[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1" id="3270576"]It's not a proposed map pack. It's the first DLC. If you don't want more crafted maps, don't get it. [/quote] That's not a really good answer. This is more akin to 'horse armor', it is a DLC that very few people will care about (since most people prefer playing on random map), and will waste a lot of goodwill from people your company just barely restored. <
I understand. I remember you mentioned Ivory Towers mod somewhere else. I tried to look for it, but I could not find any thread about it. I assume it is still in-house project.
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Because AIs are bad at dealing with monsters in general, increasing world difficulty actually makes the game easier. Probably the most difficult setting would be world difficulty as 'novice' and the AI difficulty 'insane', but then again, at that point, the game becomes more of chore than enjoyment.
[quote who="seanw3" reply="595" id="3271167"] Quoting wnmnkh, reply 594I do ok-ish with Expert when tech progression is normal (just beat one game), but with epic progression, due to the fact that it takes really long time to get anything done for army upgrades, it gets relatively way too hard compared to normal progression. What I want to say is that there shouldn't be much difference in difficulty in same difficulty setting like stock game. I understand
[quote who="seanw3" reply="587" id="3271043"]You tried to play on expert? Are you mad? I don't ever play above a normal world difficulty. The faction AI can be set to expert or higher. I like them on Chuck Norris as it provides a side step from Expert. The world difficulty increases how fast lairs upgrade. Don't go above what you can handle. The mod is designed to provide infinite challenge at the higher difficulties. Epic pacing will take most of your life to get through. Otherwise i
Sean, did you try play on epic setting? I found it just nearly impossible to play because of really slow tech progression, and relatively too fast monster strength increase does not match well.
[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="13" id="3270712"] Then Battlecry.[/quote] Only works if that mage has more initiative than dark wizard.
With Mage Sov with right skills and very high initiative can easily kill that Dark Wizard, but you will have very hard time if your sov is warrior-type hero and no counter-spell available or with not enough magic mastery (he has fairly high magic resistance) That said, you can say he is actually stronger than a dragon. It's nightmare when you find him too late and you know your city's influence will hit his keep too soon, making him destroying your cit
I also whine too much about this game (look for my threads) and while quite many of them are valid, I can't say I can agree on sov and races. Each time I play sov, my platstyle differs... greatly accordingly. The way Alter, Trog, Resoln, Magnar... they are rather quite different from others. (with one radically different) And please do not compare it to Xcom 2012, it literally has no replayability or whatsoever.
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With setting up world difficulty higher than AI indeed makes AI struggle hard, but I don't see much strong evidence that monsters are aiming for city more often. Indeed there are more cities being razed by monsters.... But with such high monster density and too many of them roaming around, it should be much more destruction. I say this is just inconclusive.... I don't see an evidence claim that monster overestimating city guards, but then, saying otherwise is also claiming w
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I did auto-run for 12x8 map, setting epic, everything dense/plenty except resource being moderate. all stock factions plus Capitar and Umber custom sovs. Difficulty is Challenging/Challenging. After about 270 turns. I removed the fog of war. In short, AI cheats on monster aggression. As I said, all AIs have semi-immunity for monsters. More description : it cheats real hard. Even more description
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[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="166" id="3268944"] Quoting wnmnkh, reply 165I don't think I have ever opened diplomacy window since the game was officially released. You should. You can get paid to declare wars, and you can get some cash for your tech. Also, I find that, sometimes, you can get away with selling horses and wargs. And of course, once you kick someone's ass thoroughly enough, it's well worth it for make peace, get trade/tech treaties
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[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="164" id="3268921"]I believe that as of .992 non-aggression pacts and tribute offers had absolutely no effect on an AI ability to declare war. Given that I have not seen anything about that in the changelogs, I expect the same is true for 1.00 and 1.004[/quote] Wow, I almost forgot this bug. Quickly making non-aggression pacts by giving them so much gold only to be get attacked immediately atfer just several turns.
[quote who="Blackmantle_" reply="22" id="3267374"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 10The worst time I had, was with a beta a while back. There were a group of Umberdroths from the Caves wildland(can't think of the name) that went straight from destroying one city of mine to the next, they destroyed every city I had, 5 in total. They didn't even pause from city to city, now a days, monster kinda wander around lazily, but these guys systematically destroyed me in a ma
It's hardcore 4X game.
[quote who="seanw3" reply="14" id="3268901"]I noticed a memory leak that is causing AI units to gain traits they should not be able to get. Heroes are getting Unit_Design traits. The debug was sent when it crashed a few turns later. Hope it helps you nail down the leak. This is technically AI cheating, but something that is relatively easy to fix.[/quote] Like many people already said and said again outside of this Stardock forum repeatedly, the game engine is really, r
[quote who="seanw3" reply="2" id="3268900"]For the save thing, send in a few saves and your DXDiag in a proper e-mail to [email protected]. They probably need to either fix some compatibility issue. This is usually the sort of thing they are willing to spend IT time on.[/quote] I did, several times, long time ago. Never fixed. My GPU is ATI/AMD anyway so I really don't expect fixes anyway.
[quote who="feelotraveller" reply="12" id="3268889"] I'm interested in the omissions from this list. Is the AI insta-building multiple city improvements not a bug? Is the founding of 30 populations cities by the AI without expending a pioneer not a bug? If the answer to these questions is no then I find it hard to reconcile with statements that the AI is playing by essentially
Some of the really old, forgotten yet annoying bugs... 1.) Sometimes unit automatically move to a tile where an enemy unit was there after the tactical battle was over. Obviously it does not pick up the loot as well, forcing the player to waste a turn. 2.) Saving Pioneer from Wildlings quest does not work properly. When you choose to buy it from them (100 gold lost) it works, but when you decieded to fight them, the pioneers mysteriously disappear
I am the one of the people who use the term 'cheat', and I think you already found the answer yourself unintentionally. We all aware that, there is no way, AI can compete against humans properly (hey, even abstract games like Chess, you need a super computer to beat a human, as far as I concerned.), so it is inevitable that AI needs helping hands to fight well on harder difficulty setting. What makes me, probably many others is that AIs vi
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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="31" id="3268639"] I'm not sure what you want me to say. It is what it is. The monster AI doesn't even look at outposts (yours or theirs). It doesn't explicitly target them. The only time it'll destroy an outpost or a mine is when it fails to find something to attack and looks to a random destination and then it has a chance of caring whether the tile is empty or not. But that's the
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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="23" id="3268551"]I'm going to quit arguing this because there is no way to change the perception of this: The monsters attack the AI just as much as humans. It's a placebo effect when players think they are attacking the other way. Only at difficulty levels above challenging (on world difficulty) do monsters start to look at the players differently. But on challenging or less, it's a random roll without knowing who it's going after.  
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So far playing on Challenging like I said in the first post... 1.) Quickly obtained couple of U mberdorths and a Hoard Spider. Like many things in elemental, this is too much random-based. If I had gotten same setting in last game, I would had so much easier game indeed. 2.) Unlike last game, AIs used global spells, but only on city-related spell. Nothing is surprising as Krax managed to grab one of my cities instantly using Broke
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[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="8" id="3268353"]Might want to change the title to "cheat". "Chest" way too much confused me, although most people probably aren't as dense as me.[/quote] Thank you for pointing out. Fixed!
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[quote who="Guilebrush" reply="7" id="3268352"]Yeah I have to agree that the AI bonuses aren't handled in a reasonable way even considering the high difficulty settings. I'm curious to know if anyone has won something on Ridiculous or up without using something like Beastlord or completely lucking out from a random event or loot (collars with favorable beast spawns for example). It's one thing to be behind the AI and trying to play catch up, but to have them popping won