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It's interesting but the cost of spells is too high to make them really worth using much. By the time you can afford to use a Hero, you've been able to win the game for several minutes just by clicking "Look for fight".
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Agreed on the Fire Hero level being a very sharp and abrupt increase in difficulty over the previous levels which were so easy that they gave very little opportunity to learn skills to deal with this kind of difficulty. The first eighteen levels you could virtually get through by flattening all the land within sight of your people and doing little else. That difficulty increase combined with the outdated controls makes for a more frustrating experience. Populous was a very good game for its time, but this imitation inherits some of the more awkward control and interface elements. Things like the lack of zooming, awkward isometric controls, and so on.
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I missed the part in the tutorial where it said you need flat ground to build things, so I spent like half an hour trying lvl three and failing. For everyone trying to get the botd: WHEN YOU FLATTEN GROUND, YOUR CITY GETS BIGGER. When you have a big city it automatically makes soldiers.
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1) Build flat. 2) Avoid attack until you reach population limit. 3) Once you get Wave totem build high as possible then spam it once you have a good mana recharge - the AI never builds high. 4) Swamp is VERY effective, and Whirlpool is great in the early levels.
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Villager: "Oh, exalted leader! Thanks to your divine power of terraforming, we have a giant village full of several houses!" Leader: "Right, destroy the village, we're building a castle instead."
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Step 1: Pick a hieght and make it your ONLY height. Step 2: Cut all bridges leading to your island (if it involves on big island just skip this). Step 3: See where your guys build and amplify that construction. Step 4: Check on the mofo's, they probably at war or something. Step 5: Repeat 1 to 4 until nowhere else to go but enemy territory. Step 6: Choose "Pick a fight". Step 7: Profit.
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For a game about leveling land as fast as you can, the tool seems inadequate. For easy victory in the last few levels, use water storm.
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Just to thank very one for their feedback and playing Reprisal. I didn't think my first game would do so well so that's been great, really chuffed. Will be releasing tweaks soon.
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The last few levels can be easily beaten by simply terraforming to a high elevation, holding down the fort until you reach 500 Mana, then using Water Storm to sweep away the competition. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
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Great game, some things that would make it even better; 1) A fast forward button. 2) Allowing our cursor to affect more than one tile at a time, it gets kinda tedious when you want to make a huge base, leveling each piece of ground one at a time. 3) Some way to rotate the camera or move it
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Little known fact: the only thing stopping primitive civilizations from becoming sprawling empires was very small hills.
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Pro tip: In the options menu change the mode from "Artistic" to "Basic" This will make everything easier to see and all in all make the game more enjoyable.
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Not sure if this is a bug, but at some point my people just refuse to build more houses. I have vast swathes of open land around them, and they just wander over it even tho' my "colonize" button is clicked.
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Never mind about the glare. You can switch the graphics mode in the options. I'm glad I tried it; it runs more smoothly and is easier to see.
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I've noticed that the shoddy AI for the warriors is part of the difficulty - getting them to do what you want requires cleverness, and I understand that this adds to the game - but when they eschew battling the enemies less than a screen away to go after enemies far further off that aren't even connected by a landbridge, I think their decision-making and pathfinding might need some work.
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Very nice. Altough there could be a key combination for raising/lowering a whole area of terrain, instead of just having to click at each grid individually.
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Really enjoyed the game but terraforming is too OP! I just finished any level by terraforming into massive empires and overruning everyone
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Does your hero get stronger the longer you rally troops, because when you rally them the first one turns into a leader and the others just dissepear when arriving...
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am I doing it wrong? Because every single level has been cleared by terraforming massive flat areas and generating a huge army of knights. I don't use any skills other than terraform.
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How about something that describes what each totem does exactly? I find that some aren't really explained untill you try them...
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My hand is killing me... but it's my fault. On every level I choose to ignore the objectives and level all the land around my people until they accidentally win for me.
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Pardon the language... but holy shit. This reminds me of solstice. The music, the gameplay... wow, this brings back memories. Great game in my opinion
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armaggedon is the most bizarre thing I ever seen in a game.... please explain us WHAT the hell out is happening when you use it!?!
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I'm sad now... Whirlpool cost 200 instead of 100... I loved using that to sabotage the enemy at the start of the game... (>;-;)>@