Q & A

[zebramatt]

Sounds like a bug?

[wyvern83]

It is, orzelek posted about it Mantis. http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=4544

[yuastnav]

Thanks BobTheJanitor!

And since I'm already here (though this may be kind of a spoiler): Where do I find magma?
I read that some of the commodity towers have magma but they are very few (in fact I've only seen some of them around the settlement where I started), is there no other way to obtain it?
I already travelled far below where everything is red and there's lava but there was not magma to be found, either.

[Dizzard]

I just visited the lava flats underground and found a neutral illari stone sight but I didn't have an npc this time.

Is that a bug too....it's the first time there hasn't been a person in the room. Although it's the first time I ever went underground in the lava flats.

[BobTheJanitor]

Thanks BobTheJanitor!

And since I'm already here (though this may be kind of a spoiler): Where do I find magma?
I read that some of the commodity towers have magma but they are very few (in fact I've only seen some of them around the settlement where I started), is there no other way to obtain it?
I already travelled far below where everything is red and there's lava but there was not magma to be found, either.

I've only found it in commodity towers. You need to have your settlers scout tiles in the strategic mode to find a tower with magma in it. If you don't see one yet, just keep scouting further out.

[BobTheJanitor]

I finally finished off my first overlord. 7 levels below me, which apparently means no XP. Sad face. Also used up every single mana scroll and potion that I had. I had to finish him off with fire touch. So yes, I just punched out the evil overlord. This doesn't have much to do with Q & A, I just wanted to share it.

Oh wait, here's a question. Will NPCs actually celebrate when you win? Right now I notice they've just gone from moping about evil overlord X to moping about evil overlord Y. Don't get up, people, don't worry, I just punched out a dragon, I'll just go on to the next thing right away. Don't bother to thank me.

[yuastnav]

Wow, congratulations!

I think the game finally broke for me, though, because there is not a single pylon I can reach now and no matter how much I level up I cannot explore the the world beyond the dark tiles i.e. no new tiles open up.

[c4sc4]

Wow, congratulations!

I think the game finally broke for me, though, because there is not a single pylon I can reach now and no matter how much I level up I cannot explore the the world beyond the dark tiles i.e. no new tiles open up.

Have you tried having your npcs destroy the pylons?

[yuastnav]

I didn't know that is possible but it does not matter since I am out of reach of any settlement from where I can access the management/strategic map.

[edit]
Ah, I am mistaken. I do have access to one settlement. Thanks!

[edit]
Though it looks like all of the NPCs are out of reach, too.

[zebramatt]

Can you not use the new button to warp to your home settlement?

[yuastnav]

Can you not use the new button to warp to your home settlement?

This intrigues me. What is that new button you speak of?

[edit]
Ah, found it! Thank you for tipping me off!
I guess I should pay more attention to the changelogs.

[keith.lamothe]

So yes, I just punched out the evil overlord.

He'll be back.

Oh wait, here's a question. Will NPCs actually celebrate when you win? Right now I notice they've just gone from moping about evil overlord X to moping about evil overlord Y. Don't get up, people, don't worry, I just punched out a dragon, I'll just go on to the next thing right away. Don't bother to thank me.

We hope to add more reaction, but you'll find that they're all really stoked and basically have 100 morale for the next few hundred turns or something like that.  Go to the strategy map and mouseover the morale value for someone.

I didn't know that is possible but it does not matter since I am out of reach of any settlement from where I can access the management/strategic map.

[edit]
Ah, I am mistaken. I do have access to one settlement. Thanks!

[edit]
Though it looks like all of the NPCs are out of reach, too.

I'm not sure what you mean by the NPCs being out of reach, but if you have any NPCs in that settlement and can scout over to the pylon and have 200 red shards just left-click on the pylon while an NPC with >= 100 TUs is selected, and it will go poof.

There are some other pylon bugs at play, but that much should work.

[BobTheJanitor]

He'll be back.

Hah, yes. This is a great game and easily worth the pocket change it costs, if anyone hasn't picked it up yet.

[yuastnav]

Well, to be honest, I use the turns very warily because I'm slowly trying to figure out how much I can do per turn without messing things up i.e. letting NPCs die etc. and then there's the whole thing with rampaging monsters which also is a bit scary.
But yeah, you are right. I should have been able to scout and destroy it with a dozen (or two) turns.

[BobTheJanitor]

I'm pretty careful about my turns because it doesn't seem to give any warning when rampaging monsters are coming, so I have to watch the map for each settlement to make sure nothing is in range. With things like an ice bat microboss leading a pack on an ice age tile, this gets pretty bad. I've neglected the strategic half of the game for a while because of that.