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i think lowering the ground under his buildings is better than raising it, because the guy inside drowns to death after the building goes away
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the flood spell is really useful. just create a leader, and then mass all of your followers to it. then when its like 20-30k, use flood, save your leader, and a few followers, and build a land bridge to the few weak enemies.
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Dubonjierugi: remember that the building score is not a counter - bigger buildings are worth more than smaller ones... this means you can get a feel for if you're really ahead or behind from it. I did start off with unlimited population but most player's PCs just can't cope with that!
axlkoegoskyeg: yep building fast is crucial, but in the higher levels it's also important to choose which direction you are going to expand first based on the map... you get less mana so it's easy to run out if you just try to flatten everything.
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@enkuro - the AI doesn't cheat, so if your hero can't see the enemy guy then he'll wander around looking for him. In this situation, use the mini-map to find where the enemy is, then go over there and nuke him... or call armageddon... or make more heroes to increase the chance of one of them finding him... or drown him. Quite a few options!
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@Lockstep80 - the achievements work slightly differently to most games, this system uses 'achievement goals'. You are offered *one* goal per level (big flying thing at the start), if you succeed then you get that achievement and the reward that comes with it for the rest of the game. So on level 1 if you cast ThunderStaff x10 you get the Thunder-God achievement and your ThunderStaff spell will cost 5% less mana for the rest of the game.
The flying thing can be clicked to get a description of what each goal entails.
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RedSnowman - I think you missed some controls. You can lower land to the sea (and drown the opponents) using any of: mouse wheel, SHIFT/CTRL, PgUp/PgDn, Q/E or R/F. The single click 'smart' land alteration is there as a convenience for those on laptops, I prefer not to use it. You do get more time to play god when you get to higher levels (provided the AI doesn't steam-roller you).
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I've found the 'dancing around' bug and fixed it. The reason you couldn't cast at the end is because mana is based off buildings, and all your buildings vanished! - I've coded a fixed limit, but if you cast Armageddon (cost 1000) when you only have 1100 mana, you'll still end up with only 100 mana to play with.
*Apologies* to everyone with saved games... they're going to wipe with this update. I've modified the way it saves games so that will not happen with any future changes! v1.07k uploaded now.
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I'm waiting for Welsh-God-Game. Like Aztec-God-Game, but you have to make the land Hilly for them to live in instead of flat.
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Awesome game but a few remarks: I'm using google chrome on windows 7 and the game starts lagging more for each new level I start, refresh solves the problem (memory leak?). During lag, I started gathering but it glitched so I had a 100k guy running around after 4 minutes, funny that he kills any building in 1 hit. It's almost impossible to find the level with a missing achievement (or are the achievements random?). clicking the world map is tedious, a smaller version of a minimap that is always visible would be a lot better. Still giving it a 5/5 =D
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A Reventing of a Old Classic. Tweak the Gameplay, add a faster Mana Regen at least.. get some lag control and make it easier to understand the basic goals. ._o lol And its a GOOD re-vamp of my old fav pop. :D
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WHY DO PEOPLE ASK FOR BADGES THE ONLY WAY TO GET BADGES IS FOR THE GAME TO BE RATED 4.25/5 SO IF YOU WANT BADGES ASK PEOPLE TO RATE 5/5
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I must admit that i find this game quite boring and uninteresting, it doesn't make me feel godlike at all. The tactics seems very limited too, pretty much all you can do that's worth anything is to raise/lower their land, since you have no control over your followers, besides their four settings.
Also, the graphics are boring as hell to look at, not unique in any way and overall quite bad.
(I did not play more than one and a half levels of this game, so i might have missed out on something later on, but the start was simply so bad that i lost all interest before coming that long. Feel free not to listen to me if you don't agree with me.)
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What an awesome game. Populus was the first game i ever played on super nintendo when it came out. You have ectaully made the land section part of the game (raising/Lowering) even better controlled then the original. YOu have done a great job, 5/5. I do ask for a mini map though. Game needs badges! thumbs up!
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I don't understand how "achievements goals" work... Do they last forever once completed or is it only for the rest of the current level?
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i love this i have never played poulous but it sound like a good game i recommend 3 things more then two armys and u can make it a free for all or team battle and bigger maps and online multiplayer
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I only played the game for about 20 minutes, but it was enough for me... loved populous and you did well... it's just a shame all these people are groaning about features that are in the game already!
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Anyone else having troubles getting the achievement from the third level in the easy campaign - Swamp Touch - Cast Swamp 3 times.
I've cast Swamp around 20 times by now in that level and I still haven't got it.
Other than that, great game ^^