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Reply to Fantasy strategy games: What are people playing? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I'm really enjoying AoW3. It has a great Random Map Generator and I really enjoy the extensive tactical battles. The patches have much improved the game I think. I like to play XL two-layer maps against 7 Non-Allied Emperor AIs, with Starting Distance = Far, Medium armies, no roads, few Cities and Dwellings (there will still be enough), Many Treasure Sites (basically dungeons) and I like to build up a killer stack with my Leader and starting hero and 4 other troops and g

Reply to 16 Engineering hours for LH v1.7 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Well, Triumph has been doing a pretty good job so far with AoW3. But it is true, these two organisations are among the best.

Reply to Spellpack DLC - what do you want? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Yeah, some good ideas suggested here.

Reply to 16 Engineering hours for LH v1.7 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

For new tactical spells, how about Dispel? You would decide whether it would include strategic spells cast before the battle. But for balance purposes, probably it would remove both negative and positive spells and effects on one unit only, else it might be too strong. Or you could have a fairly expensive global tactical spell that removes all positive and negative spells and effects from all allies and enemies, possibly even including strategic spells that affect combat.</p

Reply to Chris Roberts--Star Citizen Updates & Info in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Last thing I heard, is that you can get reconstructed a number of times, and there is special surgery that keeps you going for longer in the one body, but that eventually you expire and pass your holdings and ships onto another character who you also control. I don't know if anything has changed since I heard about that.

Reply to Chris Roberts--Star Citizen Updates & Info in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Oh well, as least in this game you often get to be blown up a few times before you actually die. ;-)

Reply to Elemental Status: March 2014 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Btw: GFireflyE what is the inspiration for your handle/moniker?

Reply to The leaders of the Leader Pack in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

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Reply to Elemental Status: April 2014 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Okay, they get the benefit of the doubt then. But the first name of something does have a habit of hanging on. ;-)

Reply to Elemental Status: April 2014 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Yes, I don't think they should have called it spouses DLC if it was just new Leaders. I think that was a bit misleading, and set Stardock up for extra disappointment I think.

Reply to Ticker Trouble For The Redneck in Everything Else Elemental Forums

All the best! [e digicons]|-)[/e]

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.6 is live! in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Have fun everyone!

Reply to Warlords III and what Elemental could do differently in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Thanks for your post tjashen, I really enjoyed it. And I am enjoying AoW3 too. :) You know, I got W3:DLR for free when Steve Fawkner, the creator of Warlords, was feeling generous after Australia won the cricket that year. ;-) It was a really nice gift.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 1.4 Changelog in FE Support Elemental Forums

If nothing else, the professional and decent thing would have been to release the patch. Even if not all the work had been done, it would have been better to edit the OP and release what was done. It IS unprofessional and bad PR to leave a previous game hanging with an unreleased patch while you go on to the next game.

Reply to Microsoft issues patch for Word zero-day – booby-trapped RTF files in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Hey, it will be ages before that happens. [e digicons]|-)[/e]

Reply to Starting Sovereign Path in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

With the mods that have new spellbooks, sometimes the new spellbooks can be bought with The Decalon, too.

Reply to CurrPorts–An excellent utility to have. More info, options than Netstat and Fport. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Good find.

Reply to Eli's Miracle Makers in Everything Else Elemental Forums

I'm willing to bet that life is going to get a lot better for a lot of people, really soon. And no, I'm not going to describe exactly why. For those who are unsure or ambivalent, why not wait and see? Life does not always get worse.

Reply to Big Disappointment in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I have removed the two iobit programs I had on my computer (Smart Defrag and an old version of Game Booster) based on this thread. It even seemed to block the install of Auslogics Disk Defrag Free, unless I got a bad download. But I deleted the relevant registry entries (iobit) and used MoveOnBoot to delete the iobit folders before Windows 7 properly starts because they seemed to be blocked from deleting once Windows had started. ;-)

Reply to Big Disappointment in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Also, Iobit programs don't uninstall properly. And a funny thing is, I uninstalled Iobit Smart Defrag and tried to run Auslogics Disk Defrag Free and it doesn't even run. Seems that their practices have got a bit dodgy. I wonder how long it has been going on, or whether it is just coming to light now.

Reply to Couple of questions for a newbie. in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Editing the minimum distance requires editing some core XML files or perhaps creating an XML edit file from the Mods folder. It is not an option in the game interface.

Reply to Couple of questions for a newbie. in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

The yield numbers on a particular tile already include the yields from all other tiles around it - basically the yield of a particular square is what you get from that tile and the eight tiles around it. There is a minimum distance between cities that is enforced (which is actually quite low currently) and I think it can be customised for the next game you play.

Reply to Elemental Status: March 2014 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

This means that at a minimum in the 2.0 update, is to release these features and factions properly balanced and tested. There's no reason to add all the new features if the core game has unfinished elements. Brad and Stardock, I suggest you release the 2.0 game with all the features you've talked about, plus the ones DsRaider has talked about here.

Reply to Modding questions/help thread in LH Modding Elemental Forums

I wish that new races had the option to be Kingdom only or Empire only, even if the pre-made races were unable to be changed. It seems a shame that new races don't seem to be able to choose the option for Kingdom only or Empire only.

Reply to 1.5 Betrayers still works on a city that is "immune to magic" in LH Support Elemental Forums

I always imagined it as a case of bribing corrupt guards who would give you the keys to the city... or something like that.