Old Messages and News
| Wednesday, February 25, 1998
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Lawsuit against Sierra?
Check this out:
If you have purchased Lords Of Magic this message is for you. I law firm located in New Jersey is looking for information about this game and a possible law suit but they need our help.
I contacted a law firm that specializes in Class Action and explained in detail the problems I and other gamers are having with Lords Of Magic. This game should never have been sold as it is basically a beta version. The law firm needs to hear from those of us that bought the game and have had problems with the game not functioning as advertised. The law firm especially needs to hear from gamers that live in New Jersey so that they can file the suit in New Jersey. BUT they said any and all those that purchased the game need to come forward.
If you purchased the game and have had problems with it email me at the address below.
Sierra should be held responsible for putting out a game that wasn't even finished.
What a crock of BS. Who the hell would waste their time in a lawsuit because a game doesn't work right for them. I've never had problems. I've only had 3 crashes ever. It runs perfectly fine over my machine.
I saw this on the LOM Net Guide, and just had to post it. It's just so darn funny. :)
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Updates
I got the newest version of Filbert's editor, and now you can trade artifacts. I'm using this feature to get all the artifacts, I got most of them, but still have about 20 more to go. I should have them up by Saturday, possibly Friday. I put up a files page, where you can download the editor, but the newest version isn't up yet. I also have all the patches there.
A new feature that is coming to the page is a story. So far, I'm having Chezni write one about brownies. Those of you who have been reading the discussion forum have probably seen some of his comments about them. He's working on it and should have it to me in the next few days. I'd like to get some more, so if anyone feels like writing, go right ahead. They can be serious, funny, whatever you like. Please don't send anything about how much you think the game sucks, because I won't post it. I don't know how this will go, so we'll see.
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| Tuesday, February 24, 1998
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Updates
I got up lots more artifacts, 16 new ones in all. I'm still playing and trying to get some more.
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| Monday, February 23, 1998
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Updates
Well, since I finished up all the stats, I had some time to work on the page. I've fixed up the layout, took out a lot of empty space, and got rid of the imagemap. It's nice to have, and I think it looks better, but is just too hard to keep up when I'm adding new stuff. Also, I got up a new survey (finally).
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| Sunday, February 22, 1998
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Updates(later)
I'M FINISHED!!!! I got all the units stats, costs, etc. recorded and put into the pages. They are uploaded and ready for your viewing pleasure. Now what will I do with all this free time? I would chase Balkoth around, but I already got him, and the game didn't end, so I guess not. I have researched all spells from all faiths, maxed out the newly trained units, and taken over every faith in the game in a little less than 450 turns. I'd say I'm kicking some serious butt. It helps when you are gathering info to be in complete control of the entire world. I don't think there are any renegades either.
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| Sunday, February 22, 1998
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| Friday, February 20, 1998
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Updates
I've got almost ALL of the unit stats done. I've got a few more death, fire, and earth to go. Then I've got to code them all into the pages, then check them all to make sure they work right. Ugghh. This will be a chore. Oh well, I do hope someone is finding some use out of these. I'd hate to think this is all for naught.
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| Wenesday, February 18, 1998
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Good News/ Bad News
Good news on the next version of LOM. It should fix all of the known bugs, improve AI, give out some new maps, improve thieves altogether, move cities in the editor (guaranteed), some spells should work better, and keep going after Balkoth is dead. It may be some more time until this newest patch is out, though.
I got up all of the air units and most of the water units. I'm working on life and order. When those are finished, I'll be just about done.
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| Wenesday, February 18, 1998
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LOM Editor
I uploaded a LOM file editor today. I'll get up a files page with a good description for it soon. Download it here. You can show the map, change the faith of a unit, add hit points, add resources, and edit your cities levels and followers. It really works well, try it out.
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| Tuesday, February 17, 1998
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Updates
Nothing new really, but I did get a good tip today. I'm not sure if it will always work or if it was just a coincidence, but I was told that if you delete the temp files in your windows\temp directory, then restart LOM, it will solve the problem of disappearing units pictures. This worked for at least 1 person, has anyone else seen any effects of this?
