joeherbert48

[quote quoting="post"]I'm ashamed to ask this, I don't usually cheat unless I'm playing *with* a game instead of just playing it. But it's clear that there;s alot of balance issue is the beta as it stands. That perfect plot of land for a city happens to have a Slag or Forest Drake guarding it and I'm a good 100 turns from being able to take it on, by which time I won;t be able to hold my own against opposing factions unless I've expanded more, that kinda thing. <b

Actually it would be better if when you hit end turn or before auto end it cycled through all the settlements that are in zzzzzzzzzzzz state.

[quote who="Skyjack" reply="12" id="3346091"] Quoting Teslacrashed, reply 1 I dislike micromanaging combat units in real-time. It's not fun for me. I like WoM/FE/LH because of the turn-based combat.I am also fond of the art style for the Elemental games. You can opt out of the tactical combat in TW games. [/quote] You miss the whole point of tactical combat in games when you do that. All tactics games should be tu

[quote who="Teslacrashed" reply="1" id="3345734"]I dislike micromanaging combat units in real-time. It's not fun for me. I like WoM/FE/LH because of the turn-based combat.I am also fond of the art style for the Elemental games. [/quote] I agree if you want to play Total War games go play Total War games. Don't go trying to ruin what has potential to be a great tbg into a kiddy clickfest childish game.

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="439" id="3345171"] Quoting aeligos, reply 427 I can't say that I hate Steam, but if there is an option to purchase directly from developer so as to not use Steam, then I would do that instead. Reasons: beta patch access. Also to provide more profit for developer. I'd add to this, from a purely economic perspective, anytime the chain of distribution narrows to a single conduit

[quote who="sharpxe" reply="120" id="3345317"]nothing shoud be razed instantly, it plain stupid, for the god sake, why someone can raze town builded over ages in single turn? [/quote] Because they can! :{P

[quote who="Takkik" reply="111" id="3340106"] Quoting kobito, reply 106 Is the issue really THIS serious? I agree on the salted tile, but usually I clean up the lairs first. If you afterwards do not protect your city...sorry! Yes I find the issue serious, and please before say sorry to people who don't defend their cities, give us your starting factions, perks and difficulties. Because how can I defend a city when it's att

As far as Steam goes I will NEVER buy anything retail from them as far as full price goes. I will wait until it is bargain bin for $5 or less but if it's a really really great game I might pay $9.99 max. Mainly because of the way Steam does business with its customers and the fact that Steam owns the games we don't. Now, if you want to talk GAMERSGATE or GOG then we can talk and I'll surely buy retail games from Gamersgate and GOG because "I" OWN the games when I buy them. I can s

[quote who="jet800" reply="18" id="3344693"] Quoting sweatyboatman, reply 4 Start a new game on a Large map with 6-7 opponents. Set the world difficulty to Normal or Challenging. Set all the AIs to Challenging. Play. You and your friend will probably have a much nicer time. I'm playing at huge with World set to Hard and AI set to Challenging. On 0.8 AI still spams outposts and cities. Even more it forces dragons to leave their lair & wander

[quote who="Gandalftheredskin" reply="9" id="3344591"] Quoting joeherbert48, reply 8 Stardock and Matrixgames and Paradox Probably my 3 favorite companies. [/quote] Yeah me too specially Paradox who made Crusader Kings II.

[quote]Except this particular Skath marched not to the newly taken city, but through 3 stacks of unlucky spearmen and into on my own well established cities, burning it to the ground. [/quote] Bah hah hah hah haw haw. That's ^ what I like to read. Go get em AI way to go Brad this is what these games have needed for a long long time. AI that will trash and burn a players empire....making him/her cry about it. That's excellent AI challenge. Keep it up please. ;{P

MPer is so far down the line though. It's going to be well after they polish this expansion and maybe even the next before they think about inputing a MPer experience. Keep in mind though Frogboy also said they wouldn't "balance" MPer because Solo single player game will come first and foremost in all decisions. I'm very glad of that statement because Triumph studios ruin the Age series balancing it for MPer experience. In fact Triumph only put out 1 or 2 patches max and they

