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Svartalfar --> FoL. Don't go esus with svarts. You can found it, but don't convert. FoL gives svarts everything they need.

If you were at peace with the svarts, they could have moved into the hex with your stack and taken the mirror, perhaps?

Amurites can be tough, but try this basic strategy: 1) Go Valledia the Even (Dain is also fine, and a better leader ultimately, but valledia is simpler) 2) Ideally settle somewhere with happy resources and a lot of fresh water for farms. Spam farms on every viable tile (cottages on plains is...

You can change the colour of a civilisation's borders in assets/XML/interface/PlayerColorInfos.xml XML modding is pretty self explanatory... but if you have no experience with any coding it might be safer to just leave things as they are. The colour is more noticiable after a game or two...

Charadon really struggles in vanilla, but you're doing the right thing. Axes will definitely help, but you need to get collateral ASAP. Either catapults or fire mages -- catas are probably better because you'll be wanting to spend your money to upgrade your slaves into beastmen -> axemen once...

They're pretty rare these days, because they take a huge amount of time mostly. Normally I'd invite you to the games I play but, at the moment we are all too busy with work to get a regular thing going. I'd recommend trying to get some friends together. There's also a PBEM community that AFAIK...

The spawning is random, but Barbarian AI isn't completely random: if I remember correctly, it executes an AI warplan just like any other AI race, which targets one specific civ at a time. Every X turns it switches to a new civ, weighted towards higher scores. To see this in action, put on raging...

Elves are also capable of running specialist economies with GoN+FoL farm spam :)

You could use the palace to give them +1 health from jungles to counteract the sickness. Letting them build improvements on jungles should be relatively simple: just steal the elf code. Alternatively, limit it to a single form of improvement (lumbermill-esque) called, for example, 'jungle...

Yes, that's correct. Whilst normally it probably wouldn't matter as they are merged, EMM hasn't been updated to the latest MNAI yet. Sorry for slow replies, the EMM threads are quite slow at the moment. I think everyone is hanging out for the next EMM update by terkhen :-)

You'd probably have to custom build them, from a quick glance of the SRD. Very few of the vampire template abilities make much sense for the Calabim. It's probably a matter of giving them the blood drain ability from the vampire, maybe some spell-like abilities and a stat increase or two. To...

That's fine, thanks for the apology. As I said before, I made the decision to try the nerf due to an overwhelming response in the EMM thread. It hasn't worked, so I'll revert it, no harm done. I just wish the people who had argued so vehemently in the EMM thread would actually add something to...

Calvente nicely answered for me (thanks man). The only reason I made the change in the first place was because people were using exactly the same argument on me you are now making. I was literally the only person in the EMM main thread saying it wasn't necessary. I'm sure you can understand...

Again, you've missed the point entirely. No one is suggesting FoL should be less than optimal for Elves. The initial concern was raised because FoL, especially with elves, was creating a degenerate strategic environment in MP. I still haven't recieved any feedback on this since, which is why...

I.... if you think woodsman 2 is the most important reason to adopt FoL, or relevant for the decision at all, I'm not even sure what to say. I think we are operating on totally different wavelengths. Elves adopt FoL for GoN/ancient forests.... and Ljos don't use archers in MP, save Legolas...

Yes, the AI often gets stuck in crusade and refuses to get out, it's a known issue. You'll probably have to knock him off. Alternatively, it's very easy to modify the XML so that crusade doesn't disable diplomacy. Look in Assets/XML/Gameinfo/CIV4civicinfos.xml for the crusade civic and set...

RE monks: Einon is Spiritual, Gekko :P. More monk analysis: Honestly, FoL and Luris seem to be the most hotly contested points of balance on this forum at the moment. Not one week ago, I was the only poster holding the position that FoL was only good on elves and Luris were lacklustre. I...

Hi scutarii, thanks for the feedback! That's interesting: I've had the ljos AI doing very well in the SP games I have been playing. Svarts always do terribly in MNAI because they are obsessed with this weird early scout aggression that never evolves or succeeds. Still, I did expect it to hit...

Hi Tholal, a quick comment on advanced fort implementation: Currently the AI seems to preferrentially build them within one or two tiles of cities, giving free healing and %defense to attacking enemy stacks and denying themselves a useful working tile. I assume they are applying some old fort...

Found some simple bugs: - Dispel magic cannot convert creation mana back to raw mana. I haven't tested with force/dimensional but I suspect this may hold true for them as well. - The Labyrinth spell can only be cast on open, non-improved tiles, severely limiting its effectiveness. - The...