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Reply to Favorite spell book combinations? in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

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Reply to An intervention for the Wizard in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

Galor actually makes more mana from shards and his spells costs less mana, and those skills are at the root of the skill tree. He is ok, except for clairvoyance thing, which doesn't play well as a core mechanic.

Reply to Favorite spell book combinations? in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

All enchants. They have a lot powerful and useful spells. The only useful spells from other (non-base) books are summon ship and blizzard and the latter is accesible from scrolls.

Reply to [Beta 5+opt in] fertile tile disappearing in Sorcerer King Support Elemental Forums

Actually I've seen this in arbitrary distances from the city. Yields are dissapearing, but you still can settle there.

Reply to Still Fun but Still This One Issue in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

[quote who="ls35a" reply="21" id="3525004"] Yeah, the mid to late game turns on CiV, even on a smoking PC, take forever. Not fun. [/quote] I personally didn't have such experience on my 5 year old PC. I admit they are longer then in FE, but with no such strange issues.

Reply to How do you counter Tornado? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Get your army to move fast (forced march + wargs/horses + capitar trait maybe) so you move strait to enemies cities before they have an opportunity to cast strategic spells.

Reply to Sorcerer King feedback responses from Dev in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

1. Seems reasonable to tie the two. If it were different slides, it will be just addition to difficulty, but tied togather give players choice of playstyle. 2. Empire building is a must. Without it it is no more 4X, even assymetrical one. For me it feels almost ok now, but a little bit of additional city spaces (or ability to create them via spells, quest, etc) would be nice. 3. Expansions are great, but it is too early to speak about them in any level of detail. 4. &n

Reply to Pure PvE mode? in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

What will be worth exploring depends on how the base game will go. For now I do not feel doom timer pressure at all, but get multiple one-shoting apprentises in weak huts instead.

Reply to Outpost Logistic Suggestion in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

I agree with first change - if outpost cost logistics, resource buildings should not. Now we have double taxing with both consuming your logistics. And i do not see clear reason for the second change. For quick start there is additional logistics, and you can choose how you spend it. I see no need to additional complexity here.

Reply to Not Sure It's a Bug, But ... in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

[quote]I wonder if there's an API to force it to use the discrete. [/quote] one minute of googling. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16823372/forcing-machine-to-use-dedicated-graphics-card

Reply to SK’s Sunday night work in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="16" id="3507333"] I hear a lot about "persistent bugs" and yet when asked what they are it's either a list of feature requests (saving a game in a tactical battle) or issues that we just don't agree are "bugs". We want to fix any bugs that are troubling the player base but it's hard to do that when no one is actually naming these bugs. My suggestion would be to make a lost called legacy bugs and list bugs that are bothering you. <

Reply to Rivers, design and aesthetics in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

I'm wondering if we can travel rivers by ship? If not, we definitely should! (and ship is generally faster).

Reply to IMO Naphaz is a wimp in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

Naphaz has this red cross on his weapon slot, so thought one cannot give him a weapon till the very end of that game. With weapon he really looks amazing. I found Peregan with melee weapon is good, too. Most of his abilities works with sword, and he is cool firing swords from his bow :). Low hp is an issue, but manageble.

Reply to On tactical battles in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

If bosses learn to use their spells, they will be more challenging and interesting already.

Reply to Something that Needs to be Addressed in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

Dr Franknfurter. Sorry for skrewed up numbers :) - I haven't played many games of Dominions, but from that few I found that you basically line up your troops and issue orders one time Then you "test" them in battles, pretty much with the same position/orders. -Strategic speed is ok, as I've mentioned above. - Ranges. I ju

Reply to Something that Needs to be Addressed in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

1. About tactical battles being a test for your units and spells/skills/equip you've aqired: there are games where this is true, namely Dominions and Endless Legends. Played have very limited control and units just clash into each other, "testing" their powers. I see no reason tactical battles to be "testing" in the presence of full manual control. 2. Battles already have pretty neat mechanics to become interesting: initiative, swarming, passage blocking. These shou

Reply to Not so random loot (again) in LH Support Elemental Forums

400 (average likelihood) * 100(or so items) = 40000. Type was not enough? Really some 16 bit type was used? Was the reason behind this rand() which can't actually generate more than 32K? No surprise random things are not very random.

Reply to Sorcerer King Dev Stream Today (October 29th) at 3pm EST, Noon Pacific in Sorcerer King News Elemental Forums

And they should be diverse. Right now there will be just rush for maul and than fill in whatever skills occur close to that in tree.

Reply to Remove the cutesy, self referential nonsense in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

As I've metnion already, I do not see how humors fits this game. That can be nice to have easter egg or smth, but humor in every dialogue in a game about world end? If somebody will be so kind to mod it, I would appreciate it a lot.

Reply to I reserve the right to be persuaded in Sorcerer King Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Sounds very ambitios. It is fine to promise thing which will be done. But I'm very cautios about promises of quality or emergent properties of things.

Reply to Would a unit editor add to the game play? in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="8" id="3502719"] The unit editor seemed to be used by most people to just pile up initiative boosting stuff. [/quote] One can still pile up 6 initiative rings in one's high level rider and enjoy 3-turns-in-a-row. Overall, i think ordinary units have just enough individuality with these forged items. I also don't think we need some choices on level up. Every unit except soldier has potent level-ups now, and this is OK,

Reply to I don't want the autowin-battles to happen if my guys are going to lose hit points in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

I dont want my scrolls and potions to be used on lame encounters, which i can win without any hp loss by hand. And I haven't got heal in my last game (one cannot reasearch all the spells for some reason).

Reply to Big picture notes - after two games of SK in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

Bugs that were around for ages: - AI moving multiple units in one square in battles. - Units (i've encountered in battles only, but possibly happens in global, too) hijacking mouse events of GUI above them. - Sometimes you just cannot select a square in battle (mostly because of Verda). It is even worse, because you can no longer rotate the camera. - Simultanous events in AI turn leads to non pleasant effects. Like shard is destroyed -> Go to -> show

Big picture notes - after two games of SK in Sorcerer King Discussion Elemental Forums

First of all - thank you, StarDock for working on this game, it look very promising. Here are my concerns and observations of big picture - features and mechanics that have strong impact on game experience. 1. The real difference from FE:LH is crafting and, maybe, logistics. Thats good, but IMO not enough. One big enemy with some lesser fractions fiddling around really doesn't feel that different. Battles are not something new, too, though completely differe

Reply to [1.6][Bug?] Broken Loyalties - is this game breaking or what? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

I think it should massively scale with distance from kraxis border. Exponentially. May be even cheaper then 1000 for immediate neighbor, but quickly raise to dozens of thousands for cities on other side of the map.