New to EL, I'll make these questions very short

1. Is there a way to tell in the UI somewhere if I have already pacified a minor faction or not? (In my current game, in a region I have not colonized, I think I already pacified the birdfolk, but I'm not sure and can't figure out how to tell)

2. Am I understanding correctly that each faction only has 3 units / unit types? (Just seems really underwhelming. I know you can build units of minor factions once assimilated...)

3. I can build a resource extractor I have researched anywhere in a region I have colonized (not just within my city hexes) right? 

4. If I build my city near what appears to be a border of a "region", then I cannot exploit the tiles on the other side of the border, right?

5. "Anomolies" are only interesting inasmuch as you can put a city hex on them, right? (You cannot exploit them otherwise.) But you can only have one city per region, right? So if you have fabulous-seeming anomolies on opposite sides of a region, that means either you grow your city across the whole thing or ignore some, right?

6. Do height-differences impede exploitation if I colonize an area near a raised area?

thanks much in advance

2. You can also unlock Scythers, they are pretty dope. You have to cmplete Wings of Ruin quest for that. If I'm not mistaken, it is added by Guardians DLC.

Hey thanks tons! Very helpful.

I'm used to there being many tiers of units with a choice of 6-10 or so (or more for example in total war Warhammer..). The 3 confused me at first 

In the F1 empire screen I can see which factions are assimilated, but there is no mention of *pacified* factions. I suppose it's just a matter of sifting through old quests, not that much of a hassle...

Empire screen Minor factions can be in two states: pacified (ready for assimilation)  and assimilated.

Thanks, I see now that you can click on an already assimilated faction in the f1 screen and then be able to see other potential candidates for assimilation. Apparently, the limit is 1.

I suppose I meant: *pacified* factions in *neutral* territory, since those you cannot see. When first starting out, I was bombarded with about 6 quests for pacfiying the various factions, and I could no longer remember which were already pacified and which not, since no screen gives you information about that (*unless* I suppose you have a colony in that region).

One more question: Do terrain- specific boni from capacities (example: Forest Rage) apply from a strategic- or a tactical-map standpoint? In other words, do I need to care about having my army of many units within a forest hex on the strategic world map when a battle is initiated (so that they keep the bonus "forest rage" for the entire battle), or do I need to position those units onto wooded hexes once the battle plays in the battle map (tactically)?

I think there are strategic map modifiers, like, related to visibility, if I remember correctly, but what you are asking is applied for tiles in battle. Units usually have decal with corresponding buff/debuff from tiles they stand on, like, forest/pine icon.

ok thanks, so one isolated forest tile wont help a largish army of wildfolk, I should try to make sure there are a few hexes around if I want to exploit my strengths....

Left mouse click on your army you like to attack with. Now keep pressing right mouse button, while hovering over the enemy army you like to attack.

While doing so, you can see the seize of the upcoming battlefield.

All of your and your enemies armies/garrisons within the hexes of the upcoming battlefield are able to take part in the battle - at least if they still have an action left.

Groo wrote:

Left mouse click on your army you like to attack with. Now keep pressing right mouse button, while hovering over the enemy army you like to attack.

While doing so, you can see the seize of the upcoming battlefield.

All of your and your enemies armies/garrisons within the hexes of the upcoming battlefield are able to take part in the battle - at least if they still have an action left.

thanks, that doesn't quite work for me however. (This actually causes me to move towards and attack that army when I let go of the mouse button.)

I was curious to know how an enemy militia from another province can attack my units somewhere else, and up to which range.

Is there a way in fact to cancel movement a unit is going to make when accidentally selected?

While I was believing to move a unit, I was in fact moving some other (unseen, on the other side of the map) unit, for some reason I must have accidentally hit "space", causing that unit to set a 15-move course across the planet. I coudln't find a way of deselecting it or the faulty move order once selected, even by attempting to move the cursor to the map's most nofthern edge. am I missing the obvious?

Thanks much. That doesn't seem to work for me, I don't get any preview either. Maybe this is because you are using that ELCM, and I am waiting to finish my first playthru to install that?