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| Monday, February 16, 1998
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Updates
No school today, so I had some time to play LOM. Actually, I spent a lot of time playing. I got a bunch more air units up, all I need is a little more experience to confer the fairy thieves up to level 10. It's odd how I can train level 10 life thieves, get in at least 10-15 more battles to gain exp., and not be able to train level 10 air thieves. Same thing with the mages. I needed a bunch more exp. for them. I've already got order, life, and air fully upgraded. I didn't even think about getting stats when I was doing them. I'll finish earth, chaos, and water soon.
Anyways, I'm still running the same poll, mostly because I'm to lazy to change it or think up a new idea. Anyone with a good idea or something they would like to see, send it in. I may just use it. If not I'll work on that this week.
I've been having a lot of mail in the past few days from people asking for help with their problems. I hope I have been able to help you all. Anyone else with questions, feel free to ask.
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| Saturday, February 14, 1998
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Updates
Happy Valentine's Day! I got up lots of new hints on the hints page. That's it for today.
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| Thursday, February 12, 1998
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Updates
Alright, I got up the hints page and the bugs page. There isn't much on the bugs page, so send some in if you know of them. Send in hints I don't have too. The more the better. I'm thinking of making a general hints page and one for each faith, that way you can easily find stuff you need for your faith.
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Top 50 of all time
OGR has put up a Top 50 Games of All-Time. I won't give away who got #1. Notables: HOMM2, Might and Magic III, Diablo, MOO2, Myth, TA, Quake II, and War2(#16) in that order.
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Updates
Last night I got the hints page looking pretty good. I couldn't post it because my ISP shut down the server yesterday. I'll put it up later tonight when I get home. If anyone has any hints they would like to put up, go ahead and send them. I'll put them up for all to view.
I'm also making a bugs page. I started it, but my mind when blank. I know there are bugs, but for the life of me, I couldn't remember. Might have been because I had to write a 500 word story in Spanish - all in one night. That pretty much fried my brain for the night, now I've got a headache. :( Just for your information, I am somewhat bilingual, so any spanish-speaking LOM players can mail me. Just make it simple.
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| Tuesday, February 10, 1998
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Updates
New LOM site comes up: Lords of Magic: desecration. It's got some pretty good stuff, and some hints, which I haven't gotten to yet. I'll be working on that, and I'm helping someone with a LOM editor. It so far can show the map, edit resources, edit units, and edit cities.
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| Monday, February 9, 1998
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Updates
I stuck up my button and one for the LOM Net Guide on the left. If you want to link to me, I'd appreciate it if you use the button. I haven't had time to do anything new, I've got most of the serious work done. Next on my list is the Hints & Tips Page. I should have time to work on it some tomorrow. I know that it is messed up right now, I'll get to it soon.
Also, I hit 5,000 hits yesterday in exactly one month. I think that's pretty darn good for what I've got to work with here. Geocities isn't the greatest of all places to host a decent site, but it's free, so I can't complain :)
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| Saturday, February 7, 1998
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Cool game
I'm in this great game right now. I started out as the warrior lord of life. I just wanted to see if that peacemaker bug worked, it did. I've got 42 defense and am invincible. I'm on the 33rd turn and have had water, order, air, and chaos swear fealty to me. :) I went to earth, gave them 3 crystal mines, 2 breweries and a gold mine, yet they wouldn't swear fealty to me when I took their temple. Guess I'll just have to kill him. This strategy of taking other temples works a lot better than trying to kill off everyone, though it can be done.
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Fixed
Fixed the problem with the imagemap loading in the middle of the screen. It apparently lines up the centers of the two table cells. I just had to make it so it aligns at the top.
I ran into a new bug. If you save the game while another faith is taking their turn, then try to reload it, it may not reload correctly. I reloaded, it worked fine, but I screwed up. I reloaded again, this time, it wouldn't move past the other faith's turn. It just sat there. I could move my units that already had commands, but no one else.
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Updates
Finally I can get on geocities from home. Don't have any clue why it wouldn't let me. Is this page taking too long to load? I've tried to minimize load time, but I need to know what you think. I'm not sure why the imagemap is starting down so low either. When I tested it, it looked fine and started in the top left corner. I'll get to work fixing that.
Along the lines of the new patch, it may be possible to move capital cities. It seems all of our complainings have gotten to them. Also, the AI will be much, much harder, especially on hard mode.
