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[1.7] [AI Bug] AI attempts to cast "Spell Interrupt" on non-spellcasters when a player caster is casting a multi-turn spell in tactical combat in LH Support Elemental Forums

I was facing a large group of Wildings including 3 shaman with my sovereign in an army of 6 units. I decided to cast Blizzard to try and do large damage over a wide area. Each of the wilding shaman cast "Disrupt Spell" on seemingly random units (none targetted my Sovereign actually casting the spell).

[1.7] Bug? Rivers no longer stop movement at all in LH Support Elemental Forums

I haven't played for awhile, so apologies if this was recently changed in a patch that I missed. Rivers no longer seem to stop movement at all as they once did, or inhibit movement in any way beyond a normal 1 movement point cost (which makes them a faster way to get through forests or hilly areas, actually).

Reply to The game industry’s problem with misogyny in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] The Internet is toxic, but its toxicity is usually equal opportunity One of the more annoying trends in our society has been the substitution of action with rhetoric. This has really taken off in the age of Twitter where people think hashtags are a replacement for actually doing something.[/quote] It isn't really new. Its long been prevalent in political and corporate slogans, from the founding fath

Reply to Not acceptable and not much you can do about it. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

There are many sides to this. I am very leery, in fact with some aspects that have made it out in public, outright disdainful of U.S. agencies utterly regarding the people of the United States to essentially be enemies and regarded as such in terms of taking way too many liberties in spying. However, in regards to drones, the determination of right versus wrong isn't so clearcut. Pull back a bit from the question of "is it right or wrong

Reply to [1.7 Bug] Sovereign + familiar mixups in tactical combat (poss. related to old tactical tooltip cooldown timer text not updating) in LH Support Elemental Forums

Update: Further testing indicates its the very old tactical tooltip not updating bug. Persisting through several rounds, my Sovereign with the MoO unit enchantment and the mana pool just below the non-MoO mana cost for the spell, had indicated the non-MoO tactical spell mana cost in the tooltip (and not enough mana as the reason it couldn't be cast) as the reason the spell was disabled, but after the actual cooldown it allowed the spell to be cast at the MoO m

[1.7 Bug] Sovereign + familiar mixups in tactical combat (poss. related to old tactical tooltip cooldown timer text not updating) in LH Support Elemental Forums

I have been playing a Beastlord Sovereign with a Familiar to help Tame beasts faster, but have noticed what may either be a new bug I hadn't previously noticed, or an extension of a still persistent very old bug I recall having reported way back in FE beta days. Since a Familiar isn't considered a champion, I can't cast unit enchantments on it like "Mantle of Oceans" which greatly reduces the cost of tactical spells (including Tame) ... while my Familiar can cast every spe

Reply to [1.7 Bugs] in LH Support Elemental Forums

Might I request the thread title get changed (can't remember if the original poster can modify topic) to summarize the two bugs being reported, in this case perhaps something like "[1.7] Two units occupying 1 tactical tile + Hailstone Staff rebalance" ... ideally post them separately, but please at least include a brief synopsis in the thread title so those of us finding a bug can quickly look down the list of threads in LH Support to see whether the bug we want to report has recently alr

Reply to Happy KABLOOEY day in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="18" id="3468970"] Things with Yellowstone could dramatically change in a very short while. It may not appear that it could go off any time soon, but that doesn't mean to say it can't... or won't. Sure, the science of vulcanology has come a long way in recent times, but prediticting when a volcano will erupt... or not, is still too inaccurate to place all one's eggs in the one basket. It may well be that Yellowston

Reply to Happy KABLOOEY day in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="15" id="3467430"] Better hope it don't. Think nuclear winter without the nuclear.[/quote] Actual nuclear winter is more likely in our lifetime than a Yellowstone super-eruption. Nature throws us plenty of challenges, but we humans prove our machismo by outdoing nature at trying to exterminate ourselves.

