Sythion

Yeah, empire gets shafted in a civics research. Their war tech tree seems a bit quicker and better though.

[quote who="Tundork" reply="79" id="2775511"]hi i might be at wrong spot, but i have a suggestion. remove iron from the cost of a transport, cos if u start on an isle, where u havent enough quest zone whit iron u kind of stuck. [/quote] This is a good suggestion.

In my game there was not a bit of iron on the entire map. There was a crap ton of gold though, so darklings ftw. Well... I would have used darklings, but I had a sovereign who could cast spells, so instead I just used darklings to defend.

I'm fine with the idea of rare shards and big benefits. I'm not okay with auto-winning the entire game without creating a single combat troop. It REALLY makes the first turn advantage stand out when on the first turn you are able to consistantly do hundreds of damage to a group of opponents with an int 9 hero. Starting damage is too much. Shards give too much of a bonus. Intelligence may be something you can gain every level, but the bonuses are very small, meaning tw

[quote who="hannahb" reply="3" id="2775104"]Some feedback: Have you thought about ESCORTING your caravans? You really don't expect the drover and one mule to be able to fight off all those raging spiders alone do you? Seriously, design a unit..call it Caravan Guard... send it out with all your caravans and they should get where they are going safely enough ..if not, well, add more guards. [/quote] It's too much effor

Just played a game as Celea or whomever the wraith chick is. Cake-walked through ridic enemies with spells alone. Janusk (only other hero) was imbued as well, full armored/equipped, but I still used direct magic damage because it is way more powerful than standard attacks (with just 1 shard). I like what you've done with magic, but the balance is all off. There needs to be lower initial damage, WAY more benefit from intelligence and WAY less benefit from shards (a single shard es

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[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="4" id="2774160"]In some Paradox Games, if you have incest relationships, the kids are born with the "Inbred" trait, that makes them pretty worthless. They might think of adding something like that. [/quote] It might have happened in A Song of Ice and Fire, therefore it's a valid point.

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="34" id="2771883"]\ Like I said, role-playing and game mechanics are mutually exclusive. If I decide that my character is afraid of water, then I can decide to never build ships in my game. If I decide that blood makes him queasy, then I can decide to never build soldiers. These things have nothing to do with the mechanics of the game, but they support the role-play-centric world that Stardock created. If you are not

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="31" id="2771842"]I'll start by saying that I disagree with the OP. The AI should be a lot better than it is, and we shouldn't have to handicap ourselves to make it challenging. HOWEVER... I consider Elemental to be very unique among 4X strategy games in that it has huge amount of role-play mechanics within it. Good role-playing games are peculiar things because to get the most out of them, they require the player to do things t

[quote who="psychoravin" reply="71" id="2771443"]No the defender shouldn't move first but get first missle strike. The defender should defend the attacker is the one who should advance. But, there should be terrain advantages for the defender to hide behind and give bonuses to THACO so they can't be hit so easily by attacker missle fire. Also once again this IGOUGO system has to be removed for simultaneous attacks so that both units will attack and defend at the same times. I'm tired of these

[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="64" id="2771342"] What favors the human must be given to the AI without cost. The Civilization series does this the best by difficulty levels. It's why it's been such a success over the years and the reason MOM is still a success after all these years neither of the games are balanced. Most everything favors the ai advantage as well it should. It's what makes these games FUN & CHALLENGING. [/quote] There's a BIG difference between

[quote who="ddd888" reply="60" id="2771310"] i agree with the analisys but imo its not a problem of combat speed imo its a problem in overall balance [/quote] Combat speed is definitely a problem. Tying together both movement and attacks into a single stat allows kiting to be far too easy to pull off. More importantly, it makes the "first strike woes" much more deadly (an extremely fast unit can charge in, attack, attack, attack, attack). As

[quote who="Kalin" reply="76" id="2770556"]Making a city cost 1 food isn't going to stop city spamming. First of all, there's the problem of the capital city, which will starve as soon as you found it. Secondly, the way caravans work right now, making a city and sending a caravan to your highest food city will more than make up the 1 lost food. You'll usually gain 2-3 even, even more as you expand further outwards. Essentially, if you make cities use more food, people will have to build even

[quote who="Rishara" reply="72" id="2770529"] Quoting Haldur, reply 70 Quoting Sythion, reply 65 No need to have a toggle/slider. Just make the cities have a cost (1 food). No need to figure out some convoluted solution when a natural one is available. I agree. I was going to say, essentially, the same thing (but you said it first). You either add a cost of 1 food per settler (and refund that food if the setttler dies), or you have

[quote who="Haldur" reply="70" id="2770518"] Quoting Sythion, reply 65 No need to have a toggle/slider. Just make the cities have a cost (1 food). No need to figure out some convoluted solution when a natural one is available. I agree. I was going to say, essentially, the same thing (but you said it first). You either add a cost of 1 food per settler (and refund that food if the setttler dies), or you have each city (after t

[quote who="Twohawks" reply="63" id="2770495"]I do not support limiting city building.. it is as fair a strategy as the zerg is.. If i manage to build up a bigger empire that allows me to make elite troops that whoop on some ones butt.. then good on me... however! the AI builds way to many cities just because it wants to link to resource with out considering growth of other cities.. this needs to be fixed.. there is a suggestion about tweaking the population

Simple solution: Each city uses 1 food by default. This along with properly aggressive neutrals solve the problem.

[quote who="Twohawks" reply="77" id="2765716"] As to the discussed "save on issue" matter. In a single player game this is a non issue. Let the single player play as they choose, its their game and they paid for it, and frankly how each game owner has fun is not our concern. If I want to play Iron-man style or save on issue only matters to me.. In mp it is up to the other players to self police this and since only the game starter can save and there for load (at least that wh

The save/reload issue becomes a non issue if sovereign death is unavoidable. That is to say, Sovereigns can (and absolutely will) die from old age. Suddenly the idea of succession is viable and important, and strategic choices regarding your dynasty must be made game-years in advance. Succession wars become possible. Traits revolving around succession become viable. Marrying off a daughter stops being the most tactically retarded thing conceivable. The only thing you have to g

With the upcoming changes allowing essense(wisdom) to contribute to mana regeneration, the 5 mana cost for teleport is going to get worse. It's ridiculous still to require a high mana cost because this is a spell that's too powerful to be available only to people who invest HEAVILY in wisdom. Instead I simply propose making it cost 75% of your maximum mana to cast at any given time. Keeps the double casts away without using an item, and keeps the costs fair for all sovereigns.

I think you have to have enough money to talk to them. BTW, don't higher them unless they are level 1 royals. All the other benefits are really bad, and champions are really really inefficient with the current build.

right.

yes they are.

I think the answer is pretty obvious from reading this thread. The people who post here are extremely self-important (myself included), so much so that the game because incredibly important just for being on our minds.