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| Friday, February 6, 1998
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Updates
Sorry for the lack of updates this week. I haven't been able to connect to geocities all week from home. I finally loaded the new stuff on a disk and am now uploading from school. I made up a whole new layout. How does it look? I have also created a button for my page, so if you want to link to me, go and and use it. Here it is:  . I'm not too great with making graphics, so I have to make do with what I can get done. I've updated all the faiths pages, put up the cool new imagemap on the side, and added to the buildings and lords pages.
Still no news on when the next patch is coming out, they keep saying, "It's coming along very well." I hope they hurry up.
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| Sunday, February 1, 1998
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Updates
I'm working on the Chaos unit page, I've got all the info now. That will be up within a few days. That's it for now.
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| Friday, January 30, 1998
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Updates
Not much happening around here. The newest patch is coming along pretty well, it should be out soon. I'm getting plenty of votes on the survey. The mage is winning, but the warrior came on strong tonight. I'll keep this up about a week or so. See the results of the old survey here.
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| Tuesday, January 27, 1998
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Updates
All of the spells are done, most with pictures to go along. Also, on the faiths I have played with I have put comments on the spells. Please, e-mail me any mistakes I may have with the pictures. Some of the names may have become the same. I put them in directories at home, but I don't have directories here. Some of them may have saved over others. Send in the mistakes to help me out greatly. Thanks!
The first survey is over. I had some pretty good results. Check out the final tally here. Life kicked some butt. They had over twice as many votes as any other faith.
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Microsoft & Sega
Sega Enterprises chairman of the board Shin Okawa revealed that Sega is working with Microsoft on their next console.
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| Saturday, January 24, 1998
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Updates
I finished up with the Chaos spells and pics. That spellbook is so screwed up. Most of the spells are different in combat and in the book. Both polymorph spells say 8 mana in the book, but 12 mana in combat. I've found quite a few mistakes like this throughout the books.
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| Friday, January 23, 1998
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Updates
All of the air spells are done, complete with pictures, descriptions and comments. I've finished researching the chaos ones, and have the pictures done, but I don't have it onto a web page yet. That should be up soon. Then, I can research more spells. I'm working on life and earth right now. That leaves order, death, and water. Then I'll have them all researched. :) It's only taken me 450 turns so far. The survey is running pretty good, Life is kicking butt. The survey will end tomorrow or Monday. It depends if I have time after the Super Bowl.
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| Thursday, January 22, 1998
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Updates
Well, the survey is coming along pretty good, I think I'll keep it up till Sunday or maybe Monday. Depends on how close the race is. If anyone has any ideas for a new survey, send them in. Currently, I think the next one will be based upon the spells of each faith. Also, I am going to put up a bug page, where you can send me problems you have gotten and the conditions under which you got them. Hopefully Sierra will see this and try to fix some of the larger problems with the game. One big problem I have noticed, which has no real effect on the game, is the spellbooks. The Chaos one is horrible! Hardly any of the descriptions match the actual uses, and there are spelling mistakes. Is this a professional gaming company?
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| Wednesday, January 21, 1998
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Updates
Finally! I got up all the air units and air spells. I forgot to get the images, I'll get some later. I also got some more Chaos spells, namely Polymorph Other. Hehehe... I love that spell. I was in a battle against two chickens and a goat :) What fun. Not really any use, but it's a fun spell. I got some pictures of this I'll put I'm later.
Survey
The survey is going along pretty good. As soon as I said noone was voting for life, boom! Now life is winning. Chaos isn't getting any votes, and I see why. They are almost complete replicas of Fire, except their spells suck. Why take a poor imitation when you can have the real thing? Air is coming on strong, the rest are staying about even. Keep sending in the votes, but PLEASE do not vote more than once. I do not count more than one per person, and I will remember most of the names to see them again.
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| Monday, January 19, 1998
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Updates
Once again, I didn't put up anything new. :( I played a little, got some new Air and Chaos spells, so they will come up soon. I had a surprise 40th birthday party for my mom, so I didn't have time. I got plenty of votes on the survey. It's running pretty close between a couple of faiths, but some are just not getting any. I'm really surprised noone has voted for life. Those Elven Archers rock. Also, please do not vote more than once. I will only count one vote per person. Since I have to do this manually, it just slows down the process. Thanks for sending in the data though. I did encounter one problem, though. 1 person (with IE) voted and I had to download an attachment with the answer in it!? What is up with this? Does anyone know? Also, the answers I received came mostly from Netscape users :) Only 3 from IE. Shows which really is better, huh? :) Check out the current results below. I only update usually once per night, so don't expect immediate answers on the poll. Maybe if I had a CGI folder it would be easier, but I don't, so I gotta make do. :( Also, I'm open for ideas for the next poll.
