Before I forget, on the subject of Unit Customisation, did I mention bears in this thread? Because if I didnt... BEAR CAVALRY! [e digicons]\o/[/e]
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Out of the AoW games, Shadow Magic, hands down.
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Just to not completely de-rail this thread, I just want to add that I completely agree with GW Swicord 's original post, and dividing magic in particular into sub-schools at a certain point. Of course, the magic would still be based around Life Magic, but I'd be inclined to suggest the schools of Necrolytism (Good), Naturalis
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I think that wheter you're Fallen or Human, it doesn't ENFORCE you to be "good" or "evil". They are just the two prime opposing parties, and even that can most likely be changed through diplomacy. I'm not sure if trying to play neutral will have any specific in-game effect (it's never been mentioned), but presumably you'd be able to utilize "half of this" and "half of that". Not that it'd concern me, since if I'm doing a druidic faction, we're talking the shadow druids on crack, emposing
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[quote who="psychoak" reply="4" id="1940659"] [...] That way you could turn the game into a hardcore historical sim and drive people bonkers.[/quote]Nothing wrong with the idea, it's just that I think it'd add very little to the gameplay, while doing much to, as you say, drive people bonkers. [e digicons]XO[/e] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] [e digicons]XO[/e]
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[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="3" id="1940769"]What I would really like to see is some kind of random campaign generator, with events. It wouldn't be as profound as a real campaign but that would be really exciting to live a new story each time, even if that's stories tolmd 324345 times.[/quote] I'm not sure how elaborate it'll be, but they have said that sandbox games also will have a whole bunch of "quests", goals, and a ton of events. So it really depends on what you call a campaign
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Longmann ? *slaps Spartan around a bit with a large trout* [e digicons]x_x[/e]
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[quote] I am curious If the game was going to have a specific campaign like GalCiv?[/quote]Yes. Confirmed numerous times. It's even been mentioned in such ways that some people apparently got the idea that there's not going to be a sandbox mode. Which is, of course, hearsay and heresy! [quote] I would assume it would since the game is planed to be a franchise. If so I was hoping stardock might give up some details about it . Will the campaign follow the story of a specific cha
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We're talking massive, global mayhem? Starfire As the sky catches fire, meteor burning flames comes crashing down through the atmosphere towards a huge game area, covering an enormous amount of land (or sea). All cities are basicly Alpha-Centauri-nuked, forests catches fires and are burnt to crisps, roads are destroyed, and thousands upon thousands, possibly millions, of people are incinerated. Entire armies are potentially destroyed; possibly even heroes if they
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Does cannibalism lower my Karma? Houston, I've got a problem here... [e digicons]x_x[/e]
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[quote who="gamerking345" reply="16" id="1938074"] (and yes, I did this post solely to try out my new avatar) and what a nice avatar too, fire emblem. good times... which one is that a pic from?[/quote]Sacred Stones, if I'm not mistaken. I actually had to do the recoloring myself, since I wanted a red dragon. I've changes since then, of course. I'm going to try to refrain from changing my avatar all too often, since it tends to confuse me a lot when other people
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1) I'd like there to be a mechanic that lets your soldiers or army simply take what they can carry. Just as an example, let's say that my army of 1000 soldiers (with +1 Flails of Fail) crushes an army of 300 soldiers (with +2 Axes of Win); An average of 150 of my surviving 1000 soldiers (for arguments sake, let's say all my soldiers survived) is now using +2 Axes of Win, instead of their previous equipment - thus increasing the average damage or attack of said soldiers. This
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[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="21" id="1940519"] I dont' know what twisted laws you live under, but defending yourself -- or another -- from imminent harm (i. e. getting stabbed) pretty much negates any chance of it being called murder. Homicide, yes, but while all murders are homicides, not all homicides are murders.[/quote]I think it was just a bad choice of words. I think he simply used it as an example of an "evil" act; Of course, the bad choice of word is only apparent (and
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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="1940386"] [...] The plate is then shipped to your various cities (players can control priority). [...] [/quote] How silly. There's only one priority. Carry it to the capital, men! Let the forges of Ul'rathan burn brightly for our lord's grace! The stem, flow and wave of row after row after row of the Mithril Knights will never cease, marching ever outwards towards
