I did enjoy mi
Although I sort of agree, it is very much a Catch 22 scenario. At some point you will want it to stay where you set it, so either way, you will be forced to either reset it yourself, or always have to reset it from the default 1 and 1. Unless of course the Dev were to put a small "remember current" check box in the box too. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]