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Reply to Assign traits in a level up choice? in FE Modding Elemental Forums

the only problem I see with this, is what happens if you have the legitimate air apprentice? Will it pop up as an option to take the whole set a second time?

Reply to Assign traits in a level up choice? in FE Modding Elemental Forums

Would it be possible to force these options like the various paths are forced at level 4? Or is that hard coded?

Reply to beefing up the Governor in FE Modding Elemental Forums

The essence bonus is indeed powerful. To answer the question of what happens if your governor leaves the city you've enchanted: You lose enchantments (I believed in order of newest to oldest). Same thing that happens if your scrying pool is destroyed. I've been considering changing the levels you acquire them at. I like them butch, because it only affects one city. I want the governor to have a meaningful contribution to combats, while he sits at home

beefing up the Governor in FE Modding Elemental Forums

The governor abilities revolve around stationing him in a city. However, there just aren't enough of them to justify that. These are the abilities I've been playing with so far. Feel free to chime in with anything you think would be a good addition to the list, or anything you think needs balancing. Master of Essence 1 : Increases essence production of the city the unit is stationed in by 1. (lv 5, rare 100) Master of Essence 2

Reply to [Suggestion] Champions should be able to change allegiance. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I"d like to see a cap on the number of champions, perhaps based on map size?

Reply to [Suggestion] Enchanting units in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I should clarify that by enchant, I mean create units with magical gear like flaming swords, or rings of strength.

Reply to [Balance] Heroes Getting Out of Hand in FE Beta Elemental Forums

it isn't levels. It's too easy to get gear. Buy it in a town, or go raid the random spawn unprotected huts. I'm going to continue to compare to mom, because it worked there. So here it is. In mom, you didn't get very good gear from anything you didn't have to fight for. your one lone hero couldn't solo a goodie hut that had more than mana crystals or gold. You had to build up troops fo

[Suggestion] Enchanting units in FE Beta Elemental Forums

New Skill "Enchanting" Common for administrators, Rare for casters. We should have a skill for administrators that allows the enchanting of units. Creating units with enchanted gear should require that an imbued hero with the appropriate skill be in that town. Administrators should be able to enchant units with any spell that any of your other channeling heroes have. So if you have a fire mage out there running around who has th

Playing offline in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

My job affords me an abundance of time where I can use my laptop, but unless we are posting near a Starbucks we have no Internet. Is there a way to play without a current network connection?

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Tactical Battles - Part 1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

arguing to make visible what an enemy can do: I'd like to see two things with this. 1st: I'd like to see the abilities my enemies most frequently use. This is a GREAT place to make espionage viable in a real way that only espionage could be. NO intel would only let you see how frequently the enemy uses the abilities he uses against you. Low levels of intel could allow you to see

Reply to Game Mechanics: The Ultimate Balancing Act in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The game is fun as is, but magic doesn't feel as epic as it should be in my opinion. I'd like to be able to put together powerful combinations. Like others have said: being able to get a flaming sword, or a sword of haste would be great. I think these things should only be craftable if a caster hero, or the sovereign is in the town that is producing them, with sufficient mana reserves to cast the spell. This will force you to chos

Reply to [3c][bug/interface] Unable to build any improvement after loading game in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

It happened to me as well after crashing to desktop after a battle.

Reply to Elemental: BETA 3 Change Log in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

casting the spell to enchant production or research on a second city seems to crash the game. Repeatable.

Reply to Elemental: BETA 3 Change Log in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

playing in windowed mode helped me a lot with the crashes.

Reply to Zooming: Better or Worse? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I still like the pewter figures on the zoomed out map. I think I'd prefer the figurines at a fixed size, once I've zoomed out too far to make out details of the actual characters.

Reply to Elemental Beta 3 Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nuemcy" reply="42" id="2666900"]well, after reading the first paragraphs of your "The Hiergamenon" upon getting home from work and I am questioning the quality of your thoughts on the back story. It really seems very very jumbled and not properly though out as yet... hopefully still beta too?? I re-wrote paragraph II to possibly spark a better look at your story writing? I am no professional author and don't account this to be any better than what you have already, but,

Reply to Elemental Beta 2-B Change log in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I thought about this a bit at work since my last post. I am now firmly of the belief that the initial essence cost of spells is a sufficient mechanism for restricting the number of enchantments. Plus it gives you the option of sacrificing other areas of growth (like making fertile land, your sovereigns mana pool, or imbuing a hero) if you want to throw more of them around. I don't think an extra mechanism to artificially restrict the overland spell casting i

Reply to Elemental Beta 2-B Change log in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

at work so haven't had time to sort through the comments, my apologies if my thoughts have already been shared by someone else. I like the idea of powerful overland spells have a maintenance cost of some sort. Also it would be neat to have a skill, or ability, or something that determines how many global spells you can maintain. But, wasn't this the point of essence?

Reply to Elemental Beta 2: Player Input #1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

the ongoing consensus that city building is currently monotonous is exactly what I was pointing out in my post a while back. But I suppose it was likely too lengthy :P The bottom line is IMHO: do away with constructing any buildings that you are going to be building in every single city. Make the player only build structures which are in some debate as t owhat you would actually do. For example, the farms and houses. Everyone is going to build them

Reply to Elemental Beta 2: Player Input #1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="96" id="2651155"] Quoting the Gorgon, reply 94 Mounts: - Wolves (a must) - Dire wolves (even more of a must ) - Ranyhyn (blessed horses): like horses but faster and stronger and overall much better - Lizards - Camels (needed for desert travel without penalties) - Nightmares (hell horses, only usable by empires) - Sea monster: can be used as

Reply to Elemental Beta 2: Player Input #1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

City building seems to be the topic of the day here, I thought I'd add my two bits and expand upon some of the other ideas here. I too am concerned about cities becoming carbon copies, requiring repeated, micro management to be effective. MOO3 went with the option of leaving the redundancy in, but allocating it to a governor as you saw fit. We all remember just how well that went over. It became a game of "write your own AI." I like the idea of varying the cit

Reply to Message from Elemental AI: I’ll see you in court in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

sounds like you have created a very smart UI. Not everyone realizes that frivolous lawsuits are often incredibly profitable, and detrimental to your opponent. Next thing you know it will be applying for welfare. Perhaps it's time to add to the xml UI file?

Reply to Tactical Combat discussion continuation in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I actually like the morale penalty idea. However, I think it needs to have something to offset it. I believe that is power of the army. In the past, games have said "your army is worth 100 pts, their army is worth 3000 pts. you have bad morale." I don't think this is a good system other than the first time or two that unit goes out. After that, It should be based off the point value of the size of armies your army has killed. &

Reply to [1Z5][SUGGESTION] heroes are too bland in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I don't see any harm in including them in the game, and have a check box at game creation to enable/disable champions. I like the idea, I always enjoyed in MoM how a hero could be unbelievably powerful, but a single unfortunate roll vs a cracks call would bring him to an unfortunate end... requiring you to dedicate extensive resources to resurrecting him.... if you had the spell. Placing all your eggs in one basket has always been risky. I don't think the engine should preve

Reply to Elemental: Christmas time Status Report in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

(that would be a resounding yes) when the big man in charge has programming AI's as (one of?) his first love(s?), it is a fair bet that they will continue to be updated as long as he remains in that chair.