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[quote who="ImperialDane" reply="22" id="1940363"]Perhaps it is because they offer some larger diversity ? As while humans are definately fun, one wouldn't mind facing other sorts of foes beyond that.[/quote]I don't see how pointy ears and a bad attitude, or sharp teeth and a bad breath add diversity. Apart from any diversity fantasy 'humans' themselves cannot add. It's like saying that the difference between Ulgos and Mimbrates are somehow negligable, just because one of them isn't s
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[quote who="Tamren" reply="17" id="1940315"]How about sucking the souls out of the enemy to preserve the lives of your own soldiers and townsfolk? Only on paper can ethics be divided into black and white. If your enemy raises a titanic army of demons and undead in order to protect his people. Can he be truly labeled as evil if he only did so because you have been trying to kill him and his people by conjuring "good" things and sieging him with unicorns and angels?[/quote]Are you
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[quote who="ImperialDane" reply="12" id="1940349"]Perhaps titan could be used in some way, but it implies a largeness of some sort ! In power or otherwise. Also if you read the bit of about the fallen again, i rather get the impression that the "powers" are something quite different than humans.. Plus they would be more interesting than if they were powerful humans..[/quote]If they are humans, or some derivative (like the Fallen are), it could simply be a form of supernatural selection or exc
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Ignore this, I accidently made a double post. My bad, my bad. I'm sorry. Nothing to see here. [e digicons]:'([/e]
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[quote who="ImperialDane" reply="9" id="1940300"]@Luckmann "When the powers strove for dominance before the cataclysm, some felt that men were too random and too unpredictable to be of use to them. Some of these powers selected men of cunning, brutality and might. They created an “improved” or “idealized” version of men that came to be known as the Fallen." And there you have it, the "powers" who ever they were, created the fal
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I don't understand the attachment some people have to elves, orcs, and the whole slew of incredibly, horribly generic fantasy creatures & races. I don't know, it could be that the prime of fantasy I've experienced myself was with David Eddings, and he uses none of the generic "Elves, Orcs, and Dragons". I for one welcome our new human overlords.
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the History Channel today; History of the Channelers. I'm sorry, but I really have no idea where the channelers come from. My assumption is simply that the weave of magic is coming together again. I remember reading that magic itself was somehow crystallized and shattered by the war & the cataclysm. The ability to inherently channel magic, such as the Channelers do, may have been "commonplace" before - but as the magic was crystallized, it stopped flowing
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[quote who="ImperialDane" reply="18" id="1940164"]A bunch of fanatical bastards, and i do believe they possess some ability to work together actually. In any case the fallen were altered by some greater power, i think the drow just ran off like the sissy elves they were Of course a more intereting question would be, how do the 6 factions play into this ?[/quote]Actually, the drows were also changed into their blackened form, by the Seldarine. They were then driven down underground
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How could I've missed this? "People play campaigns in Dungeons & Dragons in the real world that last for years. We could do that with 64-bit. We couldn't do it with 32-bit because you can't make the landmass that big -- that's been a big memory limitation," he claimed. "If someone wants to play a game that lasts for three years, who are we to stop them?" First, I wish I had a roleplaying group. Second, that . Sounds</strong
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[quote who="Vordrak" reply="4" id="1939878"]What about technology or spells that make land habitable without essence expenditure?[/quote]Hopefully, "cleansing" will only take a small, negligable fraction of your essence, or spread as a domino effect from the point of origin. The idea of putting up Altars, or similar, to spread influence & cleanse the land could be a fun one. The essence drain in putting one up would be fairly large, but the more you put up, the faster cleansing wi
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[quote who="Spartan" reply="24" id="1939829"] Quoting Luckmann, reply 23Excellent work, Spartan. What program are you using, Photoshop? I've got the hobby of making avatars every now and then, and if at all possible, any chance I could have the base file w/ layers, for any of these avatars? I'd like to rip the border, since it fits these boards so perfectly. Of course I used PS for the work. What else would I use? If you want to make sure pl
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