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Reply to possible to level sovereign outside of combat? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

As i was going through the XML i noticed something and remembered this thread, so to quote 10

Reply to The Mod tools are like crack in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="40" id="2665506"]The only issue I have is the same issue I had in Galciv II, I wanted a ship about the size of 8 tiles. However, your engine just scales down the size of the ship to the title based on its extents (as well as a maximum size in the editor). Damn you! Elemental looks like its going to be difficult - if not impossible - to create massive multi-tile 'stuff' on the terrain. This potentialy saddens me.[/quote] yeah, on a

Reply to Would you trade HD Graphics for Gameplay? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I shall preface this by saying that I Always play games on as high graphics settings as they support, heck I use the configs that make Crysis look better. My general opinion is that you should endeavour to have as aesthetically pleasing graphics as possible, up until the point, where it will interfere with the game itself, the issue I feel is that graphics have taken the front foot for the better part of the last decade, there were various moments, 2001 seems to have been on

[BETA2B][Gameplay] Dubious Pioneer Behaviour in stacks in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Basically when in a stack (possibly just with champions, haven't tested with normal units), pioneer units are not consumed to construct improvements, however whilst on their own they are.

Reply to Elemental Beta 2-B Change log in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Suggestions and ideas on how you would like to manage spells. We’re working on this internally but we’ve love to hear your ideas. [/quote] Whilst this is something impossible to judge without knowing how many spells we are likely to be expected to manage as a maximum. But my first though ran something like a hand of Magic cards, basically a click button on the interface that spreads out an arc of cards, either

Reply to [Suggestion] Add neutral settlements to replace the countless Humble Inns in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Just as something worth noting for this discussion, there are already, as noted previously in the thread, "Refugee Camps" as a tile in the game, they don't have function as quest givers but should be proof enough that people have banded together during the period between the cataclysm and now. as an aside, the argument that inns\nobles shouldn't really exist yet is as dubious as the argument that inexplicably during the last one hundred years no one anywhere has built themselves a

[BETA 2][Graphics] Pioneers and Shard Shrines in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

As demonstrated in the screenshot, pioneer built shrines don't remove the original model. applies to atleast Air and Fire shards, i would assume everything else to.

A Few Minor Suggestions in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

A couple of minor suggestions, to improve the overall feel of the game world. Firstly I think some of the major items in the wilderness, need to have graphical\texture effects that spread to nearby tiles, take for example the Bone Ogre lair, Now this creature apparently lives in a volcanic vent, unfortuna

Reply to [Gameplay] [Discussion] City Building: too complicated or not enough so? Two schools of thought. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Personally, I would agree that complexity isn't really the issue at hand, if anything it's not complex enough, because you don't really have to think about where or what you are building, you lack interest in your cities, this is not helped by lots of buildings that do essentially the same thing, as well as the horrifically ugly nature of the cities themselves, not the individual designs, simply the "I am square building stuck randomly in square with a bunch of other square buildings". <

Reply to Elemental Beta 2: Player Input #1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

my current concern is that you have too many buildings, my hope is that buildings will end up as more unique than what they are now because, for example, as far as i can see there is no reason what so ever to build: Conclaves, Emporiums or Town Councils, to say nothing of the buildings which seem to have no function (yet) such as granaries and warehouses. Conclaves are the worst offender, you could literally build another city for the cost of a Conclave, and it does next to nothing, even

[BETA 2][Generic Bug] Terrain under city dies on reload in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I say generic bug because I'm not sure whether it is solely a graphics bug or not, though the revive land spell seems to have no effect on it.

[BETA 2][Gameplay] Lost ability to train "Party" of troops in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Initially I was able to train a "Party" of troops, and successfully did so. but at some, unfortunately ambiguous, point the option stopped working, with "Party" selected the build time and the Wage still increase but the overall Cost doesn't, and when you click to actually train the units it only queues up a single person, "Squads" work fine.

[BETA 2][Interface] Spell Card Cost Icons Wrong in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Whilst I realise magic isn't really in yet, the single spell that is in demonstrates that the icons are wrong According to the Icons on the "Revive land" spell card it should be costing 5 essence, because the weird wibbly blue line represents Essence in the rest of the interface, most specifically on your channellers stats.

[BETA 2][Interface] Unit Design item categories in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I assume this has probably been noticed but..... The categories in the unit design window are horribly wrong. Under the Armour Tab, I'm fairly sure that cloaks do not count as "Wrist Gear" and that Armlets are not "Weapons" Under the Equipment Tab, Boots count as "String not found", and again cloaks as "Wrist Gear" as an additional bug, the first time you go in to the screen after a reload, the items aren't divided into categories at all.

Reply to How to raise taxes and show newly created troops? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I get the impression that Taxes aren't in yet. If you check the Kingdom Report income from "Buildings" is separated from income from Taxes, and a there are a bunch of other sources that don't seem to do anything.

Reply to "Hanger / DocKing Points" in Sins Modding Sins Forums

hangar or rather, it doesn't work because you put "Hanger" not "Hangar"

Reply to Explain Armor #'s to me in Strategy Sins Forums

2000 armour would get mean you only take 0.0099 Percent damage and incidentally, its pretty simple really. Though obviously this only a single part of the damage equation. Percent Damage Received = 1/(1+0.05*X)

Reply to wtf!!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Tome of town portal

AI - What do we know? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Essentially I'm making this post so as not to interfere with the SoA2 thread Now, just to keep this on the right track, so it doesn't look like i'm picking on Major Stress for some reason, my experience with the AI is different than Major Stress, and I can probably assume other modders have different experiences with it as well. This thread is for discussion and conglomeration of what we know (for future use in the Wiki obviously), but from said thread: [quote

Reply to Any way to start a two player game and control both sides? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah, sorry about the abruptness of the response, it was like 2am http://sinsmodding.dreamhosters.com/index.php?title=Developer_Exe Read through that and what I'm about to say will make a lot more sense. I'll give a basic rundown, but just play around with the dev.exe it's pretty explicit about all it's functions, and there are lots of them, these should get you going though.<br

Reply to Any way to start a two player game and control both sides? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Quick answer: Whilst ostensibly there for modding, the Dev.exe provides much of this functionality. Assuming you are up to date, it's in the sins base install directory.

Reply to SpaceMines in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Sorry, Wasn't clear enough in the second post, Got it working in the end. It was the models lacking an Ability-0 point that was causing all the crashing.

Reply to Elemental video diary in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

My suggestion for how they should set up allowing "monsters" to wear armour, noting this is just for behind the scenes coding ease, as one way or another you want your weird monster to wear sensible looking armour you will have to model the armour to fit it. First is that you need a "body type" tag somewhere in the unit\model\race set up, (invisible to normal gamers obviously) Second is that instead of simply assigning each armour piece a model, you would set up a list a

Reply to SpaceMines in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Well, given the information that it Can work, I started again. Long, story short: It turns out that whilst neither the mines nor the ability reference it, CreateSpaceMine requires an Ability-0 point on the mesh of the unit that is spawning them to work. This would probably be fine if I were simply making a minelayer unit, but it means I would have to edit go half the ship meshes in the game. but I'm just going to make the ability spawn a dummy frigate that spawns the mi

SpaceMines in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Is there some strange trick to SpaceMines that I am missing? I can't get them to work at all. Custom Mines on a Custom Race = Minidump, Sins Mines on a Custom Race = Minidump, Custom Mines on a Sins race = Minidump. I may just give up and place the mine abilities on mine shaped frigates, but that seems defeatist. And I know it's something the behind the scenes about the mines themselves causing the issue, as the buffs all work fine, but it crashes the instant it looks at