"Fire" Developer Diary

On Emperor difficulty with Agressive AI on, I get similar random declarations, but only from warlike or insane leaders - Charadon (three times!) and Keelyn (once) so far.

On Prince difficulty without Agressive AI, everyone got along just fine, and peaceful civs like the Kuriorates have been behaving in all games.
 
It Seems Like All Forests On Peaks Never Catch Fire, Im On Yr445 On Epic And All The Peaks In My World Is Just In Smoke And Will Never Catch Fire

Yeah, I think your right. I dont think the plotchecker checks peaks. I'll check it out. You must be on quite the pryo spree to have noticed that.
 
Played my first game until Hyborem losing all his traits (see the bug thread) forced me to quit. Still, it was a great game while it lasted.

Large Pangaea, Monarch, Quick speed. Started off as the Sheaim, beelined to the Ashen Veil and switched to Hyborem when he was summoned. Proceeded to wipe out the Sheaim and moved out to attack the nearby Ljosalfar.

Now, the fun thing was that I and the Calabim were the only evil civilizations on the whole map, with all the rest being neutral - and even the Calabim soon ended up being neutral when they adopted Runes. As a consequence, I had no allies, only enemies. The Khazad summoned Basium, and after a while every other civilization on the continent had declared war on me. The AI being AI, it wasn't using its units as optimally as possible, which probably helped save my demonic behind - there was a huge siege around the one city I'd managed to capture from the Ljosalfar. Elven troops, dwarven troops, vampire troops, angelic troops... all united against a common foe and besieging the city of demons. Even after Hyborem slew Basium and took Orthus's Axe from him, it was all he could do to weaken the invaders enough to prevent them from overrunning my cities through sheer force of numbers. I tried to divert Hyborem from the defense to assault the nearest Ljosalfar city, but he never got the time to wear down its defenses before I had to return him to within my borders. I had four cities, and against me was the united force and production power of everybody else.

I planned to turn the situation in my favor by upping the Armageddon count high enough to reduce the number of units my enemies were wielding, allowing me to take a couple of extra cities and even the production disadvantage I had - fortunately I had build the Propechy of Ragnarok, and was, albeit painfully slowly, increasing the armageddon count by building new units.

Once I realized that my cities had started to require food (Hyborem had previously been reincarnated after dying in a battle against Archeron, but this wiped out all of my traits - including Fallow), though, I decided to quit. Those big juicy Ljosalfar cities would have been nice to capture, but with me needing to actually ensure they wouldn't starve, it didn't seem worth it.

Still, even so far it made for an epic story. :)
 
Played my first game until Hyborem losing all his traits (see the bug thread) forced me to quit. Still, it was a great game while it lasted.

Large Pangaea, Monarch, Quick speed. Started off as the Sheaim, beelined to the Ashen Veil and switched to Hyborem when he was summoned. Proceeded to wipe out the Sheaim and moved out to attack the nearby Ljosalfar.

Now, the fun thing was that I and the Calabim were the only evil civilizations on the whole map, with all the rest being neutral - and even the Calabim soon ended up being neutral when they adopted Runes. As a consequence, I had no allies, only enemies. The Khazad summoned Basium, and after a while every other civilization on the continent had declared war on me. The AI being AI, it wasn't using its units as optimally as possible, which probably helped save my demonic behind - there was a huge siege around the one city I'd managed to capture from the Ljosalfar. Elven troops, dwarven troops, vampire troops, angelic troops... all united against a common foe and besieging the city of demons. Even after Hyborem slew Basium and took Orthus's Axe from him, it was all he could do to weaken the invaders enough to prevent them from overrunning my cities through sheer force of numbers. I tried to divert Hyborem from the defense to assault the nearest Ljosalfar city, but he never got the time to wear down its defenses before I had to return him to within my borders. I had four cities, and against me was the united force and production power of everybody else.

I planned to turn the situation in my favor by upping the Armageddon count high enough to reduce the number of units my enemies were wielding, allowing me to take a couple of extra cities and even the production disadvantage I had - fortunately I had build the Propechy of Ragnarok, and was, albeit painfully slowly, increasing the armageddon count by building new units.

Once I realized that my cities had started to require food (Hyborem had previously been reincarnated after dying in a battle against Archeron, but this wiped out all of my traits - including Fallow), though, I decided to quit. Those big juicy Ljosalfar cities would have been nice to capture, but with me needing to actually ensure they wouldn't starve, it didn't seem worth it.

Still, even so far it made for an epic story. :)

lol your story reminds me of world war 2
 
Played my first game until Hyborem losing all his traits (see the bug thread) forced me to quit. Still, it was a great game while it lasted.

Large Pangaea, Monarch, Quick speed. Started off as the Sheaim, beelined to the Ashen Veil and switched to Hyborem when he was summoned. Proceeded to wipe out the Sheaim and moved out to attack the nearby Ljosalfar.

