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Reply to Age of Wonders:Shadow Magic : New Interview in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="5" id="2789629"]If only AOWSM had someone like Brad doing the AI. It's also too bad you couldn't get Reactor and AOWSM MP working together, that would have been nice also (but most likely impossible) I really wonder now what would happen if Stardock and Triumph worked together on AOWIII using the Elemental Engine with Brad doing the AI. [/quote] The first hurdle to that would need to be overcome: hexes. (Hexes are imp

Reply to Lot of interesting stuff going on in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="66" id="2789613"]Anyway, I like that UI too. What's wrong with 1280 resolution? Just curious.[/quote] Because even though they lowered the bar, there are still people who want it to support smaller screen sizes.

Reply to Granddaughter with 15 base move! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Closing out of Elemental causes some annomallies related to the dynasty system to be "corrected" the next time you load the game, but not when you simply load without closing the program.

Reply to A little bit about me (for what it's worth) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]not just with Python but with C++ too.[/quote] YES!!!

Reply to Please explain how movement Works (if there is a logic to it) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="13" id="2783722"]The other possibility would be to use some form of mesuration of "distance" but if that can be done I don't know, I am not a programmer, I am a wargamer. [/quote] It would still likely use a grid, but the grid would be too small for the player to notice. This would consume alot of memory and take tons of processing power to manage, so it is not likely to show up for a long time if ever.

Reply to Lot of interesting stuff going on in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="62" id="2789523"]1. Melee 2. Ranged 3. Calvalry [/quote] 4. Special (creatures, stealth, support, ect.) Do not forget the non-mainline units! They are the most important of all because they are interesting.

Reply to Let's talk about Master of Magic in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="129" id="2789126"]Of course the other thing is AOW ai was terrible just pitiful and no challenge whatsoever. At least MOM challenged me and sometimes sent me into the abyss on higher difficulties and major magic. AOW:SM is also TOO DARK I can hardly see my units and stacks and just plain ole stuff on the maps. I don't know why they think playing in the BLACK is fun? The Shadow Realm was the worst. Plus the ai in AOW never used Pioneers/settler types like MOM

Reply to Proposed improvements for 'auto resolve' in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="11" id="2789366"]I've been avoiding autoresolve due to it not accounting for range (at least last time I tried it), meaning that an archer and a melee hit each other at the same time. All the other points brought up here are good ideas definitely, but without range I consider autoresolve simply broken, it needs that before anything else. [/quote] Ranged units are nerfed in the auto combat of every game I have ever played, so it is not "broken" but rat

Reply to Lot of interesting stuff going on in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="50" id="2789336"]The graphics might be tricky. True 3D is harder to give good contrast because you can't use a bright object with a black border. That way you'd make it visible like the green trees on a green background. But in 3D there is no border around an object. Only the vertices of the object and since the player can rotate the camera, you can't realistically control the background. But that's just the theory. Maybe a real 3D per

Reply to Age of Wonders Makes It Way to Impulse! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Goontrooper" reply="44" id="2788047"]Went ahead and picked this up since I loved AoW back in the day, but somehow never got into Shadow Magic. Are people using mods with the Impulse version of this? I've been looking through AoW Heaven, and it looks like there are lots of good mods...but I may have to *gasp* mess around with DOS prompts and other such things that I haven't touched since the 20th century. [/quote] Some mods (e.g

Reply to How Do You Buy Items In Towns? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="7" id="2788732"]that's probably a cheat code, item shops should only be available in cities no matter what the size. [/quote] It is being in friendly territory, not in a city.

Reply to GOG, RIP in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Dark_bird" reply="28" id="2788587"]You know all they are doing is selling abandoware. Just do a search for the game you want and you can find it for free! [/quote] Not all the games are abandonware, such as Age of Wonders; therefore free versions of some games availible through GOG may not be legal.

Reply to logistic tech and immersion in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="3" id="2788535"]What if one out of 8 guys has an item with a clicky buff? Do you get 1/8th of the effect or does it only work 1 out of 8 times? What if one has a bow and 7 have swords? What weapons/armor do you display for the unit? The squad is multiple identical units and with the fractions there probably won't be a combination of equipment items that results in the exact average stats. The o

Reply to Marriage gone? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Yenkin" reply="15" id="2787696"]I can't see the marriage option anywhere within the game, I go to the Kingdom Info, I get no choices for wife. [/quote] You select a hero of the opposite gender, and there will be an action for marrage.

Reply to Proposed improvements for 'auto resolve' in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="7" id="2787325"]Bad example; in theory they had this, but in practice the "conservative" setting was indistinguishable from the "overkill" setting. Both dropped their most powerful spell at the start of battle regardless of how weak the opponent was. This lead to infuriating situations where a rat would run out of a corner, the AI would start casting meteor swarm, and then warrior would have hit it with his sword and killed it before the spell finished.

Reply to Proposed improvements for 'auto resolve' in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Edwin99" reply="4" id="2786943"]Auto-resolve should include a no-magic option: Auto Resolve Auto Resolve w/o magic This would allow players to quickly dispatch minor threats without depleting their mana. [/quote] Better yet would be a slider for how much magic you want the AI to use like in NWN2 for the characters you are not controlling at the moment; I prepose that the options be none, conservative (use the minimum the AI thinks

Reply to Din's Curse in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I got it and already love it. More games need dynamic worlds like this, where things are always happening; however I would like a non-randomized world mode that has more story (or is there more later? I am still in the first town, but I cannot see there being more to it with a random world).

Reply to Balancing Stacks Ideas in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]*Stack members should not attack from beyond the grave. Dead stackies should have their damage taken from the group so if only 1 guy is left in the stack then only his personal damage is dealt.[/quote] In one of my latest games I think I saw the damage of a party drop as it lost men.

Reply to Age of Wonders Makes It Way to Impulse! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="40" id="2786308"]I believe every one of those games gave me the option to choose 1920x1080. So i did. You should be all set. H [/quote] Really? Mine does not, but maybe that is because my system does not support that resolution. I guess it is checking with Windows about what is availible so it should be able to do any setting.

Reply to About multiplayer in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The AI take all the computer's processing power, so it cannot accept your commands till the AI has made all its moves.

Reply to Starcraft II in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="SwerydAss" reply="6" id="2786261"] Didn't play that one. Warcraft 2 turned me off with the 2 identical races. Did they make them any different in the 3rd installment? [/quote] Four non-identical races (Undead, night elves, orcs, and humans) plus other misc races that are almost their own group but have not actually been made as such. Sheep still blow up if you click on them too much, but not other things.

Reply to Do you play with the grid turned off? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

Depends on the game. When in TC I use it more often than on the strategy map if possible to set them separately.

Reply to The Elemental all-purpose mega thread in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The xml for forth level Fallen Cities defines the level up amount as 1000. (found in CoreImprovements -> F_CityHubs.xml)

Reply to Ridiculous Requests for Upcoming Patches in War of Magic Elemental Forums

- To avoid arguements over whether hexes or squares are better, all tiles should be perfect circles.

Reply to The Elemental all-purpose mega thread in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Kingdom is definately 1250, it is the only one I play as. (I only found one thousand through captured cities)