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Reply to 92 Points to Spare - Breaking the Game in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Grouped units can work if they have clear disadvantages in some areas. So their tactical inflexibility needs to be exacerbated. It should be a tradeoff: in many situations, squads should be the better options, but in some they shouldn't. Either make them more vulnerable to area damage, or reduce terrain-based bonuses for them as the squad size increase (but reduce gradually with increasing squad size : a binary solution would create other problems). It's difficult to creat

Reply to First impressions/another rant: what is going on with this game? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Worse yet: resource-spawning techs can still spawn resources in your opponent's territory. Happens a lot with recruitable monster resources, actually. That's right, you can shoot yourself in the foot by discovering a tech. I wonder if a change to this system is in the work. For the reasons you mentioned, this system simply doesn't work as it is and needs to be changed before new content/gameplay concepts are added into the game. A small comment though: the fact

Reply to Legendary Armor in War of Magic Elemental Forums

A system where a flat 1 damage is dealt by overclassed weapons doesn't work. This would make clubs much better than any other low-tier weapon. The idea behind it isn't wrong, but it needs more refinement to still give a distinction between different levels of "outclassed" weapons. So in this picture, shortswords and maces should have a reasonably change of doing 2-3 damage, broadsword an even higher chance to deal 2-3 and a small chance to deal 4, etc. Give me a reason to keep using these int

Reply to Tactical Battle change suggestion in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]Elemental currently lacks a kind of rock, paper, scissor quality.[/quote] Good. I don't like my games to be User Interfaces for Rock Paper Scissors. It's better to go for a system in which situation dictates what a unit will be good for, and make it more complex and less obvious than a "tanks are good against infantry, infantry are good against choppers, choppers are good against tanks" sort of system. Combined arms, synergy, several uses for each units, uses that vary

Reply to 1.19 Changelog in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote]1.2 is about UI, AI and bug fixes. It is not a feature patch (at least not on the big level for things like Global Mana and changing to a Population economy).[/quote] Balancing, too ? [quote]15. Pioneers/sovs cannot build/found cities in other people's territory[/quote] That's very, very good. Can we have another exception to your "no new feature" rule for this patch ? Give us the ability to break alliances. It's a highly annoying issue. Les

Reply to 92 Points to Spare - Breaking the Game in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]Armor is a known issue and will be changing in the future.[/quote] Wait, what ? The gross overpowerness of later armor (even with 1.09p) has been a common complaint, but I had the feeling that this part was "working as intended". Did we convince Toby and you in the end ? If we did, please consider a rebalancing of weapons as well: some 2-handed weapons could create some issues because the basic number of attacks is 3/turn (meaning the opponent will never get the c

Reply to Block, Dodge in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Hmm, I don't see dodge as being too high. Quite the contrary: it's so low that it's almost useless compared to armor. I get way, way, way more "blocked" than "dodge"

Reply to Legendary Armor in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="3" id="2866109"]The problem is armor. It's such a wall of imbalance there's no way around it. For balance, champions need more health and dodge, not more armor.[/quote]Wait, what ? I mean, I do agree. I really do. Hell, I wouldn't have made a whole mod if I didn't. But I recall reading you saying (on IRC) that it was okay as it was ...

Reply to Fallen Enchantress, a new game in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Company of Heroes and Dawn of War alike, actually, with Dark Crusade. Relic Entertainment, then (who are also excellent game creators, and the loss of Brian Wood is a huge one indeed). Also, Guild Wars Factions/Nightfall ?

Reply to Is Elemental enjoyable now? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Thiryn" reply="53" id="2862807"] Yes, because having a large and active fanbase (albeit, with a combined IQ of 10) is the main prerequisite for being a good game...[/quote]This type of comment (about the IQ part) makes me think that all fanbases are alike, in the end...

Reply to Is Elemental enjoyable now? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Trojasmic, if popularity was equal to quality, American Idol would be better than No Exit (by Sartre) and the New Wave of the 60's cinema. You know what they say about billions of flies that can't possibly be wrong... (okay, I do think World of Warcraft is actually a very well made game, but because of its inherent qualities, not its popularity) Edit: Funny, I'd give roughly 1 fewer point for every of those items, almost exactly. Exception: <

Reply to Is Elemental enjoyable now? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="impinc" reply="44" id="2862736"]That last statement is a pretty powerful one. Especially if you are speaking to people who have experienced SD expansions in the past. The difference Twilight made to GalCiv...are you talking even more radical than that? If so, whoo hoo! [/quote]However, Twilight was improving an already great, well-designed game to masterpiece levels. In the end, While Twilight does add a lot, most of the previous systems stayed untouched. I think

Reply to Holy Cow you got Trip on board? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Unfortunately, it snows in Plymouth as well. I wonder if some people at SD will also have sudden illness XD.

