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Reply to Fallen Enchantress updated screenshots in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Satrhan" reply="23" id="3194039"]Manual placement has been disabled to prevent exploits (finally).[/quote] I'm not going to touch the other parts of your posts because those are your opinions and you are welcome to them, but this is just silly. Nobody should want a feature removed because one aspect of it is exploitable. A reaction much more grounded in common sense would be to want the exploit fixed, IE get rid of the teleporting city borders.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress updated screenshots in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]In Beta 4, players no longer have to manually place where they put improvements. Instead, players choose an improvement and it is placed for them. Additional improvements will tend to replace an existing one. This solves a problem we found in previous betas where cities became sprawling across the world and made navigation tedious late game.[/quote] Really not the change to cities I was hoping for. Would have preferred some inspiration flowing in from Warlock, wh

Reply to [.91] Magnar Game Observations and Pics in FE Beta Elemental Forums

If there's not a lot of randomness than every match would be more similar/boring. The system doesn't encourage reloading, it encourages making due with what you have and adjusting your strategy for each game. If you sit there and spam ctrl-N or whatever until you get an ideal spot, then that's your prerogative but it's not what I do and I don't want an identical vanilla start every single game. If I have to deal with a 3/2 start then so be it, I will. It's not a huge d

Reply to BETA 3: Verdict! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

If he didn't want opinions or suggestions he would have locked the thread and just let the poll speak for itself. The poll was for the ratings, the thread was for the reasons. He probably just wasn't expecting anything negative to be said at this point about his baby, just like with WoM (and yes I will beat that dead horse until it's bones turn to dust). Saying it's too late for significant gameplay changes is also strange. They've been saying this since the beta s

Reply to BETA 3: Verdict! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Last time I voted Poor, I hadn't seen any real development in the areas I felt were important. This time I voted Fair since the game is starting to move in the right direction IMO. I'm waiting to see what the new city system is going to be, that's an area that could use a lot of help and hopefully it will be an improvement. I still think the early game is too slow, there's far too much end turn bashing. Starting with clubs and rags works for civilization, but not here

City debuff spam is annoying. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Apparently line of sight isn't required to cast a debuff on a city, nor is being an enemy. Dispelling city debuffs every 1-3 turns is not fun, especially when you don't even know who is casting them.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress - Faction Differentiation in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Something I was thinking about in my previous post but didn't type out was something a little deeper with the mount system, but since a few people liked what I said here it is. I think all the creature lairs you can capture and all the horse and worg resources on the map should all be removed. Instead give a "creature" resource that changes depending on the faction looking at it. IE maybe Gilden would see horses while Kraxis sees spiders. Then take this resource and expand on it, so Kraxi

Reply to Fallen Enchantress - Faction Differentiation in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I'm super happy you're making faction differentiation a focus now. I have a feeling the current lore and leaders though are going to hamper this somewhat since they were originally designed to not be that different. I would suggest killing a few of them off and creating a few new races with much more obvious differences to play around with. A few races with different terrain and resources would add a lot of replayability and I can't really see that happening with the current choic

Reply to Got Beta 2? Please vote in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I would say the RPG aspect is Fair, the strategy aspect (which is still the majority of the game) is Terrible. There's no choices or interesting strategies to use, everything is vanilla and you just spam the same crap over and over every game for every race and faction. "Oh, hey look, I put spearmen on wargs, again, for the 5th game in a row. But this time they were blue, instead of red, because that matters ." I realize that was a bit snarky and I apologize, but I honestl

Reply to AI Wars: February Edition in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="27" id="3075413"] Because he's trying to write an AI that can deal with anything, or at least as much as possible. If we were all to use your logic, why write a video game in the first place? [/quote] Except that's really not "my logic" at all. No matter how it's done, adding AI strategy to deal with an early game rush is going to cripple it's long game. You either get AI's with low level sovs/champs because they c

Reply to AI Wars: February Edition in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

What is the point of testing like this? Serious question. I don't think anyone sits down to play a 4x game with the intention of winning as quickly as possibly, whether or not the AI can survive a turn 10 rush is kind of irrelevant I would think. I don't see how it could fare well anyway, regardless of intelligence. The way the game is set up your main force is your sov, and your sov is also the unit you explore with, so if you stumble across another civ in the first few turns

Reply to [BUG][0.77] Escape weirdness in FE Support Elemental Forums

It also says it brings you to your city, and the description includes hearing the sounds of the city, but ya, doesn't do that.

