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Reply to Demand Surrender in FE Beta Elemental Forums

The destroyed cities are gone, you cannot found a new city on that terrain.

Reply to [Suggestion] Improve or remove governance in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Anesthesiac" reply="12" id="3222311"]It has probably been suggested somewhere, but is there a reason why the tax rate should not be managed per city, rather than empire wide?[/quote] because setting taxes for a half dozen cities is work and not fun for many people. with a good interface it could work, but thats a lot of work for small gain at this stage. what about a system where you can assign a champion as governor to a city.

Reply to ***Champions/ single units versus group units: a balancing idea in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="21" id="3221193"]It doesn't just 'nerf' champions, it 'nerfs' all units.[/quote] The idea being discussed in this thread just nerfs champions. Though I suppose if you were going for full lunacy, you'd also make it so that a group of units can only attack single units one-at-a-time. Never-ending tactical battles! As Sean and CogBurn pointed out twinking can be an issue, but balancing loot drops is small potatoes.&

Reply to ***Champions/ single units versus group units: a balancing idea in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Madcatter" reply="17" id="3221154"] iirc the Sauron thing applied to War of Elemental, not Fallen Enchantress. [/quote] FE is the game War of Magic was supposed to be, so I don't see how the Sauron thing would be less influential now. WoM's problems were legion and iirc, one of them was that champions were underwhelming compared to trained units. [quote]It also doesn't mean Champions won't still be able to take out armies, they just won&#

Reply to [beta 4v2; leader combat comment] Can't they just stay dead. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Sentinemodo" reply="7" id="3220247"]Wounded heroes shouldn't fight. If the city they are recuperating is attacked they should be withdrawn without fight to the closest city.[/quote] ^ this [quote who="Kongdej" reply="11" id="3221117"] Quoting GFireflyE, reply 10or at the VERY least, have a variety of excuses as to why the opponent sovereign (or champion) made it off the battlefield! The whole "magically escaped" thing gets old fast.

Reply to Earth magic - an overview in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Poko8" reply="3" id="3221106"]Earth tier 5: Birth of summer/bloom of twilight - 300 mana strategic - revive a 3x3 square of land so that it can be settled I've gotten earth 5 on multiple champions in every one of my games, but I've never gotten Birth of Summer (playing as Kingdom). Is there a known issue with it or something?[/quote] I believe you need to have Life/Death magic as well as Earth to get this spell.

Reply to ***Champions/ single units versus group units: a balancing idea in FE Beta Elemental Forums

This would be an enormous nerf for champions. And it's not going to happen (though perhaps it could be a mod). For a refresher, this is what the game's designers want champions to be like. High level champions are designed to be able to solo armies. This isn't an RTS with rock-paper-scissor style counters.&

Reply to [4v2; comments on balance/fun factor] in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Yup, the way the AI calculates the value of surrender is broken. Roughly, it seems like if you're at war and have a significantly higher power rating the AI will happily surrender. They wont make take a cease fire for all the gold in the world, but they'll surrender at the drop of a hat. It's been broken for quite a while, which suggests that Stardock's planning a significant revision to diplomacy in the next round of betas. (I hope, it's possible t

[0.952][Bug][Graphics] Flicker After End Turn in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Not much more to go on than that it happened. Some of the graphics for the game (like the Faction Power/Turn count/Buttons/Options in the Options Menu) just started flickering after I did end turn. The game was still responsive, just not playable. I saved and quit out. Everything's fine now.

Reply to [beta 4v2; leader combat comment] Can't they just stay dead. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

use diplomacy and ask the AI to surrender. I wonder if you could mod in a death limit (cats, famously, have nine) for champs and sovs.

Reply to [BUG] 0.952 - Units grouped with lower movement, don't regain movement if separated in FE Support Elemental Forums

yes. there should also be a way to separate units out of a group even if they have no movement points left.

Reply to I’ve got your precious random events right here in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The random event(s) I would like to see, to counter a player doing too well, is the "Desperation Power Grab" style event. An empire that is losing badly would be given an opportunity to essentially sell its soul to the devil. Obviously there'd be a benefit to this, more powerful units, or more money, more mana, etc... but the tradeoff would be that your empire would slowly sink into depravity or your production would go towards generating powerful and chaotic monsters, or some

Reply to Freeze spell is OP in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I haven't had much luck kiting, mainly because I run out of room on the tactical maps . But I think this might this be caused by the AI's silly "move one square a turn until I can attack" strategy that's new with 0.95. I figure it's much easier to kite when your opponent will only move one square at a time.

