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[1.01 Bug] Autocombat in Tactical battles wastes so much mana that it goes negative! in Sorcerer King Support SorcererKing Forums

Also in 1.0, but when I am winning a tactical battle and decide to autoresolve, the AI decides to cast spells like there is literally no tomorrow (and there won't be, because now I don't have enough mana to slow down the doomsday clock). The last few fights (before and after 1.0) I go from positive 50-100 mana to -50 to -100 or so. Please make a feature to turn off spellcasting in autocombat, with mana being so precious it forces me to never use th

Reply to Autocombat wastes ridiculous amounts of mana in Sorcerer King SorcererKing Forums

....and now I'll take a break from playing until they patch it, I think new patch even made it worse... I just hit -114 mana in the next fight. Please make an option to turn off spellcasting, I never ever want the AI to do it.

Autocombat wastes ridiculous amounts of mana in Sorcerer King SorcererKing Forums

Is there an option I'm not seeing to turn off spellcasting in autocombat? I seem to remember this also being a problem in previous games in the series. In this one where I'm hoarding mana to try and push back the doomsday clock, it's ridiculous. I just went from about 100 mana to -70 in a fight. Yes, minus... AI felt just wasting it all on one easy-ish fight wasn't enough. So basically I can never use autocombat, and it makes the ga

Reply to [Gameplay] Heroes slay monsters. Monsters destroy armies. Armies overpower heroes. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

In the games I played, I notice I tend to buy up every hero I can and I keep 4 or 5 into the Stack of Doom. For one thing, if I don't buy them up someone else will. I build units for garrison and some scouting. The two big downsides to built units are 1) They are too slow and I'm better off with just heroes 2) They can't be upgraded The last game towards the end, I played I finally built some mounted cavalry with all the speed items equippe

Reply to Taking Prisoners... what do you think? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

One of the Homm games (4 if i recall, I know it was the one with the completely brain dead AI) had a prison where heroes defeated by another faction would end up. They could get rescued if the city was taken back. If I remember you got tombstones for dead heroes --I can't remember if you could ressurect them as the AI really made the shelf-life short. I always like the idea, it would be cool if Elemental eventually put something like that in.

Reply to New update?? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

So far it's never a 2.0 gb patch, you just have to remember to turn off pre-release, right click verify to the latest release version, then pre-release your way back to the patch. I'm astounded they don't have that posted in the patch log and everywhere else.

Reply to 1.09p Mid-Late game monster bug in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm having the opposite problem, I am getting swarmed by monsters and had trouble founding a third city. I had a four hero brigade doing cleanup (and trying to stop them from forming stacks of doom against me) and then got war declared, so I had to try and leave it to designed units. Biggest problem I have is that designed units are too expensive in technology/resources to help for a long time, I end up using the hero squad for too long.

Reply to Beta 3 Failed to download data file in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I've tried everything in the forums. I can't figure it out. Currently with the O patch, about 2/3 of the time it will load up and the other 1/3 it claims it can't download the datafile. Release versions work fine. Maybe it'll get patched into normality.

Reply to Beta 3 Failed to download data file in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Has anybody gotten around this, other than as described above (which doesn't work for me, either)? I was playing the previous releases fine. I downloaded the beta, got the error message. Customer support said download elemental cleaner and reinstall. I did that and after the LONG redownload same problem. I thought maybe it was the login, so support showed me where on stardock to update so Impulse can find it... and still no improvement. It doesn't matter

Reply to AI Test: December 1 – running blog… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

edit 2: also, please find some better alternative to teleportation of defeated enemy sovereigns. It just cheapens the impact of battle with them. And when a sovereign is killed, instead of magically removing all of their cities, turn them into independent states or assign one of the sovereign's children as the new leader. [/quote] I'm with you there, I'm flabbergasted that the empire explodes, and then you have such an incentive to not kill the leader

Reply to AI Test: December 1 – running blog… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Y'know, "invasion tech" is not a bad idea despite city walls being around. You could make it so invaders need to research a few things until they get 100% effectiveness vs. cities. That would make fights outside of cities more normal for awhile, and let the AI have more time... not to mention less chance of losing your cities in the early game.

Reply to Resurrection stones in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Nobody was more surprised than me my first game, when I killed my biggest rival and his empire imploded without even ruins left behind. I hope they make that optional in the future, it makes little sense to me (you can explain it in story or strategy but in either its a stretch) and anticlimactic. I was hoping they'd go for "banishment" or something (yes, like MoM) for 20 turns but I guess they're trying to work it into the dynasties.

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Bulk sales benefit(?) from bulk discounts. If buying from a race, buy in bulk, if selling, sell individually. Somewhere a dev confirmed this isn't a bug, but a feature.[/quote] Bulk sales are a "feature"?!?!? Arg... I can't be the only one that will painstakingly sell one tech at a time if it ads up to a different number. It wasn't a small difference, either.

Reply to The new ground combat screen in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

One sentence review of the new screen: I used to watch the battles, now I skip them.

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

My top 5 I just got ToA, I played GC1 and 2 alot. Forgive me if something's been fixed that I haven't realized. 1) Starbase management is a pain. I almost wish I could turn them off completely, or at least turn off the different resources (military, eco, etc.) to not have to worry about them. Or have an "auto-upgrade template" manner. I guess I could try automating every constructor (sad to say I just thought of this) but if that works it's still annoying. Having

Reply to Stardock: PLEASE allow for automatic launch from planets in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

My slightly-tangential gripe is Transport ships. I build them with multiple modules, but if I'm not watching they auto-launch way-undercapacity.... I had at least one invasion that failed because it turned out there was almost nobody on board. I'm always stuck launching them separate. Sometimes the planet has plenty of people to fill it.... it would be nice if there was an option to max fill Transports. If I didn't want them that full, I wouldn't have put the troop modules onboar

Reply to Constructors - Not Very Fun in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I vote for letting us put more than one working "Constructor" module on a hull design. That way you could decide on speed (resource grabber) or utlity (multipe modules, less ships). But I agree with many, starbase construction /constructor management is the most boring part of the game by far.

Reply to Option for Random Alignments? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think there is one. Maybe in a patch. You can always manually edit the alignments inside the game files (I did).

Reply to AI Bug: "Do you think we're stupid, parking your transports..." in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

In my last game, I had 10 trade routes with the Drax Legion, who were on the left edge of my empire. I had a war with the Torians, on the right edge of my empire. While my whole fleet was done Toria-way, the Drax sent the same message to me. I thought it was ridiculous, since not only did I not have troops near them but I had 10 trade routes--the war hurt both our economies bad. It occurred to me that maybe the AI was "lying," since they almost took a

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

My wishlist (mostly things I miss from GalCiv 1) (and forgive me if you can do some of these and I missed it somehow, but I don't think so). 1) Ability to rename enemy alien races (like in Galciv1 at the game config screen). 2) Fleets are nice, but the stacks should still move together. It is more of a pain moving the main stack (with subfleets and transports in it) than in part 1. 3) Ability to see how many movement points the slowest ship i