It's only a small quest one though.

ELCP doesnt disable achievements, however having moddingtools enabled (cheat mode) does, so dont do that. Everything else would require a more thorough investigation with a savegame where the issue is reproducable and with a clear description how to reproduce the issue (!). I do not understand your second question as I dont think there is a profile page in EL.

Oh I totally forgot: Certain handicap settings also disable achievements (read the tooltip!).

LeaderEnemyBoss wrote:

Oh I totally forgot: Certain handicap settings also disable achievements (read the tooltip!).

Howdies & thanks for that handicap info. I launched new campaign after i uninstalled this & then achievs worked. I didn't configure anything for this comm. patch when i installed so guess those achievs disabling handicap settings were enabled by default since they didn't then. Question: Where i configure these handicap settings ? Is it on mainpage of Endless Legend ? I recall that there's box labeled as "Mods settings" or close to that so maybe there can config.  those handicap settings. Thanks for your time & this amazing work o/ Wish you good February :)

Kindly: Fedaygin

Handicaps are not enabled by default and you configure them where you chose your color, faction etc.

LeaderEnemyBoss wrote:

Handicaps are not enabled by default and you configure them where you chose your color, faction etc.

Okey. Well then gotta check that tooltip section (as you mentioned lil above) with care to see which setting(s) disable them. Hope not too many cause then no good if can't adjust adventure enough to own liking. Will see & if too many then i just start to use this comm. patch after got achis with default client. Thanks, sharing good word about this patch. Take care :) Kindly: Fedaygin

Fedaygin wrote:

LeaderEnemyBoss wrote:

Handicaps are not enabled by default and you configure them where you chose your color, faction etc.

Okey. Well then gotta check that tooltip section (as you mentioned lil above) with care to see which setting(s) disable them. Hope not too many cause then no good if can't adjust adventure enough to own liking. Will see & if too many then i just start to use this comm. patch after got achis with default client. Thanks, sharing good word about this patch. Take care :) Kindly: Fedaygin

It is basically on when you give them handicaps to their disadvantage that you disable the achievements. So if you set a "handicap" of +15 FIDS bonus...your achievements are fine. If you set one to -10% FIDS bonus...then you don't get achievements. If you leave the handicap setting at default which is 0% bonus...you also are safe with your achievements.

Thanks for all your work on this!

I've been playing vanilla Endless Legend for at least a decade. I make no claim of expertise despite 366 hours of play.

It was too easy on Easy mode and challenging on Normal. I decided to download and install your patch. The results were not encouraging.

Yes, you've made the AI smarter, so much so that now the only way I can win on Easy mode is as part of an alliance, usually the weak one. I'll append some typical results below.

Two other problems appeared in my two patched games:

1. I often get an offer to trade where I'd like to make a counter, but (invisibly to me) there's a second offer behind the first one; when I try to counter, the first offer goes away.

2. Broken Lords are offering way over the market price for resources. Since I don't carry the prices around in my head, I need to push the button to counter so I can see what improvement is available. In the case of Broken Lords offers, the only choice I have is to pay a lot more for the same merchandise.

I hope these observations are helpful!

Science victory as Wild Walkers before patch:

Allied victory after patch in which I'm WAY outmatched:

Anan wrote:

Thanks for all your work on this!

I've been playing vanilla Endless Legend for at least a decade. I make no claim of expertise despite 366 hours of play.

It was too easy on Easy mode and challenging on Normal. I decided to download and install your patch. The results were not encouraging.

Yes, you've made the AI smarter, so much so that now the only way I can win on Easy mode is as part of an alliance, usually the weak one. I'll append some typical results below.

Two other problems appeared in my two patched games:

1. I often get an offer to trade where I'd like to make a counter, but (invisibly to me) there's a second offer behind the first one; when I try to counter, the first offer goes away.

2. Broken Lords are offering way over the market price for resources. Since I don't carry the prices around in my head, I need to push the button to counter so I can see what improvement is available. In the case of Broken Lords offers, the only choice I have is to pay a lot more for the same merchandise.

I hope these observations are helpful!

Science victory as Wild Walkers before patch:

Allied victory after patch in which I'm WAY outmatched:

You found it challenging on Vanilla Normal? Really?

On that level there is so much that the AI did not do. With the ELCP patch they finally can do basically everything that you can do.

I now play normal with the +15% or +20% bonus in the handicap section. Essentially though, lean into what your race is good at and seek alliances early.

Well there is a reason why I recommend to turn down the difficulty when switching to ELCP ;). The AI is better at using its resources (amongs many many other things). As for all other issues: as a general policy I only investigate bugs (or weird AI behaviour) when I get sent savegames where the issue is reproducable (with instructions on how to reproduce the issue if necessary).

Finally most of this is going to be in the core game.Now get working on ES2. :)

No, not at all. The upcoming official patch will integrate a bunch of my bugfixes to the basegame, nothing else. AI, features, balance etc. will stay as it is. As for ES2: probably wont happen, EL was fun, but I cant afford to put that much time into hobby projects anymore, at least not for now. 

That seems nuts.

Maybe weak A.I is by design to not scare off casuals and game site reviewers.

1. You're right I didn't know the era 3 luxury extractor tech did that. Thanks

2. I'm using vanilla and didn't siege, so that must be why. Strange mechanic.

I've thought about playing against serious AI and giving them a large buff to FIDS to keep achievements enabled. It seems there's a large gap in power level between serious and impossible AI and I've yet to experiment with how much of a buff they would need to be comparable to impossible -15%.