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Reply to So why does the AI start with a spouse? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

And children born later tend to have higher essence, because that is connected to the monster level.

Reply to The AI in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="jshores" reply="7" id="2783247"] Your touching on one of my gripes with the AI. The fact that it knows those stupid empty crates are halfway across the map even though it has not scouted the area. This makes line of sight completely pointless except for human players. Age of Wonders had a similar "ALL Knowing" AI that made concealment and the elven city concealment completely pointless. I hope this gets changed, because I would really like my 2 movement 3 squ

Reply to Economic Rebalancing Has Sucked the Fun Out of the Game in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="DKL" reply="51" id="2783166"] You know, challenge comes from AI, not from fighting with UI and boredom. Nothing stops AI from using same exploits, and nothing stops AI from challenging the player. Rules are same for everyone, so there is always all balance between players you need. I dont understand what is the point in balancing stuff like teleport. It makes game more fun and more fast paced. That spell is available to everyone, unlike trait

Reply to Age of Wonders Comes to Impulse! Classic Gaming Goodness! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

There are some effects that get removed, but I cannot name specifics. Try asking over at Age of Wonders II Heaven for more details.

Reply to Alleviating "First Strike" in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Another thing that would help against first strike would be to give both sides a "planning" phase before the battle begins so they can arrange their units.

Reply to Graphical Interface Overhaul in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="SwerydAss" reply="19" id="2782955"]I don't mind the current interface but have a couple things that should be tweaked. 1. Even when i don't have any of a resource it should still be listed up top. I ran into a problem where I had farms but no food and couldn't figure out how negative I was since the stat isn't displayed at the top if you have none. Not to mention it took me awhile to even know about some resources(crystals) since they are up ther

Reply to Elemental: Post-Release Update Schedule in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="arstal" reply="50" id="2783006"]AOW system worked fine. It's ok if the attacker loses a few units before he can fight, just not instant doom.[/quote] That is because range and obsticals matter in AoW, and spells are much weaker than in elemental.

Reply to Alleviating "First Strike" in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="2" id="2782723"]Defensive actions such as...?[/quote] It is possible to create weapons that grant defensive abilities (The can be set to grant a spell as a special ability, then just give it 0 mane cost), they just have not done so yet.

Reply to Alleviating "First Strike" in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Another idea would be to have initiative and have units take turns based on that, rather than all ove both sides taking turns.

Reply to [Idea] Spend essence to create city (avoids city-spam, fits game-lore) in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Per the intro ALL magic is locked in the shards. Channellers can draw it out. They can then give it to others to help acheive the sovereigns goal.

Reply to [Idea] Spend essence to create city (avoids city-spam, fits game-lore) in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Mercestes" reply="24" id="2782600"]I dislike this idea a lot (even if it's planned.) Right now, essence is tied directly to your sovereign, which is pretty much the premise of the game. Changing essence to be a global pool of mana seems to take that "power" away from the sovereign and take away what makes him special. I would prefer that one aspect be left the way it is, I kind of like how that works out.[/quote] The global mana pool will the the sovereig

Reply to Creating a new custom weapon in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

On thing I would have liked to know (but was likely beyond the scope of the tutorial) would have been how to add special abilities to items. I found it, the xml to add (for any others who might want to know) for say, flame dart, is as follows: [code="xml"] Unit UnlockCombatAbility FlameDart [/cod

Reply to i need updates :D in War of Magic Elemental Forums

1.10 was to come out next week on the 30th last I heard.

Reply to Let's stop with the special tile nonsense. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="lord ebonstone" reply="29" id="2782243"]In Age of Wonders, cities would gradually grow farmland around themselves which raised gold output. Certain spells could destroy that, especially Death and Fire-type, if I remember correctly. There were also combat bonuses on certain kinds of terrain, if I remember correctly. Undead, for instance, fought better on Wasteland and worse on Grassland.[/quote] In Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, most races had terrain they

Reply to How can I check up other more cities/units in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="AronML" reply="8" id="2782091"]It is spreading trees/flowers automatically in my territory, which make no tiles for the city to build improvements. How to chop the trees/flowers? [/quote] The trees were already there, it is just hard to spot them.

Reply to buildings don't eat food. people do. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I am not too wild about a maintaince cost for economic buildings unless it is flavored as exchanging gold for another resource (e.g. some sort of alchemist that turns gold into crystals). It might be good for econ. buildings to be able to toggle between self-financing (reduced output, but does not cost gold as it sells some of the product to cover costs) and max-output (more production, but needs to be subsidized to function).

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

[quote who="kenata" reply="7" id="2781437"]I know the square/hex debate has been raging for years, but I always find it hilarious. Hexes are more fun from the players perspective, but are nightmares from a dev perspective. Consider that squares can easily be represented as a matrix and manipulation can be done with several types of matrix functions. Hexes, however, can also be represented by matrices but it is requires extra memory and system to maintain and manipulate the interconnections. P

Reply to Now that Organized is gone, is it time to allow your soverign to wear boots again? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Currently there is no researchable organize ability, but there are upgrades to increase unit movement for everyone.

Reply to Let's stop with the special tile nonsense. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

My view is the resource tile should not be a nessecity (other than a farm land to get going), but rather a location that is very important such that it can change the course of the war. For example, if you have no goldmines you should still be able to get the general buildings and field an army capable of defending your nation. If you own one to X you can build the good buildings (Ereog's Tower) and be able to defend and invade the next realm over. With X or more you can afford

Reply to [Idea Brainstorm] City and Economy Revamp in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Civic Victory: "Making the world as it was meant to be" is suppose to be a large part of this game. As I see it, one way of doing this would be to bring back the golden age. To this, I suggest you should have to construct all the "per game" unique buildings (wonders) from the civic research tree. In addition, there would be a new upgrade for "golden age" (or something similare but better suited to the faction) that unlocks a wonder that has no purpose other than acheiving victory. As

Reply to makes no sense that units regenerate mana & hit points only in battles in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I think AoW:SM has a better idea for regeneration as an ability; in that game it causes your HP to return to full by the next turn.

Reply to organization in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Yes. Therefore you should consider designing faster units.

Reply to [1.08b] No minor factions in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I have one in my 1.08 game.

Reply to Now that Organized is gone, is it time to allow your soverign to wear boots again? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="datorum" reply="10" id="2781317"] Quoting Lyander, reply 9 Organized was over powerful becuase it allowed you to carry around the powerful but slow units and it neglated your sovern down to a taxi that could toss out a few spells. for me it just costs a bit more to put boots cloak and horses on my units so they are able to move quickly my soverns stack still has a movement of 4-5 just can't carry around the OP summon creatures and move that quickl

Reply to Lack of one resource - destined to lose in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The units you get through Diplomacy and the empire equivalent cost only gold.