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Reply to 1.19 Changelog in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote] Honestly all the people complaining about lack of content never make it even 1 level deep into the forums to notice the amazing stuff the mod community is putting out there. Must not join the .... s [/quote] Let me preface this by saying I love mods, have worked on mods for other games and I am currently planning a decent sized mod for Elemental. But... Some people actually expect stuff to be in the game. :) There are people that don't l

Imbue Champion - Where's the Spell? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Can someone point me to the file(s) that includes the current version of Imbue Champion? I looked in the Life and Death spell files, but the version in those is the old one, plus it is commented out. Can't find it in any other spell file. (I would have put this in the mod section, but I can't get there from here.) EDIT: Never mind. I found it... for Death at least. Still not sure where the Life book is getting it from....

Reply to Making interesting worlds in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="troglyte" reply="59" id="2877248"] I would be in favour a few city ruins, but not "you can't build a city unless it's on a ruins or else your city sucks". I think it would be more fun if the ruins were haunted, or infested with monsters or something. For that matter, there should be different kinds of territories already controlled by creature factions and denizens of the wastelands. Much like the ZOC for your city, there should be a ZOC around certain monster spa

Reply to Was "Master Archer" removed from the Faction Creator in a recent patch? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

It was removed... I think in 1.1, maybe prior to that. For another option, check out Heavenfall's Expanded Factions mod. The Elf faction actually starts with a type of bow available; using that as an example it's easy enough to mod that in for your own faction.

Reply to EWOM v. FFH2 (and SMAC) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

This thread has convinced me to reacquire SMAX. Been years since I played. Glad to see it's way cheaper than it used to be.

Reply to Baking a cake in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrAtomic1" reply="71" id="2876788"]hmmm, what's with the angst of having a game within a game... UFO: Enemy Defense was basicly 3 games in one and it sits on most peoples top 10 alltime lists. ... /throws hope of exploration~tactical system based on UFO:Defense combat system out of the window [/quote] +1 If I can't "remember what I'm doing" on the strategic level after exploring a dungeon, then there's something wrong with the strategic level,

Reply to Some v1.2 notes in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] 3. There's been work to tactical battles. The AI is using magic in battles and seems to be somewhat smarter. I wish I had time to take this part of the AI over but Charles is doing a great job here and hopefully people will start noticing. [/quote] When will the AI not taking stat upgrades at level-up get addressed? Without taking their stat upgrades at level-up, most magic will be available only to the Sovereign, and the

Reply to [1.11] AI Sovereigns Not Increasing Stats on Level-up in WOM Support Elemental Forums

This problem occurs with AI Heroes as well. That means the AI can only cast higher level spells with the sovereign, and spells that rely on INT will never be very powerful. This really sucks the "magic" right out of the game. I would think this would need to be rather high on the priority list. Guess I'll either shelve it for now or start modding the magic system to allow the AI to use it with some effect...

[1.11] AI Sovereigns Not Increasing Stats on Level-up in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I had a game going 200+ turns, and thought I would check on how the AI factions were doing. I was happy to see most of the AI Sovereigns were level 6 or so, until I noticed that all their stats were still the same as at the beginning. Their hit-points are increasing, but they don't increase their stats. I can provided a save game if needed.

Reply to Big maps? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I have to ask... are you using Elementerra? https://forums.elementalgame.com/395529

Reply to Making interesting worlds in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Will this be coded in such a way that modders can make map scripts for it?

