stevemorasch

Reply to Modding questions/help thread in LH Modding Elemental Forums

Can someone please help me with a very basic modding question/problem? I was tweaking a few spells in the Core Spells file, just to adjust the stamina and mana numbers slightly. At first it worked, but when I tried to make further changes, the would not take in game, even when I restarted the game, rebooted the computer and started a new game. In game is still showing the old numbers for stamina and mana for the spells I have changed. I don't under

Reply to [eMOD] [LH 3.0] XtraDeconstruct: Legacy of Magic (18 January 2022) in LH Modding Elemental Forums

Thanks! That makes sense. The parenthetical "(Deactivation)" confused me, but it makes sense that step would be included in the installation. I will make sure to read the rest of the sections you mentioned before installing.

Reply to [eMOD] [LH 3.0] XtraDeconstruct: Legacy of Magic (18 January 2022) in LH Modding Elemental Forums

This looks pretty impressive. :) Quick question about installation. Step 2 of the installation instructions says "2. Installation (Deactivation)". I am confused about what that means. Is Step 2 is what you do when you want to deactivate your mod, or is it part of the installation and activation of the mod? Can you please clarify so I don't screw something up when I go to install. Thanks much.

Reply to Modding questions/help thread in LH Modding Elemental Forums

How do you restart the Fallen Enchantress client? Is there more to it than just restarting the game? Cause I did restart the game and start a new game but it still did not pick up my changes until I reverted to vanilla for a "clean run". You say that's not necessary so I must be doing something wrong. Just not sure what. <span style="text-d

Reply to Modding questions/help thread in LH Modding Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="839" id="3631128"] No, you don't have to do a "clean run". I'm going to guess that you made a backup of the original XML or the copied XML and put it in a folder inside the core installation directory. If you did so, the game would only read one file with the same name in the XML directory and its subdirectories . If you make backups, keep them out of the game's installation folder. [/quote

Reply to Modding questions/help thread in LH Modding Elemental Forums

So, I just had a quick question about how the game uses the xml files. I edited the spells core file to reduce the stamina needed for Tame from 7 to 1. Loaded up a new game to test and it worked. Then I decided 1 was too low and I wanted to increase it to 2 and also increase mana cost from 40 to 50. So I made those changes and started a new game to test, but it still had my old changes (1 stamina, 40 mana) even on a new game. I searched the internet for an answer

Reply to Settling New Cities Help in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

The AI often cheats in a variety of ways. This is one of them.

Reply to Fighting against the world - Suggested New No Opponents Mode in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

[quote who="Primal_Savage" reply="9" id="3513073"] @stevemorasch At the moment you can't disable "Conquest" victory, but that would certainly be one way to implement it if Stardock was to do it (Requiring one victory condition, but not necessarily "Conquest"). Good idea. [/quote] I did not know that. Thanks for pointing that out. Guess I never tried to disable conquest victory. It would be great if they could add th

Reply to Bug - After conquering city, enemy stays there in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

I have played a total of about 700 hours and never experienced such a bug, of course that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Did you destroy the faction when you took the City? When the faction is destroyed, the enemy sovereign becomes a vassel, which could explain why he appeared in your City. If the enemy sovereign was already in the City or moving into it when you took over, it would put him in the City under your control if the faction were destroyed.

Reply to Unrest penalty help - Mid to Late game in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

To add to what Joeball said, when you are building for cities, make sure to site a couple fortresses on tiles with large grain yields. I typically have a main production fortress in the forest (for the lumber mill improvements that boost production) that has 4/3/2 or 3/4/2 and is near a clay pit or a orchard/farm so I can bring that up to 4/4/2 for my main fort to build my troops. Such a fortress will grow reasonably fast and have enough production to crank out troops and

Reply to Fighting against the world - Suggested New No Opponents Mode in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

When you win a game, the game ends and the credits roll. You cannot continue the game after you satisfy one of the four victory conditions. You could do what trisha suggested when starting a game by selecting only one other faction to be in the world. Make sure you don't pick Resolyn or Yithrill or any faction whose leader is "paranoid" or they might attack you for no reason. I would also pick a faction that is aligned with you so you will be more likely to

Reply to What do you do against an epic dragon? in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

Everybody has their own strategy. I like mages and a decently high level mage can easily take on a dragon in single combat, so I often do that and save my troops from the slaughter. If you need troops, I would not bring my best troops because a dragon can take out just about the toughest troops with one hit, so I often will use weaker troops that I don't mind loosing -- because against a fragon, you are likely to loose some troops. </

Reply to Can we start doing what the game actually needs, not what does not need? in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

I think its a pretty darn good game. Of the six "bugs" listed in the OP, the only one I have encountered is sometimes the lairs don't clear the first time so I have to waste a move clearing them. I honestly don't think that is a big deal. If wasting a couple movements every once in a while is that much opf a problem for someone, they can always lower the difficulty. I have been steadily increasing the difficulty until I now play on Expert/Expert with epic pacin

Reply to Any way to increase font size in this game? in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

The only way I know is to lower the resolution in the video settings. My TV supports 1080p (1920x1080)but I play in 720p so I can read the font.

