One of the least forgiving games I've played, Nethack, still has a 100% guaranteed way to avoid death (which in Nethack also deletes your save files and forces you to start over from scratch, so most of the game is about not dying). It's called the Amulet of Life Saving . If you're wearing one when you die, the amulet is destroyed and you're returned to perfect health. A couple points to note:<
I think it would be more in keeping with the feel of the map to keep the brown background and just turn the waves blue. All the other colored features (that I've seen) are drawn as colored line art, after all.
When I got home from work today, I went to download the Elemental beta. It wasn't in the list of games Impulse knew about, so I clicked "check for updates", and Impulse said that I didn't have a Stardock account: "A Stardock.net account does not exist for (MY EMAIL). You must register the account first." I tried checking impulsedriven.net via a Web browser. All my game registrations are still there, including an Elemental registration (but I can only d
Also consider that if Elemental has multi-story dungeons, the wording as shown is ambiguous ...
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="17" id="2315942"]As long as we get some nice documentation about the game's functions and similar, it'll be fine. At least for the most basic things so we don't have to start blindly pocking things.[/quote] If Stardock is clever they'll use Python's internal documentation functionality. That lets you extract documentation automatically from a function or class, so you can do [code="c++"]>>> help(terrai
[quote who="rls669" reply="18" id="2287520"] Quoting Scoutdog, reply 16I never could get used to the gimp UI.... I suppose if I had the inclination to learn it, I might make some headway..... UI is the Achilles' heel of a lot of open source stuff -- the last time I tried to use Blender I came away wanting to put a fork in my eye. Why they don't try to emulate the UIs of commercial packages that have spent many years and many dollars polishing their products, I'll never k
[quote who="Rhadagast" reply="9" id="2286329"]Uhh Yeah, I don't care if they put some cacti in, I expect there to be dragons and dudes that can shoot fire from their hands, so a few extra bits of fauna isn't going to hurt my feeling.[/quote] I just hope the cacti are flora, not fauna! [e digicons]8O[/e]
If you were going to do it, I think it would make more sense to give the entangle effect to a different spell -- Ground Spikes is already quite a good skill. Maybe make Uproot able to target Demigods (for less or no damage, of course) and give it an entangle effect? Also, you didn't miss the fact that her spike wave attack has a slow effect, did you? :)
[quote who="IllegalDustbin" reply="17" id="2255811"]See now I REALLY would like something for minions, but I think it'd only really work for idol summons, because Generals like Erebus and Oak have out like 10+ minions near end-game. There's no space on the screen for health bars for that many without making it overly cluttered.[/quote] It depends how big the health bars are. I was thinking about something like the Sins Empire Tree, which can comfortably fit a few
I haven't had a chance to try this out, but it sounds and looks great. Two quick suggestions: (1) would it be possible to add minion mini-portraits? I'm thinking maybe some small boxes with just icons and health bars, on the left-hand side of the screen, sorted by type. (2) would it be possible to have similar portraits for visible enemies? Obviously they wouldn't show mana, and they'd gray out or something when the enemy went i
[quote who="aLap" reply="6" id="2252532"]Bring order to the world of Elemental... one way or the other...[/quote] That led me to a brief period of daydreaming about what a two-axis (i.e., D&D-style) alignment system would look like in Elemental. I was never into D&D, so my interpretation of their alignment system might be a bit "free". Lawful Good = a civilization of crusading paladins out to subdue the evildoers (i.e., everyone who
Here's a thought I've had a few times. It would be nice if we could search the database on more than one player: that is find all the games that included both Bob and Joe. e.g., sometimes I see a user name on the forums that sounds vaguely familiar, and I'm curious if I've played a game with them ... but it's not really practical to find that out at the moment.
I may be the last person to find this, but... As most people are probably aware, there are a number of keybindings that select predefined groups of units when you're a general. "H" selects your Demigod, "M" selects all your minions, "N" selects your Demigod, and "8", "9", and "0" select minotaurs, archers, and priests respectively. I thought for a long time that it was an odd oversight not to have a key that selected just the special minions (spirits/night w
It seems like in the last few days, most of the Pantheon games I try to play break after the connection is initially established, while the level is being loaded. The symptom is that the load screen just sits there for a much longer period than normal. After a while, I hear "a player has left the game". Sometimes the load screen sits there for another fifteen to thirty seconds before the game starts; other times, I'm stuck for several minutes longer before I hear "a player h
[quote who="Fred_Bonaparte" reply="2" id="2247712"]But they can't explain how the maths work for a skill that adds dmgs to the oak in the little explanation text, it would just be too long.[/quote] "Oak gains 20/40/60 Weapon Damage if he controls at least one Spirit. In addition, Oak gains 20 Weapon Damage for every 3 Spirits he controls." That seems straightforward enough to me. If you think that's too much text, go r
[quote who="shogankiller" reply="4" id="2247964"]well, 2 months afterwards the wording is still there, and how about instead of dropping them they just disappear, because when i buy a lets say, Minotour I. I want to trade it in later for a minotour IV instead of waiting the whole match without any minions to get enough money for it, or am i noobish enough where there is a way to do this and im just missing it?[/quote] Open up the shop and right-click on the idol i
Hm, that would explain why my favor hasn't increased in ages -- the other team drops out before I win about 99% of the time.
I found a weird anomaly in the database -- unfortunately I didn't play the game in question so I can't tell you what happened. http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/573255/player/15699/ How can all the players in a game lose? How can a losing player get 165 favor points?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is going on. I had a terrible time getting into a game last evening because every time I started to connect, someone would drop out. I'm pretty sure this is what they were up to. (I stop my comment here, not because I have no more to say, but because I wish to remain polite)
The one tweak I saw suggested that I liked (although it doesn't make much "sense") is to make flags immune to locking while they're locked and for a brief time after they become un-locked. Nothing drastic, say 10-15 seconds. That allows infinite locks, which I think are a perfectly valid tactic, but it forces the lockers to defend their turf, not just bat in, lock, and teleport out (or vice versa).
The forums have been well and truly wedged since the "forum performance update". This reply probably won't show up, for instance. :-)
[quote quoting="post"] With v1.01 out, the Demigod connectivity issues are pretty much behind us. What? You say you're having a problem connecting to people online? We're here to help you. First, make sure you are doing this: 1. Open ports 6112 to 6200 on your router and point them to the PC IP address you're playing on. This isn't generally necessary but it can help.[/quote] My router only lets me open po
I haven't tried the new patch yet, but I had the "waiting for connection info" thing several times with previous versions. It seemed to happen either after I had canceled out of trying to join a match, or after I dropped out of a game (e.g., because all my opponents were AIs). After it started, every attempt to join a game failed the same way until I restarted the client.
Supposedly the patch coming out on Tuesday the 2nd fixes the bug where your Demigod fails to perform a command.
[quote who="Sinzer" reply="24" id="2231480"] If you get credit for tower kills, then you can farm by simply sitting a little behind your towers. I do it all the time and have had it done to me. You get xp and gold for all enemy creeps dieing around you, regardless how they die. You get more gold by "tagging" them, doing at least 25% damage.[/quote] I'm pretty sure you don't get gold unless you tag them, but the amount of gold is so miniscule
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