Reply to 0.77 Development blog in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I don't see anything wrong with the terrain as it is now, I would vote against super bright colors everywhere. Shared EXP might cause us to split our sovs and champs, but it will also make generic units even less appealing since they will "steal exp." I see people just having their sov roam the map solo crushing everything in their path (it already works, I played a game like that, with a caster), it's not really a better outcome. There needs to be a distinction between unit t

Reply to Was able to win without doing anything in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="23" id="3070033"]It would be good to have monster strength and monster frequency as separate options, but that may be asking too much.[/quote] They are. World difficulty is monster strength and AI, monster density is what it sounds like.

[Bug] Kingdom AI is building my custom Empire units... in FE Support Elemental Forums

So I'm playing as a custom empire Trog faction , I designed this cool Trog spearman unit. Was exploring the map and found Pariden, and noticed one of their cities was building my custom unit, which would be cool if it wasn't a Trog unit... There was no other Trog faction on the map if that maters.

Reply to [Bug] Magnar really, really, really likes obscuring fog in FE Support Elemental Forums

It does stack, or it did in .76 and I don't see it mentioned in the notes.

Reply to [Balance/Game-play]Current non-standard race troops in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I don't think they've touched these yet. 0.75 they didn't even have building graphics, they added placeholder buildings in 0.76 so they wouldn't be invisible. Pretty sure their stats are placeholders too.

Reply to [Bug] Too many screens opening at once in FE Support Elemental Forums

Yes. One time an enemy attacked me and I started the battle at the same time my research screen opened, now that was a mess.

Reply to Was able to win without doing anything in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I like the new monster aggressiveness a lot, I don't want to see it nerfed, but AI factions really need to start defending. I'm playing on challenging right now (world and AI factions), started with 6 AI factions and 4 of them have been wiped out by monsters already. I only had a chance to discover one of them so far, and literally two turns later I saw their last army wiped out by spiders. I'm just hoping I can find the other 2 factions before they die off too.

Reply to [Suggestion] AI uses magic too much in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Completely agree, and at the very least remove Shockwave from the auto-resolve list. Once a champion learns it I simply can't auto-resolve any more because they will drain my entire mana pool in a single fight by spamming it even against single targets.

Reply to [Bug] No item rewards while defending city? in FE Support Elemental Forums

Did you have your Sov in the city or just a normal champion? Just happened to me again, same city, same champion, another set of trolls. This time is was an obsidian helm. The champion has high str and plenty of pack space so it's not "out of space" or anything.

[Bug] No item rewards while defending city? in FE Support Elemental Forums

Pretty sure the AI has been upgraded so monsters attack cities more often, which is great. I just had a troll army attack one of my cities with a champion stationed in it as a defender, won the battle and it said I got a chain helmet, but I never got it. It didn't show up on my champion in the city, nor my sov who was like 20 tiles away.

[Suggestion] Colorable armor. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I think being able to equip faction colored armor to our units would be a huge improvement to unit diversity. Make it just like the clothing options where you have the base colored armor (what we have now), the primary colored armor and the secondary colored armor. While you're at it I'd like to see upgrades to weaker armor as the new armor tiers are unlocked, purely cosmetic alternatives to the same armor. Like when we unlock chain add "reinforced leather" or whatever that ha

Reply to [Bug] Infinite Money in FE Support Elemental Forums

I would guess it was related to her encumbrance, like the game refused to unequip it because she didn't have enough room to hold it. That staff was the only thing she had on her, and it was enough to send her over the pack limit with just -1 strength. So she had really low base str.

Reply to Enemy Champions in FE Beta Elemental Forums

It's not senseless murder, sometimes they have really good stuff. I think of them as just another green treasure node.