edit: wrong thread

Do we still need to avoid the undead?

edit - In game I mean... of course zombie apocolypse in RL.. I will avoid zombie, skeletons and all manner of undead.  

Thanks for updating _that_ fast after vanilla1.02 came out  

Also welcome to jshores !

Any chance of a demonic faction? After all you have angels.

I downloaded your mod and am trying it out.  Some of my notes so far.

Initial Thoughts:

1.  I picked Stormlord simply because the mod was labelled Stormlord. Great history and immersion for the Drota. Looks very cool on the map.

Things I really liked:

1.  Factions are denied certain things, like cannot pursue X path. No horses and movement 2 is a major disadvantage for the Drota.

2.  Unique hero bonuses.  My starting hero was Okraxar, a skeleton champion with research bonuses.  However I did find it odd that he also had the Administrator trait, given his own personal history and the fact that skeletons cannot become Governors. Loremaster would have been more thematic I would think?

3.  Killing beasts is extremely easy with Hunter + Hunter Shortsword.  This gives Stormlord a significant early boost.

4.  New quest - Artifact hunt.  Neat!  And when I try to complete it there are various options for negotiation and magic use.  I wish I knew what each option would lead to, just for fun, but only two of them were available to me due to my race.

5.  Wow new traits!  Jumpy ahhahaha oh it made me laugh

6.  New items, I found 'Memory' pretty early on.  The history of this item was neat to read.  The next unique item I found was an 'Essence Binder', also very cool.  Unfortunately the Essence Binder doesn't seem to work - when killing Air Shrills it didn't do anything =\  This was a big downer, since it looked so interesting.

Things I thought were wierd:

1.  Highlighting the 'Hunter' trait gives a really wierd mouseover description.

2.  I was suprised when a spider webbed me and it worked.  I guess was expecting it to fail.

???

1.  Are the city names specific to each faction, or just randomly generated? I pressed Control-N a few times to find a good spot to start and ended up with a 5/3/2 w forest, earth shard and a grain tile.  This is a monumentally good spot.  Did you adjust the stamps at all for better spawns, or was this just luck?  I also found more settleable areas very close by, which is pretty rare in my experience.

2.  I ended up with three magical 'Books' in the Magic research tree, Frost Stones and Winds.  It is normally pretty rare to see that many.  Modded?

Typos:

Reading Drota history in the select a faction / leader screen, the 3rd and 2nd to last two sentences are semi-redundant, both talk about 'a new species'.

Bug in 1.5i.

In the farmers killed by greenskin quest you get at an inn, one of the group of enemies is named 'Test'.

Heavenfall, any idea if the "New Umber" mod on wincustomize is SW compatible? it looks like it might need the same treatment as "female henchmen" for the units...

d'oh! I had been trying it out and it seemed to work.. too bad, I really liked it  

Pollaxe of the Executioner should be Poleaxe.

1. Got any suggestions? I don't want to use an .exe.

2. My reasoning is there are already 6 human factions in the vanilla game. I don't feel the need to add another one.

3. Thanks, I'll add that.

4. Yes, endless alone should give you an extra point to spend.

5. I've thought about doing that actually. But I think their bonuses and weaknesses roughly match up. A huge bonus they have is that all elves gain +33% to direct fire/cold/lightning/arcane attack. That's one of the strongest bloodline bonuses in the mod. I think I will add more AI unit designs to boost their performance.

oIf I may add to these suggestions:  

I think Win does support .zip-files naturally (at least starting with Vista). Perhaps thats a solution if making an install-.exe is out of the question ?

Personally I'd doubt that it would ease the installation process for "non-advanced"users though - if you look at it from that perspective, then installing a mod in FE (sadly) is quite complicated, simply b/c you need to move files manually to the non-standard installation directory of the game. 

So in general I think if ppl can do that they should be able to handle winRar or 7zip easily, too. If you'd really want to cater to ppl not even being able to use an Unzip-program, I'd say making an Executable (with checkboxes to decide which parts of the mods should be installed) is the way to go =/

Playing Stormworld since 0.7, but due to a break I just recently started again and I experienced the same situation I think: 

When starting "anew" I was looking for some faction/race that I was comfortable with from the vanilla game - I ended up testing the elves first b/c they seemed to be the faction that is closest to the vanilla factions and thus like a good starting point".

So in general I think it might be a help to new players to find such a faction (in case you aren't strictly against making/implementing a human faction @HF) or at least to find a hint in the races descriptions that a new player should probably start with this faction. Something like "If you are new to Stormworld it might be a good starting point to play this faction/the centaurs/elves/whatever")

Kinda just to help ppl to familiarize themselves / get over that "omg, everything is different!!!"-anxiety" 

Thanks for pointing that out , never read that tooltip in game 

If a player wants to play a human faction, just use the standard ones. I'm not going to put another human faction in the game, it's a waste of time because it adds nothing.

I don't want there to be a starting faction. The fact that you mention centaurs and elves only point out to me that those aren't unique enough yet.

They're playing the same game, just different fluff and some graphics.

Collar of Firebreathing has a insane 4million cooldown. I understand what the description says, but I think it is sufficient to say 30 turns or something.