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Balance Issue- Storehouses only provide 5 food per grain, why build them? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

The granary change is good, but it looks like you forgot the storehouse change. Storehouses should be bumped to +50 grain instead of +40. Otherwise no reason to build.

Reply to Civ V - Brave New World Announced! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

They need to improve the AI. Also, you can really see how Stardock's threaded coding helps a game run better. FE can run smoothly on my old laptop, Civ V really churns. Too late for them to put that in though.

Reply to How to make wildlands worth opening in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Wildlands benefits should be much stronger. Defeating a wildland guardian should pretty much win you the game, even if you are last in the power ranking. That should have been the alternate method of victory.

Reply to Locking You Up For Unlocking Your Phone? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

What Obama should do- say he will auto-pardon anyone convicted of this, and refuse to enforce this law.

Reply to How to make wildlands worth opening in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I like this idea. Probably too late for the Elemental series though.

The Eight Main factions, and two deleted factions- suggestions after FE. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I don't know what you have planned for LH, but I am going to list all 10 factions, what I'd change, as a rough idea. Altar: I don't play them all that much, the whole henchmen thing turns me off, they just scream OP. Henchmen: I'd make them a spawn, with a cap of the number of 5th lvl heroes you have. You get one, they perma-die, but a new lvl 1 henchmen gets spawned a short time after, random chance each turn

Reply to Army Won't Defend in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

It's a bug. I've had it happen to me as well.

Reply to [1.3.2 BUG] Brad, will you please schedule 4 hours on your calendar next Tuesday to write AI code that performs immunity checks before attacking? in FE Support Elemental Forums

This is a pretty major AI issue, though I could see "stupid" monsters trying it.

Reply to Does PC Gaming have a future? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="ZippyIp" reply="36" id="3328991"] Quoting Campaigner, reply 34 How can you have poweroutages? I mean, the US is a 1st world country and shouldn't have poweroutages. Call the landlord or an electrician WiFi problems? New computer or repair it. Yeah I know I sound like Captain Obvious but I really am surprised over the crappy internet you have in the states and the power outages. So please explain. I&#

Reply to I'm not playing again until the AI players have to wait to raze cities. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Illauna" reply="29" id="3329139"] This is the limitation of today's computers and likely wont change. We are using a giant calculator to play a game. Without random factors and die rolls if the AI where designed to choose the correct action every single time it would be completely predictable and no fun. Also players are able to come up with new strategies through trial and error. The AI without random elements will always do one thing which is whatever the best log

Reply to Why cant we retreat in tactical combat? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

The cruel and pacifist traits should give a benefit and a malus. Attackers should be able to retreat at any time, at a fame cost, and retreat should never be allowed when militia is out (the city is under siege) You'd need retreat added to quick battle, which is why I think this is unfeasible without some higher-end design decisions, maybe in the next expansion since we know we're getting it now. (Brad blurted it out this weekend)</p

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 1.4 Changelog in FE Support Elemental Forums

https://forums.elementalgame.com/440703 Please add this fix in. Should be a fairly simple fix.

Reply to LH Beta This Week? How Will This Go Down? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I hear that, I'm about to join you on the unemployment line soon thanks to sequestration. Hopefully the GI Bill isn't slashed out so I can go to grad school at least. We'll probably get 1.4 this week I think, and FE next week.

Reply to Legendary Heroes - Pre-Beta video in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="ben_sphynx" reply="32" id="3329378"] Frogboy, you appear to be truly terrible at this game. You seem to be able to eek out any tactical disadvantage available in the combat, eg skipping turns for units that can attack (ophidian, one of your heroes with a ranged staff), while not leaving them somewhere out of range of being attacked back. Or casting curse on wolves that have no defense. If that actually does something useful, I have no idea what it is.

Reply to AI don't spend money then hire heroes in FE Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="3329013"] Quoting Mistwraithe, reply 5 Whereas the FE AI on many occasions breaks rules and does things that the player can't do. Add to this that the FE AI also does a poor job of leveling heroes and fighting wars and you get a game which has increasingly frustrated me to the point where I don't play it any more. Then don't. I can tell you right now, I won't be writing another line of AI code for FE. &n

Reply to I'm not playing again until the AI players have to wait to raze cities. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="14" id="3328883"] Well anything else is going to take a lot of work. So if Im going to do that I'd want something better tha the 5 turn thibe.[/quote] suggestion: How about you decide to raze at any time, but razing immobilizes your army for a period of time, based on a factor of number of units in army/city level * number of improvements in city. Catapults allow for 1 turn insta-raz

Reply to Legendary Heroes - Pre-Beta video in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

1) Please go that Civ 5 route and force you to do something. (around 16.5 min mark) 2) Do monuments no longer expand ZoC of cities? Was getting mad you didn't use that. (31 min) 3) I really want to see a race that is vuln fire resist cold. ( a retooled urxen)

Reply to I'm not playing again until the AI players have to wait to raze cities. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I won't go that far, but this is what I categorize as a major bug, and something that means a game can't be considered finished while it still exists.

Reply to What to do about Internet trolls? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

It's worse in the US, where said ranting is considered acceptable, especially in the South.

Reply to Does the AI Cheat re: Champions? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

If there is a cheat- it's probably either they don't suffer xp penalties from stacking champs (has this been tested?) or related to the fact that quests for the AI are a diceroll instead of actually doing the quest. (I'd like to see this changed- never liked humans/AIs playing under different rules)

Reply to The Wealth Inequality thread in Economics Elemental Forums

The real issue is that education, housing, and insurance are massively overpriced (maybe not insurance, but the first two definitely) The issue with housing is largely due to tax gamification The issue with education is that the value of it has gone down heavily, while costs have skyrocketed. Market forces would fix it if it wasn't for student loans being undischargable in bankruptcy + overseas education having more subsidy.

Reply to Dear Stardock, Will I Finally Get Modding Sanity With LH? Regards, MQPiffle. in FE Modding Elemental Forums

Makes me wonder how the Stardock folks get it done, since they're using the same tools I believe. Hopefully this gets straightened out by the next game, I think it's too late for the Elemental series, especially when they've had so many bugs to work out over the years in the base game, and still do have some issues.

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="myfist0" reply="55" id="3328508"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 54What do you all think, too little too late? Haha, read the comments on that link, people are severely pissed off. They want the constant online gone but that will never happen as this is the direction of all new games. [/quote] All new games where the consumer will accept being ripped off. Only companies like EA and Ubi could get away with this with estab

Reply to The Wealth Inequality thread in Economics Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="58" id="3327955"] [/quote] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 53 Well, what other modern nations in the world have a high minimum wage and high taxes for the top earners? What is their economy like? Level of unemployment? Are the people in those nations suffering? Their standard of livings are far below that of the United States. But they have less wealth inequality. If getting rid of wealth inequality is t

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="31" id="3328151"] Frogboy said in a recent post that network code specialists are sparse and they are looking to recruit so they can do FE in co-op. But apparently there are not many network code specialists around at the moment (or willing to move to Michigan ).[/quote] One idea- unsure if it would help, but look at GGPO. I wonder if that could be translated from fighting games to other genres. It would be cheap net