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Reply to Essence, can we get rid of it now? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="16" id="3230973"]The intent is that the player adjusts his strategy based on the randomness of the maps. Without that, where do you draw the line? Do you Ctrl+N until you get nearby iron or crystal? What about a nearby fire shard for your fire based custom sovereign? If you have good locations you have to have comparatively bad locations. If you want them all to be "good" then you probably want a starcraft type balanced locations. That's important in multi

Reply to Essence, can we get rid of it now? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="KingHobbit" reply="12" id="3230894"]My only suggestion with eseence is let that be the number of maintanence free enchantments. You could cast additonal enchantments on cities that cost maintanence. But have it increase in cost. The first enchantment has a maintanence of 10 mana per turn. The second has 15 mana per turn and so on.[/quote] It would be nice to cast a spell that increases the essence of a city by 1, at a maintanence cost of 5 mana per turn per (essence +

Reply to 1 vs. 1: Frog vs. AI in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="CyanPile" reply="84" id="3230896"]any of the usual races have these horses? they are much better than usual?[/quote] The usual race that has these horses are the Kingdom of Capitar (the Mancers). There used to be a pre-made sovereign for this race, but now you have to make a custom sovereign to get this race now.

Reply to Couple game interface issues I found annoying in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="cardinaldirection" reply="1" id="3230877"]and another annoying thing... when you decline or are defeated on a stage in the quest it fails??? I'd like the chance to come back and try again. It has been my assumption that this is a bug.[/quote] This is not a bug, currently this is how it is programmed. It has been mentioned that quests can be redoable even if you die in the middle, but that has not been implemented, but it's possible to mod it for your convenien

Reply to The birth of a Game Designer in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Great read. I've been waiting for a behind the scenes look of why particular elements are chosen and why things were scrapped along the way. On this side of the fence, we don't see all the reasons why you added something or chose to do something. We mostly have to deal with the results and say if we like it or not and sometimes I feel we can't give appropriate feedback on the new feature. Keep up the good work and continue to produce a quality product with good story

Reply to Making a quest / random event editor in FE Modding Elemental Forums

I haven't found a specific quest to where you immediately deny the quest something happens. But in the middle of a quest you can definitely do this see the three sons quest. Spend 100 mana to heal the woman. That could easily be your deny and poof something happens. I think to get your effect, from the current system you are looking at is to egg the player to investigate beyond the initial investigation of the quest. "You see a man with a multitude of littl

Reply to [BUG] [0.952] Merchant II skill in FE Support Elemental Forums

Merchant III skills also says +4 and now I'm getting a +8 gildar per season from it. It does indeed stack, the tool tips should tell the user as such.

Reply to City placement planning in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Glowing_Ember" reply="9" id="3229961"]i'm sure this has come up in conversation before, but doesn't it seem counter intutive,that a settlement will have a higher grain or materials rating if the "wheat", "fruit groves", "clay" and "iron" are near a settlement, because your giving a boost to something you are already giving a boost to...[/quote] I don't see the counter intuition here. The point is when the map generates the grain and material ratings then they p

Reply to More fun with quests in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I hope the gestation period is not 50 - 60 seasons. :) I get what you are saying but I couldn't resist. Yeah, 50-60 seasons till the babe is born, and comes of age :)

[hopeful wish] Map markers in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Currently, I don't think there is an option to place map markers (places I would like to note on the map). I know its late in the beta, but would it be possible to place our own map markers on the cloth map? (little flag pins that when high-lighted shows up some info that we wrote there) I'm not asking for a delay, but maybe a future patch to implement this feature (unless it already exists and I can't find it).

