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Reply to Suggestion: Make all infantry units squads in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

The techs to allow larger groups of units represent increasing disipline and better command structure allowing larger groups to work together effectively.

Reply to Global Mana Pool Design Revealed in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I had rather point out that the system as revealed so far does not work and give ideas for how to make it work in case it is all that has been planned rather than wait and find out.

Reply to New patch? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

There have been two hotfixes for 1.08.

Reply to Why this game makes me happy! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It gets worse when you get refined weaponry, which ups Dragon Infernal's damage as it is based on the dragons's attack. At the time I was just starting to take building an army seriously, so I had lots of gold to spend. Being in a great defensive possition, one stack (500 something combat rating) held off all attacks for most of the game till I had reaseached all upgades that unlock better units / equipment.

Reply to Global Mana Pool Design Revealed in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Then speculate on what they might be, there is no reason not to make ideas availble before the change. In any case, even if there are supports to make it work (what? buildable structure for every town? building the globally increases output from mana sources? The former would defeat the purpose of making the use of magic more strategic.) one is a boring number to me. They should have shards give more like five mana, double or triple spell cost, and make high level summons and enchantm

Global Mana Pool Design Revealed in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1" id="2778171"]Your sovereign is the powerful Channeler who generates +1 mana per turn. Each time you capture a shard (which in v1.1 willl have 1 seeded near where you start) it will provide +1 mana also as well as amplify certain spells. When you imbue a champion, it costs -1 mana to maintain. When you summon a creature, it will cost -1 mana to maintain. Thus, if you want an army of spell casters, it comes at the cost of having your sovereign being as

Reply to Why can some heroes buy traveling boots in the shop and others cannot? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Would the ones that cannot be diffrent genders from those that can? Then yes.

Reply to [Idea] Adminstration Cost in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

To add to the initial idea, there would be a re-researchable upgrade under civilization that reduces the cost so it does not become pointless to get more towns late in the game on large maps.

Reply to I'm liking some of the changes in 1.0.8 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1" id="2778171"]What we are going to do in v1.1 is this: Your sovereign is the powerful Channeler who generates +1 mana per turn. Each time you capture a shard (which in v1.1 willl have 1 seeded near where you start) it will provide +1 mana also as well as amplify certain spells. When you imbue a champion, it costs -1 mana to maintain. When you summon a creature, it will cost -1 mana to maintain. Thus, if you want an army of spell casters, it

Reply to Why this game makes me happy! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I almost got to twelve dragons, but decided to go with eight when I almost had enough income to pay the upkeep. Then I loaded because that many on a small tile looked silly and way a waste of power. I ended up giving each campaign army a pair of dragons, and decimated the AI's troops.

Reply to Merchant change- not a fan. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Note: the merchant selling food and there by reducing production is illogical. He would be selling it to the people of the town and then you tax part of the profit. The only way it makes sense would be if he is selling it elsewhere, which is the caravans' job.

Reply to Has anyone lost a game yet to the AI? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Only in my first (non campaign) game. After that I was able to develop a strategy that worked.

Reply to Some suggestions for improving gameplay. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Converting Shards = BAD. The reason is it would make it far easier to reach the point where your spells devastate everything and would make the AI which does not make great use of magic even more of a push over. Also it would make the Spell of Making easier to achieve, and it grants instant victory in some cases. The rest sounds more reasonable, so I will give it some more thought before commenting.

Reply to [Idea] Spend essence to create city (avoids city-spam, fits game-lore) in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Adante" reply="6" id="2778023"]Soloution: Pioneers still build cities. Set a max number of cities based upon sovereign's essence. [/quote] Or have there be diminishing returns for each city, till it starts to cause your income to decrease when you found new cities.

Reply to Merchant change- not a fan. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="fsovercash" reply="14" id="2777987"]With that being said, monetary wealth is always a measure of the overall economy of a place - it never comes straight from gold mines. I think it would be better to do away with gold mines altogether and make wealth come from taxation (giving us a reason to have people in the first place) and from selling resources in the markets. However, we need to be able to sell more than just food. I really want a market that sells materials. They just pile

Reply to [Idea] Spend essence to create city (avoids city-spam, fits game-lore) in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I like the idea that cities can only be placed on the appropriate terrain, though the creation of cities should still require a pioneer. A spell would be needed to prepare an area for settling, otherwise it would take too long to settle much early in the game. However it would not be as effective at deterring city spam late in the game when cities have large influence areas and spellcasters are more common, and if the incentive to do so is still present people will do it. T

Reply to Item Creation in War of Magic Elemental Forums

He is asking about designing items in game like you can troops, and the answere is no you cannot.

Reply to The Elemental all-purpose mega thread in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Krauser" reply="82" id="2777734"]These suggestions are pretty trivial compared to the magic overhaul which reportedly is in the works and artifact creation, but something that I found myself annoyed with. When your empire starts to get a little larger, its often difficult to locate resources within your own territory. I had a shard extractor destroyed by roaming monsters. I wanted to go and rebuild it but I couldn't find the fire shard anywhere.&nb

Reply to Any Master of Magic fans here? Is Elemental: War of Magic a Spiritual Heir to the Master of Magic lineage? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Brainsucker" reply="28" id="2776968"]I just played MOM and say that Elemental is very different than it. I think, AOW has more similarity to MOM than Elemental. But, I say that Elemental has power that surpass MOM. the only weak point of Elemental comparing to MOM are it's magic system and the combat system. Honestly, between AOW, MOM and elemental have their own strength and weakness for me. AOW is too complicated and slow pace game play for

Reply to Difficulty in placing improvements in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It is trying to center I think. You can cancel by hitting the (x) next to the building in the queue. Then try placing again without moving the screen. (a fix is needed though)

Reply to [1.08]Iron way too rare? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="MrManNo1" reply="17" id="2775561"]The problem with the "adapt" strategy is that pretty much all routes require warfare anyway. You can't win a diplomacy setting without access to metal. Your units will be too weak, and then other factions will dislike you (pretty significantly...-5 is a huge hit to take). Magic, while somewhat of a work-around, still puts you at an extreme disadvantage. No summon will ever be powerful enough to take out a few well-armed troops, and there simply ar

Reply to Merchant change- not a fan. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="2777246"]If you have a resource that doesn't have some cost associated with it, what happens is that the route to victory becomes about creating as many cities as possible without regard to any strategic placement or consideration. [/quote] I think a better solution would be to give penalties for larger nations; there are reasons why historical big empires had problems! Being able to excange one thing for another is good, but some resour

Reply to [Gameplay] I'm not liking the global resources. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Good, successful nations usually have a good system to get resources to where they are needed. So rather than separating into local and global, they should impose a cost for the distribution of resources (an "adminstration" cost) that increases as the kindom grows. This would cause people to be more selective in town placement.

Reply to How do you know when you will actually kill a Sov in 1.08??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Or since the mechanic exists, make it optional for people that what it, but those that want the extra challange can do without.

[Idea] Adminstration Cost in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

To fix the spamming of cities, I suggest that there be an adminstration cost that is based on how many cities you have, and how spread out they are. It should be virtually none existant factor when only a few cities are owned (say four cities before it reaches a cost of one gildar), and the cost would increase more quickly the more cities are controlled. To measure spread out, for every N tiles the city is away from the next nearest town it adds an addition "city unit" to the adminstrati