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[quote who="Bobchillingworth" reply="10" id="3276833"]Nonsense. The issue with having severely overpowered units & spells is that they limit game options. If I'm playing as Trogs, I can either use Juggernauts, which completely steamroll every AI and quest, or deliberately play sub-optimally to gimp my faction (as in, either avoid building them or deploy them poorly). I could also decline to play as the Trogs altogether. None of these o
[quote quoting="post"] Waerloga the Dragonlord is much tougher [/quote] Thank god. Now can you look at making the Spell of Making victory tougher? Perhaps by making other nations actually care that you're trying to wrest control of their shards away. However you do it, other factions need to care when you start casting the SOM (and preferably when you start building the pre-req buildings). SoM is essentially the ultim
[quote who="NanakoAC" reply="6" id="3276774"]there'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[/quote] 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. Juggernauts (for exampl
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[quote who="starkers" reply="18" id="3276190"] Yes, and probably why Sinofsky resigned. Thing is, Win 8 is not a bad OS. However, the changes are too great for some and it's not selling as well as perhaps Ballmer had hoped, meaning somebody has to be the fallguy, though Sinofsky jumped before he was pushed. It's a shame, really, because Win 8 is a solid OS with a lot going for it, and being Sinofsky's brainchild it should really be him who takes Windows forw
[quote who="sjaminei" reply="1" id="3276696"] Volcano one shotting a faction... not good. (or at least I think it did, was a 1vs1 where I hit the sovereign with volcano, and I won instantly, he had 7 cities left) [/quote] Did you report it as a bug? That's certainly a bug. Anytime a Sovereign dies while they have cities left they should be returned to the nearest city.
I think it's possible to admit that it was a great game, classic even, and still wasn't perfect. People sometimes hold MoM up as if it is a shining beacon of game design nirvana whenever they want to bludgeon a modern game. It's something that people do with all classic games. The classics are never perfection personified no matter what nostalgia tells us. MoM was quite fun though.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="3272412"]Should almost do a poll on this: Would you be willing to give up player designed units to have a greater visual variety in the races? Basically, the limitation is that each body type / skeleton requires its own set of clothing, armor, etc. [/quote] Not a chance.
32 and GC2 crossover. Found WOM one day because I came to the site randomly looking to see if there was any news about GC3.
It's amazing to me that DLC is one of those things that trigger massive uncontrolled internet nerd-rage. If you don't want it, don't buy it. If you want some premade maps and new stamps to enhance your random maps buy it. If you feel like supporting Stardock some more, buy it. It's not like they're charging people for key content. They're f'ing maps and stamps. Otherwise, get over it. Does anyone honestly think tha
[quote who="bbr91" reply="117" id="3271333"]Brad, make a poll. See how many people would pay $5 for a map pack DLC and how many people would pay $5 for a content DLC. Seriously, releasing a map pack DLC is like opening a donations account. Perhaps some people would play the maps out of curiosity, but that's not why they would pay. While I'm generally against this DLC trend, releasing interesting content in them will justify their purchase. But I prefer the approa
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You're essentially spending a faction point, of which you get at most 4, for a very low level tech and ripping yourself off in the process. It's by no means free. That one crappy low level technology has an opportunity cost based on all the other abilities you forgo to get it. What you're doing when you select Uneducated and Scholars is saying that no research penalty or bonus plus a bottom tier tech is the equivalent of a 10% research penalty and Tough, for e
[quote who="charon2112" reply="110" id="3271214"]Forgive my ignorance, but what's a stamp?[/quote] Stamps are pre-designed chunks of a map. Think of the Wildlands. The random map generator uses stamps to build the random map. So more stamps means you have more possible combinations for your random maps.
Brad said in another thread that the map pack would include new stamps ( link ). For all of you complaining that random maps are the only way to go, stamps add to the variation of random maps. Brad: I'd make sure that's clear when the DLC actually goes on sale. People need to know that the map pack benefits random maps as well.
Yup. As of an hour or two ago. Got it via SD central.
Dragonfly Bracers have no cost on the Sovereign creation screen.
I'm also interested in the map pack (provided the maps look like they're quality is worth $5). If the pack contains other stamps, that's even better.
[quote who="enoeraew37" reply="76" id="3270886"] Quoting Borg999, reply 76I prefer random maps. I'm not really interested in pre-fab ones. I would like to see a DLC with a monster, spell, or building pack. + this ..but fix the games bugs before you move on to xpacs and dlcs please. oh can we call it a new years update..since some people not mark xmas on their caladar[/quote] No, we can't. Christmas is a date on the calendar, whether you ce
[quote who="Valentine82" reply="13" id="3270356"] Quoting scifi1950, reply 12 Please see my response in your other Post to the location of Mods. Stardock does support Mods. Modders knew they were modding in a Beta and didn't complain so your comment about patches breaking Mods is pretty silly IMHO. Don't give me that BETA Excuse, the game was released as a full game, they charged a retail price, Blizzard didn't get away with that sht and Stardock s
[quote who="Phoon" reply="49" id="3269712"] I also "played" with Windows 8 several times and had the same opinions about it as you are expressing. Until I gave it a complete and fair workout though I did not appreciate it and see the benefits that it gives over 7. [/quote] This is the key. Windows 8 isn't just the same old next iteration of Windows where most of the big changes are under the surface. Windows 8 is, among other things, a whole
[quote who="kona0197" reply="27" id="3269606"] Yet it's a PITA to switch back to Metro when you want to start a new app. The traditional start menu is so much easier to use. [/quote] How so? You hit the win key. Bang, you're in Metro. You hit win key again, you go back to your last active program, which is usually desktop for me. You hit win key+D, you always go right to the desktop. Launching programs using Metro is significantly easier an
[quote who="seanw3" reply="10" id="3269384"] Yes. If you want to take my mod apart and find all the stuff you like, you can add it to your game. I would separate everything, but there is so much content it would take as long as it did to put it together. Honestly, my mod is superior in balance, depth, features. It's more challenging, but for the right reasons.[/quote] His mod is also humble. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
[quote who="Phoon" reply="15" id="3269482"]If you want to get in to the finer tweaks it still takes some knowledge. My point (as stated in another thread) and advise if you WANT to learn how to use it is do NOT use Start8. Spend the time with the UI and get to know it. In a short amount of time you will learn to navigate behind the scenes to get it configured like you want it. From there you just might find like I did that you are able to navigate around the OS faster than you could in Win7.
[quote who="enoeraew37" reply="38" id="3269474"]Where are you people finding extra heroes to leave in cities..In the games I've played I've been able to recruit 2-3 champs and I need them all exploring in the field[/quote] This is entirely dependent upon the settings you're playing with. Map size and hero density, specifically.
How much active time with the device is your review here based on? What's your typical use case on a tablet? What is your tablet of choice? Not trying to discredit anything you said. I'm just curious about the above questions as a matter of perspective on your thoughts on the device.