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StevenRLynchAbundanceThatIAM

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Reply to Big picture notes - after two games of SK in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

Some of these bugs go back even further than LH. Frogboy seemed surprised when someone posted that old bugs were still there in this version. Time to fix as many of them are fixable I think, and then tell us if there are any that are problems with the engine itself (hopefully not too many). But we'll have to see how it goes. It is a bit disheartening, especially for the bugs that have been there since WoM or FE.

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Reply to I don't want the autowin-battles to happen if my guys are going to lose hit points in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

I agree. NO battles should be auto-resolved if you have auto-resolve limit set to 0 or 1. That's the way it was in LH, and with the great increase in damage/HP ratio, it is even more imperative that we should not have the option to fight manually taken away from us. After all, is this not a single player game when no-one else is waiting?

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Reply to Well, let's let it rip in Everything Else Elemental Forums

I think things are going well - out of all the things that could have gone wrong, only relatively minor things have, and the world economy hasn't crashed yet. We could have had several new wars at a minimum. The media always loves fear-mongering, and they've had to scratch and exaggerate wildly recently to even get any mildly serious bad stuff. Then, it helps that the only mainstream media I get is on the radio. ;-) I wish you all love and caring: read: I wis

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Reply to More notes during play in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

I think the key should either drop on the ground, or some note that starts a quest. That would be a fantastic way of dealing with it. =) Maybe if the lieutenant dies when attacking a city the key should fall on the ground (or it should be given to the player like any other reward from defeating something), and if the lieutenant dies from a shard or from outpost or town fire then a note falls on the ground which starts an interesting and reasonably involved quest. Being abl

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Bug: Game Didn't Finish After Killing SK in Sorcerer King Support Elemental Forums

I think it is most likely that there were other armies that appeared on the square the turn I defeated the SK. But there is a small chance that the Kill spell used to kill him didn't trigger the death thing properly. It's one or the other most likely. Save game after SK killed, game still going... https://www.dropbox.com/s/a16v3a9max3ybxo/SKKilled.EleSav?dl=0 Save game just

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Reply to Dwarven Allies in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Well, if you want to be flamed, it will definitely be arranged, but not by me. You make valid points. But I don't think the graphics scheme can be changed at this late stage, but a fair amount of ruins etc. could help the situation. And I agree about having in-built basic garrisons.

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Reply to Sorcerer King: Week 1 in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

One quest I didn't like much was the settler quest - when you say you would like a pioneer to go settle another spot, the player's writer says how useless people in this town are or somesuch, and it was totally unexpected. I see this as being nasty for no other reason than you know you are going to get away with it. I haven't tried the other options of this quest, but I think all of the choices in this quest should have fairly neutral or positive text, because you are

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Reply to Do people agree with any of these points regarding intangibles and randomness? in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

As I've mentioned in the "Sorcerer King: Week 1" thread, showing all the variables could definitely work if there's pros and cons to each one, which it seems there are. And if there's lots of content, it might not matter, say if you're always compassionate, because what you get from that varies from game to game. Question is, is sucking up to the SK when he questions you about your expansion counted as the "cowardice" stat? ;-)

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Reply to Sorcerer King: Week 1 in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I've somewhat changed my stance, if there are advantages to all options (as suggested in Reply #17). For example, if the "I'm coming to get you" said to the Sorcerer King gives you big bravery points, but makes you get attacked more fiercely, or you get some bravery for losing a battle, I can see there is a suitable tradeoff here too. I don't think we need to say which option is which, if it is clear which is the brave option, the compassionate option, the famous opt

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Reply to Sorcerer King: Week 1 in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I could see it working being visible, as long as there are positives and negatives for being cruel, compassionate etc (as is already in the game, cruel people get good items but suffer in their own kingdom, compassionate people get more help but have to forgo getting immediate items).

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Reply to Sorcerer King: Week 1 in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I think it would be best if all intangibles remain hidden, and you do stuff under the hood so that they're not worth the same amount every time you play and don't have exactly the same hidden numerical effect in different playthroughs (and the breakthrough number is different each time to within a range).

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Reply to Do people agree with any of these points regarding intangibles and randomness? in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

Well they seem to make sense for me. I know that if you have options that give largely positive or negative consequences, it certainly doesn't help the game if you know exactly what you are getting each time. Either all options (even compassion and fame) need to have negative as well as positive consequences, or it would be better to keep intangibles entirely hidden, and randomize within a range how much each option is worth each time, as well as the chances are for each outco

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