Anyone else’s SO about to kick ‘em out because of this #!@#$!@ game? Seems to have the exact correct blend of frustration and “I can’t stop now - I only have ONE MORE SHEEP to find!” Do you know how many times I swooped over the first island, about 10" off the ground, desperately listening for that one last “Baaaaah”? Or how many times I slapped up my creature for eating the villagers? I’ve come to the conclusion that in Level 1, either the creature is just too young or too dumb to learn much of anything. At least, by the time I get to level 2, ol’ Moosey Jones responds much better to the frequent beatings he gets when he chomps down a villager sandwich.
Moosey started out as a cow (thus the name) but now he’s a sheep. I can’t decide whether it’s bad or good to feed him sheep - is it cannibalism? Or is it OK for him to eat sheep? Such dillemnas are hard on a brand new deity like myself.
You think you have it bad, I have finals coming up! And a big presentation on Wednesday to give!
If you want a leisurely pace to teach your critter, I recommend skirmish mode. I’ve consistently kicked some god-butt there, and learned my critter a thing or two. He’s now 18 years old, and still on level 1!
Oh boy… my BF bought Black & White for me last week. I was away all weekend, so I sat down today to just “try it out.”
Several hours later, I had to tear myself away lest I starve to death. I’m still sort of mucking around but I think I may have a major addiction brewing here.
I have a cow creature too. I’ve been teaching him to hurl villagers like rocks
Hell, I’m still trying to teach the #!@ thing not to eat villagers. Even with the “leash of compassion” on, if he’s the least bit hungry, he chomps 'em. Then I slap the shit out of him, and the advisors say “Your creature will eat more of that sort of thing from now on” followed closely by “Your creature will eat less of that sort of thing from now on.” Which is it?!? Very frustrating - the game is buggy, but I can’t stop playing it.
And what’s with those worshippers wanting food all the freakin’ time? How much food does it take to worship for a while? At the church I went to when I was a kid, there were always church ladies who put together baked goods and coffee for after the service - where are the church ladies for MY worshippers?!? Lionshead can write enough bloody AI to make the creature get all jiggy and dance with the villagers, but they can’t figure out how to write in a couple church ladies to feed the !#@!!@ worshippers?!?
I completely agree. If you’re having problems with your creature eating people, I have a suggestion. Slow down the game using ALT-1. Then bring him villagers and hand them to him. If he eats them, beat the shit out of him. If he puts them down, pet him. My lion likes to make breeder disciples and pick people up, pet them, and put them down. Then he likes to go to the enemy’s city, pick a fight, and burn the shit out of everything.
If you’re upset with the villager’s AI, just wait until you play your first skirmish. The computer god cheats like a mofo. His creature doesn’t die, even at 100% damage, 100% hunger and 100% tiredness. He has no problem casting several spells at a time outside his influence, and charges all of his spells at the same time. Meanwhile, on the other side of the island, Munch is busier than a one legged man in an ass-kicking contest trying to just build some damn abodes!
Hrmph. You can all count yourselves fortunate. I’ve got the game, but it will run just enough on my system to tease me. I must have gone through the sequence where the gate opens half a dozen times before I got to pick out my creature without totally crashing my computer. Almost every time the advisors show up, it’s pffft!, and I have to cold boot my machine. I’ve had it for a week, and have just managed to get my cow settled in his pen.
And I still want to play the $&@%ing game. On the plus side, I have a creche full of kids dancing around an artifact. At least some of my villagers are doing what I want.
With the exception of the slowing down thing, I’ve done exactly that. About 90% of the time, he picks up villagers and pets 'em. But just when I think he’s safe to let run around, he grabs someone and eat them. Do you think the slowing down does something different?
Fortunate, HA! Did I mention that I managed to do an excellent job of convincing myself that I needed a new computer “so I can work at home” when in actuality, the only bloody reason I bought the @#!# thing is because I wanted to play this game. This was one expensive game for me.
My li’l bovine Mysphyt’s anorexic. I left 'im alone for a few minutes, and he too has picked up an awful penchant for eating villagers. So I smacked the crap out of him several times in succession, and he’s been compelled to not eat villagers–at least, only with the greatest reluctance.
But he won’t eat anything else.
He’s 99% hungry, so every few steps he’ll pass out and be sent back t’th’temple, and once he’s there, he’ll wake up, pass out, wake up, pass out. I’ll give 'im food of various sorts–food, sheep, pigs, cows, wolves, rocks, trees, more or less anything but villagers–and he’ll look at it, throw it over his shoulder, and pass out.
I finally got it fixed, though. Did y’know that if you rub his stomach while he’s holding something he’ll eat it? I didn’t.
Athena, the slowing down won’t do anything different, but it will give you more time to react. There’s nothing I hate more than when I’m about to punish him for something like pooing on the village store, and then slapping him just as he’s doing something nice. The advisor will more likely say, “Your creature will now poo on that sort of thing more.” and then when I punish him, “Your creature will no longer desire to act in a rational manner now that you have beaten him for something you’ve been praising him for all along, you manipulative a-hole.”
Rocks that have been set on fire are very effective tools to destroy entire villages.
