Keeping in mind that this is a single player game and it is sometimes fun to be godly... I agree with pretty much everything you said. A lot of it can be boiled down to % enhancements, even stacking, rather than straight #'s. I haven't used destinies gift/paragon yet... I may need to play with it before it gets nerfed.
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Thirded this time :) 1st level of fortress gets you strike thingy - units trained here go first in combat infirmary - +10hp per turn for stationed units and +1 growth (maybe) not sure I think the 2nd level of fortress gives you iron mine - +1 metal/turn Prison - reduce all cities unrest by 10%, reduce this cities growth by 1. (nice when capturing a bunch of cities) Can't reme
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Tried the henchman route, twice. Fun and nigh unstoppable. I played around with the types so I had a type of each element since I didn't want to bother with spellbooks. Just nasty. Fun though, best part was that you got to see every quest MANY times and experience all the loot. Some random observations: Its annoying when some other civs trade gold for twice as much as normal - i.e. 50 of their gold has 100 worth. It changes, and I'm
Keep in mind that you do have the upgrade option when you design the unit. If you mess up a few and re-design it, it takes about 5 minutes and you have a few non-optimal units. At least along the same path. If I can afford it I usually don't disband the obsolete unit, I'll generally have a slow army (non-horse) and a couple fast armies (all mounted). I generally avoid making a ton of troops till I get some horses just because movement
Yeah, play a bit more. Most of the things that scale with shards are obviously underpowered in the beginning, but vastly improve with a few. I've been playing death a lot recently: Wither - basic spell, -2 attack is moderately useful in the beginning. -10 atk starts to get you somewhere. Curse - basic spell - when it hits (might have to shadowbolt a few times) that wildlands critter is a few hits from death. Can't remember name - all
Congrats! Enjoy!
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Seconded
Sounds good!
I read it, but too long to respond to each of the comments. For the most part, I agree they are generally usability nitpickings. Play a bit more, even use ctrl-n to get a better starting location. It all opens up to you. You'll need to pick your battles carefully - be sure to duo or have a few units to start. Its a rare battle a non-melee (with armor) sov can solo. There are definitely some rough edges, but after playing
Ok, a simple search revealed a few posts. One that even mentioned CTRL-N, but nothing formal or complete https://forums.elementalgame.com/424639 at least mentioned ctrl-n
Just read a post where someone mentioned CTRL-N, which apparently kicks off a new game. I didn't see this in the manual, are there any others that may not be in the manual and is there an existing list somewhere? Thanks
Looking back over my old posts and found 2 that I think are still good ideas. It could be the scotch though... Critters behave a bit more than they did in WOM, and it seems a lair will occasionally spawn a critter - it seems there is a limit to it. i.e. If I'm on turn 100, and I visit a new part of the map - the critters aren't that tough. It would be nice to have a mechanic that made those 5 or 6 spider lairs/bear lairs something nasty after turn
Heroic is 50 influence per quest Wander lust provides quest maps Guile doubles influence income, but not sure if it doubles from Heroic (which would mean 100 influence per 50 gold, which you can then turn around and "sell" for 200 gold).
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Any idea which abilities the AI DOES get the most use out of? I just made a Trog (berserk, +20lb, juggernauts) Empire - Lucky, Master Scouts, Tough, Warrior Caste, Vulnerable to Magic. Seems all passive might be the way to go. At first glance I would think: AI can possibly abuse Heroic Master Scouts (ALWAYS useful) I would say stealth, but seems AI might already have an innate version of it.
Are you kidding me? THIS IS AWESOME!111 I love mods, I've spent 10's of hours just figuring out how to get the mods I want all working together with the fallouts and skyrims. Mod management is wonderful!! With that said, I'm still relatively new to the file structures so I'll probably wait till a beta or real release, but I'll be following the thread.
[quote who="Kalin" reply="2" id="3282907"]For towns: Always City Grocer (10% HP for all units, are you kidding?). Always Almshouse (needed on large maps with lots of cities). Always Guild Tribunal (don't really need the gold by the time my towns are lv5). As for the merchant -> market thing, merchants can be built in all cities, market can't (town only). I think that's why they didn't make it upgraded straight up.[/quote] City Grocer - hugely more impress
Looks awesome, please add to the nexus too. Really looking forward to what you do with it. IMO Spells/abilities should be global based off influence like you have. I wold say tie to a building tied to a research path, relatively low production requirements. Spy units should be the offensive tool with additional abilities and/or increase effectiveness of the global spells (5x the spies, 5x the affects of the poison spell, etc). Possibly hav
bummer, was looking forward to it.
I think its less champion vs troops than stacks of doom vs everything else. IMO Its ok to have the killer hero, all the best items/spells/etc that can take out a whole stack of mediocre troops solo. It should reach the point where it can solo most things, but a concentrated effort can bring it down or an inherent weakness. It changes when you have 9 of them though, nothing except another stack of doom can stop it. Add mobility - cloudwalk, all mounted + tirel
[quote who="simon_doe" reply="191" id="3273527"] As far as I am concerned there is a feeling of waiting for the game to be finished, and I am not ready to comment on it on the internet until I see how Stardock deals with the issues that the game still has. [/quote] Meh. Finished? Really? Game has some rough spots, but is surprisingly addictive. I would not consider it incomplete (Especially in comparison with most products of the same type in this develo
Early game is purely about exploring for new cities for me - they're rare enough and with a large map and 6 opponents its usually a race. I like beastlord so that's my starting army, usually sov, hire first champ, and a critter till i get mana back and then usually 1 more critter. if it turns out i have funds/mana to pick up more I will. If not beastlord its a couple troops then mostly production, unrest, food. <
[quote who="Kantok" reply="7" id="3276784"] Quoting NanakoAC, reply 6there's far too many things which are underpowered too. i know it seems smart to be all meta about it, but this game does need close looking at from a balance perspective Why? Various play styles don't NEED to be balanced. They just need to be fun and viable. It's an entirely single player game. For once we can avoid bowing down to the almighty god Balance. <br /
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Rather not change beastlord, or if so make it minor. Upkeep is definitely drastic would not want to go that route although 0 upkeep is pretty significant. Gold would be ok I guess, influence/mana no. needing to have a mob be a certain level/health/etc is an ok idea - but adds a big pain in the ass for something that you would probably reload for. I don't really want to spend a half hour reloading because i can't get it "just" right. If I HAD to hav
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="9" id="3276717"]The funny thing is, that Influence is suppose to be traded to the AI for peace treaties, materials and shit like that. But, they don' value it very high. I think Influence is worth 2 gold to them. But if you need Influence to build a resource or henchman and want to trade for the influence they have, it cost 100 gold per influence. It's pretty fucking ridiculous. Also, unless you have the Heroic faction trait,
I've done the same and haven't cleared it either time a) big swampthing wandered out, killed it then went in and cleared all the tiles b) i wandered in, killed the swampthing and cleared all the tiles. Didn't clear either time I spent a good amount of time mousing over every tile...i couldn't find a missed one. Guess I could be wrong though.