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Reply to December Vault Discussion in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

My biggest gripe is lack of budget for more then 6 planet type worlds. I understand we need couple of hostile worlds like acid and lava. And that rainbow world needs to be for the setting. But that leaves us with just 3 more worlds: Barren: lifeless desert Desert: "life-has" desert Crystaline: "cold" rich mineral world It feels very lacking. What is really missing. In order of priority. 1) Terran world: Essentially the cu

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Reply to Time for an updated survey on Founders' PC specs? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

You got it wrong. Peasants have no choice. While PC players can play either in 1080p/30fps or 900p/43fps or 768p/60fps, with same graphics details, if they have weaker spec PC. You get the idea. Another reason why I really think implementing resolution scaling feature is really important.

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Request regarding improving soundtrack feedback in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I have request that could improve soundtrack feedback. Currently I see the issue with music themes being released for races we do not know nothing about. Just having name or the race and maybe small model of the ship is not enough to get feel of the race, and how its music fits with it. My suggestion would be when asking for feedback for specific music scores for races would be at least to add concept art of the dialogue screen for the race and the ship, and bundle wit

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Reply to January 2017 preliminaries in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

For me personally, 1-3. But that's only because I'm in software industry, so I'm curious how other teams handle their work. I've liked discussion about CPU core utilization, engine, (lack of) tools used, engineer distribution between project, new shadow technics, shadowing or small planets, etc... So keep that stuff coming.

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Reply to Adventure tech and resource spawning? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I think there were some changes in recent patches. In 1.09, for example, if I used cheat to get all technology in 2nd turn, my 9 tiles radius would get crammed with resources. Doing same with 1.11 does almost nothing. P.S. I guess it was done on purpose, to not disadvantage Altair, since they start with Exploration, and would essentially waste 1st exploration tech, if old rules were present (due to having no city at start).

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Reply to 64bit Elemental still in the works? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Well, apparently Elemental is starving for more ram. No other way to explain all those OOM errors. Civ5 is not far away neither. It's usually multiplatform games that don't need much ram, due to using mostly similar resources as console versions, that have much stricter ram diet.

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Reply to 64bit Elemental still in the works? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

If 64bit exe was released, those OOM errors would've never be an issue. In last 20 years, if there was not enough of physical RAM was available, program would use paging file on hard disk to compensate (by using of virtual ram feature of OS), which could make things slow, but it would be stable. Program would "see" as much ram as it needs. But because 32bit apps are limited to 2GB (or 3GB?), more memory consuming 32bit software needs strict memory diet, otherwise it would cras

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[1.09]Some creatures that lead armies are missing their special attacks in WOM Support Elemental Forums

For example, Troll Shaman that leads the Troll Raid doesn't have Confusion spell, unlike regualr shaman that is alone, or part of someone else army. . Why this happens: Monster "groups" are defined separately in CoreMonsterGroups.xml file. There, stat of group leader are set, as well as what units accompany them. The problem is that sometimes the leader doesn't mimic completely normal creature they are from (defined in CoreMonsterUnitTypes.xml). So Troll Shaman

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Reply to [1.09] Major issue with some tactical Spells and Catapults in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Yes, those spells are indeed bugged: https://forums.elementalgame.com/398341 The main reason because durations for spells in tactical battle spill to following turns after battle (with every combat round left being turn of duration). Additionally, combat spells without any duration will last indefinitely.

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[1.09]Minor Water Elemental has no special ability it is supposed to have in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Minor Water Elemental summon (from Lord of Sea spell) has no special abilities in the game. But their XML entry, in CoreSummonedUnits.xml, lists DrowningAttack. So why it doesn't appear in the game? Because that is wrong ability name. It is supposed to be DrowningStrike. If that is changed, ability will properly appear for them. Exempt that, essence of the Elemental should be increased to 3, or otherwise they would have no mana to use it (DrowningStrike costs 3

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Reply to Eliminating the Food Cost of Merchants in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="2782951"]My suggestion would be to create a new improvement rather than try to mod an existing one. For example, in my modded version (for my own play) I created a Throne Room improvement that can only be built once but provides 1 food and 1 gold. [/quote] Frogboy, this issue is known for some time. Even when mods started appearing with 1.05. Why it wasn't looked up til now? It really hampers modding efforts, when you need some

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[1.09]Collection of spells bugs, and possible solutions in WOM Support Elemental Forums

1) All air spells that use shards or intelligence for calculating effects don't do it properly Only in this school of magic, none of calculations for intelligence or shard boosts uses "CastingUnit" as ValueOwner. So, for example, if Lightning Strike is used against monster, no shard bonus would apply. And in case of enemy faction, their shard number will be used, not of the caster faction. Similar, intelligence of the target will be used, instead of the caster (this includes Haste

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Reply to [eMOD] Bugfix Mod 4.0 for Elemental 1.09e in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

The thing is, there is not such item as legendary forearms. So whole set has less pieces then ordinary armors. If anything, defense of legendary breastplate needs to be increased to compensate, instead adding ability to mix that armor with some other forearms. P.S. My impression was that bow stuff was fixed with 1.09. Any indication it's not that way? P.P.S. I noticed that all AIR tactical spells don't have ValueOwner="Cast

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Reply to The Kingdom Summons in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kalin" reply="31" id="2791041"]It does appear, it's just called "Lord of the Sea" instead of Summon Minor Water Elemental. From [/quote] I mean, it has ability in its xml entry (some sort of drowing attack), which doesn't appear in the game when you summon water elemental (with Lord of the Sea spell).

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