Reply to Happy KABLOOEY day in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="14" id="3467426"] Good old Yellowstone - that's due for a pop sometime soon [/quote] If by 'soon,' you mean several hundred times longer than all of human-recorded history thus far. Yellowstone isn't close to 'due,' its well below its average span between mega-eruptions since its last eruption, though spans between super-eruptions vary greatly in duration and certainly there have been previous spans of

Reply to Happy KABLOOEY day in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="9" id="3467219"] Reduced 96%Original 320 x 456 This is a map of mudflows from a normal type eruption. Enough to endanger a couple hundred thousand people. A large lateral blast (like St Helens) to the NNW would reach Seattle.[/quote] Seattle is about as far from Mount Rainier as Mt. Rainier is from Mount St. Helens, about twice as far as the kill zone from the St. Helens blast (referring to th

Reply to The Snathi spread terror in another galaxy :) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="EleventhStar" reply="7" id="3466408"] http://store.steampowered.com/app/204880/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/228260/ and that post from frogboy about dlc and expansion pricing. i THINK 5 dollar/euro [/quote] Not for Elite founders. :P We get all expansions and DLC included! :)

Reply to Happy KABLOOEY day in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Ummm, Rainier is central Washington. It wouldn't affect anyone in Canada any more than St. Helens did. In point of fact, its only 50 miles north-northeast of St. Helens. And larger doesn't necessarily mean more destructive ... Rainier is an older peak, so something could be said for it having matured to build a cone of its size. St. Helens was actually not that much shorter than Rainier before she blew. The Juan de Fuca plate is sliding under the North

Reply to Happy KABLOOEY day in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="4" id="3467174"] As long as the subduction zones along the pacific and north american plates remains active so will the cascades. Just look at the number of volcanoes along that area and you will see another will blow like St Helens, maybe even bigger. The process of eruption and rebuild is a constant one, albeit over a long period for human recollection. [/quote] They are slowly drifting. Some cones putter out, as the North Siste

Reply to Are bandwidth caps returning to Comcast? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Google for "comcast throttling" and you'll see a lot of reports, some by adept researchers, showing they do, indeed, throttle, especially video streaming. It irks me they sell "20 megabits" but when I watch video from a streaming site, my total throughput will drop below 200 -kilobits-.

Reply to Happy KABLOOEY day in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="2" id="3467130"] Mount St. Helens had its final cataclysmic eruption It had one, but who's to say it was the final one. [/quote] It actually had several over a month or so leading up to 'the big one.' It also had smaller eruptions that persisted several years after the big blast. It is likely the largest the volcano had incurred since forming its cone, given the massive loss of its cone it incurred. It is not kno

Reply to Far Cry 4 Confirmed for Fall Release in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

When you wield a semiautomatic gun and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, you have nothing to fear by wearing pink. :P

Happy KABLOOEY day in Everything Else Elemental Forums

For those of you old enough to remember, where were you 34 years ago when Mount St. Helens had its final cataclysmic eruption after a couple months of unrest? I was only 4 years old at the time, but I remember seeing the plume from our backyard in Tacoma, 68 miles north of the volcano (as the crow flies).

Reply to Are bandwidth caps returning to Comcast? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Comcast already throttles, especially if you use P2P even for legal purposes, or any video streaming service (Youtube, Hulu, Netflix, etc.)

Reply to Spaceport strangeness in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I seem to recall the same issue with GC2, having constructors pile up at a starbase when no new modules are available and having to move them a tile away and then back when I researched tech enabling new modules

Reply to galciv3 alpha patch v2 in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="1" id="3459166"] It was also like that in GalCiv 2, and honestly I like it that way. Even if it does not necessarily make sense. Also, if it did not work like this, taking a wormhole to the other side of the galaxy could have game breaking consequences. [/quote] Actually, not entirely ... in GalCiv2, survey ships would not travel to anomalies outside their range.

Reply to rename malevolent? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

"Social Darwinism" is an obscene abuse of a hard-thinking scientist's name to falsely legitimize non-scientific doctrine. It has no roots nor basis in Darwin's work and is largely used by plutocrats to justify their self-amassed (or inherited) wealth.

Reply to [Suggestion] Change the second bonus provided by Mineral Rich tiles in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="8" id="3456276"] Okay, just to clarify something. I'm talking about this: Reduced 67%Original 844 x 265[/quote] And as was stated, the icons for the improvements borrowed from GC2 are temporary, plus its already been acknowledged its bugged (the tooltips don't match the details when you actually click on to select a tile). Ignore the GC2 icons entirely. Some tiles have bonuses but no icon at all.

Reply to What are you going to name your star? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="196" id="3444933"] Unfortunately, I can as well. Maybe we should start a widower's club? I might call mine 'Raven' in honor of my own late wife (she died in 2006).[/quote] I've received confirmation; 'Raven' officially in as a star name. :)

Reply to Elite Founders, what do i need to do? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'm able to open the .docx files in LibreOffice just fine, for what its worth (open source alternative to MS Office).