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defeating Morian in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I defeated Morian and all the monsters are cleared from the swamplands, yet the swamplands haven't been converted into lands that can be settled.

0.952 Shrink needs to be nerfed / Champion spear should be nerfed too in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

Shrink is a very powerful spell. Most of the battles against the most powerful monsters, slags, dragons, etc., become trivial when they are shrunk. Maybe depending on the size of the monster will determine how much it is shrunk; e.g. a cave bear can be shrunk 50%; an orge or troll can be shrunk 30% as well as it's attack; a slag maybe 20% and loses that much; drakes or dragons shrunk 10% and loses only 10% of it's attack. -- Champion spear give

Reply to [952] Broken quests in FE Beta Stardock Forums

Reload the game with the weapon unequipped but in your inventory and return to the site. This is how I finished the quest. I had to play around with it to figure it out.

Reply to not sure if it's a bug or not- in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

you are wrong. In this particular situation, I had casted a arcane monolith to prevent the AI from settling. As my pioneer approached the resources grain and material remained, but the essence disappeared. Rolling the cursor over the plot of land shows that the essence disappeared. Settling on the plot did not bring the essence back. -- Re: The Assassin's Blade quest, when I reloaded the game and unequipped the sword and returned to the

not sure if it's a bug or not- in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

Assassin's blade quest requires you to kill 3 victims. Upon completion it says the objective is to have the 'assassin's blade', which is in your possession, at the beginning of the quest. Can't figure out what else needs to be done to complete the quest. -- Also I've had the essence of on a plot of land disappear before my pioneer reaches the plot. Any reason why this would happen? The other resources, grain and

0.951 possible bugs in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

Not sure if it's WAI or if it's a bug. The Dragon Quests; when I return w/ 2 Dragon Eyes, it tells me that I am not the Dragonlord yet; I have a choice to attack or to come back. When I choose to come back; the site disappears, but the Quest is still open to be completed. The question is if the site will reappear when I complete the quest (I'm assuming I need to complete researching Dancing w/ Dragons) I haven't gotten to it when .952 came out.

Reply to Bugs I found (0.95) in FE Beta Elemental Forums

re: Quests. I think in the description for Breon's Letter (or the one for lvl 7 champions)- the description implies that you need to complete this research to start the Epic Quests that fulfills the game's victory conditions. re: weapons; the Ice spear and regular spear does the same normal damage with the exception that the Ice spear does add'l Cold Damage. So the regular spear cannot be the 'best' possible weapon. re: Warden, I had a lone

Bugs I found (0.95) in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Not sure if these have been mentioned before: My army was able to start Epic quests without the requisite research. I can start more than 1 Ironworks project (World Achievement) Healing is less than the amount stated (for example it says i can heal 32 points; but I only heal 16 points). Upgrading units can upgrade magical items into a lesser non-magical weapon. (for example it allows me to upgrade an ice-spear into a regular spear). With warden up

Bug (.950) in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

One of the bugs I noticed is that in 5x speed the character options aren't displayed and must use hotkeys (for example to cast a spell) I believe there is a memory leak as well. When I restart the program several times I've noticed my CPU usage goes up as well as Memory usage eventhough I've exited the program. I have to reboot my computer to clear CPU usage and Memory usage.

Reply to Bug in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

not a bug- only 1 per game can be built. you must be playing w/ an AI w/ the thalan tech tree as well; which built the hyperion matrix before you had a chance to.

Reply to Crashing in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have a similar problem. Here is my debug.err file: Debug Message: Version v1.7 Dark Avatar beta 4 last updated on: Wed Oct 10 16:02:13 2007 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 10/17/2007, 19:18:50 DirectX Version: DirectX 10 Machine Name: XXXXXXXXXX Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_gdr.070627-1500) Languages: English (Regional S

Reply to Playing with lots of planets - how to financially survive the first year? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

i typically play on a large map... not nearly as many planets but just a thought of things you can do to keep your economy running. choose a few planets to be income planets, farm + markets- relatively cheaper to fill w/ these improvements. micromanage by shutting production on some planets while building on the ones that need the infrastructure to turn it profitable.

