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[quote who="Cauldyth" reply="46" id="3218032"]I'm with Heavenfall on this. Making creatures randomly appear out of nowhere to wail on the player just because he's winning is a big turnoff for me. I'm okay with the other players getting together to oppose the leading player (whether AI or human), as that's occurring within the game rules, and is a natural aspect of how they should be playing anyway. That said, it shouldn't be that all players suddenly go a

Reply to City artifacts in FE Beta Stardock Forums

[quote who="ins2" reply="3" id="3218015"] I also agree 1000% that we need a better artifact-sharing tool. Possible options would be: - a vault allowing you to store and retrieve artifacts while in your ZoC (kind of like the shop, only for free ) - a "teleport artifact" spell like the one in AoW (slightly less costly and advanced than Cloud Walk, perhaps?) - a "packmule" unit or ability which allows us to send artifacts to different locations vi

Reply to [Bug] [0.951] Ogre Lair and Essence in FE Support Stardock Forums

[quote who="Eldorad" reply="2" id="3217949"] Quoting Madcatter, reply 1 This is a bug? iirc it's in the XML files that Ogre Lairs produce quite a bit of Essence much like shards do. Seems to be intended. Hmm... might be the case but doesn't make sense... right? Ogres are not naturally magically. I thought they mostly lived in their own dung. [/quote] They should change it to Ogre Magi lairs which would

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AOW:SM did not have a 'vault' but it did allow each hero to carry (not the same as equipping) items and allowed you to teleport items to any hero you wanted. Teleporting items cost an amount of mana based on how far away the target hero was. Loved this system.

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[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="40" id="3217958"] Quoting ErikCurre, reply 32 @Heavenfall: late game events caused by dominating could make sense if they fit well into the gameworld and the lore. Agreed, it would feel cheap if a bunch of dragons simply popped into existence for no reason. But what if there was some nice setup? Not sure if events can be chained together, but how about this: you get a pop-up explaining that there is an ancient evil waking in the land,

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[quote who="DsRaider" reply="24" id="3217746"]Just curious if many players have been getting random events so far. I think I got the Meteor Shower one but the actual painting never showed. [/quote] I have never seen a random event in FE or for that matter in WOM. Guess I have just been unlucky. When the game goes live I will defantly have to adjust those odds from 1/10,000 to somthing resaonable like 1/50.

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[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="23" id="3217742"]I like the general idea of random events, but I hate the idea of suddenly losing a game because 5 dragons unexpectedly spawned outside my capital. [/quote] I actully like the idea of 5 dragons unexpectedly spawning outside the capital. Escpecially since you have dominated the rest of the map

Reply to I’ve got your precious random events right here in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I hope that you guys will be releasing an editor that will make this even easier for those of us who are not programmers.

Reply to How do you build roads> in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

What is up with the neon green txt. Just bold the black txt if you want to make it stand out. Yea I did not read it either.

Reply to Please give us the ability to edit the sovereigns we create in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

yes for both

Reply to FE 0.951 High Priority Bug Fixes in FE Beta Stardock Forums

[quote who="seanw3" reply="26" id="3216442"] Quoting Bellack, reply 25 Never understood why you modders were modding the game in beta. Isn't the whole point of the beta to iron out the issues of the vanilla game first? I can understand having a late beta phase where you want modders to test the modding tools. Mostly it is just practice. Also, I like to do some of my own ironing. [/quote] Ok that makes sense<

Reply to FE 0.951 High Priority Bug Fixes in FE Beta Stardock Forums

[quote who="seanw3" reply="7" id="3215963"]I'll take a "yet" any day. For now I suppose I will put the vanilla files back in and start testing the AI in my LP videos. I'll even save the saves every 50 turns so you can pick which part of the video you want to play and test things yourself. It will be like time travel. [/quote] Never understood why you modders were modding the game in beta. Isn't the whole point of the beta to iron out the issues of the vanilla game fir

Reply to [Suggestion] Specialize outposts the same way as cities in FE Beta Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nasarog" reply="8" id="3215471"]Interesting idea, but I too dislike the +food/essence etc. I do not want an outpost spam either. I don't have anything to add just yet though. [/quote] Well you could have that trade route work both ways as well. If you block the route from the city to the Outpost then you would have only so many turns that the outpost can last (under Siege) based on grain produced + or Minus what ever other bo

Reply to Make city stats visible when chosing level upgrades in FE Beta Stardock Forums

I say no. And here are my reasons: 1) I like to be completly ignorant of what my city produces. 2) I like to just randomly pick an upgrade without knowing what it will do with the rest of the city. 3) I hate information about anything 4) If they did add this basic feature that just about all 4X games have had for years then it would be a cheap copy and not original. PS: I was joking. Of Coarse this should be in the game. It should h

