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FE Crashes Query in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Does anyone else get FE 1.32 crashes so profound that you can't even kill 'em with Task Manager? 'Cause rebooting gets old.

FE 1.32 Bugs, I guess in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I've had two things that seem like bugs. -Altar offered me 700 gilders to go to war with Resoln, but when I clicked on it, I was at war but didn't have 700 gilders. I thought Altar was more, like, goody-goody and honest than that. -There was a city with a pack of heroes inside the city, and also a small blob of heroes in the city environs but not inside. I had a crash and refought the battles

Reply to Does mounted combat gets changed in LH? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

The only thing about making horses globally harder to get is that, in combination with the Tireless March nerf, it's make the strategic mid-to-endgame much more tedious. Strategic mobility makes things faster and funner.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes FAQ in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I don't care for Steam because every damn little thing that HAS to load to run things adds boot overhead, slows things down while it spins in the background, periodically updates itself in a malignantly resource-sucking way, and has the potential to go flooey, sucking up valuable time on trouble-shooting that could be better spent playing. Every background program adds one more annoying step to trouble-shooting. Once upon a time I knew what every file</str

Reply to FE: Running Great on my Budget Laptop! in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

On the other hand, it really dragged on my 3y old, but not budget, Lenovo laptop; here's hoping 1.3 runs better.

Reply to Gameplay Idea- Monster factions and Diplomacy- Other diplomatic ideas too in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

But it'd add another whole aspect of the game to learn and work with. Great ideas.

Reply to How do I? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Thanks!

How do I? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

How -- if it's possible -- do I change the spells I have running on a city? I don't see any way to stop one that's running, and when I try to cast another it tells me the city doesn't have enough Essence. It seems rough when I finally got the hammer spell a large number of turns in.

Reply to New rare city Level ups, need a few more ideas in FE Modding Elemental Forums

I'm not sure of the mechanics of the upgraded / nonstandard mounts produced by some quests, but a building that allows a small number of those to be available to heroes would be desirable.

Reply to Winning on Ridiculous in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

How do you get Storm Dragons?

Reply to [Work in progress] A newbie guide to Fallen Enchantress. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Sorry; I saw that, but then when I'm choosing buildings I can't see what option / mouse flourish allows you to decide where it gets built.

Reply to [Work in progress] A newbie guide to Fallen Enchantress. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

How do you choose where to build the next building?

Reply to What's the trick for a PC Ranger? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

You need 'high' knowledge of a race to be able to know ship destinations; it takes four spies some time, maybe a couple months, to get that, but once you have it you can repurpose the agents.

Reply to Ethics in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If you go evil, the good civs tend to declare war in short order; likewise (but I think less so) the other way 'round. So there can be strategic shortcomings to picking one or the other. And I'd never really thought of the develop-all-evil then pay-the-piper option; that's nasty . I'm so using it in my current game.

Reply to Trading with the AIs in the latest version in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

More diplo definitely helps. 'Good deals' are rather relative. I rarely get a deal that's even vaguely fair until I've got a giant diplomatic advantage; what makes it work is that you can turn around with the tech you just payed a swingeing price for and flog it to the rest of the galaxy. Human players are typically much more aggressive traders than the AI, and you can get back several times your investment by aggressively reselli

Reply to Playing Drath feels like cheating? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

The usually-quoted disadvantage of the Drath is their slow population growth-rate. I haven't played them in awhile, maybe i'll get back to them, but I don't remember being able to run the whole empire off of war-profiteering.

Reply to Setup Effects - the Disease Becomes a Decisive Event in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

And?!!!!!?????

Reply to [TA] Dawn of the Chameleon in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Gotta put those Merchant Trade Complexes at the top of the queue.

Reply to Support Ships for fleets. in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

If I were to do this, I'd use small or tiny hulls for the support ships; optimized, you can get more bang per logistics point. The other, nastier option, is to put your support modules on a combat hull with one of the smallest available weapon and a pile of defenses. Then the silly AI concentrates on that well-defended hull while the rest of your fleets turns the AI fleet to expensive wreckage. Kind of exploit-y; but nastily effective.

Reply to All-x and Economy in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

To make sure the AI ships can attack the intended starbase, you sometimes have to build an econ starbase and gift it to them at the same time as you gift the ships; the times I've had the AI not attack the starbase were when it was distant from their territory and therefore probably the ships were out of range. I use econ starbases because any starbase will do and I'm trying not to tick off the target race.

Reply to First Game at Challenging Level in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

At this level, defenses are pretty fast to research, and the AI is stupid about this. Develop antimissile defenses, equip your medium hulls with enough defense to stop the Dreng attacks, and just enough offense to beat 'em down while your defenses hold 'em off; properly designed mediums ought to be able to pound the cookies out of badly designed smalls. Also, miniaturization is your friend. More stuff=tougher ships.

Reply to Yet another Terran AAR in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

looking forward to it.

Reply to What Fresh Hell Is This? (pirate fleets) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

And I do appreciate the offhand Dorothy Parker reference.

Reply to What Fresh Hell Is This? (pirate fleets) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

This, oddly enough, happened to my in my first sandbox game as well; and I haven't seen it since. Which is a shame, 'cause it'd be FUN now.

Reply to custom ships question in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Upgrading the design from the Shipyard will automatically change what the planets are building, but won't auto-upgrade ships already built. You need to do that yourself; though you can have a whole class upgrade by checking the 'upgrade all ships of this class' box on the upgrade screen. Do that in stages for ships you've built large numbers of though -- it can get really spendy.