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Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Borg999" reply="386" id="3265270"]Quoting pdifolco, reply 385No way I ever use Steam.Period. I refuse to be able to play only with online permanent connection. To be fair, I beleive Steam has an "offline" mode.[/quote] Not for all games. I was given Empire: Total War as a Christmas gift, and you can neither install nor play it without a permanent online connection. That was my first bad experience with Steam, but not the las

Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I can't stand Steam. I was given Empire: Total War as a Christmas gift, and I have only played it twice. Because of Steam. Why do I have to be logged onto the internet to play a game I paid for? This is the same reason I will NOT be buying Diablo III. Forcing me to be online to play a game that I bought to play on my computer is not acceptable. If I want to be online, I'll buy an online game. I love Stardock; I've enjoyed every game I've bought fro

Reply to Final votes for Beta 3 in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I voted Poor for the reasons I posted in this thread: https://forums.stardock.com/423742 I haven't been able to play a game past 30 or 40 turns because of those problems.

Reply to Monster Aggressiveness in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

Kongdej, I would love any tips anyone can give me. To reiterate my original post: Difficulty : Easy or Normal. Monster frequency : Moderate (default). I WANT to be able to fight monsters, to build up my custom sovereign and give experience to any units that can accompany the sovereign. What I find unplayable is monsters that are FAR stronger than I am within

Monster Aggressiveness in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

I think I missed something in the posts about Beta 3. I gather from other posts that monsters are supposed to be more aggressive in this version. Here's my experience: Have started over a dozen games, on both Easy and Normal difficulty levels. Moderate monster frequency (the default). EVERY SINGLE GAME I have started since downloading Beta 3, there are monsters within 3 squares of my starting city. Every single game I encounter a monster within 10 squares of t

Reply to crushing blow and mauling effect in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

In one recent game I played, every time I encountered a bear it succeeded with the first attack and then made 4 consecutive Maul attacks. I only dodged successfully on the 5th Maul. This happened at least twice each in three different battles. Not once did my unit dodge until it had taken 5 attacks. Even groups die quickly when they take that much damage. I find it exceedingly unbalanced when something as low-value as a bear can do enough damage to kill itself in one batt

Reply to Got Beta 2? Please vote in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I am quite enjoying the beta, but then I pretty much loved WoM too. I do have two things to suggest for improvement. First, SPEED. I've said it before, but the game is SLOWWWW. I know that it's beta, and as a programmer the thing I hate to hear most is that a program is slow. That's the hardest thing to program for, in my experience. However, when it takes 10 seconds to react when I click on the end-of-turn event popup, the delay becomes insanely annoying. And

Reply to Got Beta 2? Please vote in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I voted Fair for a couple of reasons. First, the game is BEAUTIFUL. As much as I like WoM, all the graphics for FE 0.86 are better, simply gorgeous. Second, there are some very cool improvements. Most notably, interesting equipment and items. Most importantly, the ability to upgrade existing troops instead of disbanding and building new. Third, speed. I realize this is beta, but it is SLOWWWWWWW!!!. I am running on a Dell computer with Windows 7 Home Premium and 2 GB o

Reply to [Kudos] Liking a lot of the new equipment in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I'm also enjoying the new gear in 0.86. Toxic Longbow, Glyph Helm and on and on and on. Nice improvements.

Reply to [0.85] Bows Bug in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I'm seeing this bug in version 0.86, too. Just as you said, the archer fires slowly about half the time, and about a quarter of the time it acts as if it fired but never does damage to the enemy. If it's the same as the bug with bows in WOM, the speed issue will get significantly worse if you have mounted units in your stack. In WOM, the archer's speed would slow down to around 10 to 20 seconds before it would fire when there were mounted units present.

CRASH in FE Support Elemental Forums

Playing version 0.8.6.0. I've crashed 3 times in a row after defeating a Fire Elemental and trying to take the loot from his square. The loot is different each time, and I've crashed in 2 different steps. The first crash I had received a Shortbow (forget the description) and I crashed when trying to have my Sovereign equip it. The 2nd and 3rd times I crashed when clicking OK to acknowledge the item I had received. Definitely liking t

Reply to Balance Question/Issue in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Thank you both for your replies. Desraider, I'm playing on novice level because just as I was ready to move up, after playing several games, I ran into the issues I described. AlLanMandragorn, clearly some of my problems are with how I do my early game research. I've never even considered the methodology you described, but will give them a shot. Neither of you has quite addressed the question of why the factions I encounter are consistently so much stronger tha

Balance Question/Issue in War of Magic Stardock Forums

It appears to me that the balance of the game has been substantially changed in the last few releases. I started out playing at Novice level when I first bought the game. AI players at that time would be weaker than me, or at least no stronger when I encountered them. Suddenly, from 3 or 4 releases back, AI Players are always 2-4 times stronger than I am, even when I am playing on Novice level and the opponent(s) were added at Novice level. For instance, I just qu