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Reply to Why is city spamming bad? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm with tamides on this one. It's a personal preference, of course, but I know that for me anyway, conquering 40 AI cities after I've defeated the faction's main army is more work than fun. Also, like tamides said, I don't think it fits with the lore. And, to top it off... I ususally can't think of 40 good city names, haha. As for a reason for why it's bad to city spam, I don't think there is one in the sense you mean. There is no downside because you can found an outpost for n

Reply to Elemental Mod example requests in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Alright, what I'd like to see is how to link a faction's current resource level, in this case diplomatic capital, to another game mechanic, such as influence, with some nonlinear function. It'd be a great way to illustrate how to implement a (somewhat) advanced operation in Python, and would be an interesting game mechanic (for at least one person!).

Reply to Linking Influence and Diplomatic Capital is Fun and Exciting for You and Me! in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

I think I read in one of the stickied posts that it increases your interfaction relationships, but I haven't tested it enough to see for myself. I was thinking of some sort of nonlinear function providing diminishing returns and that caps out at about 4 tiles for ~2000 or so. Increasing the trade value and reducing the income from Scenic Views from (2 to 1 per turn) would help balance this out, I think.

Linking Influence and Diplomatic Capital is Fun and Exciting for You and Me! in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

...or would be, if I could figure out how in the world to do it. Linking your current level of diplomatic capital to the mystery influence algorithm would make spending this resource a difficult choice, rather than having it be just another form of gold. So, accumulating (the now valuable) diplomatic capital would increase your area of influence, but could be spent (thus reducing AoI) to negotiate treaties, etc. So, my question for you is, does anyone know if it is possible to link a

Reply to Better AI/Much harder gameplay/Slower pace in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

If "Epic" feels to fast to you, as it does for me, you can mod this with about a minute of work. Copy and paste the ElementalDefs.xml to your mods directory. I bumped up the tech as follows: 4 1.8 1.50 Now, I've put off playing more tha

Reply to I agree with Tech Knowledge to research spellbooks and Arcane Knowledge to learn spells, and levels from a particular spellbook. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I think this is a great idea, personally. I wonder if this is something that can be modded...

Reply to Putting things in perspective in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Honestly, I'm doing absolutely nothing to stop any of these things. But, I do think it's funny that a "Putting things in perspective" post is only saying that other games are worse than Elemental (which they are). That really isn't much in the way of perspective. My world certainly isn't ending because this games has problems, and I can't really put myself in the shoes of someone who is genuinely angry about this. With that in mind, I agree with the broad point of the poster. I'm not

Reply to Putting things in perspective in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Hmm... not to be Debbie Downer here but, there are well over 100 million people in the world who go to sleep every night without enough to eat, there's the systematic murder of ethnic groups, rape of women, and abduction of children in Africa and elsewhere, regular abuse of domestic servants throughout many Middle Eastern countries, etc. But, I guess this game having some bugs and balance issues is pretty bad, too.

Reply to [suggestion/logic] Horses and wargs in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Agree completely, I didn't really mean to imply otherwise. My personal opinion is that a game should model the real world to a degree that remains fun. As spears (and pikes) were developed as a counter to cavalry, so should they be in the game.

Reply to [suggestion/logic] Horses and wargs in War of Magic Elemental Forums

"No, they did not. The pikemen did." Correct, although this contributes very little to the thread. The OP's point remains valid, mounts should really be more powerful than they are currently.

Reply to The game will be great in X months! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Against my better judgment, I'll take the bait. 1) You are right about one thing, everyone does seem to think that their idealized perfect game is just a few patches away. Everyone, understandably, has a different opinion of what that game is. What actually makes this possible is the ease of modding this game. So, if you have half a brain, and are willing to put in a few hours of work, you can change the mechanics to whatever your little heart desires. Elemental is actually fairly uni

Reply to [eWIP] Sundered Lands - A Dark Sun Conversion in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Very very cool. Best of luck, my friend.

Reply to [Inquiry] Dark Sun Mod - Interest? in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Wow, sounds like a fantastic idea.

Reply to Larienna's very long review of Elemental ... Part 1 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Just as a quick comment, I disagree with as many points as I agree with. Having your sovereign not actually be a unit, for example? My understanding of this game was to be a TBS/RPG(ish) hybrid. This seems counter to one of the core game designs. Too large an area of influence? Many people dislike having tens of identical cities. Hopefully the devs will take this as just one person's opinion, albeit a thoughtful and well written one.

Reply to SOMEONE make this map NOW in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Pretty easy to fix. Open the map xml file. Save as some other name. Delete all text below the TileData tags except for ForestData and " " at the very end. This will delete all scripts and "props." Load it up with the Cartographer's table and add randomized start locations, save, and enjoy! Resources will be automatically generated when you start the game.

Reply to [suggestion/(demand?)][Gameplay] A rally against 1DN rolls in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

THANK YOU! It almost makes me want to kiss someone.

Reply to [suggestion/(demand?)][Gameplay] A rally against 1DN rolls in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Could not agree more, especially with stretching the distribution by modifying the SD. If I could give karma to every single person on this post, I would. We want Gauss! We want Gauss!

Reply to Possible bug in adventuring research tree in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I've also experienced this...

Reply to [suggestion] interrelating tech trees in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Yeah, I agree. Alpha Centauri did it best, imho.

Reply to An Apology to the Devs in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm sorry, what exactly are our mistakes as fans of Stardock? I think the hating is a vocal minority, personally.

Files that are "safe" to edit? in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Does anyone have a good idea of xml files that still cause problems when edited and placed in the Units directory? For example, I've had success editing the ElementalDefs file with no ill effects (that I can tell), but editing some improvement files seem to cause doubling of production costs and resource income. Apparently, some tags were causing stacking instead of overwriting game variables... is this still the case? Thanks!

Reply to [eWIP] Weapons oh so beautiful weapons in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Wow, very impressive. Any katanas in the works, by any chance? [e digicons]:D[/e]

Reply to [Suggestion] New Spellbook Ideas. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I'm personally all for something like this. I've been thinking about something like this, myself... but I'll probably wait to see what happens with the magic system over the next few patches. I was thinking about adding a couple new shards, collaping a couple of the elemental ones. Anyway, good luck!

Reply to [Suggestion][Customization] Tactical Magic Quickslots in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Amen!

Reply to now its my turn to be pissed. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Agree completely, for what it's worth. I am (was?) actually pretty excited to hear about upcoming changes, specifically to the magic system that was hinted at, but... I guess if I was working at SD, I'd get pretty tired of having my professional competence questioned on every post, too.