While they did reduce the cost of begining equpment, adding the cost of 1 food to they only way cities make money puts the cost almost back to what it was before before. Witch doesn't matter becuse the cost to make new citys in has increased X10. While the gold cost is 50% of it was the matrial cost has increased to 1000%. Add ontop that the bug with impulse updating on 64 bit XP and the patch becomes a hugh wast of time.
The Rat Quest If your hero gets killed doing the rat quest he vanishes and it says you killed the rats. My hero had 1hp left when I tried it and it took me a while to realise that he was dieing. I can see the headlines "Hero killed by NORMAL rats!" Movement When I load the game or move a different unit my king's,who has the organize ability, movement will drop to that of the lowest unit in his army. Other units with equipment that gives the a movement of 4
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I agree that the starting items are too costly. Maybe adding manufacturingup grades to towns that would let you make them at reduced cost by using resources and time to reduce the cost. With some limitations like having to go to that town to pick them up and/or not being able to train troops at the same time. I would like to see heros in hp and abilities in addtion the current point system. Maybe something like gaining HP Equal 10% of your constitution every
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I think it is fine the way it is. If you start with all the schools that less points for stats and abilities. I stared with just the enchantment school, and will try just the Earth school next time. If you have all the schools then you can focus your spell research to take advantage of any type elemental crystals you find. While if you don't the right type of spells then you don't get the spell power ups.