LikeTheWhirlwind

Reply to Shards not working, not increasing damage at all in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm personally reviewing all the spell XML and I want to let you guys know that changes are coming. We're looking into separating the hit and damage rolls for offensive spells. The hit roll will be caster INT vs. defender DEF. The damage rolls will be between a min and a max value, not just from 0 - max. Here's the fireball description in my current build: "Target enemy unit is hit with a fireball and is dealt (5-9) damage. Damage is increased b

Reply to [Bug] Basically infinite attack. in WOM Support Elemental Forums

This sounds like a bug with how debuffs get removed from units. We'll definitely be looking into this. Thanks for the post Alibaster.

Reply to Spell damage still doesn't work right. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Thank you for the feedback Shryke. We definitely understand where you're coming from, and normalizing magic damage across the board is high on our list of things to do. In the coming weeks we're going to be looking at separating the hit roll (enemy has a chance to resist) and the damage roll for spells and giving spells a damage range instead of simply a 0 - max damage roll. We realize it can be especially frustrating and random to have your spells

Reply to Company of Archers Question in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The arrows are purely a visual element. Damage dealt happens separate from the animation and doesn't have anything to do with how many arrows you see. What happens when a company of archers attacks is that each archer rolls from 0-(attack/number of archer)s vs. the enemies defense roll (0 - defense). If the result is positive, it's the damage dealt. Damage is summed for all archers and that becomes the total damage dealt to the enemy unit. In you

Reply to [BUG 1.05] Tactial Combat in WOM Support Elemental Forums

First off, thank you for the feedback. 1) You're right, this isn't communicated anywhere on the UI. This is an area that we will improve upon in the coming weeks. We definitely agree with you that it is important to be able to view the debuffs that a unit is afflicted with. 2) This sounds like a bug and we'd be interested in squashing it. Can you post a save game from before the battle and your debug. err file.</

Reply to How did the devs miss this? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Go go triple monitors.

Reply to Report: 48% of PC Games Bought in 2009 Were Digital Downloads in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I'd be willingly to bet the survey's results are well within an acceptable margin of error. A lot of you have problems with that fact that it's using data gathered using NPD's consumer panel. I think this is negligible. The people that participate in NPD's consumer panel come from a lot of different demographics, not just rabid PC gamers. Suffice to say, thats not the most questionable part about their results. They define "Frontline Digital Retailers" as a

Reply to An insider’s look at PC game publishing in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="44" id="2691527"] NPD Group is commonly placed in the top 25 market research companies in the world (Nielson and Taylor Nelson typically being #1). Like Brad said, believe what you will, but I think NPD's numbers aren't far off. Then why is Blizzard on there essentially twice? [/quote] They're not. This is NPD being thorough, not incompitent. They're seperating two separate online storefronts. Clicking "

Reply to An insider’s look at PC game publishing in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

To be honest with you guys, I'd put NPD's margin of error at about -+ 5%. Take what you will from that. 180,000 is a massive sample size considering a lot of political surveys are done with a fraction of that. Gallup's surveys are usually 1000-2000 adults strong, and they attempt to estimate the opinions of some 130,000,000 registered voters, and their margins of error are typically smaller. NPD Group is commonly placed in the top 25 market research companies in the world (N

Reply to [Performance][Tactical] [.91] in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Your issue with the tactical AI never changing targets sound like a bug. I'll be looking into this tomorrow.

Reply to Tactical Battle Evolution in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="168" id="2687829"] Well, that sounds better. It still seems like mounted units will get an attacks (and thus effective damage) boost if they don't move though. I know we're sucking up your time here, but can you explain why NullAshton's idea was rejected?[/quote] I think Brad responded to it pretty well. The connection between movement speed on the main map and movement speed in tactical battles implied by action points = moves overpowers

Reply to Tactical Battle Evolution in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="157" id="2687771"] Quoting LikeTheWhirlwind, reply 154Counter attacks are going into the 3C build. Units are now refunded their action points every time initiative switches (defender to attacker, attacker to defender), rather than after each round. Units use these action points to counter attack. 1 AP per counter attack. When you're out of AP, you're done counter attacking. Please note that this doesn't affect what you can actually do during t

Reply to Tactical Battle Evolution in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Counter attacks are going into the 3C build. Units are now refunded their action points every time initiative switches (defender to attacker, attacker to defender), rather than after each round. Units use these action points to counter attack. 1 AP per counter attack. When you're out of AP, you're done counter attacking. Please note that this doesn't affect what you can actually do during the unit's turn. They'll have all their AP points back when their turn starts.

Reply to I like what I see, but I hope that Stardock has enought time and resources to finish and polish it... in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I just want to reassure everyone that we are committed to releasing a finished and polished game. It would be a disservice to our many fans to do anything other than that. It would also be fundamentally violating one of our own rules, Right #2 from the Gamer's Bill of Rights: "Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state." Here's a link to the rest of the rights for those of you that have never seen them: <a href=

Reply to [.803][Gameplay][Suggestion] Remove the volley command from archers in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Keep in mind that tactical thresholds are a player defined option. You want every battle to be a tactical battle? You got it. Set the tactical threshold to 0. It's meant to be a convenience tool, not a limitation.

Reply to Elemental Beta 3 Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Don't take the "3 minute" thing so literally. All we mean is that we're aiming more for Master of Magic combat length rather than Rome Total War combat length, for example. We want you guys to feel in control, and for your tactical decisions to matter. What we don't want is for tactical combat to drag on while both sides "go through the motions".

Reply to [.803][performance] Zooming unresponsive to scroll wheel in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

If you haven't already, can you uncheck the zoom to cursor option in the options menu and let me know if zooming is still unresponsive? Thanks in advance, -LTW.

Reply to [0.802] BUG ? Combat Latency in cloth map in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I'm on this. Completely agree with you.

Reply to Sovereign, Death and books in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

No. Stat changes from books should be permenant. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. -LTW

Reply to Trinity portraits not in Diplomacy? in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

There are two new portraits per race in the Diplomacy expansion, but they aren't the portraits from the cover of the Trinity box. That art was developed only for the Trinity box.

Reply to linkedWeaponClass "Invalid" in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Invalid as a weapon class in a research modifier just means it affects every weapon class. It's probably not very logical, but thats how it works right now. So if you wanted to make a research subject that affects the damage of all weapon types, for example, you would just put the weapon class as Invalid.

Reply to Game crash after 1,5-2 hours of playing in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Yes. Please send the dump file to [email protected]. Thanks!

Reply to It's too easy to make peace, AI can be gamed too easily, more mission types. in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

[quote who="Brazilian_Joe" reply="16" id="2506713"]YAY! gr8 Brazilian_Joe approves it please dont forget that defensive actions (fighting in my own gravwells) should not incur in negative penalty [/quote] That how it currently works.

Reply to It's too easy to make peace, AI can be gamed too easily, more mission types. in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

We're toying with the idea of making it so that when you attack a faction, you also incur a negative military action penalty with all of that person's allies. Look for it in the next public build.

Reply to Diplomacy Victory Condition? in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

It's not in the current patch. Needs a little more time in internal testing. Stay tuned.