Reply to Is Elemental enjoyable now? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Trojasmic, if they do all of that, I'll give the game a 9, or even a 10. I think GalCiv 2 Twilight is a 9, actually. But yeah, I'd give Elemental 1.1 a 5/10. After all, Sword of the Stars vanilla was just a 7 on metacritics.

Reply to You Sir are Called in War of Magic Elemental Forums

If you don't have any losses, then squads are unnecessary (and they are). [quote](Not that I can do any better myself).[/quote]Ha ! I wouldn't be able to either, but that's not what I'm paid for anyway :p. (Although I can do light tweaking to P&P RPG rules, that's the best I can do).

Reply to You Sir are Called in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="RFHolloway" reply="35" id="2862385"] But the whole point of magic was to bend the rules a bit - its difficult to know how far you can bend the rules without breaking them (MTG veteran - STOPPED playing around weatherlight and still remembers timetwister and plague rats with affection)[/quote] That's entirely true, and that's what magic does. So with experience, the R&D team learned what could and couldn't be done. But they found out that a card that allows yo

Reply to You Sir are Called in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="28" id="2861796"] Nope. It's due to numbers not being what they should be. But here's the thing - the balance isn't really that bad at this point, at least with regards to equipment and units. So this point is kind of poorly chosen.[/quote] The numbers are not what they should be because you need to give +1 to each armor part at every tech change. When armor quickly becomes bigger than hit points, you have a real problem.

Reply to Fans of GalCiv 2 look here in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="1" id="2859148"]galciv2 is really the only great 4x space game out there!.[/quote]It's a great space 4X, but I wouldn't say the *only* great space 4X. And polluting polls on other forums is bad.

Reply to You Sir are Called in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="rivers_richard" reply="29" id="2862225"] Clearly you've never played Chrono Trigger.[/quote] Eh. I'd have said Fallout 1/2. Or Alpha Centauri.

Reply to Is Elemental enjoyable now? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I agree with Satrhan and LightofAbraxas on this one. There are quite a few things requiring improvement (magic. 1 volcano per turn, seriously ? ) or redesign (tactical battles, for instance) before I would give this one a "7/10" mark. But then again, I'm a harsh grader. But yeah, 7/10 would mean it's on par with the competition, and for now I still see it as quite behind.</a

Reply to You Sir are Called in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="24" id="2861318"] [quote] AoW2 was pretty bad.[/quote]AoW2 was better in almost every respect than 1.1; there's a level of bias here, of course, but while the units were unbalanced, it wasn't totally out of control, the magic system worked, the city building worked, and in general, the mechanics worked together. [quote]Eh, a lot of people don't care for that stuff, but I'm personally quite pleased to have an element of randomness involved.

Reply to 1.11 Changelog in WOM Support Elemental Forums

How much better than 1.1d will it be, AI-wise ? What can we expect ?

Reply to You Sir are Called in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]Stardock promised a lot with their patches, and as far as I'm concerned, 1.1 delivered on those promises - I'm not saying 1.1 Elemental is great, or that it's even good, but it is a vast improvement over 1.0 (for what it's worth), it proves their willingness to rework fundamental systems from the ground up and simply put a lot of effort into improving the game post launch. If 1.1 is any indication, we have a lot to look forward to in 1.2, the two expansions, and so o

Reply to A new low for the AI in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] I traded 507 of my diplomatic capital for 1000 gold (which was all their money). Now their broke and ripe for the taking! Might want to fix this too on the AI Brad! [/quote]Hardly new. I've been doing this forever now. It's not an AI problem, it's a diplomatic capital problem.

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="SinVraal" reply="118" id="2860579"] Nobody argues that Brad is always right nor does anybody want to dismiss the people that make the community. But it is indeed uneducated to condemn the Ex-Lead-Designer of CiV for having ruined a franchise and to assume he would ruin another. Just ridiculous. You need at least some knowledge about the gaming industry rather than "good intuition" to judge a "messed up" game. [/quote] I agree with the first statement,