Gandhialf

Gandhialf

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Reply to On Sieges in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

Let's face it guys - we need proper city sieges : with archers on city walls and siege units. There is siege mechanic in every single HoMM and AOW game. Even the latest ones, with 3D engine, have this (in HoMM it looks a bit lame though). I know making siege mechanic costs and those games have bigger budget, and but it's worth it. Archers leaving city walls to defend the city, really? If sieges won't make it to vanilla SK, than make a DLC for SK (or for FE:

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Reply to Do people agree with any of these points regarding intangibles and randomness? in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="3499340"] We don't plan to hide the intangibles. One of the reasons for this is that it's important for players to know the variables that the game is playing with. Otherwise, they'll think everything is random. [/quote] Fair enough. But did you consider making it a little vague by representing them using words instead of numbers? It could something be like this: none, very low, low, average, high, very high, ex

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Reply to Don't Go to the Steam Forums! Yikes! in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

[quote who="XWerewolfX" reply="78" id="3499483"] I'm not sure why you'd expect friendliness when you've filled your review with semi-personal attacks and general objectively untrue statements. [/quote] Do you mean objectively untrue statements about the game itself (not about friendliness of developers, etc.)? If yes, could you elaborate on this? I don't own the game and I'm genuinely interested.

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Reply to Don't Go to the Steam Forums! Yikes! in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="71" id="3499459"] Quoting Dr Franknfurter, reply 70 Pass, for example doesn't skip that unit it simply sets the current movement points to 0. This seems like the same thing, but it means that instead of pass being functionally similar to a 'wait' command, <b

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Reply to Don't Go to the Steam Forums! Yikes! in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

Guys, I think it's a good idea to focus on issues discussed in the review. Please don't reduce this to personal stuff. It's not worth your nerves, really. And wasting time for this will hurt the game itself - less talk about game mechanics, more talk about who called whom grognard (I mean, really?). So to the point: [quote who="Dr Franknfurter"]The game has the same strange bugs and mechanics that have lingered in every Stardock game for the past few years, so

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Reply to Sorcerer King: Week 1 in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="HenriHakl" reply="8" id="3498998"] I feel it is important to have these intangibles not be implemented in a purely elementary school teacher manner. (In other words, being cruel only has bad effects, being famous only has good effects, etc.) Intangibles should be about trade-offs, not a moralistic lesson in min-maxing. [/quote] But this is good vs. evil game, isn't it? One suggestion: if the player is extremely cruel, angry and generall

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Reply to Like Sorcerer King? Review us! in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="XWerewolfX" reply="3" id="3498615"] As I stated in my PREVIOUS POST [e digicons];)[/e] it's written by Devildogf! [/quote] Haha! I thought you've meant "I made a review just like (other dude) DevildogFF". English is not my first language [e digicons]|-)[/e] Your review is thumbed-up by 8 users and thumbed-down by 4 users. It's not downvoted to oblivion [e digicons];P[/e]

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Reply to Beyond Legendary Heroes in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="3498454"] I don't have budget approval on this so this is merely an internal proposal I'm sharing with you guys. The FE code-base is on a different path from SK so other than engine backports don't expect to see different graphics or UI backports. They wouldn't work. [/quote] What do you mean by "engine backports"? Will we get more efficient engine (less CPU and memory usage)? In terms of UI I'd j

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Reply to Beyond Legendary Heroes in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Nice! Will 2.0 or this mini-pack backport graphics or/and UI elements from Sorcerer King ? This will be a very easy way to make me pay for it (and [e digicons] [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition sounds nice and informative, but (I'm sorry, but I cannot restrain myself) Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Elementals sounds even better [e digicons]:P

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Reply to Future of Fallen Enchantress in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="3498065"] Yea, there's going to be a lot of back porting early next year. [/quote] That's so great ! Graphics (SK looks gorgeous) and UI (magical all-purpose end-turn-button) are on my wishlist.

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Reply to Future of Fallen Enchantress in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Primal_Savage" reply="1" id="3498053"] https://forums.stardock.com/457886/page/1/#8 [/quote] Thank you. So no graphical and UI update I guess? I'm still pleased though, FE:LH is really worth updating.

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Reply to Sorcerer King: Feeding the Dungeon Master in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

How do I know that the Dungeon Master is not a troll? And you know what they say: don't feed the troll [e digicons]:grin:[/e] But seriously: I love the idea of an AI director behind the scenes. I secretly hope that DM will troll me from time to time! EDIT: I have an idea for a DM mechanic. DM could calculate player's luck (something like: how many times player rolled 0, instead of 20, if you know what I mean). If player is lucky/u

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Future of Fallen Enchantress in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Hi! I'm very excited about Sorcerer King and plan to buy it at some point (after release, I don't play betas). But one thing concerns me: how will future patching of FE:LH look like? I know you guys are not planing to abandon the game in near future, but how long are you planing to develop patches for it? Will it get 2.0 update at some point? Could we count on future graphical / AI / UI / other updates? Will you release additional DLCs? I'd love to see a road map

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Reply to Return from 2020: Super Cruise Control in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="TheRealWarpstorm" reply="12" id="3477006"]For everything, except for graphics shaders, IIRC. C++ is a great choice for AI and game logic, why would you want those parts to run slowly?[/quote] As far as I know people use different languages than C/C++ for non-engine stuff because it's faster to write and debug. In C to iterate though an array/list you have to: [code="c++"] for(i = 0, s = sizeof(an_array); i { &n

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