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Reply to Heroes and leveling - boring? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jean=A=Luc" reply="49" id="3335436"] I really hate exp enhancing traits/perks/feats in general. They are either useless noob traps or mandatory free power that makes early leveling boring. Would hope to see them completely removed (except as starting factions traits and such). [/quote] This! Xp enhancing skills are illogical, because XP is the means by which you aquire those skills. If people feel these are necesary, then perhaps the XP req

Reply to Administrator-Trait: do you use it much and let Heros stay in cities? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

ok so, same problem as before. administrative heroes are still useless, basically. we need heroes to be able to gain some administratively related xp while governing a city. The exact numbers can be tweaked so that it's generally weaker than adventuring, but the concept has to be there

Reply to Are heroes supposed to be able to be killed? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

opinions aside for a bit. I believe that the way heroes are supposed to work, is that if they fall in combat, they sustain a semi-permanant "injury" and are returned to the front line or to the nearest city, depending on the circumstances. AFAIK, it is not possible for any hero or champion to die permanantly, and any behaviour in which that happens, is a bug. unless the developers have made some statement to the contrary, any hero which is "killed" and then removed from your empire, i

Reply to ok so I conquered an ennemy city 93% unrest... really?? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

MONEY!

Reply to Monsters Ignoring AI players (again) in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

fwiw, i think all monsters should attack any target of opportunity. Whatever process they may use in determining a target, the presence of a player-controller (or lack thereof) should not influence their decisions in anyway if the AI isn't able to evaluate local threats, and either eliminate them or keep a force ready to defend from them, i think that's another matter which needs work.

Reply to Some water spells should not require water in the vicinity in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

tidal wave is amazing. but the map generation can make it hard to use. Given that there's no boats or naval warfare in the game, there's generally no continents either, the whole map is one big island with just a thin ring of water around it.

Reply to No Multiplayer in Fallen Enchantress. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

for what it's worth, me and my cousin care passionately about hotseat multiplayer, we want to be able to take our own faction each and conquer the world together however he's expressed other more pressing concerns regarding a relative dearth of factions and leaders, lack of religions and civic/governmental controls, and terrain artwork. so multiplayer isn't the highest on our most desired list

Reply to Pick 5 THINGS for FE 1.3 in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

On #1 that is by design. then please change the design. we should only lose all our city militia if all of them died. any that survived should be available for subsequent battles

Fallen Enchantress is still unstable in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

so after taking a break from this game for a couple weeks, i came back to find a few new patches. I'm planning to get my cousin into this game soon, as we both used to play FFH together for hundreds of hours, and loved that. Unfortunately, the state of the game still feels unfinished and lacklustre. I still get frequent crashes on loading saves or ending turns. I talked to my cousin about this game the other day. The first thing he pointed out was the

Why does FE allow aura stacking ? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I've mentioned this issue before, but i feel it needs highlighting again, considering changes to shieldwall and henchmen in the upcoming patch. I believe the biggest balance issue in FE at the moment, is the ability to infinitely stack "aura" abilities. That is, things that boost your army, such as Shieldwall (+3 defense to whole army) +3 def on an army is quite reasonable, and it makes a nice ability. But if you put another unit in there with the same ability, your army g

Reply to Why are the discussions here so good? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

two simple factors: 1. You are small. Stardock may be growing, but it's still a fairly minor player in the grand scheme of things. Rates of disruptive behaviour in forums are generally proportional to their traffic level. For a small developer, your limited fanbase means that those who do come to post here, really care. whereas in a larger forum, you get people trolling because they have a vast audience. 2. The genre. Strategy games, and especially non-compe

Reply to Suggestion Skill "Adventurer" overpowered in FE Support Elemental Forums

I have to disagree. Champions just aren't that useful in the grand scheme of things. For a champion to be good, you have to nurture them and level them up a lot, put fancy gear on them, etc. Because of the way they share XP (very badly) combined with a limited amount of stuff to equip, dungeons to explore, and monsters to kill, means that imo you're rarely accomplishing much by having more than 2-3 champions

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 1.1 Changelog in FE Support Elemental Forums

I don't care much for the changes to curgen's volcano. With this it just goes from overpowered, to unuseable. in either case it still fails to be a suitable component of the game. 500 mana for one spell is a rather expensive cost, but 2000 is pointlessly high, so as to be unattainable until hyper-lategame where you're already strong enough to win. The casting time is a good thing to have on it, although 10 turns is a bit too long, i think 5 is fine. The mai

