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[Kosta]

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Yeah, now you have that jewel of the game here! Have fun with it, anyone!
Btw, my advise is: choose Myrran-ability and take as race the Night Elves, they produce one magic point per population and their ranged units (magicians, clerics etc.) are more powerful than any of the other races.

[Turbo Beholder]

Originally Posted by FreeFreddy

Yeah, now you have that jewel of the game here! Have fun with it, anyone!
Btw, my advise is: choose Myrran-ability and take as race the Night Elves, they produce one magic point per population and their ranged units (magicians, clerics etc.) are more powerful than any of the other races.

More of an advantage is that they ALL get a weak ranged attack, even Spearmen.
But trade-offs are too high. No one likes them, so you'll have around lots of occupation forces just to have cities pay taxes. Which raises upkeep. Yes, garrisoned troops need to survive mindblasts and suchlike before you summon reinforcement, so Res +3 is good, but you don't need to make them in your capitol, and there are better - Dwarves (Res +4), Halflings (Res +2 Lucky), Beastmen (Res +1 HP x2), Trolls (Res +3 HP x4).
Another problem is the same as with High elves: very slow growth (-20). The high values per population aren't so hot if there's less of population in the first place. Sure, tiny villages are not so useless... but again, they remain tiny forever.
Half of this mana bonus you can have from Draconians or High Elves for -10 growth, or even from Beastmen with normal growth.
Extra mana from cities also comes with gold bonus or work bonus (via trade goods) using alchemy, especially if you do 1:1. Funny coincidence - Nomads have trade bonus, and Jafar who is clearly supposed to start with them has Alchemy retort.

[DiamondSoul]

Oh Master of Magic is simply the best game in the world, i've been playing it for years!!

You guys might have some trouble running the game smoothly with sound, but it is possible using only VDMSound and some tweaking to the properties, if anyone needs help making it work i'd be glad to be of assistance, i just got it to work on my computer with sound without DosBox a little while ago.

I tried with both DosBox and VDMSound and had no luck. This was one of my favorites in college and I'd love to play it again. I think I have my original disks?/CD? around here somewhere. Any help getting it to work would be much appreciated. I could dust off the old P3 laptop I have in the closet if I need to bring out the artillery...Or commandeer the old P1MMX-233 I gave to my mom to not use many years ago. I'm running a high-end system now.

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Oh Master of Magic is simply the best game in the world, i've been playing it for years!!

You guys might have some trouble running the game smoothly with sound, but it is possible using only VDMSound and some tweaking to the properties, if anyone needs help making it work i'd be glad to be of assistance, i just got it to work on my computer with sound without DosBox a little while ago.
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I tried with both DosBox and VDMSound and had no luck. This was one of my favorites in college and I'd love to play it again. I think I have my original disks?/CD? around here somewhere. Any help getting it to work would be much appreciated. I could dust off the old P3 laptop I have in the closet if I need to bring out the artillery...Or commandeer the old P1MMX-233 I gave to my mom to not use many years ago. I'm running a high-end system now.[/b]

What do you mean, you had no luck with DosBox? On an high-end system DosBox should work flawlessly, as long as you increase the CPU cycles with CTRL-F12 for the game to run fast enough.

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Oh Master of Magic is simply the best game in the world, i've been playing it for years!!

You guys might have some trouble running the game smoothly with sound, but it is possible using only VDMSound and some tweaking to the properties, if anyone needs help making it work i'd be glad to be of assistance, i just got it to work on my computer with sound without DosBox a little while ago.
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I need help with this....it keeps telling me to Configure....can you help?

In DosBox it still runs better than under Windows...

[DiamondSoul]

Not true, you can make it work with just VDMS and it runs just like the original, sound and everything.

[Tom Henrik]

I play every game on this site in DOSbox. I know know... I'm starting to sound like a commercial for the program :P