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Reply to My complaints on Legendary Heroes. in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Honestly this was predictable. I struggle to think what was on the Game Design Doc, and the progress of the beta has been quite similar to how Coders make games at the George Mason Computer Design Program, where they would code and "tweak" hoping for something good to come out. "Balancing" is DIFFERENT then Game Design. One does not "Balance" a game to make it fun." You balance a game to, "Work as intended." The intention is to REMOVE mechanics, not CHANGE them, so that what&#39

Reply to [0.85 Balance] Lets talk about horses in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

There are PLENTY of ways to balance Horses in a variety of directions... Most of them are good too! But if I had my magic wand.... 1. Decrease the Spawn rate of horses and wargs to .1-.25 a turn. (Galactic Hunter's Idea!) Horses are hard to find and raise, which is why resource poor countries (such as Nordic kingdoms) often had to rely on Infantry to defend themselves, while Mongols had ple

Reply to Some thoughts on Legendary Heroes and Fallen Enchantress in general. in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

I still don't understand why Heroes aren't assigned to Units and fight in them.... Just debuff the Fighting ability of Heroes, (Reduce Attack, HP, Defense, etc..) but then add them cumulatively with the Unit they are assigned to. (So that the Heroes stats work with and IMPROVE the fighting ability of units, rather then COMPETE with them.) I mean, I've seen Surprise Resources (Essence), a complete overhaul of Prestige, the leveling system removed, encumbr

My desperate solution to integrating Heroes in Elemental.... in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

If I was the designer (which I'm not,) I would have Heroes join Armies instead of existing out on their own... So for instance, instead of having a Hero exist as an independent unit, a Hero joins a unit, and his stats and the armies stats combine. Why you might ask? Here are my three reasons. ----- 1. Eliminates the Hero vs Army conundrum. Currently, I have to choose between having a Hero centered army and a squad centered army....

Reply to Playthrough: .952, custom race, 8 insane AIs, dense large map [Last entry] in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="8" id="3227689"] 3. I am not sure I like how the enemy sovereigns have multiple paths and silly levels of magic by level 5. It would be better if they had fixed upgrade paths, so that they could not only develop into an effective fighter OR mage OR assassin, but also it would give them personality. [/quote] This.

(Suggestion) Remove Magnar's growth penalty/Tall City weaknesses in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Hello everyone, I would like to talk about Magnar's Growth Penalty due to the Slavery ability and Tall City weaknesses. As the game is currently designed, Magnar's ability is more of a curse then a blessing because without the ability to create growth improvements, when Magnar conquers multiple cities Magnar loses a great deal of capacity to grow any of its cities at all. Now, I understand that Magnar is supposed to grow with slavery since they are vil

Reply to Really need to be fixed NOW: pioneer spam, tile yields and population in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I always thought that the best way to deal with city spam is to tie in a Prestige based solution. I would change the game so that founding or conquering a city requires at least 2 Prestige and that you gain prestige from city levels lose prestige when you occupy or control cities. So for every level a city advances, it cumulatively gains that amount in prestige in the formula of X (X) - 4. So for instance, a level 1 city gives a loss of two prestige, a level two city give no pre

Faction Diversity Ideas! in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Faction Diversity Thread. Hello, I’m a long time lurker and I thought I would throw some ideas about diversifying the factions. Currently, I feel that Tarth, Pariden, Resoln, Magnar, and Ythril, are lacking a little bit in flavor so I thought I would add some ideas I’ve had to make them interesting. I’ve also included ideas for Umber and Capitar, if they’re chosen to be put in the game. Take them or leave them! Tarth- <br /

Making the Generals a General in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

I though I'd contribute to the beta process by sharing an idea I had. Problem: Generals don't really feel like Generals not because of their "direct" abilities but because of the shallowness of their General abilities. What we need to address: -Adding Stragetic choice to summoning units. Problem: All this system is basically "cycling" through the troops while trying to get as much gold as possible to get the higher "up" troops, totally ignoring any strage

Putting the Rook in the Rook (Here me out!) in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

First off, this has nothing to do with "OMG! this game suxs" or "you didn't balance this game". This is something along the lines of "Hey, maybe we could do this..." Right now, the Rook definetly feels like he can do the wallop, but he's kind of like a 10 story castle with the finesse of a 5 foot character. When I am playing him, it's often like I'm playing a skyscraper on warp drive rather then a walking citadel. He can retreat promtply and strikes out of nowhere with fast attacks.</

Reply to USA Bombs Iran ???? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Invading Iran is not only wrong, but the catatrosphes that will be caused from it will cause unprecedented economic collapse and a military conflict that will shake the world. But nevertheless, Bush, run only by special interests (why do you think the average American wage has gone up by $1,000 om his term and inflation actually "reduces" the purchasing power!) has decided that he is willing to take America with him. I. IRAN WILL GET NUKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you kidding me.

