HenriHakl

Reply to More AI pain for me in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

Yea, the "why" did you beat the AI so soundly is the big question. The overall numbers look mostly on-par right now; so I suspect that the tactical AI is still a bit hopeless.

Reply to It’s not that I have to blame Derek, it’s that I can… in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

Okay, so maybe you'd have liked the scout to pick your spot - but is the spot the AI picked in the end particularly bad? Maybe it is worth it early on to build a 2nd city far-off; then consolidate by building a 3rd city later in-between. Is an effective strategy to deny more resources to enemies.

Reply to Character Portraits in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

That is pretty nice. I think the "good guys" (including neutral guys) look perfectly acceptable like that. Though the "bad guys" need to man-up more. They just don't fill me with tension or dread. Perhaps this could be addressed by manipulating their surrounding environment (much like the first portrait's "study" environment adds much to the feel of the character).

Reply to Flavor Text in Fallen Enchantress in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Even if they only make the option of having a 2D-image associated at mod-level. That is fine too - the game proper would ship with the existing 3D animated portrait; then they don't need to spend resources - and some modder can make/pilfer nice imagery and override with great stills.

Reply to Hero upgrades and tech in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

gsitetfs raises a good point. The game should not be about getting the biggest sword, heaviest armor and smartest spell onto one unit. There should be trade-offs; and the best casters should not be the best fighters, which in turn should not be the best tanks.

Reply to Brad’s land of AI pain and suffering in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

I agree with LNQ on this. It's not difficult to have static behavior added (or supplemented) in a way he outlined. What is difficult is having good AI behavior that is not predictably deterministic.

Reply to Flavor Text in Fallen Enchantress in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ben Yeoh" reply="27" id="3014701"]Can anything also be done to give the sovereign/NPC portraits more "awesomeness"? The flavor text is interesting and adds much to the immersion, but then when I look at the character portraits they don't measure up to the epic-ness at all. The rock spider one is okay but the sovereign/NPC portraits honestly look silly. This has been my impression for some time actually but the contrast now between the dorky looking portra

Reply to Logic Parser / Scripting in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

Don't worry about modders finding use for programming constructs

Reply to Logic Parser / Scripting in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

How would you use while loops in a TBS mod? Example: Spell: Fall of Leaders Description: All enemy heroes take 10 damage. Script: List = GetUnitsInArea(WholeMap); i = 0; while i begin Unit = List[i]; if IsEnemy(Unit) and IsHero(Unit) then begin DamageUnit(Unit, 10);<

Reply to Hero upgrades and tech in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

hmmm... you mean out of balance considerations?

Reply to Hero upgrades and tech in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

It has the advantage that it can help make factions more distinct by having unique faction buildings that increase probability on specific hero abilities. If an ability has a probability of 0% initially then it even allows for faction-only hero abilities.

Reply to Three Short Things in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

Maybe I'm mistaken in thinking like this: but aren't improvements the perfect way to specialize a city? A city is not just what is contained in the city walls, but the surrounding (i.e. improvements) area as well. Production town is build in the hills with lots of mines. What would be necessary, in my opinion, is having the options for improvements that aren't purely environmentally controlled. We'd need wizard towers for research, temples/shrines/holy sites for religi

Reply to Three Short Things in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

I was thinking it over; and assuming there is an actual building-in-city limit it would be possible to create a city specialization strategy around this concept: - Assume that a total of 10 buildings could be placed into a city - But also assume that the same building cannot be built more than once (so no 10 temples but 0 forges) - Then that there are several categories of buildings (educational, warfare, production, moral, religion, etc) - And that each catego

Logic Parser / Scripting in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

I'm not familiar with what E:WoM exposes to modders; but I'd very much like to see a scripting engine for E:FE akin to the WarCraft 3 world editor. Basic functionality is enough (meaning access to units and their attributes, ways to do logic parsing, like while-loop and if-statement). This would throw the doors way wide open for custom spells and cool new in-game mechanics.

Hero upgrades and tech in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

In the recent FE update there is an epic screenshot of a hero leveling and having multiple choices to upgrade their abilities - including the "rare" Double Strike. My suggestion is to have certain techs and buildings (and quests and everything else) influence the probability of particular abilities. For example a level 4 city upgrade could be "Duelist School" which has all the usual bonuses for a city upgrade, but also increases the probability of having the choice of "Double Strike"

Reply to Random Stuff in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

I'd like to request to upgrade seeing "random stuff" in this thread to: "frequent random stuff" :D

Reply to ETA for E:FE Beta? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I don't think it is a problem, given time and effort: If the questing system doesn't inherently allow for branching and random numbers, then the "same" quest could be created multiple times with different ways of progressing. So when you get the quest-hook "There's a message for you at the Black Boot Inn", you don't know whether it will turn out to be the rescue-maiden quest or the betrayal-at-inn quest. Even then, if you see it is the rescue-maiden quest you d

Reply to AI Journals: Eastern Anthys in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

More information on the "world population" would be nice. Including: can I manipulate it by slaying all the citizens of a rival city? Can I conquer a city and move the population to own of my own cities, then raze the conquered city? Other forms of population manipulation?

Reply to ETA for E:FE Beta? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I suspect, at a minimum, they'll want the beta to be WoM-level (as it stands now); other than the design-specific changes.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Tactical Battles - Part 1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="maniakos" reply="92" id="3006604"] Quoting seanw3, reply 83Hey, can the Frogmeister, when he finishes the basics like counterspells, set up some systems for the AI to play dirty tricks on us? I was thinking that if much of the AI's thought is on countering, so will the human player think. So, say the AI sets up a one-two punch with different elements, going from a medium spell in say fire, only to follow up with frost. That way we of course would want to put up a frost sh

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Tactical Battles - Part 1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="seanw3" reply="86" id="3006341"]I will always do a manual tactical battle. I like to role play during the battles. The units get quite a bit of dialog. [/quote] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Tactical Battles - Part 1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="maniakos" reply="75" id="3006116"] eg: slowing an opponent's unit tagged as a charger is a poor choice if there are other units that are much closer to my vulnerable units. What the AI needs to do is asess the situation each turn (after all there are only 16 or 20) units and assign multiple values like (melee threat, ranged threat, weakness, strategic importance (killing a spouse, or a hero that gives a specific bonus), and so on. Thease weight should be computed by takin

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Tactical Battles - Part 1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Ah, we disagree on that then - I think the more complex but robust system is better. Consider: if you have spell-name-only counters, then you can still not force the AI to use a specific spell as a counter. Assume you specify "A", "B" and "C" as counters; it could just be that the AI decides to stick to "A" and "C" and simply not use "B". You could implement it that there's a percentage weight indicator with each spell-name specified; or make the order of specification relevant, b

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Tactical Battles - Part 1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="41" id="3005690"]HenriHaki, so you want to have spell tags AND unique spell counter information in the XML, in order to simplify it from having only unique spell counter information? I'm with Heavenfall on this. Doing it by tags makes it a lot harder to make AI do the right choices. You need to balance the tags perfectly for it to know which spell is the best counter. There's also a big risk that the AI would cast a spell that is in fact not a