Reply to 1 vs. 1: Frog vs. AI in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I understand the desire for competitive starting locations, but I prefer the randomness of the starts. I am a purest when it comes to gameplay, I take the roles as they land and deal with the limitations. Of course it yields a more difficult game, but I play to play and not to win. Some of my most enjoyable games are when I lose and the game turns to how long can I survive, even after 6 hours of gameplay to a loss, I had fun playing. I don't believe in imparting this gameplay to othe

Reply to City placement planning in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

From my experiences of playing the game I've come to the following conclusions with the tile ratings: Fertile land is mostly random around the map, and when you have fertile land you get increases to grain, material, and essence. I think that all fertile land starts with 2 grain, 2 material, 0 essence, then depending on the terrain nearby bonuses occur to the grain and material tile yields. Forest, iron mines, clay mounds increase nearby material yields on the fert

[BUG] [0.952] Merchant II skill in FE Support Elemental Forums

Merchant II skill states that it gives +3 gildar each season, but I am getting +4 gildar each season. I believe this is due to Merchant I and Merchant II stacking on each other. I'm not sure if this is the intended effect, but the tool tip should specify this behavior.

Reply to [bug] custom sovereign background irrelevant in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Actually this is mostly true. If you choose empire races you get different backgrounds. I'm assuming that it is incomplete at the moment, it would be nice to see the Tarth kingdom standing in Lady Irane's background and so forth.

Reply to Bugs I've found while playing the beta (.95) in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Submitting bugs are usually put in FE Support forum. See https://forums.elementalgame.com/415301 for all the info on posting bugs.

Reply to Making a quest / random event editor in FE Modding Elemental Forums

Just a curiousity, is it possible to set the chance of a random event be tied to unrest of a particular city? Also, is it possible to have a variable chance per turn tied to a particular stat in the game. For example, a chance of spawning angry mobs around a city with an unrest of more than 50% or more. More specifically can a random event be tied to the unrest of a city. Say these angry mobs have a chance of spawning around the city with a .25 * (unrest of city) ch

Reply to Mistake with game Pacing in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I do like the epic pacing and I agree with the assessment about the heros getting strong too quickly. It makes sense that since tech is taking longer, it translates to taking longer to learn things and thus heroes should level up slower to account for learning things slower, as well.

Reply to [0952 Bug] When Slags Bite the Big One They Swallow Their Lair in FE Support Elemental Forums

You really don't want what's in the slags lair... :) I've noticed this as well.

Reply to How do the AI Heroes level up so fast? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

If you leader is battling with other champions that can reduce the XP your sovereign gets and thus you have a lower level. Note that you get reduced XP only with other champions in the party not the other units.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress–BETA 5 almost ready in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The assessment is unfair about this game and modding. The game is in many regards a sequel in terms of game engine. Thus, the mods for e:wom can be easily be ported over and thus lots of mods can be there at the release. Many older games weren't as easy to mod for many people. The point is that frogboy is partaking in a new paradigm in gaming and allowing the game to be modded simply. I look at it as play testing a board game and a person is creating house rules. I've

Reply to 1 vs. 1: Frog vs. AI in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I assume with the map editor that we can create maps that give standardized starting locations. So wouldn't this be the option to create standardized locations?

Reply to Derek - Where's the New Change Log?????????? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

See evil laughing from Brad's office. :)

Reply to Bad performance [SOLVED] in FE Support Elemental Forums

You video card has Optimus and dxdiag doesn't detect your actual video card namely your GT 630M. I run on a GTX 555M and the game runs smooth and fine. Goto you nVidia settings and go to manage 3d settings. Select the preferred graphics processor to be the High-performance NVIDIA processor. That should force any game to use your nVidia card. To double check that it is using the nVidia card you can go to desktop menu and display the GPU activ

Reply to Derek - Where's the New Change Log?????????? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="8" id="3227553"]Tried to make the AI smarter and more devious[/quote] You forgot that there was evil chuckling coming from Brad's office.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress–BETA 5 almost ready in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I'm excited to see beta 5 come out. At some point in the development of the game you have to move forward with what you have so you can finish the game, otherwise every game would just stay in beta. I'm excited to see the balance changes of this game and allow me to finally play with modding stuff (I didn't want to play with things that would eventually change). I would like to know if we get to play with the map editor with the beta 5 release? I would like to t