Master of Magic - Implode's Multiplayer Edition

Chaos Channels is a mess in the original MoM, regarding whether Chaos Channeled units are considered "Normal" units, "Chaos" units or something else. e.g. you can cast Flame Blade on Chaos Channeled units overland, but not in combat. Flame Blade says it only works on "normal...

I could compile a list of bugs / features and email it to you if you're too busy to check out the FAQ in its entirety I've had a breeze through it... through the VERY LONG bug list, most of it by DP. My take on it is some things are obvious bugs, but many things he's listed as bugs are just that he...

thought it hovered over the buildings? I read some mentions about that in the FAQ too after I posted my question. The city I tried casting it on didn't have any shrines, etc. so that would explain it. I'm just going to make the demon head appear once in the corner... it'd be a lot of faffing about ...

I've been experimenting with City Curse spells in the original MoM so I can write them into MoM IME. I've found that Famine & Cursed Lands change the colour of the land on the city screen (making it brown and icky-looking), but Evil Presence & Pestilence have no visible appearance? You can o...

Some suggestions :) 1) Don't bother with settlers, at least until you've taken over all neutral cities on your island. On Impossible, the AI (both enemy wizards and neutral cities) gets such ridiculous unfair production/growth bonuses, you're better off letting them built up cities for you and takin...

Funny how things work out. After I did sound effects for city enchantments (like the Dark Rituals chanting sound effect), I figured now would be a good time to do all the combat sound effects too. I did ranged attack sound effects first, and after the bit of work testing which type of attack makes w...

Chaos Channel/Doom Mastery on barbarians (you lose the thrown weapons) Well I just had to try it to prove it worked properly :D Chaos Channeled (Fire Breath) Barbarians in MoM IME Re: Dodgy movement skill combinations, I checked how I've got these defined in the MoM IME movement rules: 1) Water Wal...

I remember there being another bug, where you could cast combat only summons (phantom beast!) and then word of recall them out of the battle, they'd end up at your summoning circle, and viola! a permanent phantom beast (or fire elemental, etc) with no upkeep! Hah, hadn't thought of that, it sounds ...

Impossible. Hard is boring :)

Someone I've been emailing back and forth about MoM IME since the early days e-mail me recently with a 9,690, beating my personal best by 90 points so I'm gutted now I've no idea what game set up he used!

Implode.

I apologize in advance for bringing something up that might make more work for you No really, I'm glad you did... the point is I'm busy working away on MoM IME (fixing my broken PC at the moment actually!) and don't have too much time to be digging through FAQs and such unless there's something spe...

when comparing the spells of the different colors in the original MoM you must remember that a lot of the spells were very buggy - either they didn't work at all, or had hidden benefits, or even (death magic, I'm looking at YOU) worked in REVERSE in my humble opinion, perhaps it's best to make all ...

I've fixed this in 0.8.9, although that won't be available for at least another month. It now stores all path-related settings in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE so they work for all users, and user-specific settings such as the name last used and chosen language under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Probably means you'll ne...

First bunch of screenshots are up.

Seeing the proper city enchantment animations like when casting Dark Rituals is very cool :) It felt like something was really missing without these!

Implode.

Well... one of the big reasons I abandoned work on another game project is because it wasn't a rewrite of an existing game, so I had to draw every single bit of graphics by hand, which had two effects: 1) it looked reasonable... but it looked say nowhere near as good as MoM, and 2) I was spending ag...

Yeah, I had a few problems with the french XML file, but only what I was expecting. e.g. the retort names have accents in them, and they're used as the title of various help text pages, so that font didn't include accents so crashed (you probably tried running it yourself and found that too)... and ...