Age of Ice: Latest Version

[Pandemonis]

Even with those promotions ?

 

[vorshlumpf]

Your example uses archers. I've typically faced longbowmen and crossbowmen fortified in cities once I've gotten Fiacra fully promoted.

 

[Jinxicus]

I am curios about the blizzards. Are they supposed to hit in your starting area? I was going about my business and all of a sudden I realized I was loosing tiles around my capital to tundra/snow.

 

[vorshlumpf]

The mountains should protect you. However, I once (in all of my playtesting games) got a blizzard that sneaked into my valley through the north pass.

Did it actually get adjacent to your capital?

 

[Jinxicus]

Yup it took out the two rows of tiles on the far right of the game map (within the valley). Took out the tiles with the sheep, the deer and all those farm plots over there. It just seems to be siting there now, sounds like another restart to me.

 

[Broken Hawk]

Does the difficulty level matter is this situation?

 

[vorshlumpf]

I'm pretty sure it isn't. I can't speak to the code, but I never noticed a difference from Settler to Deity.

 

[Thennorin]

The blizzard code seems slightly bugged. It's not always the case that protected areas remain protected, though I'm sure that wasn't the intention...

I've had a freak blizzard come down into the protected area just west of the north pass, north of the small sea/lake. Of course, that utterly ruined the city I had there and I hadn't gone out on conquest yet so the game was over. It seems to be a very infrequent occurrence but it's nonetheless very frustrating.

Still, the dev team could always argue that there's a fix for this rare occurrence already built into the scenario (children of Kylorin) so it's not such a game-ending issue after you realise it can happen.

 

[snarko]

iPower is set to 2 for wells.