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Reply to Derek, Brad: CITIES vs. CHAMPIONS in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

This is all great stuff. I did the same thing on the highest difficulty, winning 3 games in a row with no towns, no research, no mana nodes, no outposts, etc. I think kiting is some of it, don't make boots +1 move, give them something else like ignore terrain. Don't make horses +2, make them +1. Give some monsters a charge ability. Give some monsters an attack when enemies walk away from them, maybe give it to spears or axes also. <p

Reply to Ideas for Regeneration buff. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I think the kiting is part of the problem not just the buff. I would love it if on the highest difficulty all monsters had +2 movement speed in combat and on the next highest they have +1 move sped in combat. This makes the game harder as promised. Mike.

Making spellcasters more fun in FE Beta Elemental Forums

When I make a wizard I want to be able to cast spells and defeat my enemies. I end up getting a sword and stabbing them until I hit level 8 or so and have mana production maxed out so I can finally cast decent spells and afford the mana. Sometimes I go through most of the game without casting a spell because my sword fighting ended up scaling faster than my spell casting and it was costing me no mana to sword fight. This is despite being a warlock mage evoker. M

Reply to [0.98] Spell Balance in FE Beta Elemental Forums

The problem is when you make a custom character you can pick many of these and combine them. Want to move and be ignored by monsters and start with 1000g? sure. Also be an evoker warlock? sure. They are all available. On normal difficulty these things should be overpowered, but the fact that they destroy the hardest difficulty implies some tuning is still needed. Personally the worst one is the invis to monsters scouting trait. It needs something like -20% damage and research

Reply to I vote for Master Scouts protecting only sov and champions, and not other units or cities. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Master scout plays very differently than non-master scout. Also it is the most powerful ability in the game. I think having abilities that significantly change how you play is great, but there needs to be some sort of trade off so you choose it as a play style, you do not choose it because it is amazingly powerful. Perhaps if it gave you a minus to research, production, attack damage, health, dodge, etc. Choose a few. It should also be split apart from move through for

Reply to [eMOD] Stormworld 1.5x for FE 1.32 in FE Modding Elemental Forums

As a lizard man I was offered Mire Slag and Horse, Comparatively the horse had: 1 more init 1 more move 10 more dodge vs ranged The mire slag had: 5 more weight 25 more poison resist The horse was much better as move and init are very important stats. Consider giving the slag 1 more init and move so it is trading 10 dodge for 5 weight and 25 poison resist. Or even make it better so that it is a bonus

Reply to [eMOD] Stormworld 1.5x for FE 1.32 in FE Modding Elemental Forums

Sweet, that fixed it. I tested it about 6 times and I saw a special river as I was testing so seems good now. (before it worked zero times) My 6th test had a 5/3/2 town with a wild grain, death node, and forest all adjacent so I had to stop and settle :P Consider making a race that trades off melee combat for free level 1 spells or something like that. It would create a new play style that people expect from a spell casting game but surprisingly doesn't happen much

Reply to [eMOD] Stormworld 1.5x for FE 1.32 in FE Modding Elemental Forums

Only with the mod, but i tried it 3 times in a row and each time it crashed when I pressed ctrl-n. I do have the rivermod installed (I installed all parts). I just re-read the installation instructions and I believe I have installed it correctly. The bonus step that I did was putting TerrainTypes.xml into the English directory. However, I don't see any rivers on the current map so maybe something is wrong as you say. I have a game balance sugge

Reply to [eMOD] Stormworld 1.5x for FE 1.32 in FE Modding Elemental Forums

I love the mod, great job. The races have so much more uniqueness and fantasy. When I found out elemental had only humans as races I was very sad. Thanks for fixing it. On an unrelated note, Ctrl-n crashes the game all the times I tried it. Maybe you can disable it if it isn't fixable. Thanks, Mike.

Reply to how do you guys proceed between patches? in FE Modding Elemental Forums

Heavenfall or SeanW are your mods updated for the new patch, could you let us know when they are, thanks. Mike.

