RemingtonRyder

Reply to Brilliant Game but is Pioneer Cost a Dark Direction? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Actually I tend to find that Silver Tongue is very strong for much of the game if your sov also has the trait that gives extra spell mastery per level. For example, you lack crystal to make mage units, you find an enemy army with a mage unit in it, confess them with your Kahlan sovereign and kill the rest. I mean we're talking as low as 3% chance to resist in some cases. Sure, you only get to use the ability once per fight, but if your army has four moves and you can a

Reply to Let's talk about crafting... in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Rubber bands and paperclips work great as crafting components.

Reply to [1.20] Game Stuck After Pressing End Turn in FE Support Elemental Forums

I think (though I can't confirm it yet) that there's a bug with the autosave. Think about it - autosave happens when you hit end turn, not when your turn starts, right? And the problems start when turn processing begins, starting with the save if it's needed. I disabled autosave, mashed the turn button and didn't get a hang. It's not much of a test. Still have to see how things work when the game's been running a few hours and I've a

Reply to Brilliant Game but is Pioneer Cost a Dark Direction? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I think maybe the population cost needs to vary according to game length (you can choose a slower rate of technology at setup) because playing on Epic the cost is enough to slow down growth but it doesn't really hamper expansion because it's already limited by the slow rate of progress - you can't make decent troops without the right technologies. On a Normal speed game I could see how population would become the new energon. :P

Reply to GC2 Twilight of the Arnor Mod Validation program. in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="MabusAltarn" reply="5" id="3314350"] Which XML Editor do you use?[/quote] I use Komodo Edit. Although I'm fairly sure I used Notepad for editing TechTree.xml in the past and not that, otherwise I would have noticed the problem earlier.

Reply to Access to the shipyard in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Ship styles are made up from template ships. Yes, you can create and alter them outside the game like any data file, but changes will only take effect when you start a new game. You can make new ship templates in the ship designer in-game, it will allow you access to all hull sizes. When you have enough sjip templates to create your ship style, select your race as an opponent during game setup, and customise them. You should see a button to customise/crea

Reply to [1.20] Game Stuck After Pressing End Turn in FE Support Elemental Forums

Well, I've been playing today with no repeat of the issue. What I did was take out the Ecomental mod files and transfer the settings and stuff to a fresh copy of those files from FE 1.20. Unfortunately as I've now discovered, this is not the cause. It must be something else. :P

Reply to GC2 Twilight of the Arnor Mod Validation program. in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

All I get is an error loading the TechTree.XML file. Nothing more specific than that. Oh wait. There's an invalid token warning when I load up the file using my XML editor. Figured out it was a punctuation mark causing it. Moving on. :) Looks good. Now I just have to move a whole bunch of things to the main techtree. I haven't done it up until now because the supplied editors won't load descriptions from a mod folder TechTree.xml

Reply to Brilliant Game but is Pioneer Cost a Dark Direction? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Even with the pioneers costing population, you have to remember that there's usually quite a bit of time where you're bumping against the food cap and you're unable to level a city up. In fact, if you were basically waiting on research and production of improved food supply, you could juggle pioneers while you're waiting - queue them up, then rotate them so none actually get finished, then cancel them all when you raise your food cap. Woosh, city level up.

Reply to FE 1.20 AI feedback in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

With regards to the road building, I'm not wild about the look when you have a single road piece alongside a longer road. I'd love to see a 'dirt track' style of road used for those little side roads, which I tend to use so that I can move units to guard a resource without using up all their movement. The AI has been quite a bit better with regards to expanding. On a Epic Challenging 1v1 Large game recently I had just four cities by the time I met my oppone

Reply to AAR fiction authors invited to reflect on their Experience in Elemental Fiction Elemental Forums

If you're looking for inspiration I suggest reading the Sword of Truth series. It might give you some ideas to make writing the AAR more interesting for you and your readers. Less is more. I tried to write a GalCiv II AAR by just grabbing lots of screenies but it quickly got very time-consuming. I find Twitter to be a quicker way of roughing an in-action report, and you might find it easier to get people to read it there.