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| Sunday, January 18, 1998
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No updates (again)
Well, guess what. No updates again today. Boy, am I getting lazy. I'll try to get up some more stuff soon. I've got air units, just gotta change some things around. Then they will all be up. I did put up a survey sorta thingy on the bottom. Check it out. I'll put up the results as I get them, I think I'll run it for about a week.
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| Friday, January 16, 1998
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Gamespot Resolutions
Gamespot has put up a new article entitled Gamespot's New Years Resolutions. It's sort of what game companies should and shouldn't do in 1998. They point out some really good things, and problems that need fixed with the gaming industry in general. Also, LOM is mentioned in Resolution #5 for having an interface that is too hard to use. I don't think that it is that bad myself, I've never had any trouble with finding what things do. The manual could use some help, but the interface is fine. They do manage to criticize the manual in Resolution #4. Also, I found it amusing that while they criticized games that resembled movie hits (e.g. Men in Black: The Game), the next page I loaded contained a banner for guess what? Men in Black: The Game! Other than this, the article is really good. Check it out here.
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Professional Gamers League
I just found out about a new(?) organization called the Professional Gamers League. They run a tournament of games, currently only Red Alert and Quake II, and award prizes. The top 16 in the tourney get an all-expenses paid trip to the finals. They will be run on a state of the art LAN system. Sounds pretty cool. Too bad I don't have either game, and my ISP sucks.
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| Thursday, January 15, 1998
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More updates (sort of)
I've spent some time playing tonight, some new unit attributes on chaos and air. I didn't upload them yet. I also did get up the pictures of artifacts during school today. Anyways, the newest thing is that I have put up a page detailing what I need to complete each section. If you wish to help me out a bit, go there and you'll see what I need.
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Updates
No time to update yesterday, I was gone all day. I got some more images, I'll get them up later. Maybe next period if I have time.
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| Tuesday, January 13, 1998
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Updates
Adding some color to the page, it looks a little bland. Anyway, the Geocities server is messed up, so not all my pages got uploaded yet. I'll see if I can get them in soon. I got images of all the fire spells, and put them up on the fire spells page. Unfortunately, that is one of the ones I couldn't upload. I got a few new artifacts, and some new unit stats for various faiths. I'm working on Chaos and Air right now in my game, but I have to run from Balkoth and the lord of Water, because I'll win if I defeat either of them. New site up here. Check it out, not too bad. Heavy on the images, though.
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Inferno
The inferno spell for fire really rocks!!! My level 10 mages easily defeat entire armies by themselves. I've got one that has defeated the earth lord, 2 full death parties, 1 full water party, and a renegade army. All I need is a healing potion and a mana potion (sometimes) and they are toast. Do any other faiths have mass destruction spells like this? I didn't see any at a glance. Anyways, I'm building up experience from this mage in the Chaos tower, and from my lord in the Air tower, so I'm getting air and chaos mages, and air and chaos spells at the same time. Anyone know an easy way to get warriors experience so I can do the same with them?? Or thieves? I only have 1 level 5 thief (the one they gave me), so I don't know much about them. He's never even left the guild. :( Probably getting cabin fever. :)
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Monday, January 12, 1998
I uploaded about 20 files today, some just updates I did at home, lots of images, etc. The fire units page is almost done. Check that one out. I'm working on the life units now, I've got some to put up, but I need to get the rest. Do that sometime this week. Tell me what you think of the fire page. Does it need a border around the tables? How are the pictures? Load times? I can't make it perfect without some viewer input.
Sunday, January 11, 1998
I got a lot of stuff going up, the fire spells are done, along with my comments and strategies on using them. I also got some tips through my form. I didn't know that that text was so jumbled. I'm going to have to change that to an email message. If you've never seen a form post, it looks sorta like this:
Hello,+my+name+is%0DA%joe%0A.
Really hard to read, so the form will be gone. I'll get up the tips (5 from one person, wow) as soon as I decipher the gibberish it gives me. :)
Another new LOM site has sortof opened. He may be joining with me to help or just start his own, I'm not sure. Here it is. Only the air faiths are done, but it looks great. Check it out.
