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Reply to City Production split in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="7" id="3089775"] Quoting HighQ, reply 3It also keeps peacefull races weak i think. Maybe a city buildin melitia? Numbers based on the city size? Only active when there is no active unit to defend the city? Or maybe to choose for the cost of a city lvl? Not sure what you mean by this. Cities do have a 'built-in' militia which grows over time (forget whether it's via population or techs or buildings) whether there are other units pr

Reply to Balance: A look at Gold in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Civfreak" reply="10" id="3089649"] Quoting Tasunke, reply 5 I'd personally prefer to see more improvements that give a benefit to cities that aren't building or training. I also think this is what we need. The gold in this game I'm playing feels tight but I think that's a good thing. I'm making due by selling items from mobs which I think is pretty cool. Right now I have like 4 build queues empty and that is kinda inneficient, though

Reply to Lingering Production Queue Problem in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="8" id="3089769"]I see it as a tradeoff - the resource is now a part of the city defense system, therefore I need to spend time to develop it's structures in the build queue. What's the problem with that?[/quote] Who's building up the resource when it's NOT in your city queue? Fairies?

Reply to [.85 DIPLOMACY] We often only have 1 choice when a diplomacy chat pops up, can we get more than 1 choice please? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Nah, I'm more worried about the AI requesting a treaty/deal and having no way to check the details since the popup is modal.

Reply to Discussion on using Mana as the universal essence for creating and breaking down hero items in Elemental, a world of magical essence. =) in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I think it should be crystals and mana together. Ok we're in a serious need for a mana cap item in the game....

Reply to [Suggestion][.85] Allow the Escape Key to Open/Close Menu Options in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I agree

Reply to [.85] Suggestion: Fixing Useless Spells Such as Courage; Intelligence bonus to spells = Str bonus to attack in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Manii Names" reply="1" id="3089640"]Does courage add +3 HP per figure? Or per unit?[/quote] That's an unanswered question for many spells..

Reply to Lingering Production Queue Problem in FE Beta Elemental Forums

map resources should have their own separate build system/mechanics regardless if they are within city limits. They also need their separate mechanics for upgrades and technologies. The existing system is trying to marry incompatible game concepts, that's why players are finding and reporting this as a bug.

Reply to [Suggestion] Champ Stack tweaking- my two cents. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

No matter how they change it, 1 or more heroes fighting against many multi figure units is a game design catastrophe. The King's bounty & HoMM model makes a lot more sense.

Reply to [.85] How come attack values stack in a group but defense values do not? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I think you always get 3 attacks of 9 strength, vs a fixed defense since each unit is attacked individually. IMHO it should have used another way of calculating these values. For units it should have been a different notation like 3x9/7/2 (3 figures, 9 attack, 7 defense, 2 moves) but finding a neat way to represent stacks of different units with different values won't make any sense anyway. An alternative would be to calculate for the entire

Reply to City Production split in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Split is better This is both an empire building game AND a wargame. Remember that galciv2 had both, and that you could also use a slider to decide weight/funding.

Reply to [.85] Turns take several minutes to complete in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Perhaps it has to do with AI code additions.

Reply to SWTOR is losing appeal in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

That was expected from day 1. Story doesn't form the basis for holding a player base. Gameplay, mechanics, and progression are far more important. Bioware is making money out of it, and there will always be a player base for any MMO based on starwars.

Reply to Civilization V Expansion Pack Announced! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I prefer stardock to Firaxis any day. Firaxis and Sid have become too big for my tastes. And Civ 5 is a POS. That being said, I'm looking forward to XCOM, And I've been expecting Alpha centaury for ages...

Reply to [Suggestion] Cloth Map should make it clearer where the mountains and roads are. Its not precise enough to use for movement the way it is. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I agree! The same is also true for the 3d map. Especially for forests you can't tell where the road is...

Reply to [.77 Bug] If you have a max size stack you can't walk past a caravan on the road, you need to go around it. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I think it's intentional and annoying as Hell!!! [edit] it's intentional in an attempt to make it impossible to have more units on a square beyond the max stack size. [/edit]

Reply to Try playing on Hard, guys! in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Urrumi" reply="9" id="3080806"]No matter the difficulty setting, it is impossible to lose so long as you are careful about the battles your sovereign gets in. Even if you have no champions but your sovereign, and you have no city for dozens of turns, eventually, through XP and drops, you reach a point where you can still steamroll the AI. Which is cool, in its own way.[/quote] That's actually cool! a no cities game where you play without cities and raze the

Reply to Try playing on Hard, guys! in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Will do a difficult game come next patch. As long as some of the annoying stuff are dealt with. Also I have high hopes for the new balance changes and the tactical AI!!! It will be a different game.

Reply to Why Master of Magic was a 'Balanced' Game and the Vision of Fallen Enchantress (Long Post) in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Now you begin to understand what Steve Barcia had achieved so long ago and how hard it was. He did way more magic that could fit into a 320x200 display. Designers are still trying to copy those games and just FAIL.

Reply to Fundamental issues in FE Beta Elemental Forums

These concurrency issues are the worst, and some redesign and implementation is needed indeed. (1-2 months of work) 1. Level up: why do it with a pop up? make a little arrow or + appear on the unit frame, have the user click it when he can and do the level up. 2. City spec: same as 1. 3. Quest events: these really need to go in the event queue on the side, the relevant stack should be frozen in place until they are resolved. Concurrency is HARD f

Reply to It is time for your destruction to begin in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="31" id="3078773"]Well a big thing is listening to people play the game. Can you imagine how cool it would be to write the Starcraft AI to deal with the Korean champions?[/quote] It would still loose by a very large margin. The AI can match the APM, but not the metagame thinking. Even now the Difficult startcraft AI gets Resource bonuses - The only way of making it competitive.

Reply to It is time for your destruction to begin in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

1. Did we start the battle or where we attacked? 2. Am I interested in winning this fight or should I retreat? 3. Should I cast any spell or should I conserve all my mana for a more important fight or strategic spell? 4. As an AI do I know how to focus my armies attacks across turns on a single target? Since we don't have ZoC you can't effectively block units unless the battlefield has choke po

Reply to [0.77] Initiative System is flawed and suggestions about a lot of other stuff.... in FE Beta Elemental Forums

TLDR;

Reply to [Bug] Maintained Spells do not update for # of shards in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I can also verify this for unit enchants. However I can't decide if it is a bug or a feature. You just got a new shard, why should it affect spells you had cast 20-30 turns ago? I can understand the fact that "fixing" it would reduce micro. What about adding a button on the enchants list to "upgrade" each enchant by paying some mana cost, to a more powerful version, when you get new shards. Or add in that list to each line that

Reply to AI: What Challenge Rating are you setting your games at? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

At this stage of the beta it doesn't matter. play any setting