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Reply to Is it a Bug where you can only build Piers/Logging Camps if the town starts by them? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="18" id="3278379"] Quoting Bellack, reply 9 Snaking was a horrible feature and the DEVS did right in changing it. It was one of the most annoying things about the game at that time. Yeah right, they changed it. Snaking used to have at least six uses. In order of importance: 1) Dominion push (controlling territory, flipping outposts) 2) Fast travel (moving along a city costs no move) 3

Reply to piers/logging camps in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Bellack" reply="42" id="3278359"] Quoting Tuidjy, reply 14 I just wish the developers would finally see the light and remove the ridiculous restrictions on snaking to rivers and forests. It's completely counter-intuitive, there almost no one who likes it, it's makings dozens of people asking questions. Seriously, if your rules are so convoluted that old timers are confused about how exactly they work, as evidenced in at least fo

Reply to Is it a Bug where you can only build Piers/Logging Camps if the town starts by them? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="6" id="3278337"]Don't change it, it's fine. [/quote] Give players the option to decide. Manual Placements = Snaking Allowed Auto-Placement = No snaking allowed. Curtail the AI to behave differently depending on the setting. 100% players happy instead of just <a id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl05__LinkUser" class="hand" title="Click user name to view more options." onclick="Sd.Menus.showMenu

Reply to Is it a Bug where you can only build Piers/Logging Camps if the town starts by them? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Yet another thread about river/forest snaking. It's almost like the community is speaking out to someone for an implemented change. [e digicons];P[/e] @ WarlordAlpha : It's not a bug, but there are many on this site that feel it should be. Browse around and you'll see a d

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 1.02 Update Now Available in Elemental News Elemental Forums

[quote who="Mistwraithe" reply="17" id="3278151"] Quoting GFireflyE, reply 11 Spun it up for the first time and ran at 370K. WOW. Not bad. A little higher than 1.0, but greatly improved from the 700K in 1.01. Then started my the game and was further impressed, only using 550K of memory. Just as well. At 700kB you can't possibly run the game, even with as many drivers as possible loaded into expanded memory. 550kB should be OK so long as you get

Reply to piers/logging camps in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="38" id="3277749"]As usual, GFireflyE is 100% correct. [/quote] Wow. Wish my wife would read this. XD

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 1.02 Update Now Available in Elemental News Elemental Forums

Good Morning Since I made several comments and concerns about 1.01, I feel obligated to comment on how 1.02 progresses in the realm of memory for 32-bit machines. Spun it up for the first time and ran at 370MB. WOW. Not bad. A little higher than 1.0, but greatly improved from the 700MB in 1.01. Then started my the game and was further impressed, only using 550MB of memory. Early game transitions and UI movement run very smoothly as well, so another tip of the hat

Reply to piers/logging camps in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="crimsongekko" reply="35" id="3277561"]this whole thing seems to be taken out of proportion imo. devs made the right choice here, as otherwise the restriction would become way less meaningful and city placement decisions easier. it's solid design, and citysnakes are godawful... in the future they could come up with a system similar to civ5 culture expansion which would be nice, but for now I think it's fine. want a lumbermill? settle next to forest. there's a better til

Reply to piers/logging camps in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

You all forget, AI still tries to exploit this and completely fails at it because it's not allowed. Change the AI to build cities in appropriate locations or allow snaking.

Reply to What's the scoop on ai razing immediately in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

It's a bug...or at least it should be.

Reply to What does Influence actually do? in FE Support Elemental Forums

It's boring. Needs a complete overhaul imo. Heroes should cost influence to hire, not gildar. Additional heroes should cost incrementally increased influence. Empire growth should be a dependant factor based on how much influence you have. I put together a suggestion proposal that can be found here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/433096

Reply to piers/logging camps in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I'll add something to this topic....that's slightly off topic. Since there is major concern that snaking can be abused by placing buildings out great distances, why not just implement some code restricting expanding the city past a tile until that tile is completely filled with buildings? As is, each tile only requires two buildings, diagonal from eachother, before you are allowed to proceed onwards to the next tile. If this expansion were cut in half by requirin

Reply to [Suggestion] Is Beastlord OP?. Should tamed beasts have mana upkeep? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="jutetrea" reply="20" id="3276215"]Please do not change, its fun. Last game i had 2 spiders and 2 great wolves all game - wasn't much, but helped a lot in the beginning. I babied those poor fragile great wolves till they were giving out +13 attack to all troops at the start of a battle. [/quote] I think this really hits a good point to why troops are so hard to make work for the longhaul of a game. You need to build them eary. You then nee

