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BlackSmokeDMax

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Reply to Fallen Enchantress: BETA 2 Preview in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I've been thinking. What if imbue stuck around, only at a higher cost but it lets you get a new line of spells each time you use it for a champion. Say you get a champ with air and water, but want fire and/or earth. Let each imbue cast give you the option of learning a new line of spells. If this were used, I'd like to see it as a pretty high cost in mana to help balance, and possibly not even let you pick your line, but just randomly get rewarded with one you don't currently have

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Reply to A few sugestions in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Bellack" reply="1" id="3086589"]I thought you could just move through their square. [/quote] I'm pretty sure I have done it accidentally. You may just have to click on other side of the champion, and let the game path through there for you.

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Reply to Civilization V Expansion Pack Announced! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Gandhialf" reply="52" id="3084813"] Quoting Leo in WI, reply 51Wow, you really know how to absolutely crush a guy's hope. Completely. I'm really sorry. When I learned about it I was crushed as well. Brian Reynolds himself told that AC 2 is virtually impossible (here, 1h30min podcast -- very interesting btw!). I think Stardock should hire Brian Reynolds! [/quote] That'd be great. Be nice to see more deve

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Reply to Civilization V Expansion Pack Announced! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Gandhialf" reply="50" id="3084765"]Alpha Centauri 2? 1. AC is a baby of Brian Reynolds. He now works for Zynga ( ). Without him AC 2 would not be AC at all. 2. AC is a baby of Firaxis. It's called "Sid Meier's" after all. But Firaxis doesn't own the rights for AC. 3. EA owns rights for AC (source). EA loves to buy kill trademarks. So there will be no Alpha Centauri 2. Ever. [/quote] </p

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Reply to Civilization V Expansion Pack Announced! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="43" id="3084445"]Civ 2 was Microprose not Firaxis. So was the Original Pirates. (Thats of course ignoring that the actual staff for every game was different). Was WOM was a disappointment but at least Stardock isn't charging me 30$ for the fixes. [/quote] Speaking of Firaxis, where the m-f is my g-d m-fing Alpha Centauri 2 ?!?! Sorry to derail, I just really, really want to play a new high res version of that game!

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Reply to Getting new glasses.... in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="10" id="3083141"]I'm 20-250 in one eye and 20-400 in the other with astigmatism in one and not the other. They never match my lenses right. Been like that since I was 9 or 10. It's a bummer.[/quote] Funny, have about the same vision in my eyes as well. Throw in astigmastism in both eyes and Nystagmus also in both, and you have my eyes. An-noy-ing!

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Reply to [Bug 0.77] Destroying city buildings is difficult in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I'm so glad you posted this. I have meant to start a thread like this about 15 times while in game, and keep forgetting. My tactic has been figure out from city list what I want to get rid of and then get the demolish tool open and just start right-clicking on them all to see their names. Click cancel on the ones to keep. I tried figuring them out by looks but it was even more time consuming than just brute forcing through them. Was able to skip super-obvious ones like mana shrine

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Reply to How can I learn the basics of a turn based game like FE? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Agree with many of the other points. I'd like to add... take a look at this thread, the poster has a couple nice videos to watch with some decent narrative as he plays. https://forums.elementalgame.com/417343 If you can find a cheap copy of Civ2, I'd think that'd be a nice way to get into games like this. Hell, I'd probably still fire that up on occasion if I had it installed.

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Reply to The relative importance of City Tile Placement in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="greggbert" reply="6" id="3082685"]Don't stacks you get free movement for passing through the city? The way I understand you can walk in one end of the city and and walk out the other only using 1/2 of a move! If your city is long enough that could make up for 2 or 3 turns![/quote] They do, but only if you have room for them and the current garrisoned units at the same time. Else they have to take the long (and circuitous if you've been snaking) route

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Reply to [.77] Ranged combat and it's problems. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I think the range distance can use some tweaking as well with ranged attacks. Maybe have more powerful bows also have a bit more range. Having the initials bows not being able to fire the whole battlefield would probably help balance things a bit. Couple different types of ranged items would definitely be welcome as well. Line of sight would be nice, but that may be getting a little too complex, but would surely be cool with some random trees/large rocks or whatever on the battlefield for cov

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Reply to FE 0.80: AI Test Game in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="24" id="3081759"]You're fighting wolves, not Wile E. Coyote and his family.[/quote] You might be onto a hell of a game idea there!

