How does your mod interact with the Wildlands map?  Do the Elemental Lords just rise up and slaughter everyone, since there's ten of them?

Sean what is the difference in the AIIntelligencefactor?

I understand that above 1.25 the AI is basically cheating, but how is that implemented in other way then the FOWcheat for example

I think it is the amount of processor time available, but if so why there isn't 10 for challenging and up. what happens if you place 100 instead of 10 or 1000000000?

Playing it on the Anthys map - which I don't think is affected by map settings.

So with Dense magic, I've found a total of 5 or 6 shards.    

I've been playing like 10 hrs, finally got a good base cleared out and have 5 thriving cities. 

Couple points:

On the Anythys map wildlands are weird, no definite borders and you can settle them immediately.    Mobs seem to roam a bit but stay generally at home.

What is the logic for monster spawns?  They seem to:

• Crank out spawns really quick - even 5k stacks of fire elementals
• Generally stay nearby, but will occasionally roam
• Rarely attack cities (even though I usually get nightwatch up quickly)
• Packs do seem to chase you for awhile then lose interest...
• IMO - and not sure if this is possible, pack creation time should vary with hp.  That 600 hp stack of wildlings should generate in X turns while that 5k stack of elementals should generate in 5X turns.    Which might already be the case, but if so X needs to be increased.
• Last night I opened up some map and there are wildlings STACKED on top of each other.  Like many many stacks of 4.   I've got a nasty archer guy, so its easy to kill them... but its boring and I doubt the AI can kill all 9 units in 3 turns - flurry, explosive, spread, something... who has maxed out his abilities and can't select anything else over lvl 20.   Its just boring to clear out so many mobs just for the sake of clearing.

Which brings up another point - why are champions so damn expensive?  3k for a level 5?  Are we paying for the whole army now?  Do we get the army or do they disappear like in vanilla.  I've never been able to save up enough to get one so this is the second game with only 2 champions.   I finally said screw it and took over two other civs just to force them to surrender and get 2 heroes.

Bugs:

that 5k elemental stack from the caldera spawn - in tactical combat, once it is their action they disappear from the map and turns take forever.   Seems to help if I zoom way in and out and move all over the map...real annoying though.

Started anthys map with 14 civs... all diff with a bunch of custom.  7 of them turned into Altar, with 1 lord relias and a bunch of my randoms. not sure it affected much, but weird.

The main point - once I can handle any of these bigger spawns its pretty lackluster.  by this time there are so many stacks to clear its a bit monotonous and while i can barely clear a 5k elemental stack - the AI has NO chance.   So I could knock the AI off pretty quickly if I wanted.   I have yet to try a wildlands boss though... will do that shortly.

For some reason, i cannot build the sacrificial altar. I did build the shrine, and the sacrificial altar is the only building left to build, but if i click on build, nothing happens.. Oh, and i think it would be great for newcomers who didn't read the whole thread to add the units pack to the first post - the AI survives a lot better now due to your custom units now. Thank you for the great mod !

I do want to add to my above post.   I broke my game somehow and decided to re-install.   Set up the mod manager and I'm now playing stormwind or stormworld...the other big one (mod manager is slick...).   Anyway, I really miss a lot of the smaller changes - changes to enchantments, changes to custom sovereign jobs and abilities (supreme commander is awesome, +1 move rocks), town upgrades and buildings.   Miss the Unit abilities as well

In hindsight (and I'll check after I play SW for awhile) I think it might be fun to re-play and just mess around with the spawn rates and mob HP.  Had a good time with it, but there was definitely that tipping point that I think was brought up in the dynamic difficulty post.

btw, stinking mud?  is necessary, but very overpowered.  Frequently was the only way to win a lot of the battles without taking a ton of damage.

I prefer Sean's as a standalone, he has changed so many of the game features that melding it with someone else's would be very hard.

I would love to see sean's cutthroat balancing techniques applied to Stormworld's content.

Great mechanics + great content = greatest mod ever!

Personally I don't think it's a problem. When you have played this mod for awhile you know which mobs to kill before they get out of hand. However, you should take a look at bear-camps they become very hard to kill super fast.

If you start the battle then auto-resolve you usually get better results than just using auto-resolve, except when spellcasters are involved, then you should auto-resolve no matter what heh.

Are you working on a release Sean or are you happy with how it is now?

Hey guys I was hoping to get some help on the installation of ME.  This is my first mod i've installed for FE so I'm kind of a noob.

I followed the instructions in the installation doc to the letter, basically extracting all the files into the FE directory.  

But when I start a new game its the same old factions and no indication the mod is running.  I have the mods box checked in options.

I've also tried using FE Mod manager to try and install it but it wont' detect it.  But I realize that is two separate issues. 

Any advice/help would be appreciated on what I could be doing wrong.

Thanks,

Note that it has to go into the subfolder \english  -> FallenEnchantress/Data/English  if you open that up you'll see the appropriate subfolders as well.   It replaces existing game files so make a copy of the \english folder.

One thing I could do is set up each type of monster as its own faction so that they would be at war with each other. My previous post was meant to ask for ideas. I might have gotten the tone wrong.

NP, that's one of the reasons I was asking about the overall logic - i.e. are they generally supposed to stay close to home/lair? 

If so, that would work relatively well and would actually be AWESOME in terms of gameplay.  Not sure how many monster types there are/level of effort but it would add a great sense of immersion rather than see 20 groups of wildlings bumped up to a dragon.  I'd have to say the dragon would get hungry eventually...

I'm also not sure of what the logic is that makes them break out of their radius (if there is any).   I think it would be awseome to watch critter A enroach into critter B's territory and either eat or be eaten by critter B.   Then depending on the proximity of critter A's buddies, maybe critter B chases critter A2 and gets eaten by A2,3,4...    and the circle of life is complete.

Then if you also have lairs evolving - the small fry get eaten off, the larger ones survive (to an extent). 

I believe the proper protocol has been to uninstall all mods before upgrading to a new version, and then re-installing mods (if they are good to go with new game version.)