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Reply to [Comment] I don't like the building placement system in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="43" id="3061020"]That's just an awful idea. It adds a ton of micromanagement, the proposed balancing makes it either irrelevant or obligatory, and it forces you to plan every building in your city maybe hundreds of turns in advance. If you want maximum efficiency it will force you to create very oddly shaped cities, leaving gaps for buildings that you might unlock through research or leveling. Like Mtrixis said, we're not playing sim city here. [/quote]

Reply to [Balance] Offensive Spells Suuuuuuuuuuuck in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kantok" reply="7" id="3061014"]If the game is easy no matter what path you take that doesn't say to me that everything needs to be nerfed. It says that the game needs to be harder. [/quote] I think what you're saying here is the game needs balance. [e digicons]:D[/e]

Reply to [Idea] Improving Improvements in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Upgrades! Very much needed. 9 tile limit - I'm not really a proponent of hard limits.

Reply to [Comment] I don't like the building placement system in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="29" id="3060671"]Some ideas for new functions in cities: - casting chambers and similar - improves spellcasting for stationed units, makes mana maintenance on stationed units half cost - some sort of building that reduces wages for stationed units - towers that increase line of sight around the city - some sort of strategic military power, that allows you to attack approaching enemies at range @ la civ5 - bu

Reply to [Balance] Heroes Getting Out of Hand in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Because level caps are blunt and crude, and there are definitely more elegant yet simple ways of creating an organic and transparent sense of balance. Also, in addition to having level prereqs for items, items ought to use attribute and skill prereqs. This would certainly limit the amount and quality of items available to champions at early levels.

Reply to My Beta Experience so far in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Paladins!!!

Reply to [Balance] Heroes Getting Out of Hand in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Going back to the hero maintenance idea, when a hero is about to level up it should say somewhere on the splash screen something like "Hey boss, I feel like I've worked very hard for you over the past few seasons. I demand a 1.7 gildar per season wage increase if you want me to continue performing better." Then you can select whether you want the character to level or not. If not, you can choose to pay him/her off at any time in the future.

Reply to [Balance] Heroes Getting Out of Hand in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Level caps = epic fail. Try EVERYTHING else first.

Reply to My Beta Experience so far in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote]My personal suggestion is to add level caps, which can be increased via the tech tree.[/quote] For the love of God - no level caps, please.

Reply to Shards in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Good suggestions. Having spent LOTS of time modding spells in WoM, I can reasonably respond to a few of these issues as concerning WoM. [quote]ALL shards should be beneficial to you other than increasing the mana that you generate. For instance, to double the effect of say, a fire spell, you almost have to control the whole map to get 5 or 6 fire shards to create that effect in some spells. What if the map has only two fire shards? You're sort-of stuck in a bad way.

Reply to 0.75 First impression in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Good stuff - and thanks for the screenies.

Reply to [Suggestion]Two old movement complains in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

They are planing on implementing movement path. As far as your second point of automated moves occurring at the beginning of the turn, not sure this is really a big deal.

Reply to [Suggestion] Caravan setup should be automated in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Agree. A civ style system where roads provide trade and unit move bonuses would be great.

Reply to [Balance] Heroes Getting Out of Hand in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Silicor" reply="38" id="3060843"]There should also be monthly wages for heroes, standard units are way more costly.[/quote] I like this idea, and maybe the maintenance ought to be based on the heroes level.

Reply to Core gameplay goals not met in FE Beta Elemental Forums

From the outside looking in, hearing all the "this is uber", "that is uber", "I pwn everything" - this is exactly what SD wants to hear. They specifically said they want to know how people are winning the game, and what tweaks they would need to make. To me, it would seem like, well, basically what seanw3 said in his post above. The AI needs work. Tweak leveling. The monsters need to scale better, and be more logically placed. And it seems maybe the loot needs to

Reply to [Comment] I don't like the building placement system in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Yes - increase the maintenance of a building based on distance from the city hub. I think something like this is implementable without completely changing the city-building mechanic. It is also simple and fairly intuitive, and will help reduce city sprawl and snakiness. Edit: And maybe building your city a certain way can bring about certain new city improvements or champion skills (don't have any absolute ideas here, just throwing it out there.)

Reply to Impressions / sort of AAR after my first full game of FE beta in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Maybe they can increase the maintenance of buildings the further away they are from the city hub.

Reply to Impressions / sort of AAR after my first full game of FE beta in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I think the city sprawl would be much reduced if they correctly implemented building upgrades.

Reply to [Balance] Heroes Getting Out of Hand in FE Beta Elemental Forums

It's a very slippery slope to adjust something like this. Baby steps are what's needed.

Reply to [Comment] I don't like the building placement system in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I can see both sides of the coin here. I enjoy city building, but in EWoM I would just build out towards the resources I needed to engulf, then would build out from the city center to create a 'flailing starfish' looking, radial blob-like amalgam. The 9 tile limit is a good idea, but imo it would still be interesting to place buildings where you want them. I still think having buildings upgrade, which require leaving space for those buildings to expand, or

Reply to Suggestion: End of Production Notification in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I always miss this notification in WoM. Maybe a little more of a visual flash, or a more distinct sound, or even the icon pops up in the middle of the screen for a moment then slides into place to the right of the UI.

Reply to [Suggestions] FE Beta Thoughts -- Update in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I do not agree with number 2. That's how it worked in WoM. One building queue per city is plenty to keep track of. I doubt they will change it.

Reply to WOW! THANK YOU! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="39" id="3060048"]It was a grand launch from this side of things. I don't have the game yet, but was able to watch hours of livestreamed play. Even through proxy, the fun factor was felt. It seems the game has been improved from every angle. Everything from interesting terrain and cool magic effects, to more sensible creature loot and greater diversity of gear, to faction differentiation and improved character development. And more. After WOM, It is hard t

Reply to [Balance/Idea] Designing Units With Traits in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Also not being in the beta as of yet, these sound like fine ideas.

Reply to WOW! THANK YOU! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Congratulations to a successful beta launch Brad & Co! It's good to see I was completely wrong.