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Reply to What's next? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="115" id="3078850"]Here's a compromise idea: Channelers are ones who can use the power of the shards. Imbuing gives shard bonuses, without imbuement you cannot get the bonuses from shards.[/quote] Brilliant! I love it.

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Reply to What's next? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="DexCisco" reply="62" id="3077781"]Good to see these changes. Nothing I disagree with here. Can't wait to see how it works in practice. Is the XP divided evenly, by level, by damage done?[/quote] My vote is for one of the first two. I really don't want to start micro-managing xp points by needing to have quicker units pass their turn just to build up xp for the slower ones.

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Reply to What's next? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote] So your drake will start as a level 6 drake and capable of doing some damage.[/quote] This is great, hate seeing my drake get one-swatted in its first battle. Also, I think it's great about the injuries taking their toll. I'd almost like to see injuries hurt encumbrance a bit as well.

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Reply to Elemental: Fallen Enchantress 0.76 Brief Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="49" id="3077247"](as in, is the city a single square now, and how far out does the 'workable' BFC go ... or are none of the tiles workable, and its just initial bonus-> with the rest of the yield coming from population)[/quote] Yep, you got it right with this last part. At least as far as resources go. As it stands now, the city expands depending on how you place buildings, but you do not actually work tiles or gain more "base" resources. The onl

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Reply to Elemental: Fallen Enchantress 0.76 Brief Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="47" id="3077229"]If Forest/Grassland is going to have 2-3 hammers per tile ... I would think regular grassland should have at most 1-2 hammers per tile. (as opposed to the possibility of a regular grassland tile having 3 hammers)[/quote] They don't. The numbers in each tile is a total of that square and the 8 immediately surrounding it. Basically, FE is doing the math for you, just pick your square and go. Incidentally 5,3 (food,

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Reply to Firefox speed in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="WebGizmos" reply="6" id="3072817"]I use Firefox 3.5.15 and it works great! As soon as they said extension wouldn't work with the next upgrade I never bothered updating it...and I don't regret not doing that.[/quote] Firefox 4 and somewhat 5 (thinking I'm remembering that correctly) seemed bad with extensions, has been smooth sailing ever since then though. Firefox 9 has been great, haven't moved to 10 yet on this computer... usually run newest on my laptop

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Reply to [0.77] First play impressions in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Just to be clear, you do realize that ONLY the center square of your city should be the numbers you are worried about. All the squares show the total for themselves and the 8 around them. So far the group consensus seems to be aim for a 5,2 square (5 grain, 2 production). Now, if you realize this and are just saying you are getting some very bad choices for buildable land, then yeah. Have had a couple games like that (nothing better than a 3,2 available after searching for 10-20 turns

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Reply to [Discussion] Hero Level Ups in FE Beta Elemental Forums

as seanw3 said, I'd love to see the trait tree in the help window thing (that is one ugly word.) But I do like the way it is now, where some traits are uncommon and rare, don't really want to be able to follow the tree to exactly what I want every game. Doing that, you may as well just throw out the system and have straight classes with automatic upgrades, IMO.

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Reply to Just finished first game in .76 in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="HuaynaCapac" reply="1" id="3067088"]I think a HOMM-style person to equip wouldn't go amiss. So a generous number of slots, but still limited to 1 helm, 1 amulet, 2 rings, 1 breastplate, 1 gauntlets, 1 weapon each hand and 4 charm slots. And a cloak. Reduced 73%Original 800 x 600 Would be cool, and make it easy to swap items between heroes/champions with a screen like this. [/quote] Thanks for posting the pic. Agree completely o

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