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Reply to [Positive Feedback] Outposts in FE Beta Elemental Forums

For the record, Civilization (I think civ3) had outpost, for precisely this purpose - to let you use resources without the need to build cities. Later installations scrapped the concept. That said, I like them too. I did not pay close attention to my pioneer first time I played and accidentally founded an outpost instead of my first city, and then waited forever for it to grow to a city ;-) I thought the concept was similar to MoM, where newly founded cities has an outpost phase.

Inconsistent level of abstraction in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Some design decisions are hard to understand, like removal of city walls from the tactical battles. First, the games wants you to micromanage the swings of individual combatants (which is currently not very entertaining, because usual tactical elements like flanking, formation bonuses or cooperative interactions between units [archers provided cover for footsoldiers in Fantasy General, remember?], and boils down to a row of units trading blows till one side falls), and then it says: "okay, yo

Reply to Was able to win without doing anything in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Some baby bear just MAULed them out of existence. Happens now and then.

Reply to Well, just don’t act surprised. Where’d I put the tar and feathers? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

GW Swicord - I don't know in which universe do you live, but it can't be this one. Voting ceremony is just a charade - in case you haven't noticed, your "elected representatives" are bought with corporate money before, or shortly after they come to office. That's why you can get over 20 year in prison for copyright infringements, while for starting a war that kills hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians, you are not even prosecuted. Those "do-gooders" are just a bunch

[Suggestion] Breakable equipment in FE Beta Elemental Forums

A turn spent in a city would be necessary to repair it, some sites could possibly double as forges. Special attacks could break equipment too, weakening important heroes for a while and bringing new strategies to the table. "Master Smith" or "Supperior equipment" traits could affect this - possible repairs in the field (after a while), or modified chances for breaking. Units could be affected too.

Reply to Enemy Champions in FE Beta Elemental Forums

The optimal solution would be if they TALKED ! Then they could, even briefly, explain their hostility towards the player, like "Ho, ho, er... give me your... er... salted pork or die!", or "I am your long lost uncle Marrr-Hagma, and I still hold a grudge for the bottle of apple wine you stole from me. Die!", or "I am booored, let's spar a bit. I promise I won't use the sharp side of the hammer... much"

Reply to Not really a bug, but this made me laugh (world gen) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Actually, Master of Magic had such a spell - Floating Island

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Occam's razor, people. Use it.

Reply to State of the Beta - what needs fixing? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

1) I will go with the UI. I know technical-oriented devs tend to underestimate this aspect (look at Dwarf Fortress - deepest game ever, but the UI is a mess! Every screen controls and behaves differently). Consistency, ergonomy, ease of use - this must improve (I have a separate thread on this) 2) Difficult choices with lasting effect. All drama and tragedy is based on hard choices - will you save your wife, or the kingdom? Will you support the nobles, and turn the burgers against you

Reply to [.76 Feedback] FE feels very boring in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="seanw3" reply="9" id="3066961"] This is a beta. Tactical maps are not even finished yet. Tactical AI is being added in two weeks. If you were being ironic, you need to make sure you use an emoticon or something so the rest of us can tell. [/quote] I don't know if you are familiar with the usual meaning of the term 'beta' (though it might be different in case of Stardock), but 'beta' refers to the phase of final testing when the product is feat

Reply to UI feedback in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I see you have put a lot of effort into this. Okay, I won't elaborate on this, since they already have it set in stone anyway, building on some framework from EWOM. Brad probably considers this of secondary importance anyway.

UI feedback in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I intend to expand this topic because I am not very satisfied with my experience. I think UI is very, very underestimated in general, and represents a significant portion of the entry level learning curve. Poor UI also adds to fatigue from prolonged playing sessions. iPhones killed everything when they launched - not because of some amazing technical innovation, but by streamlining the interface, removing every unnecessary element, every redundant click and menu. 1) Poor

Reply to [Suggestion] Add a Redo button at the end of tactical battles if we want to play them over again in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I have a counter-proposal. Allow saving only when quitting the game, or save regularly, but reload loads only the last state. Whatever happens, happens, deal with it, or restart the game. This constant reloading kills gaming. To OP - try and force yourself not to reload. You will become a better player, and you will find out the games are more enjoyable too.

Reply to What monitor to replace Dell 2209WA in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I have discovered a new branch of S-TN monitors from EIZO that claim good viewing angles and 10bit internal color depth (!), and 5ms GTG response time. They are rather pricey for TN, 22" EIZO S2202WHA-BK EcoView costs a but more than DELL 2311H. Did anyone see it in action?

Reply to What monitor to replace Dell 2209WA in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Okay, so my negotiations with Dell ended in with "accept U2311H or die!". True, they also offered 2211 and 2212, I think, but those are the same quality, but smaller. So I stand before a dilemma - retain my old 2209wa, even though it has the yellow line problem (and risk it will become permanent in time), or ask money back and try something else - but what? My latest candidate is Eizo 2335w, does anyone has a firsthand experience with it?

Reply to [Balance/Combat] Add a 'First Strike' trait in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Speaking of that, I really loved the 'repel' feature in Dom3 combat, where longer weapons have an advantage over shorter weapons. The wielder of short weapon had to have enough courage and skill to get past the point of the long weapon to be able to attack at all. Hence, experienced and battle hardened swordsman will chop up a peasant spearman with ease, but give that sword to another peasant and he will be to scared to move against the spearpoint. Makes perfect sense. Oh noes

Reply to [Essential Fix] Bug which has existed for all of FE *and* all of WoM. in FE Support Elemental Forums

Maybe it's not a bug. Unnecessary haste tires up units and tarnishes their majestic and dignified look.

Reply to Conquest of Elysium 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

For the people who want to try COE2 - here is a download link (legal, the game is free): http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Our_Games/Free_Games.html

Reply to Conquest of Elysium 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I must confess something. Promise not to tell anyone. I have preordered the stuff, against my principles.

Reply to Fixing & Improving the AI Difficulty Tooltips/Options in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I too vote for a level with AI algorithms maxed without cheating bonuses.

Reply to Next round of beta invites ? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Remove the eypatch. The invitation is probably in a window on the left side of the screen [e digicons]*_*[/e]

Reply to Why the iPhone is made in China in Mobile Tech Elemental Forums

You worry too much, people. We are running out of resources, global oil production decline is coming around 2015 http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8797 fish are eaten, drinkable water will be in short supply soon too, and world's population is steadily growing. The jaws of the famous Malthusian trap (1. all people need to eat, 2. all people want to have babies) will soon bite off a sizable chunk of world's population, and we will return to numbers sustainable befor

Reply to Conquest of Elysium 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I still play CoE2 sometimes. I think it's free now.

Reply to Next round of beta invites ? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

halsteadr - lucky you. I wanted to love WOM so much I ended up hating it with passion. The more I played it, the stronger it was. That's why I am so curious - I want to see what Derek's handwriting did with the game. I loved Fall from Heaven 2, I am still impressed by the game.

Reply to Win! Well, partial….DNS pulled from SOPA (for now) in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I still don't understand how they want to implement it. DNS is a distributed database. They cant force authoritative DNS to remove whole zones if they fall out of US jurisdiction, and if they force local US providers to make their DNS recursors to lie about zones, they will break existing standards like DNSSec.