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Quest cleanup needed in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I have about 6 heroes and some of them started quests and some have completed but the original hut is still there and will not dissapear. There are NO gold locations on the map and no charaacter seems to be able to trigger any quests on the dead huts. Any ideas? I think some of them are still active but I can't match the quests with the original huts and like I said there is NO GOLD LOCATIONS on the cloth map. There are at least 3 dead huts in my saved game now and the

Reply to What are the best TB Fantasy RPG/RTSs out there? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Shadow Magic hands down.

Reply to Definelty not a clue as to what I'm doing in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Look at building troops when you guildar income is about 5 or more (per turn). The other heroes are great for picking up goodies on the ground and scouting. If you run out of those (the goodies and inns and stuff), you need to research adventure techs. Eventually the heroes will have trouble with the harder troops and monsters so I just add supporting troops like peons and observers and stuff to the heroes stack until they're not in danger of getting kil

Reply to Champions - what's the point? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I just use them for role playing. I have them lead an army of regular units every time, like in Total War. Sure it doesn't do much good, but at least your stacks of faceless pesants have a face now!

Reply to Definelty not a clue as to what I'm doing in War of Magic Stardock Forums

It took me a while too mostly because the campaign mode is more like the total war series which is slower than most strategy games. Basically the way I play now is to give each hero and city a queue of jobs to do, sometimes I jot it on a pad. Then each turn I cycle through each unit and city and move them toward their goal(s). Example: Soverign - Buy travling boots, -- Recruit new Hero, Look for gold resource, teleport back home when found.</

Reply to Magic just feels so UNmagical in War of Magic Stardock Forums

(Ducking the shoes). I like that they made magic just another aspect of the game instead of its main focus. Otherwise Uberstacks of summoned polar bears with magic lasers on their heads teleporting around the world map and completely eliminate the need to quest or worry about Warfare and soldiers.

Reply to Bug: Can you reproduce? One of your hero dies while leveling up, you get the level up screen, but no hero, and you can't hire another! in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Ok, it looks like the bug may just be with getting the level up screen before he dies. I may have not had enough cash to hire more heroes.

Reply to Custom vs Pre-made sovs in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I think it was a weird choice to give most of the pre-made sovs access to all of the spellbooks. THe game might be better if they limited you to only choosing 3 of those.

Reply to How did StarDock do with balancing their other games in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I think sometimes they let you customize base values too much which have an exponential affect on future outcomes. For me, I could always beat GalCiv II with a colony rush by setting my production to 100% and adjusting the empire settings to go into deficit for the first 50 turns. This of course gives me a MASSIVE turn advantage on all opponents and I could mop up the AI on any difficulty level. The unit equipment in this game is the same, with proper use of unit e

Reply to I think I am going to go back and play MOM again. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I still can't get get MOM to work with my soundblaster pro and it's been like 15 years. WHERE IS THE PATCH!

Bug: Can you reproduce? One of your hero dies while leveling up, you get the level up screen, but no hero, and you can't hire another! in War of Magic Stardock Forums

How I got the bug: Your soverign and one of your heroes, who is close to leveling up, gets into combat with a single creature. The combat auto-resolves without your input Suddenly you get a level-up screen for Janus (the hero). !!!Yay, he lived (you think.)!!! Then the combat resolution screen comes up showing that Janus is dead. Then you can't hire another hero.

Reply to HOw do you increase your notable level (for quests?) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

This doesn't answer the question. I am not aware of an adventure tech that says "increases the notable level of your soverign". But I HAVE seen adventure techs that create new quest locations with a higher notable level then my character currently has....

Reply to Movement Question in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Auto turn means that you never have to click the end turn button. When all your units have moved as much as they can it will be clicked automaticall for you. Obviously much more useful at the beginning of the game and frustrating at the end. What I don't like is that if your hero moves 2 moves per turn and you auto move him to a space 5 turns away you end up wasting a turn.

Is it normal that I could build more than one merchant per city? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I think I found a bug. If you build a merchant or arcane lab, or science lab in a city and after you click the desired location you click 2-3 more empty building slots it will build MULTIPLE BUILDINGS OF THE SAME TYPE! I have several cities with 2-3 merchants and/or 2-3 arcane labs. The weird thing is that seems to be the ONLY WAY to build more than one of the same building type (except for huts of course).

Reply to Anyone else buy Elemental through paypal? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I had no problems buying it through paypal but I was actually logged into impulse when I made the purchase.

Reply to Unit design is a toothless timesink in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Same as Gal Civ 2, designing is more of a customization feature than changing actual gameplay.

Reply to Tactical combat depth in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I read somewhere that the low complexity of tactical combat was built into this game's design early on, and the combat was supposed to be simplistic, so I would expect future improvements to consist of more development on the CARAVANS AND TRADING (please stardock?), magic system or terrain modification or questing rather than an increased focus on combat mechanics.

Reply to Gamestops around me aren't stocking Elemental in War of Magic Stardock Forums

The sims3 is a pretty awesome and well polished game. Don't diss it unless you've put a few hours in. That being said, I just use paypal and impulse to get the game.

Reply to City's focus in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I haven't had a problem with this, simply becauase I just eyeball the resources surrounding the city. If there are two lost libraries, obviously you would upgrade it for Tech. One gold mine and a farm, obviously upgrade it for Gold. You dont' really need to see the stats its the resources that will determine how your city will specialize. Also that window moves if you drag it so you can see behind it.

Quick Newbie Questions in War of Magic Stardock Forums

1) What makes the border grow and how do I predict when it will grow so I make sure I can plan the capture of new buildings in advance by having enough resources right when the building is ready? 2) Is it just me or does the game give you WAY too much metal? 3) How do you cancel the casting of a spell such as teleport when you have selected the spell and are about to choose the location? Escape brings up the settings menu. That's super annoying.

Reply to Normal AI has Earth Elemental on turn 10!!!! in War of Magic Stardock Forums

There is an item that summons an earth elemental regardless of your spell capabilities. Maybe he found that.

Reply to Why don't food and gold grow as expected in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Using version 0 (Game day download) and if you click on each city you will see its gross food production. If you are showing no excess food it means that all of your cities (total) are using up more food than the all of your cities are producing. For xample 1 farm (4 food) in your capital, and two houses (-2 food) in your capital and two huts (-2 food) in your second city will produce NO EXCESS, so you can't build any more huts or markets. I don't think that population use

Reply to GameZone’s Elemental Preview in Elemental News Elemental Forums

Dead link. ==Edit== Link is intermittently dead.

Reply to How to do a private message in Everything Else Elemental Forums

How do you do it if you only know the username of the person but you can't find a post by them?

How to do a private message in Everything Else Elemental Forums

I can't find the icon for this anwhere on the "private messages" page. At least not one that's clickable.