lease management and paying off leases early in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

there doesn't seem to be a change or fix to have any benefits to paying off a lease/loan early. if you take a lease/loan and attempt to pay the loan off early, there is no adjustment for the amortization of the loan. my suggestion is to have a simple 'credit rating' for the initial loan based on debt (existing leases) to equity + future income (maybe a small adjustment for diplomacy). when a lease is taken out on that turn, there is a interest rate associated w/ the credit rat

lease management UI in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

something i noticed about the lease mgmt screenshot - it let's u pay off the lease early but doesn't adjust for the interest. e.g. normally when u pay a lease off early, you don't pay the interest, but a small early payment fee. otherwise there is no incentive to pay off a loan early. in the screenshot it shows that it would cost 12880 to pay off the lease. that is equal to the amount of weeks x payment amount, but paying the lease off early should be something much less tha

Building availability non-existent in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

When a improvement is destroyed and only 1 can be built on the planet; the option to rebuild that improvment is gone. This could happen either of 2 ways - (1) invading the planet: planet invasion w/ using tidal invasion or mini-soldiers. (2) re-laying out the planet, e.g. AI built the quantum factory on a tile u wish to use, so you decommission the improvement. In either case u are unable to rebuild the improvement.

Reply to Dread Lords won't load anymore in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

try a chkdsk /r on a boot from your CD Drive (non hard disk boot). i had a similar problem and some file along somewhere is corrupted that may not be GalCiv2, e.g. your anti-virus software. this probably solves the problem.

Reply to Dominions 3 goes gold! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

me? i actually think frogboy is right... i enjoy dominions 2 and eagerly await dom 3... lots of strategy and tactics just to give u an idea of dom2- there is alot of flexibility in designing your 'pretender god' as well as your nation. there is a choice between creating a more powerful pretender which enhances your holy units as well vs the nation as a whole, whether more oriented towards economics or magic, or even a nation which obliterates the other nations economy since your un

Reply to Downloaded Beta by mistake in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

i meant D and F... oops- screwed up my own example... haha

Reply to Downloaded Beta by mistake in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

heh - i think he means just to avoid having to uninstall, and reinstall the game and then reinstall the patch... but it is unlikely going to work that way... b/c assume 10 components in the game (letters A-J for reference) 1.1 -> 1.2 has 3 fixes covering C, D, F, but 1.2 -> 1.3 beta has 4 fixes D, F, I, J. reinstalling 1.2 would relikely only convert part D back to 1.2 and leave everything els

Reply to Please fix research facilities upgrade path (NLCs) in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

what happens is they upgrade to NLCs unless you've obtained invention matrix and discovery sphere- then it upgrades to those instead. discovery sphere allows for omega research, so it's not that you wouldn't ever research this path after obtaining NLCs

Reply to Planet development - 'Repair' things? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

damaged ships- hp recovery

Reply to How can i see which planets i can colonize? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

1 quick way to see if the system has any colonizable planets, is once you see the sun, and you click on the sun- it will tell you how many planets are colonizeable and inhabited. that way, if you don't see all the planets orbiting the sun, at least you can know whether to look for that inhabitable planet or move onto the next system

Reply to So what game do you want Stardock to work on next? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

cool, another dominions fan... to expand on having just a "tech" tree for research... maybe the construction of buildings first before research is allowed... and a certain level of research in combination to open new branches of research for example, you have the blacksmith - and through research and some upgrades you get to a certain level of research... combined with a branch of magic that lets you bind defensive/offensive spells to weapons and armor, you would then be

Reply to Easy on the Eyes in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

i guess the real issue then, is being able to change the background color so it contrasts the color of your ships. b/c if your ships are of neutral color, then having a neutral background would pose the same problem as someone w/ dark color ships w/ a dark background. i would imagine, in general, a large starship would have a portion of the ship building process in an enclosed environment and a portion of it in space. it is unlikely they would want to build ships and launch them int

Reply to Easy on the Eyes in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

what makes u so sure it has to be built "indoors" - it could be built in a space dock in orbit... which might make more sense