Reply to [0.951] Feedback - UI and Polish in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote]Armor is still king, absolute; Getting into an altercation with another faction, if you do not have the weapon to meet their armor, it is a dramatic and serious disadvantage. Not really sure how to address this one well, but it still seems a huge factor.[/quote] The solution to defeating an opponent who's investing heavily in armor, is to go heavy magic. I don't think they make it clear, but magic damage ignores armor completely. A heavily armored unit is st

Reply to how is it? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote]playable? fun? interesting for multiple runthroughs? how's the magic? [/quote] Out of 10, the beta is Playable: 7 - knocked off a couple points because too many people are reporting crash-bugs or graphic bugs, load inconsistencies, etc. My experience has been rather bug/crash free since the .95 beta. Fun: 8 - the game is really fun, but the UI gets in the way in many places and needs polish, and AI at the higher levels still doesn't know how to pla

Reply to Reading Monster Intention in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="8" id="3217449"] They already have a mechanism in place for 'monster intent': Those pop-ups with little messages "oooo....shinies." All FE would have to do is extend that to include a wider variety: The slag B-lining for your capital could be "GWRRAARR" [/quote] If only those popups were connected in any way to the unit that spawned them. Ideally I would want something that you could see just by looking at th

Reply to I’ve got your precious random events right here in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="ea6527" reply="2" id="3217527"]I think you should proofread before posting Froglord - Adventerers? [/quote] see above where frogboy refers to himself as a "stupid monkey". You want to spell things right in your quest, Mr Fancy High School diploma. go right ahead.

Reply to City Build Locations in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="boredpeon" reply="7" id="3217343"] Another game, ocean to the north, 10 tiles southwest and 10 tiles southeast making a 20x10 area explored and not a single buildable location besides the start location. With repeatedly getting bad maps it makes me quickly lose interest in playing. Why would I want to play a game where I get stuck with one or two cities while the AI has three times as many. Seriously how do you play an empire building game when the map does no

Reply to How to get henchmen ??? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I believe you can also find an item in goody-huts that provides a henchman.

Reading Monster Intention in FE Beta Elemental Forums

There's been a lot of discussion about monster aggressiveness (and whether the monsters attack the human player more than the AI), but I think a lot of the problem comes from having no way of understanding the intention of the monsters. They stand there like they're in a petting zoo for a hundred turns and then something clicks and they march half-way across the map to attack a city. Why? Nobody knows. Well, the world is a harsh place. What makes it

Reply to Time to schedule a vacation day - October 16 Release date? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nasarog" reply="8" id="3216556"] Exactly. You nailed it! We've had plenty of disappointments this year already. With the poor launch of E;WoM, I am afraid there is some tunnel-vision happening again.[/quote] It's important to read the whole thread before posting. If you had bothered, you would have noticed Frogboy's reply. The release date on Steam isn't real (unless you think Stardock's planning to release FE 7 months ago).

Reply to Time to schedule a vacation day - October 16 Release date? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I wouldn't schedule any vacation around that date as it strikes me as more like an aspiration rather than a deadline. Brad has been clear that the game isn't going to release until it's ready. Since WoM's launch issues were entirely the result of Stardock rushing the game out the door to hit a delivery deadline, I'd be stunned to find that they'd made any serious commitment to an actual date at this point. FE is far beyond WoM and much closer to my

Reply to FE 0.951 High Priority Bug Fixes in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="MisterAedan" reply="19" id="3216356"] That's actually a legit trade - you would both gain those 53 points of research and add them to a (random?) tech, so you both benefit. But the thing with them coming back again the next turn, and the next, with the same offer is definitely a weirdness and sometimes an annoyance.[/quote] I think the bug there might be that the UI for tech trading isn't clear. Making an even trade for techs is a valid offer (It's n

Reply to [0.95][Bug] Faction Dissapears From One Save to the Next in FE Beta Elemental Forums

8 GB of RAM, 64-bit.

Reply to Roads...yeesh. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Bingjack" reply="9" id="3211983"]I think it would be far easier to simply give more control to a human player to place the roads, than trying to teach the AI to do it intelligently. There are too many variables. Even if it were twice as good as it is now, humans could still make better decisions.[/quote] I don't disagree with you; I just think you're underestimating the effort involved in planning, developing, tuning, and testing a brand new user interface. <p