[quote who="StarReaper" reply="1" id="2761785"]If you do not have enough money alot of times they wont speak to you. Probably should switch this to a screen that simply informs you ya cant make it worth for them to join up yet. [/quote] Even better would be "I'd join you if you had xxx gildars" so you know what you're aiming for.
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="13" id="2761735"]It is possible for a quest to load a specific tactical battle map. [/quote] What's the xml for this? I must have missed it when I was going through the files. Or could you point me to a current quest that does this?
[quote who="spacevagrant" reply="3" id="2754517"]umm I didn't see fire bolt or lightning bolt. Haste. Hmmm there is a few missing from the list. [/quote] Click on the "Tactical" tab at the bottom. 82 spells in total, huh?
[quote who="Callesen58" reply="35" id="2748533"] 3. Add a shortcut to Elemental somewhere, click on properties and put /createxmlbinary after the target. 4. Start up your game from the shortcut. [/quote] These steps are not necessary. As long as the new file is in the Elemental/Mods folder, the game will pick up the changes. I know it's not true for some files, but it is true for the elementaldefs.xml.
I pick all the element books because they are not readily available in the game. The Enchantment book is available in the tech tree. Edit: I should add, it's pretty much a no-brainer to take them all, which means it's not an "interesting choice", thus detracting from the game experience. The magic system needs more work to differentiate between the elements and add resistances to the various types of magic.
Just to add to nOObonian's question, is the AI programmed to pursue any/all of the victory conditions?
Doesn't this cover it? https://forums.stardock.com/393532 Edit: Beaten by one second! [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]
Dead huts! I refused to engage some beasts in a level 3 location, and now most of the level 3 locations won't trigger when I move onto them.
[quote who="Callesen58" reply="3" id="2745314"]Copy elementaldefs.xml to your mods folder, go into it and change the part that has to do with sov level up points from 1 to 3 or so. Should fix the scaling issue. [/quote] Are points for heroes in there too (at work and can't check right now)? I'm thinking 2 for heroes, 3 for sovs, to try to keep everyone relevant.
Thinking more about this.... since magic was "lost" in the cataclysm, maybe ALL the books of magic (except maybe light/dark or whatever they're called) should have to be researched like Summoning is now. This would create a cost-benefit choice that actually requires some strategic thinking on the part of the player. If this were added in, would the AI be able to handle it? Could this be modded?
[quote who="KlausBreuer" reply="3" id="2733636"] I also like your idea of adding the magic power to the game - define how much of each one you have, instead of only turning each type on or off. [/quote] Yeah - there's no strategy whatsoever here. Even Brad gives this away in one of the video tutorials when creating a custom leader; he says something about "I like to just take them all" in regards to the magic books. And all the default leaders have all the
[quote who="Vallu751" reply="9" id="2730218"]Any way to do this with a keyboard? I haven't got a middle button in any of my mice. [/quote] Better yet, any way to re-map all the commands?
[quote who="Lavitage" reply="2" id="2729925"] >rotating the camera >4x game >laughingsharkman.wav Yeah I'm pretty sure you can't. [/quote] If you watch the first 10 or 15 seconds of this http://www.screencast.com/t/MmM3ODVlNDU you'll see that Brad does in fact rotate the camera a few times. I had the same question - so is it click and hold th
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="2729143"] Reduced 69% Original 432 x 630 If you have any suggestions on how we could make it easier let us know. [/quote] Ok. Please show remaining movement points in the default GUI* for the active unit. Don't make me go searching for it (not that it is anywhere to be found currently anyway). Also, it would be nice to be able to "right-click and hold" to see where the unit can
I guess that technically speaking we are getting a "random" map - the game randomly picks one of six maps. [e digicons]:-"[/e]
[quote who="Todd Hawks" reply="96" id="2726997"] Quoting Stuie_acs, reply 95 LDiCesare is the author of what is still my favorite map script for Civ 4. If anyone gets it, I think he does. Which map script is that? I see myself playing some more Civ 4 until Elemental is in a playable state (and let's be honest: Civ V probably will need a few patches as well) and am always intererested in good map scripts. [/quote] He wr
[quote who="PeeKay777" reply="91" id="2726198"]Do you realise how difficult or what is involved to program a random map generator that produce maps that are realistic and playable? [/quote] LDiCesare is the author of what is still my favorite map script for Civ 4. If anyone gets it, I think
So how good are the mod tools? Could anyone open them up and make some decent maps? I'm tempted to buy the game and have a go at making maps. Can you make map scripts like in Civ 4? Or at very least modify whatever is generating maps by default? Do we have any options other than just deleting the pre-set seeds and getting the resulting horrible maps?
[quote who="ddd888" reply="3" id="2722980"]yeah very importat critiques "the game does not explain how to end turn" "my toaster does not explain i have to connect it to the power" "my car doesnt explain me i have to put keys to turn it on" plz... [/quote] http://www.useandcaremanuals.com/pdf/ST20001030.pdf Toaster Manual - page
This is a deal breaker for me - no random land masses? Guess I'll save my 50 bucks for something else.
[quote who="Cadvridoc76" reply="1" id="1866529"]also no option to select Australia/New Zealand. knowing that there are a number from both countries this is rather poor on Stardocks behalf. Closest thing to select is Asia (Other), which does not make a good representation. and yet have several choices for the USA.[/quote] Questions 11 and 12 required an answer, none of which were applicable to me. In both cases I chose the first response just to get past the page.
[quote]well as long as it comes with a on cd manual. I guess I cant be mad if its not even gonna be in retail.stardock is still my favorite game company.Gal civ ftw[/quote] Question is, why are the charging the Retail Box shipping rate if there isn't a box?
Works for me. I needed to finish some ships real quick for my war against the Thalans, and since that would have put me in the red I decided that everyone else should foot the bill. So I passed the hat around and got enough cash to quick build my ships. Haven't been successful with non-cash demands yet, so I cannot commment on them.
Oh yeah - absent the whole epic generator, I'd also like some sort of logging of in-game events.
I would like the ability to see improvements by category in the build list on the planet screen. So I click on "Production" and it only shows improvements that effect production. Click on "Research" and it only shows labs. etc.