Modding the Tile Surfaces in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

How do you modify the Tiles on the Custom Planets (aka Earth) so that you can choose what Tiles are Green at the beginning of the Game as well as what Tiles are Yellow, Orange, and Red? My goal is to create a more realistic Earth that progresses based on actual "Land Value" rather then "Land Mass". As the Technology progresses, so do the 3rd World Countries of the World are able to catch up in Humanity's quest for the stars. Regards.

Reply to Sins Beta 3 - Gameplay Feedback *POST HERE* in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The Pirates are what keep the game interesting, don't let bad player decisions cause you to nerf them. Pirates are not only ORIGINAL, they are the GOOD KIND OF ORIGINAL. Keep them in and make them as competitive as the players can handle. Other then that. Although I would never expect this to happen in the Beta Phase, it would be kind to include Colonizable moons that offer Resource/Artifact/Logistical/Tactical aid mini planets that could "supplement" the main planet.<

Reply to Sins Beta 3 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Moons and Gas Giants... Now it's shaping up to something excellent. Keep it up Stardock.

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

A future that doesn't need us won't include us. If you do believe that our end will come from Artifical intelligence replacing the human mind (FYI: in order for that to be possible Computers would have to be operating with Quantum Mechanics, gl with that), then depending on the nature of the intelligence we created, we can, of course see the "famous end" and the "more realistic end". (And a shit-load more additional ends, including combinations of various ends) The Famous End

Reply to Killing Pirates should reduce your bounty in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

To keep the thread alive. The reason why, "I'll pay you more to attack him/her instead" is because the game gets changed to one giant version of a hot potato auction where people are paying each other money pirates instead of actually building units. Having a Hot Potato auction where the person who had $300 more then you because he didn't built his *^%*% Scout Frigate and gave you the all pirate agro would suck While spending all your money to starve off a pirate att

Reply to The game is balance alright... to a fault in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

This needs to be fixed as an option to prevent repetition bump

Reply to Pirates WILL be getting their own ships.... The beans have been spilt! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Wooooot

Reply to Killing Pirates should reduce your bounty in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Whatever you do, do not get rid of Pirates. It is an original concept in a bland world, please work with it. Besides I think your idea is perfect when we break it down piece by piece. The Problem: Pirates are too strong and wind up winning games. Why: 1. Because they are recruited on the basis per kill, so no matter what, they will always 100% get their kill . Any stragety that can work at 100% is gimped at the get go 2. Pirates are coming in unreasonable numb

Reply to Killing Pirates should reduce your bounty in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Whatever you do, do not get rid of Pirates. I think your idea is perfect, and I'm

Reply to Suggestion about Light Frigates in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Yes, please keep ALL the Units useful. I mean, just because Destroyers today don't have as much firepower as the Giant Cruisers doesn't mean the Destroyers are the "Early Game Units". What I really liked about this game was that when I play it, I find the best combinations to be balanced choices with emphasis on paticular strageties over SPAM and STRIKE. Light Frigates should most definetly, imo, be named assault frigates, to have a clarification from other games. <b

Reply to Cruisers in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, be very careful. Cruisers need a buff but I'm all worry-warts. I do not want Cruisers to be the "SUPERIOR TIER II UNITS" that will make all Frigates Obselete. The Cruisers right now need some serious work, but you could actually kill most of the stragety in this game if the Kodak winds up usurping the Light Frigate to extinction. I'd rather have a game where all the Units can be useful then having a game where Cruisers are only useful.<br/

Reply to Quick Question (Custom Planets) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

thx

Quick Question (Custom Planets) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

What is the command line to make Custom Planets have Special Colonizationable Properties? (The Aquatic, Gravity, Toxic, Radioactive, and Barren properties.). I know the basics, I just don't know the Command Line to give them that Property.

Reply to Mods for Galactic Civilizations II: Gold / Dark Avatar in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Finally, Finally, Finally, This is the kind of work that will add a whole new atmosphere to the game. Those little blobs that seem like simple assets could very well become full functioning Planets.