Recent content by Shadius

Winter is Coming.

Yeah. The whole concept is excellent, and all - and rampaging around Erebus as the Infernal Hordes is great fun - but under AI control, Hyborem as he is now is just a bad joke. Usually just founds one city in the middle of a frozen wasteland and sits there for the rest of the game. A few AI-only...

Can't say I see where the complaints about the artstyle are coming from. I absolutely love what they're trying to do here: actually making the map view feel like something right off of a map. It does need a little brushing up here and there, granted. And I don't quite like how 'clean' the human...

Except that the AI will never, ever build them (well, unless you use the no building requirment option). And I don't know about you, but most animals tend to be wiped off the map by the time I get rangers, anyway.

I've thought a possible endgame eventchain for the Overlords would be a great idea ever since Fire came out, personally. Ideally, I think you'd have two different paths; one where the Overlords overtake Danalin's mind completely, and another where he somehow awakens, with all the chaos that...

Lorewise, I could actually see this as being Cassiel's master plan. Bring the world to the edge of destruction to free it, and all that. I've never actually USED it, though. But then again: most games are decided before Bane Divine even becomes an option.

I simply love the idea of amping up the exploration aspect of FFH. Adding a few ideas to the pile: Large patches of Wastelands/Badlands that remain in barbarian hands until the endgame. Littered with the ruins of a civilization from the Age of Magic, before an unnatural calamity turned green...

"Ice" is the final of four design phases from when this mod was first planned, and is supposed to be all about the scenarios. It's currently in the middle/tail-end of "Shadow", the third. The scenario window is basically part of the groundwork for Ice... as well as being a neat little teaser, I...

The music files are right there in the mods directory, y'know? ;) But the files I think you're refering to ('ECDemo' and 'ECTheHouse', unless I'm mistaken. You were playing Grigori, so that narrows it down to the non-religion soundtrack) don't seem to be attributed to anyone, unlike much of the...

If I'm reading the pedia entry correctly, it seems to me that the Kuriotates' multicultural nature is less a result of immigration and more a result of them cooperating with the nonhumans, rather than being in a constant state of war with them. So I'd agree with MagisterCultuum's suggestion that...

While I love the idea of having more 'unique' cities, I'm not sure the specifics suggested here would really work. The suggestion somebody made of adding more unique barbarian cities (ala Acheron) sounds great, though. A few ideas jump to mind... A 'Necropolis' style city. The earth here...

Since Kurioate cities are supposed to be grandiose and magnificent things, why not give them a few unique buildings to represent precisely this? Treat them kind of like national wonders, perhaps. Bigger and better versions of more mundane structures that allow you specialize your city, but only...

While one or two civs sometimes get anniahlated by barbs early on in my games, all of them usually make it to the midgame. But then, I play on pretty dense maps (room for maybe four or five cities for each civ), so I probably don't run into as many barbs as most people would.

While I agree there's no need for alternative apocalypses, I really like the idea of having an extensive event chain involving the reawakening of Danalin and the chaos that would probably ensue. It would definately have the potential to make the OO more interesting.

"My lord! The plague has claimed much of our human cattle in Nubia, and officials have suggested that we build a graveya - " "No." "But... if you will excuse this one's impudence, my lord, we have more than sufficient funds, and there are no industries presently active near the proposed...