Reply to [Suggestion] Specialize outposts the same way as cities in FE Beta Stardock Forums

[quote who="Satrhan" reply="3" id="3214552"]I'll grant that outposts granting something to it's parent city could lead to even more spamming, which I'm sure no-one wants. But there will obviously have to be some balancing when implementing this. I, for one, don't really like the +grain and +food per grain buildings that are available, that mechanic makes little sense to me. I'd much rather have that 1 grain feeds a fixed amount of people, and if you want more grain you&#39

Reply to Coming soon: Fallen Enchantress on Steam in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="JackArbiter" reply="135" id="3215084"]New feature: get rid of hp altogether Size, injuries, resists, dodges, veteran or not, etc. can do a good job of emulating battle without going "iron golem has 32 hp! squad of 12 level 5 peasants has 34 hp!" because really, IRL we all know iron golems pwn 12 peasants. I've seen it. You avoid the trap of having peasants kill iron golems w/ wooden clubs because, you know, hp. And you'll have to do just as much bala

Reply to Coming soon: Fallen Enchantress on Steam in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Napean" reply="121" id="3214398"]Lots of good ideas mentioned already. Agree with keeping Elemental in title. I'm sure the next Master of Orion will be Master of Orion, in spite of MOO3 Like that you're publishing on Steam. Can only mean more exposure and potential revenue. Bring on the modding! I know I said somewhere I wouldn't bother changing XML elements...but if I'm working on my own mod, that's different

Reply to Coming soon: Fallen Enchantress on Steam in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="DevildogFF" reply="14" id="3212498"]Also, I like Steam so much - AND I want to support you guys as much as possible - I will be buying this game again on Steam. I have some disposable income and I genuinely love what you've done here. Plus, I like to keep my games in one basket, so to speak. I know you said "don't ask", but I'm still curious... Also, will beta updates occur on the same day on Steam as they do to the rest of us? [/quote]

Reply to Coming soon: Fallen Enchantress on Steam in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Ok first off Distance yourself as far away from WOM as you possibly can. I would completely take out the word Elemental. Just call it Fallen Enchantress. Now when marketing it make sure you say "From the makers of GalCiv2 and Sins of the Solar Empire" DO NOT in any way shape or form even mention WOM. I know a few people that won't even try this game because WOM was so bad and put a bad taste in thier mouths. Even though I tried to tell them that Gal2 was a great game (and I hear t

Reply to Fallen Enchantress Beta 4 Impressions in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Gammit10" reply="143" id="3210167"]I voted excellent. Even on easier difficulties (Beginner, Novice), the AI factions are still growing in power MUCH faster than my faction/empire. I STILL don't understand how faction power works. Can somebody explain EXACTLY how it is calculated? [/quote] I don't think anyone really knows. I personally ignore it. IT does not seem to have any bering on

Reply to Fallen Enchantress Beta 4 Impressions in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="115" id="3208873"] Quoting FrostyThundertrod, reply 114 One thing I dont like is that i can manuly place my citys improvent anymore. The game just auto places them. There's a setting to let you place them. [/quote] Guys just FYI when ever there is a new beta you should always go into options and see if there are any changes, Additions and even subtractions in there. You should do this on an

Reply to Fallen Enchantress Beta 4 Impressions in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="56" id="3207911"]Right now, it's too early for me to vote, but I'm seeing one pacing problem I think it's too easy to get a bunch of cities, the one game I got to play, I had like 5-6 cities before I really had any interaction with anyone. I'd also like to see Civ 4 style popups when you're finished building in a city, so you can decide what to build next. The way Civ does it

Reply to Fallen Enchantress Beta 4 Impressions in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="calmon" reply="40" id="3207643"] Quoting Eldorad, reply 39 Quoting calmon, reply 35 And? Its exactly what I saying: There is 0 problem to make the game easier on easy! Its a BETA. Sorry - I thought you were calling him "so stupid" for suggesting exactly what you are saying? Maybe English is not your first language because we are clearly not understanding each other. I mainly tired

Reply to Idea on stopping pioneer spam in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

I am all for Pioneers costing money to product and Upkeep. My question is there a difference between a 3 man Pioneer or a 5 man Pioneer ect?

Reply to [.950][Balance] City Level Up Options in FE Beta Stardock Forums

[quote who="ddd888" reply="24" id="3211105"] Quoting Bellack, reply 23 Well there's supposed to be a tradeoff between expansion and growth. But my point is that if you have three high-level cities with tons of production, taking one of them offline to get the idle bonus cripples your empire's capacity. But if you have a dozen crappy level-2 cities taking one of them offline has a negligible effect. Which I don't