Reply to Metacritic - Let's Write Some User Reviews While We Wait for The Professionals in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="unacomn" reply="45" id="3276325"]Guys, really? Metacritic? Really? Don't buy into it, don't give that monstrosity power. Or at least not as long as my reviews aren't on it. [/quote] While I agree with you, sad thing is that Metacritic is very much like Steam. So many people have blindly flocked to it because of the convenience of what it offers, sacrificing the freedom that they should have within that program's scope, that now m

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 1.02 changelog in FE Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="14" id="3276036"] Memory is what I spent all day on. We might be able to have our cake and eat it too by optimizing textures further. [/quote] Woot! Woot! Greatly appriciated! Thanks Brad. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 1.02 changelog in FE Support Elemental Forums

Would also like some love shown towards us 32-bit users. (keeping in mind of course that any refinement for the 32-bit users is only that much more efficiency for the 64-bit users, stretching how far they are able to go) As mentioned in the 1.01 performance thread, 1.01 seems to demand more memory up front than it's 1.0 predecessor. If this could be retweaked, I would be GREATLY appriciative. If it can't be fixed, please revert back to 1.0 model for memory consumption. I

Reply to Metacritic - Let's Write Some User Reviews While We Wait for The Professionals in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="40" id="3275984"]Metacritc Score is up now, 78. [/quote] That's the reviewers score. Also, Game Spy really screwed it up because they gave 3/5 stars....and when metacritic posted the 70 score, they mentioned that 3/5 DOES NOT equal 70, indicating that under a different system based upon percent that the score would be higher. I did the math...3/5 DOES 70. So, Game Spy screwed up and should actually SAY WHAT THEY MEAN. (not that it chan

Reply to [Suggestion] Conquered cities should keep their race... in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

YES!!! PLEASE!! [e digicons]:pout:[/e]

Reply to Metacritic - Let's Write Some User Reviews While We Wait for The Professionals in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

In a way it's kinda sad, but once you chip off the rudeness off the negative comments, there is actually a lot of good points to be made. The more I played FE in the late beta's, the more I felt that the game wasn't ready for release. Than they released it....and I've been very disappointed. I play it occasionally still, but more for bug testing that anything else in the hopes that one day a patch release will fix everything still missing in the game and we'l

Reply to DLC Requests in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Sandbox Story-Arc Quests. Each Sovereign should have a bi-directional plot line to follow (if the player chooses to) in the sandbox mode BEFORE the Quest for RPG victory can be started. What I mean by "bi-directional" is that each sovereign has their 'natural tendacy' and their opposition to that tendacy. As the player, you should be given the choice through the story arc quests to follow a good path or an evil path. IMO, including this approach woul

Reply to [Suggestion] Is Beastlord OP?. Should tamed beasts have mana upkeep? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Agreed. Tamed beasts should have a mana upkeep to keep them tamed. Makes a kind of sense that this realm operates in....and also brings some balance to the ability. Also agree that Bandit Lord wears thin once bandits are no longer a threat. There should be some way of further upgrading the bandits you've bought over so that can remain competitive in the late game.

Reply to 1 Summon per champion restriction needs to be gone. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Definately agree that the concept of summoning NEEDS a revisit. Being able to summon multiple copies of creatures would be an excellant start. Being able to summon more variety would be awesome as well. However, I caution that summoning can't become too powerful that troops are again ignored. The fact that summoning doesn't require use of the city queue in itself is a HUGE benefit. If you had the ability to create an army through those means, troop production would cease.

Reply to v1.01: Performance - well?! in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="31" id="3273750"] While the turn transition appears to be running more smooth, I have to say that the UI has become 1000x more buggy. Often now in 1.01, I'll play for 10-15 turns and than parts of the UI disappear on me and I have to save....exit....reenter...and load....to continue the game. It's to the point where I'm planning to revert back to 1.0. Completely unplayable in it's current state. [/quote]

Reply to v1.01: Performance - well?! in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

While the turn transition appears to be running more smooth, I have to say that the UI has become 1000x more buggy. Often now in 1.01, I'll play for 10-15 turns and than parts of the UI disappear on me and I have to save....exit....reenter...and load....to continue the game. It's to the point where I'm planning to revert back to 1.0. Completely unplayable in it's current state.

Reply to Snaking Mod -- Does it exist? in FE Modding Elemental Forums

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="14" id="3273128"]This is why I always build my lumbermill first so I never run into this problem. Build lumbermill then rearrange the que if necessary. This shouldn't be the case, but it is what it is... [/quote] yeah, was going to build lumbermill first, but stupid thing autobuilt instead.