"which do you consider the best faction traits?" Enchanters, possibly Decalon if I'm playing a faction with Creatamages (Henchmen or Sions), Master Archers if you want to play with Archers, Masterwork Chainmail because I value 4 initiative more than ~5 defense. Really depends on what you want to play your faction as, though - there are all kinds of very strong combinations you can come up with. "Is wanderlust (quest m
[quote who="DsRaider" reply="8" id="3408408"]Mental Parasites: Your Intelligence agency comes to you with alarming news. A alien parasite has secretly spread across the galaxy. Moral decreases and planets and ships have a chance of rebelling to a new minor faction.[/quote] Well, at least we ought to have good population growth and the people (aside from moralists and certain religious groups) ought to be pretty happy, though perhaps not
[quote who="jim_viebke" reply="161" id="3407169"]I shake my head every time a sci-fi writer mentions one ship being "faster" than another. Or that ships "slow down" when their engines are damaged[/quote] I tend to view this as an acceleration metric - if Ship A has a thrust-to-weight ratio of 2 and Ship B has a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1, then Ship A is "faster" than Ship B because Ship A has a higher linear acceleration, and can therefore catch up to Ship B if both ships started at
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[quote who="Replicators" reply="10" id="3407161"]GC2's ship builder is miles ahead of SD.[/quote] It really depends on what you want out of the ship designer, though, doesn't it? GC2's ship designer lets you make ships that looked more or less like anything you wanted them to, as long as you had the patience to place all the little pieces and had the parts you needed. It doesn't make the locations of the non-decorative parts important - as examples, the orientation and
Personally, I wouldn't mind having the option to turn off the badge, since it takes up a lot of space and I think it looks kind of ugly; besides which, I wasn't interested in the badge when I purchased the game. Nor am I particularly inclined to put up a big sign that says "hey everyone - look how much I just spent".
I rather liked the way Sword of the Stars did tech trading, where the tech trade is essentially a joint research project that either party can cancel. It gives you an incentive to maintain good relations with a partner for a while, and also doesn't allow you to just go around vacuuming up all the technology in the galaxy that can be had for love or money. It was also something that required a bit of investment into making sure you had go
If they include an alignment system similar to that of Galactic Civilizations II, I would like for it to not be possible to lock the alignment in place. And I'd also like for the choices affecting the alignment not to have the options of 'stupid good', 'maybe not the brightest neutral', and 'why wouldn't I do this evil', especially since if we really wanted a specific alignment we could just pay for it later if the current alignment wasn't what we wanted to
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[quote who="Fallenchar" reply="12" id="3405134"]Joeball: penalty for trying to apply logic to a fantasy game.[/quote] [e digicons]>:([/e] Umpire, I dispute this call - fantasy and logic are by no means mutually exclusive; the logic need only be consistent with the fantasy. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
[quote who="Sifer2" reply="4" id="3404743"]Well part of the problem is justifying it at all in a Space conquest game. Since realistically ships in orbit could just bombard any ground resistance into ash one they have uncontested control of the space around the planet. The only reason to send in ground troops would be to subdue the population, and secure key facilities without destroying them. Though in theory you could also just destroy their food production, and wait for them to surrender wh
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I suppose I should have mentioned that the interest rate in the formula I gave has to be the per-compounding period interest rate, meaning that if you compound monthly at an annual rate of 5%, I = 5/(12*100). [quote who="chuck1es" reply="8" id="3404714"]My concern is it sounds like the Beta access one requires you to still purchase the game.[/quote] I read it as being just like the advertisements which tell you the price you pay with the special deal being offered, and then co
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[quote who="Jarac" reply="6" id="3404703"]Considering that you get Alpha access and the future DLC included with your purchase, I don't see how it's a bad deal. [/quote] Which is why I said "it depends on what your criteria for worthwhile is". I then proceeded to give an economics-based breakdown of how to decide if it's worthwhile, which requires you to make several assumptions about how the game expands after the fact. If your criteria is more of an "is it fun" k
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This depends on what criteria you use for "worthwhile". If we ignore interest and inflation, $60 is worth 6-12 DLC packs at $5-$10 each, or three expansions at $20 each, or something midway between those numbers. If we don't ignore interest, then assuming a 5% annual return on investment compounded monthly, that extra $60 is worth about 1 $6 DLC pack every 5 months for the next 5 years, with ~$10 left over at the end of that period. Another equivalency over the next five years would be 2
