Friday update

nice next patch so soon

Yea, I think they want a weekend free of whining and crying on the board.  Not fonna hapen, but they are optomists.

I was going to skip 1.08 completely and wait for 1.09 instead but this looks much more playable.

It does make you wonder what their QA person actually does to warrant an update to fix a patch to fix a game so quickly!

Does this mean random item affixes? :D 

Anyways, two thumbs up. If this pace keeps up Elemental will be very awesome, can't wait for 1.1

Hmm I like. Maybe I can play some fun games this weekend before Civ 5 releases. Downloading now.

again, no rest for the weary... you guys need to pace yourselves!

  (downloading now)

i (and likely others) hope this is good enough to keep me out of these forums.  :fingers crossed:

Good stuff! Keep the updates coming!
The game only gets better and bettter!

Seems it became a tradition that there is a hotfix after every patch 

The constant bitching on the site is the cause for that.

dear mr Frogboy

good enough.  i accept your apology.

yours trolly,

thisisretarded

p.s.  i reserve the right to take back the above statement at any time for any reason.

Thanks much for setting movement back to what it was before. Please let it be on par with movement in similiar games!

Ooooh... nice... wait, wait...

+ Adjusted the combat speed from 2 to 3 for the base male/female sov units.

.. Whaa?

We needed the ability to cast 3 spells per combat (with any + cs items/one levelup)? Am I the only one confused on this?

Chief, did the hotfix do anything to Sov Creation? I notice now I don't have any hair choice options for almost all the races. The only ones I can pick hair for are my created "Undead Race" and the Ironers have 1 hair and 1 hat choice. Aside from that none of the other races have hair choices. I'm not sure if the update did this or if one of my mods suddenly started causing a problem. Everything was fine with the first 1.08, but I just tried creating a new Sov just now after I installed the Hotfix and hair choices are fubar'd. Any ideas?

It may just be my luck but ever since the second 1.08 download none of my archers have been able to hit anything. Even the level 1, 0 AC critters.

I'm inclined to say one of your mods is doing it.  I created a human male sovereign after the hotfix since all my old ones had organized and had the usual selection of hair. 

Edit: Just checked and I have full selection of hair for all races on sovereign creation.  I don't have any mods at all and never did, except I use the custom faction creator mod thingy that's around.

I love this patch! - though i miss organized

I had a good first try with this patch and i really enjoy the Settlers need mats now! it makes for a much more interesting "oh oh oh i need more mats" instead of just piling up ludricous amounts of gold and spamming out settlers every round. Also enjoy the whole Moneymakers /need one food - exelently done.


I am still a bit sad over how movement is done on the map - needs more variation instead of 2 fields on non forest...1 in forest.  i wants units that move Very fast! but cost a bizzilon to make (griffons anyone? -  dragon riders?! yay)

but good patch keep it up

Are you saying you can't choose that (for example) since updating today?

Before the Hotfix none of my spells would hit anything. My Sov missed 6 times in a row. I was going to post a bug report on that too but then I saw the hotfix and downloaded it and ran into this hair issue. I want to see if the hair issue I'm having is just me or if it's everyone and then I can make a combined bug report on both.

The hotfix is 1.08b I believe. That's the one I just saw and downloaded about 10 minutes ago. Now when making a new Sov none of the races have any hair. I'm talking to Admiral on Yahoo right this second and just had him check to see if he had hair on the sov creator and he does so now I'm thinking it's something I'm working on and not a bug. I'm going through and checking my mods now. Thanks though Nick, much appreciated on trying to help.

Frogboy,

Any chance we can get a list of the XML data files that can't be overwritten in the mods folder. I know right now the World names and Unit names files will not overwrite via mods and now I'm curious what other files are also working that way.

Thanks.

Easy enough to check, just hit the "use mod" option once, restart, and see... :p

What are the general special abilities and how do I get them? 

I've read some post saying Organise is OP but I figured it was just a vocal minority and it would stay as is, my personal preference is that the Organise ability stays in as the pacing of moving an army 1 or 2 tiles at a time is frustrating gameplay particulary on larger maps.  It's removal is also compounded by the increase in teleport costs (I agree with that change).

*WHACK* I hope that was tongue-in-cheek.