LordCobol

Reply to [BUG / SUGGESTION] Cannon-fodder on top of my sovereign in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

"loot owned by a defeated enemy is lost" Not actually the case this time. I won. The king & two pawns survived, with just one pawn dead. Ring missing. edit 09/24/2009 10pm pst - anyway, my main beef was with the pawn apparently being in command of the stack and getting the ring in the first place.

[BUG / SUGGESTION] Cannon-fodder on top of my sovereign in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

So I built some pawns to help the sovereign take out some trolls. Maybe I moved them out of the city in the wrong order, but one of the pawns was on top of the stack (when I clicked on the stack, I saw, his stats, not the sovereign's. Shouldn't channelers & heroes always be on top of the cannon-fodder ? Then when I took the troll base, the pawn got a ring that I would have wanted to go to the king. Looks like loot goes to the stack leader. I can live wi

Reply to [BUG-duplicate] Enemies visible through fog of war when they move in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

But shouldn't moving units be a little more visible than stationary ones? OK, not necessarily visible halfway around the world, but visible a little bit inside the fog-bank.

Allies / Vassals / Tribute in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

The bit in the dev journal a while back about spinning off parts of your territory as vassal/allies got me thinking -- lack of vassals was one of my main gripes im some other games. Presumably vassals are almost like alles, but the vassal automatically votes for the overlord in any vote to determine planetary ruler, and his territory counts as part of the overlord's for determining when the overlord has enough to end the game. Also, probably the vassal is automatically at war w

Reply to Minimap doesn't display anything in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Me. I've tried left&right clicking on the thingies in the corners, etc. Always just nothing except a circle thru which I see the part of the background that I would see anyway.

Reply to -- Survey -- Stardock requested System Specs in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Agree with Espio

[SUGGESTION] improve the built-in units in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Example, on turn 1, with just the starting tech, you can design a new unit that will be a LOT better than the starting "basic guard". Granted the better unit will take longer to build, but it will have the same maintenance cost, so the economics only make sense to bypass the built-in units, and always make your own. I think that would be a pain, so I vote for good-enough built-on units so we don't have to build all our own. Personally, I got tired of designing ships in Gal

Reply to [SUGGESTION] Don't let me end my turn without researching something in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Do something. I could live with most of the suggestions above better than I could live with forgetting to research for several turns.

[SUGGESTION] revise the "available improvements" list in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

In the city building screen... I find the pop-up building names a bit annoying. Better if they could just always show the name. There would be room for the name (and for bigger pictures of the building) if they moved the list to one side of the screen and moved the city map off-center to the other side -- especially on wide-screen monitors. This shouldn't be too hard for them -- its what GalCiv2 does :) Also, I'm not in love with

Reply to Total War Type Battles in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

A big part of WoM will (I hope) be insanely powerful heros who can zap a enemy unit with a single thunderbolt. So even if they tried to make battles like in Total War, it wouldn't play out that way. I agree with what pigeon said about the emotional involvement we might feel in TW-like combat with any enemy dragon bearing down on us. But I really, really agree with what others said about TW battles taking too long and getting boring. And I agree with Demiansky that MOM battles are still fun

Reply to [BUG] Memory leak(s) in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

The "debug.err" files I have sent them include lots of what looks to me lke references to memory leaks. I *think* by now they have mountains of evidence to help them track them down. Here's the last several lines of my current file, presumably written just before it crashed. DebugMessage: Not all memory has been freed from memory system AStar. DebugMessage: 37908 bytes of memory still allocated. DebugMessage: Unallocated Mem: 129 bytes of memory from line 218 of F:\Projects\Ku

Reply to [BUG] Generated river weirdness - screenie inside. in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

But somebody was obviously having fun with the "fork" in the river :)

Reply to Is there an army list ? A town list ? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

"after selecting one city or one army youcan use page-up and page-down keys to scroll between them (however it feels a little buggy here too.)" Yes, it definitely skips some of my cities (at least once I have 6 or 7). -------------- "they are probably already in the pipeline for a later Beta as they are pretty basic things that stardock spotted the need for in GC2" Absolutely. I think we can take a lot on faith here. But maybe we should go back to GC2 to refresh our memory, and the

Reply to [Suggestion] How we select units. in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

"There should also be some automatic/Next unit selection (hitting n key for instance)" Agree. But I'm not too worried because I *think* they are going to eventually implement all such convenience features that we had in GalCiv 2 and its expansions. (If only I remembered what they all were)

Reply to [BUG] Entry movie is too corny in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I loved it.

Reply to [Bug/Interface] Mouse pointer inaccurate in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

" having the square the cursor is on light up so you can see where it is" That might be good. Something needs to be done.

Reply to [Suggestion] auto move at the end of the turn in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

agree

[SUGGESTION] healing in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Looks like the sovereign only heals when he drinks the Kool-Aid. Couldn't he at least heal 1 hp per turn naturally?

Reply to [BUG LIST] User Interface problems in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

By "mouse pointer inaccurate" I guess / hope you mean the bit where you right click on an enemy and your guy moves next past him instead ? Drives me crazy.

Reply to [Suggestion] Dude who moved my pawn? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

yes, please

Reply to [BUG] Camera slowly shifting to the side in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Me too. (XP sp3. 3gb ram. Ati 2600xt with current drivers)

Reply to [SUGGESTION] - Unit Movement in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Agree

Reply to [PERFORMANCE] Alt-tab of doom? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I've had the black screen twice in a row after alt-esc (not alt-tab). Process not responding, etc, etc. Closed it & on my merry way. But earlier I had alt-esc & gotten back with no problem. XP-pro sp3. Ati 2600xt with current drivers. Core2 Duo E6750.

Reply to (Crash)game wont load in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Same problem. Seedy's fix works, although I have only one monitor. ATI 2600 XT. Drivers current as of last weekend. XP-Pro, with MANY non-standard settings intended to make it more secure.

EULA nitpick in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

It seems to have been over-hastily copied from GalCiv 2, as I see two references to the old game that maybe should be updated before anyone has to take the legalese too seriously ? "6. Create "mods" based on the documented functions of the SOFTWARE to customize it and upload those "mods" to GalCiv2.com." "Updates can be obtained from the website at https://www.galciv2.com or via Stardock Central (http://www.sdcentral.net)."