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[quote who="Apheirox" reply="7" id="3404558"]@ joeball: I didn't particularly like the Prestige model, either. I will freely admit that I didn't get to experience it much since I joined FE around the time LH was released and did not play a whole lot of games of FE. I recognize that FE had problems (population requirements for city levelups were far too high, for one, which LH has fixed), some of which I'm probably not aware of. I supposed I should have made this clear in the origi
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"1) That's the problem exactly, there aren't enough unrest-reducing buildings, hence why I said adding could be [part of] the solution. Cleric-line is for Conclaves only, other cities get a 20% reduction maximum (Bell Tower + Town Hall). The only good way to reduce global unrest is Fortresses." - Apheirox Unless it's been changed for 1.4, you can build a Cleric and its upgrades in any settlement that has at least 1 essence. <p style="paddin
[quote]2) How am I generating these research points I have available for trade in the first place? Is it some percentage of my main research that gets converted into 'research currency'?[/quote] Each time you research a technology you get some percentage - I think 10 - of that technology's research cost as tradeable tech points. [quote]1) When I trade 23 points in warfare for 17 points in Yithril AI's civilization tech, what exactly do I get? Are those 17 point
My information comes from the XML that Primal put up, which can be found in CoreSpells.XML. [quote who="Apheirox" reply="2" id="3404065"]With +1 attack and +5 accuracy per friendly, it would seem swarm is very strong early in the game but gets significantly weaker later. Not sure I like that (why would superior numbers stop being useful?)[/quote] Yes, Swarm gets weaker in the later stages of the game, but it still isn't terrible. While the accuracy bonus is negligible once
Swarm does not lower the defense of the target. It does, however, provide the attacking unit with +1 attack and +5 accuracy per friendly unit adjacent to the target. Thus, if you have F T F X A X where F are friendly units, A is the attacking unit, and T is the target, A gets a bonus of 2 to its attack score and 10 to its accuracy (X represents an empty square).
[quote who="Apheirox" reply="2" id="3403863"]2) Mages are generally not expendable units, but the game does tend to put you in situations where you have huge amounts of crystal. Crystal availability should possibly be decreased, because mages should not be throwaway units.[/quote] I get the feeling he's referring to Mage champions rather than Mage units, since he said "spam its spells upon the juggernaut," which makes crystal availability less of an issue (though that depends to s
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[quote who="Crono908" reply="15" id="3403493"]Is it possible to add features from War of Magic that would make the game more interesting? Such things as dynasties?[/quote] To a limited extent, yes, it is possible to bring dynasties back into the game. There have been a couple of threads on the subject, including this one: https://forums.elementalgame.com/448640/page/1/ You can try
[quote]The spearman in second tile can't hit the enemy right but, it can. Just have it use it's impale on the friendly unit in front of it and the enemy unit will get hit, not the friendly. Was great! Made spearmans really good in super tight spaces because if a melee unit moves in, it'll be getting hit twice whether it likes it or not. Quite a few juggernaughts died this way to the wall of spear[/quote] Impale can also be targeted on empty tiles, which is useful for getti
It is a bit funny, though, since the quest that gets you the Brothers Sparus unit of spearmen is almost guaranteed to make you fight a (?Giant) Ravenous Harridan if you activate it at a time when you're still using an early game army, and that one is listed as 'weak' (this, of course, is assuming that you choose an option which results in gaining the Brothers Sparus). I don't know about you guys, but I'd consider a quest which results in a nearly guaranteed fight a
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[quote who="sjaminei" reply="13" id="3403480"]This is a great idea actually. Mod it?[/quote] If you want to do so, you can - I'm certainly not going to stop you. I myself probably won't.
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[quote who="webusver" reply="11" id="3403154"]If units are cheap, then every mine becomes more important because it can help more and quicker.[/quote] I disagree. Mines are only valuable up to the point that my metal income matches the demand for my desired production rate, and if units get cheaper I don't need as many mines. Once you have the minimum required number of mines to meet your desired production rate, you don't need any more mines, so the only value mines beyond th
On the other hand, the point where Karavox's title cut off is rather amusing, given the background they gave him as a traitor in the minds of the Kingdoms.
[quote who="Foraven" reply="28" id="3403096"]Thanks guys for the imput, i think i have what i need to get started. I think i will restore the damage types, maybe add an Arcane type for the magical weapons i plan on adding... Hum, lots of stuff to do .[/quote] One thing to note is that if you decide you don't want to restore cutting and blunt damage, you have access to two damage types that are already fully defined, with associated definitions for defense and resistance a