Players and dedicated lurkers go away. I'll post the map this evening for balance feedback.

I am going for a Time Victory heh





Thanks xkcd!

Obligatory first post to clear out the other players.

If you've accidentally clicked through and you're still alive or the game is still going then begone. Have a pretty picture for your trouble.

Baba Yetu, the theme song for Civ4, just won the grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists. It's the first track made for a video game that has ever been nominated or won a grammy Check out the link for a live performance of the song.

http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/109...ammy-award

[SIZE='7']Latest Version of Balance Mod[/SIZE]


Some Background:

I really enjoy FfH but sometimes the mod feels a bit cumbersome. I've played around with the idea of cutting some of the features/content and trying to repackage into a FfH-Lite, basically to streamline the mod. I figured before I started in on it in a serious manner to see what people thought were the weak links, what should or shouldn't be cut, especially with an eye to multi-player.

The Questions

So, if you're feeling charitable, answer these two questions for me please:

1. What one feature or characteristic of Fall from Heaven would you keep, and why?
   
2. What one feature or characteristic of Fall from Heaven would you cut, and why?
   

Well, I'm a full week late, but this adventure was such a blast that I felt I had to finish it off anyway. I started the game by immediately heading for Letum Frigis and my Aggressive trait; this turned out to be a waste, but no blue star for me!

Sadly, I can report the same AI weakness as everyone else; I fought Hunters all game, until I made it to Hyborem where I fought Manes, Warriors, Hellhounds, and eventually Diseased Corpses. Even there, by the time I got to him, his 150+ unit stacks ought to have been able to pounce on and destroy my champ/PoW stack, except that he never did attack, letting me just sit there, alternating between healing and XP-farming his Warriors. I ended up with 4 or 5 Mobility/Combat V/Drill IV/Blitz champs. Hyborem himself cowered in the back until I exposed a catapult which he pounced on alone, after which I just hit him with Ice Elementals until he crumpled. (Sadly, even Wilboman, with 99% odds to win, refused to attack - I didn't think he was smart enough to know fear ). Confusingly, I only killed Hyborem once; I thought he was supposed to respawn in the capital, but I never saw him again. Perhaps he was in such fear of being battered by sentient ice again that he deleted himself, returning to the plane of Hell.

My basic gameplan was to hurry for the PoW, while expanding; I used them as defense, cleaning up the various stacks of Hunters and Shamans and more Hunters that entered my lands. I teched onward until I got to Champions, at which point the game was over (I just had to kill another 300ish units at 99% odds). I supported my champs with the PoW, mostly for healing and disease removal, and with adepts and mages for Enchanted Blade, Ice Elementals and Slow, and eventually Rust.

The Sheaim were the only civ that displayed any intelligence at all, building Rosier and masses of Skeleton-summoning Adepts - a strategy that made me quite nervous until I made it to the PoW and axes.

I kept every city I took, until the very end. I used the Priests to Inquisition the Veil away, and built Temples of the Hand everywhere, which was sufficient to bridge all the Flames with ice.

Sadly, I won before I finished off Hyborem, not paying enough attention to the Domination limit. But hey, since I was late anyway, I figured I might as well push the limits there, too; 'Just one more turn' gave me the chance to burn down the Infernals once and for all. I never did make it to High Priests of Winter, but I didn't need to.



Thanks, Bob, for an excellent adventure. I look forward to the next one, and I promise I'll start it earlier

I just had an idea for a future PBEM/pitboss game setup: in addition to drafting leader/civ, you draft your starting resources.

There would be a list of resources that are available. E.g. lake fish, grassland hill gems, lakeside wheat, 2x Flood plains, plains marble under capital, 2x coast clams + 2 more coast, forested grass deer...

There are enough of these that everyone can get 3 and there are still some (e.g. 2-3) left over. Pick order then goes
1 ... n, n ... 1, 1 ... n, n ... 1, n ... 1

You can pick your leader first, or your civ, or one of your 3 resources...

The rest of everyone' capital tiles would be a normalish mix of grass/plains, flatland/hills, with about 50% river tiles.

I'm not sure where to put such request so I begin a new thread.

I'm trying to modify MoM a little and try to change the name of the normal units like spearmen, swordsmen and others. So I ran into a trouble: after studying the documentation for the modification of the MoM I tried to replace the name of the bowmen to the Rangers by replacing the original "pointer", which refers to the line, "Bowmen" in wizards.exe, a value that leads to the line "Rangers", and then checked the changes in the game. Instead of the name "Rangers" here was an empty line (like "Gnoll ")
To calculate the value of "pointer", I used the formula: the address of the string "Rangers" - the address of the 1st byte of unit, then swap the values like in ILSe wizards.txt file and insert it into unit data.
When I studied the structure of Aureus' MoM 2.00 I find that he insert names of new units into the text block in the wizard.exe by replacing the text, which became unnecessary in his patch (like Cloak of Fear as a spell on the artifacts). And in MoM 1.31 wizards.exe I found an empty bytes starting at 30DB7.
Here is my question: can I insert new text in this empty bytes and add "pointer", which will lead to this location to the normal units? And if it's possible - how can I calculate the values of the new "pointers"?
I would be very grateful if anyone knows help me

Just a quick post to show that over on CFC the next SGOTM is in the works and i dont know if anyone is intrested in partisipating (our last attempt in SGOTM 12 wasnt brilliant.)

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=410564]

Initial game statement & info: