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Reply to It's darn near impossible to hit high-defence units in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Besides, to add to Archon's statement, shouldn't defensive units -be- hard to hit? That's kind of their hat, after all. You need a offensive powerhouse to overcome them and probably other tactics to go with. As for such creatures early in the game... avoid them. You're not going to be able to tame the wilderness in one fell sweep. Some things you will simply need to avoid until you're more powerful. And this is where level 1 cities can be useful - helping to tame the wilderness and pr

Reply to Stardock’s Response to PC Gamer UK and RPS in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Kudos for the apology though I don't think it's really needed. It -was- a pre-release version and it was known that you guys would be doing a launch day patch. Picking up on that was as much their silliness as anything else. Though for the general nature of it all, it is rather unfortunate that developers can step away from games but games do not step away from developers. This sort of situation where a developer can't say anything for fear that it will be taken without any real resea

Reply to Does recruited character have to reside in city to gain his bonus? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Ah, thanks for answering. Yay farmers! Not sure on production though. I didn't see it any of the info screens so I'm guessing it's unit and building production?

Reply to Attack vs Defence...how does it work?? and some other stuff. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Damage is equal to attack roll - defense roll. So with attack 10 against defense 10, no special modifiers, it would be 1d10 - 1d10 => damage taken. Less than or equal to 0 is zero damage. It is possible to roll 0s as well as the max.

Reply to I know you guys are busy with 0-day release patches but... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Try sending in another support request. Make sure it's the right email. Make sure it hasn't been sent to the spam box. PM Frogboy himself on the forums. I understand that you're venting but blowing yourself up on the forums is about the least productive thing you can do. You just piss yourself off more while not actually progressing the issue.

Reply to Does recruited character have to reside in city to gain his bonus? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It may depend on the champion though. Some like administrator and farmer say "...to the city." not to mention that an across the board 10% boost to production or food would be really really good. An equally interesting question though is if abilities stack - if you have two farmers, do you get 10%.

Reply to how does paypal work? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

You can connect a bank account to your Paypal account. If you do so, then Paypal can draw from that bank account when there is no money in the Paypal account itself. You can do the same with a credit card. You will have to make an account at Paypal directly and do it there for security reasons.

Reply to Attack vs Defence...how does it work?? and some other stuff. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

If an attack is of the same type as the armor is optimized for, then the defense roll is automatically the best number. If it's a different type, then you roll as normal.

Reply to The idea of building your first settlement is kind of funny in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It's implied that they've attracted refugees to do so in the first place as they've been searching for fertile ground. It's like Waterworld only... not.

Reply to Attack vs Defence...how does it work?? and some other stuff. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

1 point of def over 10 gives you a 10% bonus. Basically stat modifier equals (stat - 10)/10. So if you have a 10 attack weapon with 15 strength, your total attack (if you're just using just the weapon) is 10 x 1.5.

Reply to Can we terraform "bridges" over water? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Haven't gotten that far yet. But note that coastlines are not normally walkable - you may need to 'raise' the cliffs in order to truly connect it. If you have grids on, you'll be able to see if there's a square or not to walk on.

Reply to What's with the point cost on Sovereign creation items? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Basically, it saves you about 15-20 turns for the more expensive items; things you couldn't get right away. And it only lasts a small period of time before better stuff is available. While this could be a nice short term advantage... it's expensive to do that compared to taking other benefits which are longer lasting and potentially more significant. Now if they were 'pack' items like the scout pack but only for sovereigns, that would be interesting (and not take up an item space). Some of th

Reply to Preventing the steamroller effect in War of Magic Elemental Forums

1/2 don't really stop steamrolling. They just make it take longer - after all, even if it takes a few turns longer to get to a city, you still have 20+ units ready to steamroll a handful of defenders. It's just a matter of attrition because as long as the defender really can't harm the overall strength of a stack, that stack remains equally powerful no matter what the bonuses the defender gets; in most cases, if a giant stack gets to a city, that city is already lost. As for the

Reply to Elemental: Internal debates made external in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Maybe something like... The primary city of a resource gets all the benefits of it. Other cities in the empire also get the benefits of the resource but at a reduced rate, quality, and quantity; so cities without direct access might be able to make a derived unit but it would take longer, cost more resources, and only support a small amount. The primary city can, however, send out shipments to other cities, allowing them a temporary boost to production until they use up

Reply to Sedna balance problem in Demigod Stardock Forums

That's just synergy. There's not really anything to be done to 'fix' that situation that wouldn't just screw up every other situation.

Reply to Hey community in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Since there isn't much known yet of the actual game and such, it's hard to say. My best guess from the information I have would be like a combination of Supreme Commander, Civilization, and any number of traditional turn based strategy games like Heroes of Might and Magic, Age of Wonders, etc.

Reply to A nice strategy i found to take down ANY AI and nub players (and a good strategy overall) in Demigod Stardock Forums

In other words, use team work and you'll beat a team that doesn't use team work?

Reply to Multiplay Lacking Communication? in Demigod Stardock Forums

I think part of the issue is the lack of need for communication. Other than the occasional skill combo among teammates, as long as you're doing something productive, there's little reason to talk. More and better methods of co-operative play within a match would help encourage both teamwork and team communications. Look at L4D - the need for teammates to rescue each other (something they can not do themselves unless they outright prevent it to begin with) encourages teamwork and team communic

Reply to Demigod DRM question (seems more restrictive than before) in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

When you're moving the game from one computer to the next, are you simply copying the files, archiving it, or re-downloading it? Each process will have different quirks about it.

Reply to Why does Demigod store my Impulse password in a plaintext file? in Demigod Stardock Forums

Steam games require that steam is running because they all use Steam to do 'stuff'. Impulse is completely independant of it's games. You don't need to be running Impulse to run Demigod or play multiplayer. Hense, Demigod needs to login internally that way. But yes, plaintext passwords are bad.

Reply to General Minion spam strats in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

Regardless of semantics, it's something that Stardock is looking at for balancing issues. Whether or not it's a bug or an exploit or something else will have little bearing on whether it gets changed or not over balancing issues. Something doesn't need to be a bug or exploit to be unbalanced and something doesn't need to be unbalanced to be a new and unique synergy.

Reply to [IDEA] Making curb stomps faster in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

Perhaps if one team is dominating well and good for X amount of time, they can call a match wide vote to declare victory (or vice versa, the team being dominated can issue a surrender). If enough people vote, the match ends and is recorded. If there is not enough votes, the game keeps going. If it's obviously a lopsided match, most people will probably be happy just to get it over with in good faith, I imagine.

Reply to Maybe a tweak to generals is in order in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

I would like to see slightly better AI for the minions as well as more general commands for them. General states of aggression and distance away from the general would be nice, for instance. Hold Fire/Return Fire/Fire at Will for how much a minion will act on its own. Close/Escort/Spread for how close they stay tot he general by default. Having minions without orders or doing something default to following the general. Things like this to make having minions less about trying to find and pick

Reply to Official Statement?? in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Brad Wardell did release various announcements explaining exactly what was going on. Heck, he even sent a personal letter to places like IGN so they could post up what was going on directly from him and apologize for the issues.