Reply to Working on Fallen Enchantress 1.1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Frogboy: In gathering user feedback regarding balance, it may be helpful for you, or another developer, to open targeted discussion threads on particular topics (such as city levelling choices). Threads started by staff always get more attention ^^

Reply to [bug] Ai getting prefrential treatment from Ai Monsters in FE Support Elemental Forums

definitely agreed. sometimes roaming beasts are too strong (like a swarm of ophidians early game) and they don't touch the AI, but hound you mercilessly. it's just plain cheating and i don't like it. the worst case is when there's a dragon that roams around near some map chokeppoint, cutting off your troop movements, and yet allowing enemy armies through. I once had to fight a REALLY slow war against magnar because there were 2 dragons between him and me,and i couldn&#

Reply to [Q] Why is 'auto' setup this way? in FE Support Elemental Forums

autoresolve is terrible if you use archers, beasts, or any other kind of low-defense unit, or any units which aren't at full health. it seems to automatically allow the enemy team to do a certain amount of damage, and it distributes that damage in an overflowing single-target manner, starting with the lowest HP unit it's really pretty broken. my familiar can't be killed if the enemy doesn't have archers, i'd protect him too well!

Reply to [Poll] Insta-roads and city snaking in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

3 the way building placing is implemented is silly imo. I think it should be implemented just like CIV - The single core tile of the city is all that matters, and all the surrounding buildings are just visual effects which don't affect anything instant appearance of roads is mostly fine to me. Maybe you could have caravans autoplace roads as they go, if that makes more sense.

Reply to Adventurer's Guild vs Governor's Manor in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

i think the xp per turn values are still not enough. I'd make the townhall a guaranteed +1 and the manor a guaranteed +2. the national wonder thingy can be +3 Remember that at higher levels, it starts to take 300+ xp to move up a level, for one small trait. even at the val,ues i've suggested that's still 60 turns at the fastest, maybe too slow.

Reply to More cosmetic design choices? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Khorak" reply="8" id="3282371"] What does my head in is that female Mancers have such a profoundly crap selection of clothes. They don't even have trousers. Or the fantastic female-only shoulder cloak.[/quote] agreed here. Pariden has the same restrictions. It seems that the available selection of fabric meshes is restricted by race (or faction). Perhaps this is intended to promote some sort of visual similarity between untis of the same faction, but i thi

Reply to [bug] Enemy's score.. Supercharged jump on 59th turn in FE Support Elemental Forums

that IS an insane jump. maybe some world superpower got drunk and surrendered to a tiny nation? :p

Reply to Would you pay for a printed copy of the manual, Hiergamenon, Spell Book, and Monster Manual? And how much? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wizaerd" reply="2" id="3281826"]No, because it'll be quite out of date within a few updates.[/quote] this.

Reply to Why modding FE is worthwhile long term in FE Modding Elemental Forums

this is good news to hear. Though as they say, actions speak louder than words. i'll be waiting to see how things pan out in the longterm before making any commitment to modding. I'm disappointed in the relatively terrain-independant design of FE though. in civ you build improvements on tiles, and work the land around your city. Yet in FE it seems you only work the tile the city is placed on, and everything between that and the next town is just wasted space.

Reply to [1.02] 100% magic based attack damages Ophidian in FE Support Elemental Forums

The game's definition of magic is quite narrow. As far as i can describe it, "magic" is effects caused by a spell, which is selectable as an action in combat, and falls in the "spells" category of the tactical combat skillbar screen. Elemental damage which does not come from a spell, isn't considered magic. even if it is quite clearly from an enchanted staff throwing magical bolts of fire. I'd agree that the current way it works is illogical. But how SHOULD it work

Reply to Why do standard sovereigns suck so bad?! in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

i have an idea for adventurer. As altar are currently the most overpowered faction, i propose nerfing them and fixing relias at the same time. Take the altar ability that gives +1 prestige for completing quests, and make that the function of the adventurer trait. Altar would be weakened, but he'd now have a trait that perfectly suits his playstyle. And that trait would be avilable to custom soverigns for other races too.

Reply to A way to hide helmets? in FE Modding Elemental Forums

i think a better way would be to make it a choice. Having your soverign/champions face visible would boost the morale of troops, providing some bonus to the army, at the cost of sacrificing some personal defense. Perhaps +1 initiative, attack and defense, and +3 dodge, spell resist and accuracy, for every helmetless champion in the army. Small bonuses but they'd nicely supplement groups of trained units.