Reply to Endgame Predictability (Or: The "Mop-Up" Phase): How To Avoid? in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

Sometimes I wish there was an auto-resolve button for the game, so once you got to a certain point, you could just press it and find out if you won or not. That would solve the issue of feeling like the game is won but going through the motions just to feel like you completed the game.

Reply to Starting Sovereign Path in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

[quote who="SorcererFailure" reply="7" id="3450869"] I went to war against Tarth (the archer empire) with Resoln, I couldn't even get one good spell off, ever. Drops like a sack in a turn. [/quote] I found that a good magical counter to an archer empire like Tarth is to equip a dagger (for the +3 initiative bonus) and whatever else I have to boost initiative and then firing off a quick Guardian Wind spell at the beginning of battle. A mage with li

Reply to Starting Sovereign Path in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

Ahh, you've very welcome. I am surprised you have not gotten more response. It's not like you asked a question that has a definitive answer, like "how do I increase the power of my fireball spells" You asked for a discussion of people's opinions on a question with no inherently "Correct" answer. At the Bethesda forum where I usually hang out, you'd get get a bunch of answers to a question like this, even in the forum where they only discuss ancient game

Reply to Starting Sovereign Path in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

Well, I wasn't around for those older threads so I don't mind a new discussion. I have found mages and commanders to be the most useful, especially later in the game. Assassins, Defenders and Warriors can be useful early in the game, but by later in the game, they are mostly just standing around with their hands in their pockets. Except for dragon battles, where they are less likely to be struck dumb with fear. They can be very useful afainst o

Reply to Economic Treaty in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

One of the things I really like about this game is that there are consequences to every decision (even inaction) and those consequences can be good or bad depending on the context and circumstances. The roads that come with economic treaties are a double edged sword, since they allow you to move around the map quicker but also allow your enemies to move around the map quicker. I am not bothered by the fact that your enemies can bypass your kingdom with a road to another ki

Reply to Spell of Making victory, is it too easy? in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="22" id="3449890"] Quoting stevemorasch, reply 21The last couple of games I set the pacing to epic. That could be the reason. Research takes much longer on Epic. Still, it could also just be bad luck.[/quote] I've got a couple games going right now, two are with epic pacing, but one I am playing Gilden with Challenging AI and normal pacing. I am just at the point where I picked up my third champion and am almost done building my

Reply to Spell of Making victory, is it too easy? in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="20" id="3449769"] Quoting stevemorasch, reply 19but I have yet to see the AI build a single tower. What difficulty are you playing on? I play on Challenging, and the AI builds the towers quite regularly. [/quote] I always have the AI set to challenging. I have only played a handful of games so far. My first three games I had everything else set to normal/default/moderate. The last couple of games I set the p

Reply to Faction overview: Resoln in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

[quote who="atlatea" reply="8" id="3372658"] Its leader, oracle ceresa is the main antagonist of the game (according to the lore and campaign map).[/quote] She seems to declare war on me early in the game more often than any other faction. In my last game, she paid Umbar to declare war on me the same turn as she did. I had to laugh at Kulan, who seemed almost appologetic about it, saying something about it just being a business decision for him an

Reply to I have been using Warriors as my Sovereign, help me try a mage... in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

[quote who="davrovana" reply="18" id="3444453"] 1.) Pick mage 2.) Win But seriously, ok... 1.) Pick mage 2.) Get Aeromancy 3.) Get a champion to water3 4.) Cast Mantle of Oceans on your mage 5.) Cast lightning bolt over and over, win every battle[/quote] Pretty much this. Although if you build a decent number of conclaves with a lot of essences and build apothecaries, you don't

Reply to Spell of Making victory, is it too easy? in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

[quote who="willie sanderson" reply="18" id="3448580"] The idea is to let the AI have that victory option but not you. You must conquer the whole world before one of them casts the Spell of Mastery. Any good strategist and tatician worth his weight in salt should be able to do that. )[/quote] This is pretty much what I do. Leave it in as a victory condition for the AI to use (so far they have not been able to do it), but I pretty much ignore it.

Reply to 'Commander' trait needs a buff in Legendary Heroes Stardock Forums

[quote who="davrovana" reply="5" id="3440027"] I disagree. Yes, the Commander who wants to be a good combat commander gets no immediate path from the path trait alone. But you'll need to level him to be good anyway (goes for all heroes), so I don't see it as such a big issue. Personally, a level 5 commander is so much more useful to me than a lvl5 anything else. By level 5 he can have road building, and administrator I, and either admin II or merchant I, whichever I n