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by saxxonpike
Sun May 04, 2008 10:05 am
Forum: General - Original MoM
Topic: Evening the strength of the 5 realms of magic
Replies: 51
Views: 112499

Virm wrote:Edit: I will, however admit that this spell seems far more effective in the computer's hands, dropping anything I leave on the ground like flies.
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Strangely, they seem to have a better chance of a successful cast than I do...
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:54 pm
Forum: General - Original MoM
Topic: Starting strategies
Replies: 3
Views: 14177

Starting strategies

I didn't see a thread about this in this forum yet, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I've been playing Master of Magic for quite a few years now, ever since I got it back in 1995. (Even the dreaded move to Windows XP couldn't stop me - I bought an old Pentium 3 rig off someone and made it into an ol...
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:37 pm
Forum: High scores
Topic: 10656
Replies: 2
Views: 13588

I've read that Famine has no effect on computer players since they cheat so massively in the food department. I used the little MoM shell to find this out when I decided to take a look at how the enemy wizards played. I think near the end of the game one of them was down 130+ food.
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:24 am
Forum: Files and formats
Topic: Saved Game Format
Replies: 6
Views: 17886

Okay, I'll probably just have to find it out again. I've found that the saved game format is really just a snapshot of the game's RAM at that point (minus the actual program/media data) and understanding the saved game format might help to understand why MoM does some things the way it does.
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:21 am
Forum: Bug reports and ideas for enhancements
Topic: Button Options suggestion
Replies: 2
Views: 12684

Ah yeah, never thought about it that way. You could always make it a slider instead, then. Speaking of sliders... the way you've implemented them in the options menu for sound/music level (which seems to have no effect right now, by the way) and the ones in the Magic menu is very odd. They don't rea...
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:17 am
Forum: Bug reports and ideas for enhancements
Topic: Button Options suggestion
Replies: 2
Views: 12684

Button Options suggestion

For buttons you left-click on to increment the value, think you could make it so right-clicking decreases this value? For example, human player count, etc.
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:31 am
Forum: General - Original MoM
Topic: Armageddon
Replies: 3
Views: 13944

Armageddon

I didn't find this out until just now, but apparently the chaos spell Armageddon also affects the unrest of everyone's cities. They should document these effects... Edit: Huh, returning back to this it appears there was a set of manual corrections. But I own the 1.0 version of the game, so they must...
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:27 am
Forum: General - Original MoM
Topic: Evening the strength of the 5 realms of magic
Replies: 51
Views: 112499

I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned Crack's Call. It's stupidly, obscenely overpowered. I think personally, most modern games are way overbalanced. It's like the saying "I'm special, just like everyone else". Perhaps, however they don't want any such decision to be completely game-...
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:20 am
Forum: General - Original MoM
Topic: Worst start position ever
Replies: 3
Views: 14154

Haha, this happened to an opponent in a recent game I had. That island doesn't even HAVE room for another city. :P
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:17 am
Forum: Game reports
Topic: I want a refund.
Replies: 0
Views: 22603

I want a refund.

I don't know how this happened, but I ended up with a 4 opponent game where 3 of them were on Arcanus with me and didn't conjure or create any sea or flying units, were located on small islands, and their starting cities weren't on the coast. The other guy was located on Myrror and for some stupid r...
by saxxonpike
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:11 am
Forum: Files and formats
Topic: Saved Game Format
Replies: 6
Views: 17886

Saved Game Format

I can't seem to find the saved game format anywhere online. I've seen it before (in a really nice HTML format at that) But it seems to have disappeared.
by saxxonpike
Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:15 am
Forum: General - MoM IME
Topic: Resizable windows
Replies: 1
Views: 5932

Resizable windows

I'm sure this may be far off, but how difficult is it to allow resizing of the game window? My screen's native resolution is 1280x1024, and as such you could imagine that the game screen is really tiny and difficult to read.
by saxxonpike
Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:08 am
Forum: General - MoM IME
Topic: 0.9.2 released
Replies: 3
Views: 8679

I just checked out the update today. It's an excellent remake! Time to test out the new features :)