One more question: Titanium and Glasssteel seem to become obsolete so much faster than I can use them. By the time I have unlocked the research to farm them, and *then* unlocked the research to build weapons or armor with them, I am basically on to the next level of iron gear, which is equal to the previous level of "special" gear. I am underwhelmed. Then Adamantium and Palladium are just SOOOO much better than any tier of glassteel or titanium, I can no longer find a use for the former, and selling it gives me tuppence. Endless Space 2 (the first game of these devs that I tried) seems to have balanced that much better in that you need the "earlier" techs to at least fund weapon *slots* on ships, unit creation seems far superior in ES2 than EL, I am quite surprised. Does the ELCM help balance the obsoletion of titanium and glasssteel at all? (I don't know much about the last two, hyperium and mithril, since I am just now researching the ability to harvest them.) 

onomastikon wrote:

Thanks much. That doesn't seem to work for me, I don't get any preview either. Maybe this is because you are using that ELCM, and I am waiting to finish my first playthru to install that?

No, it's in default game. You select an army with left-click. You point at the tile you want it to move to (if you do), you press and hold right mouse button (don't release it!), you move cursor towards nearby tile with an enemy button with RMB still pressed, like drawing a vector - battlefield preview shows up. Then you move mouse back to where your army standing and release the button - order clancelled.

One more question: Titanium and Glasssteel seem to become obsolete so much faster than I can use them. By the time I have unlocked the research to farm them, and *then* unlocked the research to build weapons or armor with them, I am basically on to the next level of iron gear, which is equal to the previous level of "special" gear. I am underwhelmed. Then Adamantium and Palladium are just SOOOO much better than any tier of glassteel or titanium, I can no longer find a use for the former, and selling it gives me tuppence. Endless Space 2 (the first game of these devs that I tried) seems to have balanced that much better in that you need the "earlier" techs to at least fund weapon *slots* on ships, unit creation seems far superior in ES2 than EL, I am quite surprised. Does the ELCM help balance the obsoletion of titanium and glasssteel at all? (I don't know much about the last two, hyperium and mithril, since I am just now researching the ability to harvest them.)

It has its uses, although window of opportunity can be short at times, so it's better to get them ASAP if you plan to benefit from it.

First of all, it still provides special effect to gear, unlike iron equipment. Next, Titanium and Glassteel are easier to obtain, then Adamantium and Palladium. Even if tier 1 is obsolete, researching it lowers resource cost for next tier of same resource type equipment. Laslty, there are unlockable Tier 3 Titanium and Glassteel equipment techs obtained through quests, and those are good for Era 4 and half-decent for Era 5.

Of course ES2 made some things better, it was made shortly after EL :)

In case of titanium and glassteel (armour tech) I'd recommend to check out the equipment for heroes, if used as governors. I.e. you have equipment what comes along with boosts for science and dust income per population. In case of weapon I usually don't make use of them - for the reason you wrote about. As Sublustris pointed out, the battlefield preview option is part of vanilla game.

Sublustris wrote:

onomastikon wrote:

Thanks much. That doesn't seem to work for me, I don't get any preview either. Maybe this is because you are using that ELCM, and I am waiting to finish my first playthru to install that?

No, it's in default game. You select an army with left-click. You point at the tile you want it to move to (if you do), you press and hold right mouse button (don't release it!), you move cursor towards nearby tile with an enemy button with RMB still pressed, like drawing a vector - battlefield preview shows up. Then you move mouse back to where your army standing and release the button - order clancelled.

Thanks much, honestly I can't get this to work. I select an army, and when I hold RMB my army already moves without me letting go. I do not see a battlefield preview :(

onomastikon wrote:

Thanks much. That doesn't seem to work for me, I don't get any preview either. Maybe this is because you are using that ELCM, and I am waiting to finish my first playthru to install that?

One more question: Titanium and Glasssteel seem to become obsolete so much faster than I can use them. By the time I have unlocked the research to farm them, and *then* unlocked the research to build weapons or armor with them, I am basically on to the next level of iron gear, which is equal to the previous level of "special" gear. I am underwhelmed. Then Adamantium and Palladium are just SOOOO much better than any tier of glassteel or titanium, I can no longer find a use for the former, and selling it gives me tuppence. Endless Space 2 (the first game of these devs that I tried) seems to have balanced that much better in that you need the "earlier" techs to at least fund weapon *slots* on ships, unit creation seems far superior in ES2 than EL, I am quite surprised. Does the ELCM help balance the obsoletion of titanium and glasssteel at all? (I don't know much about the last two, hyperium and mithril, since I am just now researching the ability to harvest them.) 

There is no ELCM. Only ELCP (the community patch) and ELCMT (the updated map modding tools for creating custom maps for ELCP). 

In general, you should almost never research Era1 strategic gear since - as you noted - its simply too weak and becomes obsolete quickly. ELCP buffs it considerably by merging both techs and buffing some stats/making it cheaper, however its still intended to be a rather niche choice. Its roughly on par with Era2 iron gear but way cheaper, so should mainly be used if you want to rush early on (era1/era2).

