tjashen

tjashen

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Reply to Why does the Modding community make better star trek games? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I also participate in another 'Trek' community, specifically the Starfleet Command guys. A general opinion there is that B&B were a negative influence things on all things Trek overall... Abrams isn't helping either. C'mon guys, using a beer factory for Engineering? Is THAT the best you can do? Back on topic, though. The Hollywood types who oversee licensing aren't the best guys for maintaining continuity, etc. they just like pretty products.<

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Reply to [eWip] Tech Tree Consolidation Mod, version 1.0 (1.1 compliant) unreleased in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Roadmap for the next release. 1) The descriptions under Empire for CoreFlavorText.xml are lacking. Kingdom has five levels of response, Empire only has two. I'd like to add additional description levels to Empire just for flavor. 2) The Empire Tech tree seems a little dysfunctional, so I'd like to streamline it in some way. 3) Looking into restructuring Item availability. Specifically, making items available upon completion of a structure, rather than

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Reply to [Tutorial] Making <Calculate/> work for you! in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Just a quick note. I've tried several iterations, but have NOT been able to get calculate to work outside of the spell environment. Not saying it can't be done, just that I've tried, and Heavenfall apparently has too... I'd absolutely love to make that Mage's cloak that gives the wearer an Int/3 bonus to his defense... instead of a set value.

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Reply to Building Demo in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

For now, I'd suggest using buildings, as that's been proven to work. Some structures are tied to city level, so if you tie your tech to a structure that becomes available at a certain city level, that'll sorta kinda accomplish what you are trying to do. You could create new buildings that only take 1 turn to complete, but those would take up space you might need later. Perhaps if you had an upgrade to the Beacon of Hope at L2, etc. to unlock your other techs? As fo

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Reply to What did I do wrong? in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

What I ended up doing was renaming those _Amarian spells to something else (_custom). I'd suggest you do this in the spell list as well as the tech tree, then point your race to the new list under your race file, which should be sitting in the Races folder of MyDocuments/MyGames/Elemental. I find that sometimes the game won't 'overwrite' the existing tree if the spells have the same name. So it's best to refer to different names, that way you KNOW it's seeing your list.</p

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Reply to (Suggestion) Sovereign Starting with a Spell in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Murteas" reply="1" id="2851507"]https://forums.elementalgame.com/402601 I happen to agree with you. Feel free to post your ideas to the thread linked above. I am making a mod that gives starting spells to Sovereigns. [/quote] Sweet Murteas! One way to do this would be to have the Beacon Of Hope (or Empire Equivalent) grant 25 Arcane Research points upon completion (thus earning you a spell), i.e. enough

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Reply to Building Demo in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

OK, just tried it exactly how you wrote it. Once the Beacon of Hope was finished, the tech appeared in my Completed Techs window, the research techs available down the line appeared on the Warfare track, and plate armor appeared in the shop. There was no popup notification about this, however, so under the current situation, it happens invisibly. As for removing the techs from the tech tree, but still having them appear, that's an experiment for another time. Anyone?

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Reply to Building Demo in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

I'm poking around with the Beacon of hope now. I'll insert your code and see what happens. Give me a few minutes...

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Reply to Ditch the Tech Trees in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Das123" reply="24" id="2851231"]That looks cool, Tjashen. I'll be interested to see where you take your mod.[/quote] It's close. I'm having an issue trying to rename the last tech for Empire (have already renamed Domination as Exploitation successfully). It's a variable issue, or an accidentally deleted > thing I'm thinking. Going over the code now. Kingdom is working fine. I won't release it until Empire is also working f

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Reply to Custom Opponents? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I've been able to play against my custom faction, but as mentioned, I usually play said custom faction first. I like filling that 10th opponent slot...

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Reply to Horses in 1.1 ? Missing ? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I've seen a few Horses resources on the map, so they are there. I have even been able to exploit them (add horses to my resource cue). That being said, the random distribution of resources does have a lot of feast and famine though. These days, I've always had a food resource nearby, a Shard most of the time, but anything else is luck of the draw. I once had three arcane temples within 5 squares of my Sov at game start...

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Reply to Brad, will you please teach Firaxis how to write multi-threaded AI? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Civ 4 bored me right out of the gate. I ended up letting my brother have my copy. The new features seemed more annoying than interesting. As for Civ V, well I'm focused on Elemental at the moment. The setting is more interesting. You can only beat up on the Russians, Egyptians, etc. so many times before it loses the thrill. Plus, Elemental is easier to mod than I originally expected ,and has me wondering about doing a GalCivII mod now. This

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Reply to Discussion: How should each school of magic "feel"? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

This has always been a personal preference of mine, from back in the day when I first picked the game up, but I always loved having a Fire Giant and Fire Elemental in my group, and said creatures throwing around fire spells. Made me feel more in tune with my chosen element. These days (due to the random seeding nature of Elemental Shards), Elemental Spell Lists don't seem as 'personal', since you pick them as you need them. That being said, I'd like a minion or two from th

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Reply to [eMOD] Adventure Content Pack v1.41 [for 1.2] in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Cool looking mod! Someday, I'll actually get to use it (keeping my Mods folder clean for now for testing). A quick idea on the 'Empire' NPCs not being able to use the Kingdom stuff. Maybe you could create a 'third' tier of weapons and armor, that appear under Kingdom but show Empire equipment? I realize that this may require modding a few files though (so that the other files know of the existence of these items). You see, that Kingdom merchant actually has f

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Reply to Empire AI builds granaries but no food in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I've seen this a lot in captured cities. While you COULD say that the AI is building in anticipation of a food source appearing nearby later in the game, the fact is that the AI check for Granaries doesn't take into account whether or not the city actually produces food. Another something for Brad's 'to do' list...

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Reply to Bug? Ancient Ruins, Quest Location lvl. 3 in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Currently, if you choose not to fight the monster/spider/bandits/etc. the quest location disappears from the map, and you then have no way to complete it. This is a known issue, and hopefully it will be fixed in an upcoming patch. My recommendation is to always save before moving on to a goodie hut, so that if you end up choosing 'no', you can just revert to your savegame and the quest is still there for later. A pain, I know, but that's the option for now...

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Accelerated Start in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I was thinking about this yesterday during some testing I'm doing... BTW, thank you Stardock for starting people out with 5 Materials in 1.1. This is very helpful! For players that wish things to get rolling a little faster, an 'accelerated start' might be nice. The way I'm thinking of implementing it is to edit the Beacon Of Hope (or Empire Equivalent) so that it provides 1 Tech and 1 Arcane point per season, and perhaps summons a Peasant as well. Since yo

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Reply to [eWip] Tech Tree Consolidation Mod, version 1.0 (1.1 compliant) unreleased in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

I'm about to take the Empire files for a test drive. While I'm Starting/Quitting/Restarting/Quitting/Restarting... if you could give me some feedback on something: Currently, the Empire Tree has 3 starting techs in each of Cooperation/Domination, while the Kingdom Tree only had 2 of each. I don't like the idea of 6 choices in the initial Consolidated tree aesthetically, so I'm thinking of 'mirroring' the Empire progression for the extra two techs (i.e. add a prerequisite f

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Reply to Understanding Adventure/Domination Techs in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm poking around in the Empire files now. I've been adding 'Game Effect: Raises 'x' Level. More monsters appear.' to the descriptions for my own mod. Just thought I'd point out that 'The Old Order' raises Notable Locations (Goodiehut) Level, so a Level of 6 in Notable Locations is possible with Empire...

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