20:13 <Kadrium> Cari_Elf, where's my beta?

20:28 <Cari_Elf> in QA

So anything is still possible.

In the past they have had 8-9pm releases so I wouldn't give up yet.

Thanks for the update!

Really? It isn't showing up as available on impulse for me yet...?

Correction:  It see it now ! !

hmm update fails...

fixed (fW error)

Hmmm...some of these I'm happy about but one I have a problem with is the combination of Tech cost increases with Study cost increases. As it stands right now (v1.2) you should build 3 to 4 times more Studies than Labratories to even keep techs somewhat competitive. This might put more emphasis on magic (which is, to be honest, not all that great at buffing your troops to begin with) which means you'd need more mana producers or your army will quickly fall behind the enemy quickly.

A few things I'm surprised were not addressed are things that quickly distract and crowd the main screen out:

1) the list of units and settlements on the left side taps out at 10 with no visible scroll option. After 10 units/settlements these notifications are a distraction and reduce the visible map

2) the 'incomes' at the top can slide under the "date" bar at the top of the screen. i've had an empire with people, gold, diplomatic capital, materials, food, mana, crystals, horses, wargs (I took over an Empire's territory) Elementium, metal, and a BUNCH of elemental shrines. I had NO idea how many people or money I had in my kingdom until I went to a shop (for the money) or tried to build something in a settlement and found no options because everyone had a job.

3) some crash issues regarding the tech tree - for instance when playing Kingdom and researching 'Housing' to get "Villas" the game freezes up regardless of game being played (three times on three different games so far), forcing me to CTRL+ALT+DEL to close the game, reload and choose a different tech result.

I appreciate the game and think it has LOTS of potential. I hope that these (and other suggested updates) don't fall by the wayside with FE in development.

No, they decided to call the first 1.3 beta 1.2b, rather than 1.29.

Best regards,
Steven.

No, they were originally going to call the first "1.3 beta" version 1.29, but they changed their mind and called it 1.2b instead.  I'll see if I can get Frogboy to update the name of this thread to eliminate confusion.

Best regards,
Steven.

Indeed, though the argument (in lore temrs) could be made that as a population grows into the thousands, and you already have studies (schools) built, more and more educated / skilled people are available compared to when you first began with a settlement of 50 people.

I was looking into it more, and I think there's just something broken. I don't think it should ever reach the point where a single building requires over 200 population to man.

1.2b Thoughts:

1) Game seems A LOT more stable.

2) I also agree (as others have stated) that the citizens requirements for new buildings are too much.  I'll conquer a city and then have to wait 50+ turns before I can build anything else because I am at negative 300 citizens.

3) Unless this has been addressed some other way, please allow us to either group heroes into an army that's treated as one in the city menu or have a "un-station all" button.  I tend to create armies of heroes and it's super-tedious to click and un-station ALL my heroes after conquering a city. 

4) Tech is too expensive.  Magic costs (arcane points) feel right.  Accumulation of mana feels right. 

5) Animations (over-world map and in battle) feel faster, in a good way.  Battle animations could even be a tad faster.

6) I miss the animated citizens in the cities!