I don't know if you noticed or not, but I put up the Order and Death spells yesterday, but forgot to put links to them. Doh! Well, the links are up now, check out all the work I put into them. Probably took me about 2 hours to convert all of them into HTML from Randy.
I want to get a new layout for this page, sortof like my main one, but I've got exams this week and want to work on the important stuff first. These posts keep getting longer and harder to read. I need to seperate them up. We'll see what I can accomplish there.
New info on the next patch, which will not come out until February, is up here.
500 hits in 3 days!!! Wow! I've got more hits in the last 3 days (since I got the WebSideStory counter on here) than on my main page in over a month and a half (that page was pretty much nonexistant).
Saturday, January 10, 1998
A whole lot of new stuff goin' up. I've got most of the Death and Order units up, all the spells for both of those, and a TON of new artifacts. Check them all out. Thanks to Randy Gaw for the help. I got up a hints page, but I didn't but anything there yet. There is also a form to submit your own tips.
Friday, January 9, 1998
I got up some new images mostly on the fire faith page and a few more artifacts. My links page is up, thanks to Sean Cunningham for reminding me of that (I owed him a link). I got in a new set of units for Order and Death today from Randy Gaw. Thanks a bunch! I'll try and get them up tomorrow or on Sunday.
Thursday, January 8, 1998
Finally, I got something done today. I got up a bunch of spells for fire and water, more unit attributes for the same, some images, and artifacts. Long day. Enjoy the new stuff!! And keep sending in your help. It's very much appreciated. I especially need artifacts. I don't know if they are random or not, so who knows if I will ever find certain ones. Images of those are great, too. I'm also getting images for around the site, to spruce it up. Looks kinda bland now, we'll see what we can do.
Wednesday, January 7, 1998
Nothing new today. I've been bogged down with school work. Also, my ISP is messed up again, its been 3 days since I could get on. I'm getting some new info probably by the end of the week. I'll put that up, and get up my new stuff. Also, I will be starting on spells and artifacts soon. I should have plenty of time tomorrow to work on these and upload them. Keep sending in the help, it has made my job a lot easier.
Sunday, January 4, 1998
Not a whole lot done today, a few new units, but I didn't upload them yet. I start back to school tomorrow and semester exams are next week so I won't have a lot of time to play or update this page, we'll see what gets done.
Saturday, January 3, 1998
I'm getting more and more of the units done, but it is taking a lot of time. I especially need the higher levels of lords and units, like 6+ on champions and lords and 4+ on others.
Friday, January 2, 1998
I got the intro done, the buildings done, and some more fire units and earth units up. My brother is in a game with air, and I'm getting air units from there. The spells and artifacts are coming when I get the time.
Friday, January 2, 1998
Got my first help on the faiths page today. It was from Terry Duchastel. Thanks a bunch Terry. You can check out his page here. He sent in some of the Life units. I'm still working on Fire, it's almost completely done, I have more time because Balkoth ran away from me and I can't find him. I'll get him yet. I'm up to turn 140. Pretty good length game. I've almost got the Heat Metal spell and I can't wait to use it.
Thursday, January 1, 1998 -
I think I'm finally about to beat the game for the first time! I've just sat around building up most of the game, now I've got some fire dragons. (5 actually) Everyone runs from me and I think Balkoth is hiding. These things really rock! They kill everything before they can usually get close. With a range of 18, they are unstoppable. Can't wait to fight Balkoth. :) Also, there is a great Lords page here. Check it out, you get some great ideas from the message board. I wanna finish my game up, so that's it for the post.
Tuesday, December 30, 1997 -
New review of Lords up at Gamespot. It got a 6.3 out of 10. Not too great. Check it out here. Also, I've got up a start on fire units. Go through the faiths, into fire and you will see them. This is an example of what I want to do for all faiths. Any help would be much appreciated.
Monday, December 29, 1997 -
Welcome to my Lords of Magic page. It is relatively new, but I am working on it and playing the game, and, although they conflict, I make time for both. Currently, I am working on a project which shows all the attributes of all units in each level. I have mostly fire units right now, and some Earth units. If anyone who plays another faith could get me these stats, it would be much appreciated. Otherwise, it may take me months. Mostly, I could use help in the higher levels of lords. It will take forever to play all three lords for all 8 faiths, and to build them up.