Reply to Ecomental - Map Mod in FE Modding Elemental Forums

This looks like it might need a bit of adjustment for 1.20 as the data files have changed. Or it might not.

Reply to [1.20] Game Stuck After Pressing End Turn in FE Support Elemental Forums

Actually I do get an application hang which means hitting Enter or Esc doesn't do anything except vent my frustration. Looking at my last debug.err it seems to happen right after a successful autosave. Or I could be reading too much into that.

Reply to Brilliant Game but is Pioneer Cost a Dark Direction? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Personally, I find it's a bit refreshing. Instead of pumping out pioneers from just any old city, you're going to want to designate one or two for doing that and let the others focus on growth to the next level. This is not a bad long-term strategy when you consider the outrageous bonuses you can rack up. Scrying Pool if you're playing Enchanters? +1 Essence please. Oracle? +1 Essence please. Then you get to cast two more enchantments

[1.20] Suggestion: Sidebar toggle shows cities needing build orders only in FE Support Elemental Forums

As per the title. To make things simpler, it would be nice if there was a toggle filter to show just those cities that are idling and need orders in the sidebar. Or if you could customise which cities to show on the sidebar.

Reply to Dealing with publishers is a lot like being in a prison shower in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

You know, what I like about Stardock self-publishing is that when I buy their games, most of what I pay goes to them, which means (potentially) more games that I will like in the future.

Reply to Thinking of Ditching GalCivII in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah I would say that in the early stage of the game, avoiding anything that costs maintenance is key. You already get another 8bc added to your maintenance bill with each extra colony so, don't go nuts. It doesn't matter if you fall behind in tech. Well it does matter, but not as much as hitting your population caps relatively soon so that you can maximise tax income when you need it most. Population growth or morale boosts will win the game as surely as big

Reply to Internet Hate in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I sort of knew that DA2 wouldn't be worth shelling out for. I noticed soon after release it was being bundled with another game or some sort of deal/discount. That sort of thing does tend to set off the alarm bells. It's kinda sad that when things go wrong with a game's development the first instinct is sometimes to cover it up and deny any wrongdoing. That just makes it impossible to ever come clean about anything without casting doubt on your previous e

Reply to [1.20] Game Stuck After Pressing End Turn in FE Support Elemental Forums

The thing is though, it must be some sort of a random behaviour that's causing it, because when I load the autosave it doesn't immediately hang a few turns later.

Reply to [1.20] Game Stuck After Pressing End Turn in FE Support Elemental Forums

I've seen this as well. Twice today actually.

Reply to I am questioning some design choices in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I think there should be an ability that allows you to capture and imprison heroes if you have a prison, then ransom them back. If you or the AI don't feel like paying to get your hero back, then you can find the prison and take the city by force. ;)

Reply to MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod v6B (updated 31/08/2014) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Yup. The initial colony's research output means that when the AI does a colony rush, it ends up shelling out quite a bit of cash on funding research that it can't afford to at that early stage of the game. To compensate, it drags its production slider some or all the way over to the left, essentially slowing down or halting all industrial activity, or it raises taxes which hurts early population growth. This is also why I have tried to tailor the early stage of t

Reply to Still no modding sanity, right? (and a question to Stardock) in FE Modding Elemental Forums

To be honest I'm not sure if you can get more bugs fixed in a shorter space of time just by applying sheer manpower. If you think about it, a lot of updates for GalCiv 2 also updated the vanilla game as well as the expansions. There's good reason for most of the team to forge ahead and cover new ground, it means that they're not held back by having to make all of their changes available to the base game right away.

Reply to JJ Abrams Set To Direct Star Wars Episode VII...Nerds Crash Internet...Confirmed. in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

Well at least we're guaranteed an epic space battle.

Reply to Did 1.2 add new music? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Could just be that the music picker has been upgraded to not play the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.