Newbie Game EA (Running)

Ironhawk · #1 November 17th, 2006, 03:09 PM

Another thing to consider is that new players frequently overlook the Path Buffing spells. These are spells which boost your power in a particular magic path (Summon Earthpower, Summon Storm Power, Power of the Spheres, Communion Master/Slave, etc). With these spells in hand you can turn a relatively weak battle mage into a powerhouse.

Examples:
Generic 2E mage, what can he cast? Legions of Steel maybe? blah. But cast Earthpower to take him to 3E and suddenly he can cast Bladewind, which will just slaughter all the lightly armored enemy.

Generic 2F mage can cast fireball. Pretty good. But buff him to 3F with phoenix power and he can cast Falling Fires. Then you can just watch your enemies burn in the huge AoE

Shovah32 · #2 November 17th, 2006, 03:16 PM

Also note that summon earthpower has a double bonus as it also gives extra (+4 iirc) reinvig to the caster, letting him cast even more.

FrankTrollman · #3 November 17th, 2006, 03:54 PM

Oh, and I think our battle against Arco went about as well as could be expected.

The Great Catsby has Spoken.

Sheap · #4 November 17th, 2006, 06:06 PM

Looks like Arco's god was slain in that battle...

FAJ · #5 November 17th, 2006, 07:22 PM

Ok, is this game updated/patched? What version is the host running?

I just got a battle message that said I lost a battle, being beaten by the defenders; killing about 95% of their troops and a commander while loseing about 30% of mine and a commander.
When I watch the replay, The enemy routs and I win the battle (by a pretty decent margin), and the commander that is reported dead is clearly alive and well.
But, the commander, after the battle, is actually dead, and the province was not taken.

This is confusing and frustrating.

I am using v3.01. What could be so different in the two versions that would change a large victory for me, to a loss for me, with the loss of my most powerful commander?

Sheap · #6 November 17th, 2006, 07:42 PM

This game is still running on 3.00. It's a bad idea to upgrade a 3.00 game to 3.01 because the Hunter of Heroes doom horror will appear and kill everyone in the hall of fame. Once 3.02 comes out this bug should go away and the everyone can patch. New games can safely start on 3.01 by using a mod to eliminate the Hunter of Heroes.

If the server and client use different versions the battle replay will not match the results exactly. It is usually close, but... sometimes not. This is the only problem resulting from mixing versions.

In the meantime I recommend you install two versions of the game, one 3.00, and one 3.01, and you use each one to play games running on that version of server.

FAJ · #7 November 17th, 2006, 07:57 PM

But what is so different about the versions that would cause such a huge difference in the outcome?

FrankTrollman · #8 November 18th, 2006, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Sheap said:
Looks like Arco's god was slain in that battle...

Yep. With Arco's god dead and cursed, we can really get ready to research properly.

The Great Catsby has Spoken.

Sheap · #9 November 18th, 2006, 08:37 PM

The server will be rebooted tomorrow morning shortly after the turn generation (or earlier, if everyone plays their turn today). This will result in a brief outage of around 10 minutes.

Saarud · #10 November 19th, 2006, 07:20 AM

I'm Agartha

Tips to everyone that borders Atlantis and Maverni. They are both grinding down my huge forces but in the end I see no way I can survive and I beleive that quite soon they will break through and exterminate me.

If you border either Atlantis or Maverni... beware as I go down they will turn their forces somewhere else... perhaps against you!?!?!?