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Enchantress competitions

March 9, 2013 11:29:27 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

Is Stardock planning on hosting Fallen Enchantress player competitions?

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Reply #1 March 9, 2013 1:19:23 PM
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how do you propose they do it?

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Reply #2 March 9, 2013 4:39:02 PM
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It could be any number of things.

Given starting conditions (or even give everyone the same map) see who gets the fastest win of each type in one week.

Create a ridiculously hard scenario and see who can beat it the fastest.

Fastest levelling of a champion to level 15 (turn count)

Best custom faction/sovereign design, where other players compete 1v1 against submitted faction/sovereigns and see which one has the best winning percentage. (Includes unit designs)

Stuff like that.

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Reply #3 March 10, 2013 12:22:52 AM
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How do you prevent reloading?

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Reply #4 March 10, 2013 6:30:32 PM
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They could implement a hardcore mode like in X-Com. Idea for later maybe

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Reply #5 March 11, 2013 12:12:43 AM
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or the honor system?
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Reply #6 March 11, 2013 4:05:53 AM
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What about if you have a hardcore mode, and the game crashes?  How does the hardcore mode keep the one and only save up-to-date?

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Reply #7 March 11, 2013 5:35:50 AM
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Quoting StevenAus,
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What about if you have a hardcore mode, and the game crashes?  How does the hardcore mode keep the one and only save up-to-date?

In XCOM it saves after every single action and the player is only able to access this save from the main menu. There is always a risk of the game crashing during a save and corrupting the autosave, however.

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Reply #8 March 11, 2013 5:53:33 AM
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I know that TOEE had a hardcore mode, but it was not recommended to use it (by someone on the Council of Eight Modpack forums) because the game crashed too much.

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Reply #9 March 11, 2013 8:49:11 AM
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CivFanatics have been running competitions for Civilization since CivIII days. Save/loading in a single player game has always been a problem, which eventually led to mods being developed specifically to play these types of competitions.

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Reply #10 March 12, 2013 1:42:13 PM
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Quoting Illauna,
reply 7


Quoting StevenAus, reply 6
What about if you have a hardcore mode, and the game crashes?  How does the hardcore mode keep the one and only save up-to-date?

In XCOM it saves after every single action and the player is only able to access this save from the main menu. There is always a risk of the game crashing during a save and corrupting the autosave, however.

That's not a risk if it autosaves the last two turns. If a crash occur during one of saves, revert to the last successful save from the other.

 

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Reply #11 March 12, 2013 2:03:25 PM
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Quoting VRBones,
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CivFanatics have been running competitions for Civilization since CivIII days. Save/loading in a single player game has always been a problem, which eventually led to mods being developed specifically to play these types of competitions.

Unfortunately, we currently don't have the ability to mod FE in such a way.

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