Reply to XP traits.. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

The game would certainly be more fun if there were not 4-7 exp traits that you pick while levelling. Please remove most of them. Maybe leave one +10% for your squad in because it is a decision and has some gameplay. Mike.

Reply to Beta 5 (0.98) Feedback in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

You dont lose with no settlements, you can win the game with just a hero. Also in 952 there is a spell called steal city or something that claims to be zero mana if you never settle. Not sure if it is still true. Mike.

Reply to Essence, can we get rid of it now? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Well I won twice in a row on the hardest difficulty without ever taking a city or settling so you certainly don't need to press ctrl-n to improve your starting city. Mike.

Reply to [Questions] A few questions about 0.952 in FE Beta Elemental Forums

related question: There is a level up trait choice of +15% exp, then the next rank says +20% exp and the next +25% exp Do these stack so if you have all 3 you have +60%? Theer are similar things like +1 init, +2 init. i always thought that these 2 examples don't stack, it just takes the highest but other ones do stack like spell evoker 1, evoker 2, etc. Is there one consistent answer? Second question: When making a faction/rac

Reply to Playthrough: .952, custom race, 8 insane AIs, dense large map [Last entry] in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Strongly agree To make insane harder and the fights faster try: +2 move speed, x2 hp and x2 damage. We need to lose on insane. Right now I am something like 6-0 on insane even with restrictions one game No settleing, no conquering, no towns, no research, no mana, no non-hero units. Just heroes. Mike.

Reply to New Challenge Idea in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Well I just finished. It was a easier than I expected. I couldn't use any spells except buffs since I had no mana income except the 2 you start with and later I had a staff that made 1/turn if I equipped it before hitting end turn. I had the circlet that makes buffs on your champion free so I had stone skin and regen on him, but rank 1 of course since I had zero shrines. I recruited 3 other heroes but one died while adventuring solo, which means he is permadead because I h

Reply to New Challenge Idea in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I was planning on doing the master quest or killing all of my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women. Is there some reason this wouldn't work? I assume I can just raze every town? Mike.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress–BETA 5 almost ready in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Perhaps if pioneers doubles in price each time you made one (or went up by a percentage in price). Then you can keep expanding but it gets more and more expensive and you have to trade off more. Mike.

New Challenge Idea in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I am currently playing insane with the one restriction that you cannot build any towns or outposts. (not even an initial one) Feel free to join me if you like. Mike. EDIT: I won building zero towns, my notes are about 5 posts down.

Reply to [Idea] Magic Differentiation in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I think if the magic schools had different play styles that would be awesome. I don't think spell category should be the path to get there but it should be part of the result. For example some playstyles: 1. Fire: Mana and casting strategy. Fire cannot improve cities. Fire can't help the economy. Fire takes a lot of mana to run since you kill people with your mana. 2. Earth: Building strategy: doesn't help you kill people but it is great for buildings impro

Reply to [Question] Best unit build in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I was thinking Fire2 might be good because it adds 2 damage (or more) to each unit which multiplies it nicely. The same with Life1 because you can get bonus health on each unit. Might be too expensive mana wise though. The faction traits that give 10 dodge/accuracy and +3 init seem great.

Reply to [Question] Best unit build in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Sounds like an awesome bug but why would you use units if you do 800 damage a swing?

[Question] Best unit build in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Anyone have a good build for a unit focused custom hero? Which traits help them the most? Do any spells work especially well with them? Mike.

Reply to [Fix] How to fix the biggest problem in 952 in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Hey Seanw feel free to link to your mod. I am interested in trying mods after I play this thursday's new beta 5. Everyone else thanks for the support. Mike.

Reply to [Fix] How to fix the biggest problem in 952 in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="ins2" reply="1" id="3226382"] Wow! With one fell swoop you took us back to the days of WoM, reversed several months of game design and development by very experienced professionals and solved the game's biggest problem (which many of us do not consider a problem, but OK)! You should become a game designer! (no, seriously, give it a shot)! [/quote] Turns out I have designed dozens of published games. And thanks for the sarcastic response