However there are also Era 2/Tier 2 Titanium/Glassteel techs, which remain useful a bit longer. This is especially true for the Armor tech, because the Accessories it unlocks are useful for Governors and Generals throughout the game. If you are very lucky you can also get Tier 3 Titantium/Glassteel techs, but those can only be gotten via quests or sometimes in ruins.

Note: Each Equipment tech reduces the resource cost of ALL equipment that uses the corresponding resource, so Era1 techs arent completely useless, as they also make Era2 Glassteel/Titanium equipment a bit cheaper.

Ok thanks and sorry for the false acronym. I liked the fact that in es2 the first two resources (blue and yellow) were always slightly useful for at least some purpose, I do see the governor accessories though. I was surprised at how even tier 3 iron makes blue and yellow obsolete in EL! 

onomastikon wrote:

Ok thanks and sorry for the false acronym. I liked the fact that in es2 the first two resources (blue and yellow) were always slightly useful for at least some purpose, I do see the governor accessories though. I was surprised at how even tier 3 iron makes blue and yellow obsolete in EL! 

Titanium and Glasssteel are useful for a lot of things (amongst them very important buildings even in era 5). As for equipmentr:; Accessories remain useful, and if you are lucky you get Tier 3 Equipment which can carry you into Era4 or 5. Also Vaulters benefit more fro  strategic Equipment due to holy resource mechanics.

HeliumPrime wrote:

There are many ways to acquire more strategic resources, some of these methods do not apply to Cultists and Mykara:

- Trading with other empires or purchasing from market

- Pillaging pacified villages and strategic extractors of other empires

- Make scouts or spec a ruin-searching hero with Movement 3 trinket and auto-explore them across the map to fetch ruins for you (and once all ruins are searched, research Endless Mechanisms in Era 4 to reset all ruins).

- Buying any boat to explore Sunken Ruins (I prefer Bathyspheres)

- Conquering ocean facilities

- Settling new cities directly on top of the strategic resource and then salting the city right before Empire Plan turn (settling on resources instantly builds the extractor if you unlocked the tech to extract it).

- Assimilating Silics

- Building Mining Rights building in city (Era 4 tech called Borer's Guild)

- Building Volcanic Leechers in cities that exploit at least 1 tile of Volcanic terrain (Era 5 tech)

- Building Strategic Intensifier (a district unlockable with pearls during and after the 3rd winter) directly on top of your preferred resource

Thanks.

Pillaging? I was wondering why I seem to only be able to siege and attack cities. How does one pillage? When searching for this topic, I came upon this wiki entry (https://endlesslegend.fandom.com/wiki/Pillage) which baffles me because I cannot see this tech. The only era 1 tech I have not researched is Search Party. I do not see this option anywhere. What am I missing? Does this require a specific DLC?

I am guessing that many of the other techs you mention require DLC since I also have never heard of them. I am currently only playing with Shifters, although I believe I do now own 1 or 2 other DLC

onomastikon wrote:

LeaderEnemyBoss wrote:

onomastikon wrote:

Ok thanks and sorry for the false acronym. I liked the fact that in es2 the first two resources (blue and yellow) were always slightly useful for at least some purpose, I do see the governor accessories though. I was surprised at how even tier 3 iron makes blue and yellow obsolete in EL! 

Titanium and Glasssteel are useful for a lot of things (amongst them very important buildings even in era 5). As for equipmentr:; Accessories remain useful, and if you are lucky you get Tier 3 Equipment which can carry you into Era4 or 5. Also Vaulters benefit more fro  strategic Equipment due to holy resource mechanics.

Thanks much. I'll try to be patient then. I'm already in Era 4 and adamantium seems to be just sooooo nice ;)

Ofcourse if you are ion era4 and have the necessdary resources to upgrade, go ahead and do that ;). You dont need to research every weapon tier, typically you should do it when you need it (i.e. planning for or expecting a war).

thanks much!

Would you mind clearing me up on pillaging? Is the wiki quiet on the fact the the tech for this is in a DLC or am I missing something again?

Ok I'll activate that the next game then thanks. I'll try that community patch as well.

Just to clarify, you need Shadows DLC and also research the Era 1 Pillage tech, and then you get the option to Pillage while beside outlying buildings.

You also get a hero trinket that lets you see the invisible Forgotten units before you get Watchtowers, can be handy.