[quote who="animageous" reply="7" id="3344254"]I mainly just wish that I could use shield bash on a horse! [/quote] Oh pahleeeze how you gonna use a shield bash sitting up 5ft on a horse? Thats so silly and ridiculous. Ge get on a horse with a shield and try it. lmao

Heroes should be like generals in Medieval Total War origional game. They could slay whole armies with just themselves and 20 men. heh They should give morale and combat bonuses based on their gerneralship abilities from 1 to 9. They should be capturable and ransomable and beheadedable. They should have random traits or traits based on how they are used that makes their generalship go up and down during the game. Like Dreaded, Drunkard, Courageous, Coward, Homo, Lustful, Womanizer, Peoplizer,

[quote quoting="post"]After playing a little while without encumbrance, my first impressions are not very positive. In my humble opinión, the game is now a bit less deep. Weapons that before were a bit of a choice (Am I willing to assume the weight for the damage?) are now less difficult to figure. As Queen Procipinee I have found myself using the huge mace that never could use due to her limited 15 weight capacity. Also, traits are less different now. The trait that before

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="2" id="3344082"] This boring conversation again?[/quote] If you don't like them why did you come in here?

[quote who="N1ghthavvk" reply="4" id="3343816"] In this game there is no such thing as sneaking in a Spell of Mastery Victory since the Towers are displayed in a corner. Only sneaky thing possible is Quest of Vicotry and since AIs don't bother with it they have no victory condition against a powerful empire which is a few thousand powerrating ahead. Naturally they should seek peace to be able to get a higher rating or win together with me.[/quote] THat's ^

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="27" id="3344009"] I've given some thought to this discussion and looked at the code today and made a few changes. Basically, in subsequent updates of the LH betas, the odds of a monster wanting to attack a city will now be greatly diminished based on the # of units you have in the city and what city level the city is.[/quote] That works for me as long as they will still level the city or at least destroy some things based on their

[quote quoting="post"]So I highly recommended FE to a friend, it came on sale, I told him it was worth the price, he bought it, and here's what he told me... -------- "They’ve done a lot with the game, but I don’t know... it seems very “land grab spam”. I can’t even build up my cities, I’ll be getting 2 under a decent start and then I run into my first AI opponent who’ll have 8+. Think I’ll go back to Arcane or somethin

[quote quoting="post"]In an effort to better understand the game and the victory types, I am trying to win using all four VC for different playthroughs. I am trying to not wage war against my opponents, thereby winning under diplomatic conditions. The issue is that of the choices I am presented with, none of them seem to imply that a lasting peace or a coalition will be formed between the two nations. In addition, while I am the domina

[quote who="Sanati" reply="14" id="3342721"]You are really alone on that opinion. The poster above you agrees with me, and AoW has been brought up on these forums by many other people in the past as a shining example of where Elemental could aim for. Gamerankings.com also has Shadow Magic at 83.59%, slightly above the base game, while metacritic has it a 82% with a user score of 9.0. It's an amazing game, and you are the first person I have ever seen attack it. You are welcome to your opi

[quote] *snort* *hack* *cough* I just almost choked on my mini-quiche. AoW:SM is my favorite 4x game, way at the top of my list, it's what I compare every other game in the genre to, much like many people here do with MoM. There was absolutely nothing "ruined" in that game or by that expansion.[/quote] "snort" "hack" "cough" Fraid you are "very wrong" about that as it's the worst of the whole bunch of fantasy 4x games. It has the WORST AI I've ever p

I think instead of spending 100's of hours trying to make the AI better or counter human builds they should just NERF or dumb down some of these builds players are reporting they get away with against the AI. Reduce init to cap at 25 or so, reduce dodge to cap out at 25 or so, reduce dmg to lower levels so battles last longer and take more tactics instead of 1 shots. Reduce armor values let's have some player units getting clobbered for a change like in the real world. :{P

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="9" id="3342157"] Quoting Publius of NV, reply 8 Quoting joeherbert48, reply 7I don't think achievements are suppose to unlock until LH goes LIVE as in LAUNCH this is BETA remember?Except that many of them do unlock already. And they unlock even if you are cheating with the cheat codes [/quote] Well that makes them pretty worthless then don'tcha think?

I don't think achievements are suppose to unlock until LH goes LIVE as in LAUNCH this is BETA remember?