OliverFA_306

OliverFA_306

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us Derek. It's nice to see that despite everybody has their opinion as you say, at least there are motivations and reasonings behind design decisions. :) However, there is something I am curious about. My personal perception is that the game is becoming more basic and losing some elements. Perhaps that's not the same perception from the developers' point of view. Why do I say that I feel the game is becoming more simple? Because with e

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[quote who="Azunai_" reply="4" id="3351938"] ok you don't like that mechanic. the alternative would be to have an uber stack of champions that level up quickly and make the whole empire building aspect of the game moot. honestly, in my opinion that's far worse. ever thought of that aspect?[/quote] Not exactly. The number of units in the trained groups could raise so armies are bigger. Instead of weakening heroes, strengthening trained troops by raising their numbers, whi

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[quote quoting="post"] I know this rule was instituted when it was discovered that champions were so powerful that you could beat the game with them without ever building units. This strategy offended those in power long ago, and since then champions were neutered with exp split, general exp decline, and spiced up with that just three to six crummy levels til I get the cool ability feeling. At the same time, units got an extreme buff, and now you can beat the game easily without ever usi

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In my opinion is better to just replace the core file. At least my experience with trying to use the mod folder was a painful one. [e digicons]XO[/e] PS: You probably know alredy, but just in case a friendly reminder to backup the original files before changing them ;)

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I thougt the AI knew what it was taught (aka programmed). Despite I am no expert in AI programming I don't see why the could not be told how to proper use to refit technique. Specially because other 4x games from long ago already make use of the upgrade feature, which is a refit itself.

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[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="2" id="3351188"] yes. i agree. What I'm also interested is in the 'refitted' unit retaining some, if not all its battle earned experience.[/quote] That makes a lot of sense. I simply forgot about keeping the XP. I think the most fair would be: Refitted Unit XP = Old Unit XP * (Old Unit Production Cost / Refitted Unit Production Cost) Capped at 1, of course, just in case some strange refit has lower cost

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A refit option would be very nice. Instead of building a unit from zero, destroy the existing unit and discount 80% of its production value towards de new unit. In fact that's how IMHO Upgrades should work, no more insta-upgrade for a few Gildar. I mean... instantly change weapons it's ok, but instantly upgrade the number of troops isn't

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[quote quoting="post"] Betrayers; Does anyone else find it odd that a "Spell" uses 1000 Gildar to execute, and not Mana? [/quote] I suppose it's intended to simulate a bribe. However, I think that it also should use Fame. Nobody is going to side with you if you are not famous enough.

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Thanks for your comments Elana. Unfortunatelly I don't know a way to assign a unit to a city, not even to the city that created the unit. However, I have made big progresses in implementing the food upkeep thing. It is supposed to be working and now I am playtesting it and enjoying the proces (but of course that's something I did to make the game more similar to what I like, so it would be weird not to enjoy it ;) ). As you said, that's a "Guns or butter

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I didn't realize about the scroll [e digicons]X|[/e] thanks for pointing it. Where you successful in removing paths? I suppose you weren't. At least I have not managed to do it as I said in the OP. About the traits themselves you make a valid point. Seems like the requisites are OR requisites instead of AND requisites. That's why there are two "Endurance I", one for Path of the Defender and the other fot Path of the Warrior.

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