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Designed ships frequently show the wrong ship model in Galactic Civilizations Series Stardock Forums

About half the time, when I design a ship, it uses the model for the wrong ship. This usually occurs if I base my new design off a pre-existing design, and I'll make my changes, and then right after I save, it appears as another design I've used before (sometimes of a different ship size entirely). Good news, it's only cosmetic. It looks like the wrong ship, but has the right stats. Sometimes it gets confusing when I select the wrong ship though. Does this happen t

Reply to [AI] applaud in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Wait, you can raise mountain ranges? I thought you could only raise hills at best.

Reply to Diplomacy Victory in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Save, try it, find out the answer, and then report it to us. Thanks!

Reply to Life Shard in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

They auto-convert? I wish I knew that. Everytime I get a shard of the opposite color, I just immediately raze it to make sure it doesn't fall into the hands of my enemies.

Reply to [Balance] Player vs AI power progression in FE (and all 4x games in general) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="25" id="3294482"]Okay here's a theoretical situation, let's say you had two equally-skilled human players playing this game, do you think that the player who suffers the first defeat at the hands of the other could pull it back and win?[/quote] It depends on the variance and the swinginess. Variance meaning the randomness inherent in the game, both in terms of the actual RNG and in terms of different outcomes happening despite the same se

Reply to [Balance] Player vs AI power progression in FE (and all 4x games in general) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Rath3130" reply="7" id="3293339"]I have actually. In an older 4X game, another great favorite of mine.. Star Trek: Birth of the Federation.[/quote] I remember playing that a decade ago. It was prolly the first 4X game I ever played, before I knew what a 4X game was. Has it aged well?

Reply to [Balance] Player vs AI power progression in FE (and all 4x games in general) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I know you say the AI is bad at the late game, but I think you're over-estimating how good the AI's early game is. From my experience, AIs in 4X games are good at one thing and one thing only: fast expansion. Fast expansion gives them an immediate advantage right out of the starting gate, as having more cities and more territory usually means better economy and better research. But for some reason, the AI is never able to take advantage of that. What invariably happens (assuming you&#

swarm of spiders out of nowhere? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

So I just loaded a game, and suddenly there are spiders swarming over everything. And they're far more aggressive than all the other monsters. And these spiders definitely weren't there when I saved last night. So what the hell? Is there also a bug that when you load a save, a crapton of highly aggressive monsters spawn out of nowhere? Anyone seen anything like it before?

Reply to Terraforming in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Once, while I was invading, the enemy had two cities separated by a mountain range on one side and a river on the other. I had tons of mana, so I flattened the mountain and charged through.

Reply to [1.02] My first experience with the game in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="eobet" reply="34" id="3288748"]but already number 10 on my list in the OP is driving me absolutely crazy! How the heck is it that this item wasn't the first thing they fixed in the beta? Popups keep appearing in the wrong order and interrupting my current actions (ie, building pops up research, or research interrupts quest popups, and so on).[/quote] I'm not entirely sure what this means, and I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like this before. For me, re

Reply to [1.02] My first experience with the game in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="eobet" reply="34" id="3288748"]Youtube wants me to give them my mobile phone number for me to be allowed to upload the 2 hour video I made, and there's just no chance that's going to happen... so I guess I'll continue to suck at this game for a while longer.[/quote] Then I strongly recommend doing a turn-by-turn description of everything you are doing in-game. Not just an abstract general idea, but the specific things you are doing in a specific game. I

Reply to learning curve in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

K, that worked, thanks!

Reply to learning curve in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Apparently, there's no way to have multiple quotes in a single reply, so my reply got messed up.

Reply to learning curve in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Actually, (almost) everything is explained in this game. You just have to click through the menus and look at the tooltips. [quote quoting="post"]- how to get more grain .. you mean food for population .. i don't know, I want my cities to level up. -- he didn't get the difference between grain and food in the first place, then he ddin't know about buildings that give more food, not to mention things like upgradable tiles on strategic map that give food [/quote]<

Dance with Dragons and Monuments? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

The game says when you complete Dance with Dragons, you can build a Monument to recruit 3 Ashwake Dragons. However, I don't see the option anywhere. My monuments on Prestigious Locations don't give me dragons either, nor do the basic Monuments for increasing Zone of Control. Is there any way to make this work? Or do those Monuments not actually exist in the game? Also, I got a Dragon Lair and got my Stormwake Dragon. It says limit 1 dragon reached. Is that 1 dragon total? Or c

Alliance victory too easy? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

To be fair, this is my first game (second if you count the aborted first attempt), and I'm playing on Easy/Easy, but the Alliance victory was way too easy. I'm nowhere near Spell of Winning the Game, I can't find the Master Quest, and I haven't even fought in any wars, but as soon as I unlocked Alliance, I went to the Foreign Relations screen, and all the other players actually *paid me* to Ally with them and win the game. Is this normal? Or did I just get lucky and ge

Reply to [1.02] My first experience with the game in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

You're not supposed to take down Strong armies with just 3 heroes. You'll definitely need some supporting generics, preferably archers. What difficulty are you playing on? Can you give us the turn by turn description of what you're doing? My gut feeling is that you're leaving your sov just sit there at your capital waiting for things to happen (which means you aren't earning experience, loot, or gold), or you're not rushing out your production (

Reply to [Polish] Trade and Diplomacy Screens in FE Support Elemental Forums

I'd also like the option to remove items from the trade window. For example, sometimes I'll want 30 Magic Tech from the opponent. So I'll start putting various things, like gold or resources or other tech. And then I'll realize that I can't afford/am not willing to trade at the rates the opp is asking for. But maybe I'll settle for 15 Magic Tech. Except right now, I don't have the option to remove the 30 Magic Tech and replace it with 15 Magic Tech. So I have to le

Reply to [1.02] My first experience with the game in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kongdej" reply="25" id="3287078"]For your starting city, Essence is nice, But materials is king. It doesn't matter how few Grains you get, just grab that 3-5 Material spot asap, slow production kills your early game.[/quote] Quoted for truthery. In my first game, I made the mistake of prioritizing Grain and Food over Material. (And a bunch of other mistakes that led me to restart by turn 100.) Grain is nice, because getting your cirites to level 2 is key, but Material

Reply to Studded Collar? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I got the Umberdroth. Lady Luck is smiling upon me tonight! =D

Reply to Studded Collar? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Welp, I capture the Great Wolf, and then found another studded collar. Intentional? Or just damn good luck? I also found an Umberdroth Lair, too.

Reply to Studded Collar? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Huh, never realized I could do that. Thanks for the help guys! Lucky me, I just found a Great Wolf den. Here's hoping to capture it!

Reply to Studded Collar? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Yes, it says beasts, but how do I know what is and isn't a beast? The Hiergamenon doesn't tell me.

Studded Collar? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I got a Studded Collar, which said it allowed me to take control of beasts. And I also found an Ashwake Dragon on the map. So I thought it would be a good idea to try to capture the Ashwake Dragon. Except the game told me the Ashwake Dragon isn't a valid target for the collar. So there goes that idea. But my question is, is there any way to check what is and isn't a valid target for the collar? Because if it's just trial and error, that's kinda lame.

Renaming enemy cities? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I clicked on an enemy's city, and the Rename button was there. So I clicked rename, and it allowed me to rename the city. Is that a bug? Is that intentional? Now I know FE is all about customization, but it seems really weird that I could just go and rename all of my enemy's cities.