I've learned about FFH2 on this forum and spent some time playing first scenario of the campaign. The second one was too boring, so I abandoned it. Then I read the forum some more and realized I haven't played Age of Wonders. Purchased it at Impulse and it's totally great! Next level of awesomeness after HoMM3 for me. And has that great elements of MoM and Warlords. What do you people play and what else can you recommend?
Because we can't remake MoM on hexes
My greatest fear is that Elemental python API will not affect enough aspects of the game to make a mod as different from original game as FFH2 from Civ4. If the scripting will be powerful enough, we can still hope to have FFH-like mod.
That would be great indeed. I've learned about existence of FFH2 on this forum and totally abandoned Elemental until it's 1.1, because FFH2 is nearly perfect.
By the way, can we sum two range values? Like 1..6+1..6+1..6?
BTW, Master of Orion is on Impulse right now
[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="18" id="2782462"] Copyright on old games is the same as nuclear waste, it takes thousands of years to stop being a problem.[/quote] I'm writing this down to use somewhere :]
Hi all. Are translations planned (available?) or should they come as a mod? Some of my friends a very interested in russian version, for example.
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lol, looks like forum formats smiles inside xml
Just learn how to configure DosBox. Those games are abandonware mostly, it's not fair to charge for them
Hey all. I see familiar names in the story of this world and in what I saw in GalCiv2 research messages. But the names are too awkward to memorize and follow the story. Is there a wiki or an article with complete background and timeline of events? Or is there no common lore?
Having it is an alternative to finishing game, isn't it?
I like the idea of an item in inventory that would summon a beast, and then the beast would have spell "collapse" to hide back into item. It would be the very same beast, with experience, abilities and stats (like a hero!) . Only one beast would be allowed to be out of its item at a time. And the sovereign would have spell "catch", so that when you fight a wild beast if you finish it in three turns after you cast "catch" you'd recieve item containing the wounded
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tl;dr Because it's a post-cataclysm world, where fertile land is rare and resources are scarce. Magic is powerful and rare, and only true heroes can bring life back to these lands. This is the way - hero-centrism and resource-centrism with heavy magic influence - RPG is brought into TBS, and this is what Elemental is about.
It's a too-uber spell, btw
[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="220" id="2769268"] You miss the point. You're judging it based solely on the TBS aspect, which the reviewer states cannot stand on it's own without the RPG elements. And, yes there are many people who buy games purely on potential. You can count me as one of them.[/quote] RPG elements in release are raw, broken and inconsistent just like TBS elements.
Can we make caravans produce only gold? I think caravans must become what freighters were in MoM2 - i.e. food/materials transporters. I.e. if in one city food is +2, and in another it's -1, caravan takes 1 extra food and passes to the city in need (if the two are connected via trade paths). That how I thought they worked actually.
Is there expected to be some kind of AI desicions map in XML or python? Or is it all (e.g. 20+ for max price) hardcoded?
You can get "GalCiv2: Endless Universe" for like 10$ on Amazon. It's the same GalCiv2 with both expansions. Definetely worth buying, my second favorite space 4x (after Master Of Orion 2)
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[quote]Maybe for your next beat release, build in "TOB" reply option for the star-dock employees, where they just hit one button and it automatically posts "Suggestion has been take on board"[/quote] +1 to flag "read and taken into consideration" button, also "accepted" or "rejected" would be fine. Or something like public ticket tracking system, since even 1.08 is pretty much beta.
Would make sense!
Hehe, Kazakhstan 0.01% Must be Borat himself
Quest should have a link to hut/ruin it was given at And the hut on the map should have a note with quest name on it
Yes, that ruins didn't respond for me too. Ruins seem to not work at all - they don't disappear, but after first visit they do nothing no matter what they contained.