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Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

No way I ever use Steam.Period. I refuse to be able to play only with online permanent connection.

Reply to Please nerf shrink/grow ! in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

[quote who="Darksomen" reply="25" id="3265093"]There is nothing wrong with Shrink just make it not stackable--case closed. I personally hate nerfing things instead of using a little common sense and fixing things.[/quote] I'm not keen to nerf magic much in this game where it os already not very useful...but think it's a BAD idea to have one (and only one!) spell that just makes "boss fight" a cakewalk. Maybe I could require to buff all other spells instead :) </p

Reply to Please nerf shrink/grow ! in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="5" id="3264833"]I would prefer a game about powerful magic users, have powerful magic in it.[/quote] Me too, but Shrink is a low level spell...

Reply to Brad's unofficial, private builds of FE in FE Sneak Peeks Stardock Forums

The new builds seem way more unstable than 1.00 or even 0.9x... I could play for hours without crashes, now I have CTD after less than 1 hour ! And everytime I go back from the game to the main menu and load a save, CTD too..

Reply to Please nerf shrink/grow ! in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

Even not stackable only one Shrink makes a 50 attack (ie fearsome) becomes 25 (ie resistible with 20+ def)... Nope, I want a fixed effect !

Reply to Why can't I train Mages?! in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

Agreed Lord Xia, but about mages ?? We should have buildings enabling spell-like skills to add as traits to "real" mage units, so they could cast Burning Hands, then Flame Bolt with an upgraded mage building, etc... The game has tons of abilities that are monster-only, it would be fun to have some available to player units.

Please nerf shrink/grow ! in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

These spells are ridiculously powerful, a dragon shrunk twice is a pup! And as nothing has more than 50% spell resist, you only have to cast it 4-5 times, for a meager 5 mana each ! Compare that to a 50 mana Fireball that don't kill anything bigger/badder than a bear .. Same for Growth, that makes very cheap super warriors (combine that with a Crushing blow on your sovereign, and you'll do 100 damage !) Pls make them less powerful, with let's say -5/+5 attack/dodge

Reply to Why can't I train Mages?! in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

[quote who="NanakoAC" reply="8" id="3264679"]"mages" are just dudes with magic wands. they don't actually have any spells. all they have is one of the elemental staffs, which fires a bolt of elemental damage. These staves are unlocked at Enchanting i think, and later in the tech tree there's better ones at Arcane Weapons. Anything magic requires crystals to manufacture. these staves are no exception[/quote] Yes, they're just wand

Reply to Brad's unofficial, private builds of FE in FE Sneak Peeks Stardock Forums

Tried it this evening, seems to crash much... In 1.30 hour of playing : Once on loading "in game" (ie go to menu then load while playing) Once then just while I was reviewing equipment after a fight. And I had no crashes since 0.9x builds !

[FE 1.00] Argh, CTD in the Campaign ... in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Just at the load screen of "Enchantress Arises" [e digicons]:(O[/e] Pretty frustrating !!!!!!

Reply to [eMOD/coreMOD] After the War 1.10 for E:wom 1.4 in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

The mediafire link for the mod doesn't work - mf has the file blocked because blah blah.. :( Any mirro ?

Reply to Ugh i give up X( in Fallen Enchantress Stardock Forums

I tend to agree with the OP: it's totally frustating to be crushed by unbeatable "wandering monsters" like Drakes...What's the point of having this ? There's no strategy involved, it's just random, and those biggies should at least be triggered by some events, have a story...

Reply to Registration information is not valid? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Hmm, just got the same error, it would have been nice to tell us ! And pls confirm, the beta registration WILL work again next week for the release ??!!

Reply to [0.295 Bug][Graphics] Black world map/texture in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Boogie Problem is that the ATI controls are designed to override game settings, if you tell them so.. I'm not even sure of where the issue came from, because now I can"t reproduce the "black map", I've so much tweaked everything I don't remember all... And well, ATI should release Catalyst 10.3 soon in March, these would be usable by laptops as well as desktops, so maybe you should concentrate on these rather than the myriad current specific versions of manufacturers (Asus in

Reply to [0.295 Bug][Graphics] Black world map/texture in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Problem solved !! In fact I should have fumbled something before with my ATI control panel, some settings were overriding the game settings, I think it was forced V Sync that was the culprit ... Now my game is perfectly nice in 1600*900 at max settings, hurrayh !

Reply to [0.295 Bug][Graphics] Black world map/texture in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Finally found the screenies (why are they hidden and don't go to the clipboard ?) My settings My game screen :

Reply to [0.295 Bug][Graphics] Black world map/texture in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I've turned off everything as suggested (AA and bumpmapping & adv lighting effects), still black map ... Geez :!!

[0.295 Bug][Graphics] Black world map/texture in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Hi I just bought a new laptop - Asus G73 w/ Mob Radeon 5870 ;-) Elemental was barely running on my old Athlon2400 rig, now it rocks.. except that the world map is all black !!! wtf ? I mean there is no cloth map at all, it's black emptiness, on which the features and units appears normally... I tweaked all possible graphx settings (disabled AA, AF etc) to no avail. As my machine is new, I've installed up to date everything (DX 9 and 10, drivers, ...). I'd like

Reply to Elemental Beta - Hard reboot crash in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Ok thanks, did that, and will report the crashes - I didn't know this option existed after 10 years of Windows, bleh ! Yet is there no debug log at all in Elem beta ? Strange for a beta ...

Elemental Beta - Hard reboot crash in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Hi Just grabbed the Elemental beta by prepurchase, but no joy : the game runs fine for a couple minutes, then I got a hard PC reboot !! No idea from when it comes, I have an old rig (Athlon 2400, GF6600) but with up to date drivers - recent but not overly demanding games work correctly on it (Sims 3 for example). I expected to have some kind of log to go along the beta to help bug report, but I can find none, so can't report anything detailed... Any suggestion

Reply to PC game piracy hurts us all in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Vinraith" reply="25" id="1632965"]Piracy is the best way on Earth to ensure that people stop making things you enjoy. That's really all there is to it, support what you like or people will stop making things you like. [/quote] That's just plain false, and only a propaganda slogans of the publishers : look at the situation in the music field, there's now more creation than ever ! And look at literacy/books, it never really suffered of "piracy" in cent

Reply to Will Wright donates to McCain in Game Developers Stardock Forums

Game looks like crap, its protection system is crap, now the developer's political views confirm everything is consistent, I won't ever touch it even with a long fork and soft paper !! [e digicons]:cylon:[/e]

Reply to Unique Ships - remove Ace Rank requirement in Space Rangers 2 Stardock Forums

Now that the update has been released, is that file still up to date and fixes all "known" bugs ? I'm somewhat lost with all these more-or-less complete fixed exes ...

Reply to Can't change class, apparantly. in Space Rangers 2 Stardock Forums

Same answer as your previous post lol I known this forum is weird, the main forum pages are desync with the posts, I also double posted at first !

Reply to ...Stuck as fighter? in Space Rangers 2 Stardock Forums

It's not really an issue : the "class" you get ingame is just a description tag according to your actions (the % of xp you get from each type of missions) : so make trade and you'll become trader, attack ships and become pirate, etc ! Look at the ranger roster, the classes and xp split % of each ranger are indicated. This is not a RPG with real classes having specific abilities (though your career will determine who are your allies and your enemies).