lambdaman

lambdaman

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Reply to Ceasefire Ability Issue in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Yeah, I noticed this too. An inferior (but heavily cap-shipped) AI fleet jumped into a fortified gravity well, containing my entire attack fleet, and started spamming Armistice like there was no tomorrow. Very annoying -- IMO, it shouldn't even be possible to do this. Anyway, I finally broke the stalemate by moving everything in the fleet except the Titan to an adjacent well. This apparently convinced the AI that it wasn't outnumbered any more

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[BUG] can raze an undefeated lair in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Just a small thing that seems "wrong": I built an outpost next to a drake lair without defeating its guardian. The help text said my faction couldn't build on the lair ... but the "Raze" button was available, so I clicked it! Doesn't make any sense, and it seems wrong that I can deny a valuable resource so easily.

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[0.86 BUG] Tactical battle runs at the same time as the strategic UI in FE Beta Elemental Forums

This happened when I got into a tactical battle as a result of an end-of-turn move. My sovereign had a scheduled move onto a goodie hut, which happened to be next door to a Slag. As part of the turn cycle, the Slag attacked me. During my first move, I clicked on the Slag's portrait (to view its stats). When I did, I started getting UI popups for the next turn! Things like a description of what was in the goodie hut, information about technologies I had resear

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[0.86 UI] Better notifications that something was destroyed, please in FE Beta Elemental Forums

When an enemy army knocks down one of my assets, I get a popup that something was destroyed ... somewhere. Usually the message says something like "to the northeast". Northeast of what? My sovereign? My capital? Seems to be relative to the capital, and I get the "northeast" message even if it's 80 tiles east and 1 tile north. The message is nice for flavor, but it would be really nice if (1) it was a notification, not a popup, and (2) c

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Reply to Counterspell is a boring way to fix aoe spells in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Brad has said that counterspells were inspired by MTG. I think it's worth looking at some characteristics of MTG counters. (1) In MTG, you can see whether your opponent can counter your spell, and if they cast something big, they can't (because all their mana sources will be tapped out). This is actually somewhat present in FE: if your caster is working on something with a long casting time, they can't cast Counterspell. However, in

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Corruption description error in FE Beta Elemental Forums

The spell text for corruption says that it changes any shard in your territory to a Death Shard, but in fact it only works on Air, Earth, Fire, and Water shards. Specifically, I can't corrupt a Life Shard (and I can't raze it to keep it out of Kingdom hands -- presumably so I have more of an incentive to defend my territory?).

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"Missing ear" injury doesn't say what it does in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I got Missing Ear on one of my champions. The information box telling me he got it didn't tell me what the penalty was, and when I mouse over the icon in his info view, it just says "eh?" I had to mouse over his traits individually to figure out that it was -10% to dodge.

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City build mode still ignores my selection sometimes in FE Beta Elemental Forums

To reproduce: 1. Select a city. 2. Press "b". 3. Click a building from the list. 4. Mouse over the map. Expected behavior: buildable tiles turn green, the building appears on the map, and clicking places it. Observed behavior: sometimes the expected behavior; sometimes the game behaves as if no building is selected, and I have to close the build menu or s

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Reply to FE coding from the trenches in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="8" id="3073838"] 13. Garbage collection has been moved into its own thread so that it doesn't interfere with the smoothness of the game. OMG seriously wtf.. Whats the point of a beta if your going to ignore our input and give garbage collection its own thread. (I'm sure someone suggested not to do this... wait no? no one? oh well whatever I'm sure someone would have suggested not to do it if we had known you were g

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Reply to [Interface? Bug?] Confusing / inconsistent handling of army size limit in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Sanati" reply="2" id="3062136"]If you select any unit on the field you will see a grid of 9 slots on the bottom with some of the slots locked out with an X. This is your unit limit. It starts out at 5 or 6 but then you can increase it with techs. Cities use the same limits, but the Xs don't show up for some reason so it looks like you can fit 9 in there right away, you can't. I thought it was pretty clear, but perhaps they need a pop-up somewhere in the tutorial

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[Suggestion] Quests and research in FE Beta Elemental Forums

An interesting tweak that occurred to me regarding how quests interact with research: Instead of having generic research targets that unlock lots of quests at once, what if entering an unexplored high-level quest unlocked a unique technology that would allow you to complete the quest? For instance, entering the Mines of Moria might produce a technology called "Speak Friend, And Enter". Researching it would give you the ability to enter the quest locatio

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[SUGGESTION/UI] Ranges need to be visible in the tactical map in FE Beta Elemental Forums

If a spell or ability (say, Throwing Knives) has a limited range, that range should be visible on the tactical map. At the very least, it should be visible once I click on the ability's button; I personally think it should also be visible when I hover over the button. Also, I should be able to easily see how far units (mine and the enemy's) can move. For instance, hovering over a unit could highlight its current potential range of motion.

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[SUGGESTION/UI] When choosing who gets an enchantment, my selection should be more obvious in FE Beta Elemental Forums

If I cast an enchantment on a stack, I get to choose which unit gets the enchantment. Great! However, the selection indicator just turns the circle around the unit yellow. My sovereign's circle always seems to be yellow, so the only way to tell whether he/she's selected is to figure out which shade of yellow means "selected"... I suggest changing the background of the whole rectangular tile containing the unit portrait, or alternatively, displa

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Spell tooltips should take into account how many shards I control in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Right now spell tooltips say things like "8 damage (+4 per fire shard)". This is a little bit annoying on the strategic screen; it's really annoying on the tactical screen if I don't remember exactly how many shards I have. I think it would be better to show the actual damage and how it'll be calculated, maybe like this: "16 damage (8 base + 4 per fire shard)".

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