Now, the fun thing was that I and the Calabim were the only evil civilizations on the whole map, with all the rest being neutral - and even the Calabim soon ended up being neutral when they adopted Runes. As a consequence, I had no allies, only enemies. The Khazad summoned Basium, and after a while every other civilization on the continent had declared war on me. The AI being AI, it wasn't using its units as optimally as possible, which probably helped save my demonic behind - there was a huge siege around the one city I'd managed to capture from the Ljosalfar. Elven troops, dwarven troops, vampire troops, angelic troops... all united against a common foe and besieging the city of demons. Even after Hyborem slew Basium and took Orthus's Axe from him, it was all he could do to weaken the invaders enough to prevent them from overrunning my cities through sheer force of numbers. I tried to divert Hyborem from the defense to assault the nearest Ljosalfar city, but he never got the time to wear down its defenses before I had to return him to within my borders. I had four cities, and against me was the united force and production power of everybody else.

I planned to turn the situation in my favor by upping the Armageddon count high enough to reduce the number of units my enemies were wielding, allowing me to take a couple of extra cities and even the production disadvantage I had - fortunately I had build the Propechy of Ragnarok, and was, albeit painfully slowly, increasing the armageddon count by building new units.

Once I realized that my cities had started to require food (Hyborem had previously died and been reincarnated in a battle against Archeron, but this wiped out all of my traits - including Fallow), though, I decided to quit. Those big juicy Ljosalfar cities would have been nice to capture, but with me needing to actually ensure they wouldn't starve, it didn't seem worth it.

Still, even so far it made for an epic story. :)

Wow O_O. Just reading that is exciting. I just finished my fourth, and first "full game" as Sheaim, Epic, Large, Pangea teamed with Clan of Embers. I rushed Ashein Veil and was almost immediatly backstabbed by Hyborem and surrounded in his borders, but I managed to make peace and sit on the far east coast of the pangea engulfed inside the center of Hyborems empire sending out Ritualist and Mages to assist him in annihilating every other civilization.... Not quite as epic or interesting as your game, but Hyborem went to war with the barbarians, and annihilated the horsemen and the Avatar of Wrath. The good civilizations never got the chance to summon Basium and being I forgot to enable PA I decided that the game was effectively over. I held one city through about 450 turns to the end, the Clan of Embers held about 1/12th of the pangea while Hyborems hellish empire spanned the entire continent when it was all said and done.:king:
 
:lol: You guys won't believe what just happened to me. So I get this really highly promoted scout, give him forest stealth. He goes around and sees lots of stuff on one side of me, then I send him through my lands to get to the other side. As I send him through, I'm being attacked by lots of barbs, but that's alright since I make sure to end my turns in the forest. Here's the problem: I was playing the Malakim! So his stealth didn't work, and he got slaughtered by a bunch of orc spearmen.
 
Ok, halfway though my second game.

Have to say that I don't like the fact that Way of Forest's Unique building doesn't use Prophet. First time I played an entire game as Frodo - had about 9 or so Great People -- ALL of which were prophets. This game I'm playing as Amyr (Amurites), so far I've had 6 Great people, 5 of which were prophets, 1 was a Sage. For techs that I've chosen? Beeline to Way of Forests and Hidden Paths, then Beeline to Feral Bond.
 
Ok, halfway though my second game.

Have to say that I don't like the fact that Way of Forest's Unique building doesn't use Prophet. First time I played an entire game as Frodo - had about 9 or so Great People -- ALL of which were prophets. This game I'm playing as Amyr (Amurites), so far I've had 6 Great people, 5 of which were prophets, 1 was a Sage. For techs that I've chosen? Beeline to Way of Forests and Hidden Paths, then Beeline to Feral Bond.

Hint: Don't collect Great Prophet points if you want a Great Bard.
 
Or do, but run to drama and use the free one. You can generally get that and/or the sage at writing much more easily now that the AI doesn't rush them as quickly.
 
Hint: Don't collect Great Prophet points if you want a Great Bard.

-- Bah, to describe the process I use to research techs is pointless. The design is flawed. Your hint isn't helpful because I have not tried to get the points, and assuming that getting 0 GPP is somehow going to generate me a Great Bard, I still will not micromanage my cities to avoid getting any points. Once I build temples in my cities (which is one of the first things I will build) - they will make the prophet points. If the different religeons require different great people to build their special buildings - then maybe the different temples should create different specialists. But then the civics will be affected because they focus on different specialists... and so on...
 
Or do, but run to drama and use the free one. You can generally get that and/or the sage at writing much more easily now that the AI doesn't rush them as quickly.

Run to Drama when I am bee-lining for The Way of Leaves religion? Doesn't make sense. Design flaw.

Anyways, people can decide for themselves. I offered my opinion as feedback. I know perfectly well how to change these things myself - and I'm certain I'll go back to working on my Tech Tree, and will likely change something to address this issue (as I see it).
 
what does the mokkas cauldron wonder do, the civilopedia says it doesnt have special abilities

Any living unit that dies in the city with the cauldron is raised as an undead or demonic unit of similiar power. Adepts come back as imps, Macemen come back as Sect of Flies, etc.
 
Yoshi has a good point-- the temple of leaves should allow one artist (and one preist i beleive)

K, it will be in the next patch.
 
Just to emphasize - I am not trying to criticize the work your team has done. I think this Mod... this BETA mod.. has done a LOT for CIV IV.. err.. the term Total Conversion comes to mind... which is something that I never expected to use to describe any mod - because the effort is usually more than any group of individuals can handle.

Kudos.
 
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