Reply to What Version Number will Equal Fun? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="23" id="2875139"]Right now, personally speaking, the most glaring issues I have with War of Magic are the diplomacy AI and the tactical battles. They're both being worked on of course but those are the things I have a serious pet peeve with. [/quote] Really? Really? What about the strategic AI? It seems like factions at war still just wander around, with a sudden attack now and then. In the game I'm currently playing, o

Reply to Race Variety and visual appeal in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="6" id="2875438"]I don't think that's fair, Stuie_. I run the ExpandedFactions mod, and I've never told anyone that a lack in the main game should be compensated by their own mod. At least, not outside the mod forum. I, too, would have prefered a real fantasy setting instead of what's in the game right now. What we got was nowhere near enough to replace the rich background and variety a normal fantasy game provides. [/quote] Sorry - I shou

Reply to Race Variety and visual appeal in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="4" id="2875368"] Oh and I definitely agree about Treants. I've always loved the green nature faction in any games I've played. I'd love to see a nature faction with Druids, Dryads, Treants, Unicorns etc. Lots of cool summons like Dire Boars, Faerie Dragons etc. like in AOW II:SM. [/quote] Unfortunately the powers-that-be decided to ignore/avoid/eschew/whatever the common fantasy that we all know and share and instead created

Reply to Demo ETA? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Says something about the state of the game if they're not willing to release a demo that they've been promising for six months or more. ;)

Reply to Very unimpressive. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"]I had thought from the evidence of SoaSE that Stardock had improved its game development skills since the days of Galactic Civilizations II... [/quote] Sins wasn't developed in-house. ;)

Reply to Elementerra 2 experimental map file. in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Looks incredible! I love the rolling feel to the countryside and the well defined areas of swamp and forest. The coastlines look awesome, too. My hope would be that we still have control over how much hill/mountain, forest, swamp, etc. we get on a given map. If you start adding in environments, it would be nice to control the percentage of those as well. So if I want to give the Fallen civs an edge, I could up the Fallen environment. Just a thought.

Reply to What about those Wal-Mart and Best Buy extras? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="25" id="2872460"]Well, if it's like the Ember's stuff, you can go in and modify the items yourself. I improves the starting items that Nym and Ambrose starts with, I just need to find a way to enable him to wear human armor... [/quote] True... but if they are going to incorporate it into an official patch, the average user should not be required to mod the items in order to make them balanced. Things like that make a game look sloppy.

Reply to Stardock hires Civ 5 lead designer Jon Shafer in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="HsojVvad" reply="227" id="2871215"]Someone said we are just sitting around trying to suck up to Jon? No way in hell. If I ever met him perosnally, and the situation warrented it, i would ask him what the hell happened with Civ V. The first thing I would ask is, "How the hell did those rivers ever get in the game." [/quote] At least they HAVE rivers in the game. Maybe the Stardock team can ask him that question... "How the hell do we get rivers in the game??"

Reply to What about those Wal-Mart and Best Buy extras? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kestral2040" reply="20" id="2871859"]update to prove I still love you, checked up and it will now be rolled into 1.2[/quote] Are the quest rewards getting updated? Pointless to add them if not.

Reply to Question about the seeded maps in-game in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Veristek" reply="3" id="2871520"]Has Stardock or the devs said anything about improving the random map generator or incorporating ElemenTerra in their next big update or the expansion?[/quote] Not that I have seen. Still leaves a bad taste in my mouth that I bought the game with the promise of "new randomly generated worlds" and instead had to rely on a mod to provide what any reasonable person would expect from that statement. But I'm getting free expansion pa

Reply to [eMOD] ExpandedFactions 8.13 for After the War 1.10 in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="272" id="2871264"]There is no changelog for internal changes that don't affect the players. If you modded stuff you'll have to stay up-to-date with any changes by going through changes in the files. I can recommend winmerge.[/quote] Funny - I just downloaded that and already found the change. Now to figure out why you made it... :) Thanks!

Reply to [eMOD] ExpandedFactions 8.13 for After the War 1.10 in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Is there a change list for 8.3? My custom elf faction is able to build Kingdom buildings now, and it was only allowed Empire buildings prior to this. Just wondering if there's a good place to start for hunting down the cause.

Reply to So I finished my first Elemental game... in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="PaxTerminus" reply="8" id="2869747"] Damage = Attack * ( Attack / (Attack + Defense)) [/quote] Love the simple elegance of this compared to some of the long-winded, convoluted posts I've seen about calculating damage. Notebooks out, Stardock!

Reply to Kingdom VS Empire in War of Magic Stardock Forums

So is Tarth. :)