How to make the game easier.

[Weepleman]

Hi, I am a total noob to this game, and I can never win.  I already turned off fog of war to try and help me, but is there anyway to make the game any easier, such as making the AI worse, of my units stronger?

[towcar]

If your playing online? No

If your Playing Yourself? Yes
Though if you make the changes you have to return them or online play won't work.
Anyway go to My Computer - C: - program files - Glest - Tech - Techmagictree(orsomethinglikethis) - factions - tech or magic - Units - then click on any unit file, click on the xml file and make stats higher or lower by just changing the numbers.

[John.d.h]

One way would be to make a "super" faction for yourself.  You can go to Glest > techs > magitech > factions, and copy whichever faction you want to modify.  Rename the copy to "magic_super" or something like that.  Then go into magic_super and change the magic.xml to magic_super.xml.  Open it and change the starting resources and starting units to whatever you want.  Now when you start a game, pick magic_super as your faction and you'll have whatever starting resources and units that you specified.  That should be a lot simpler than modifying the individual unit xml files, but can give you a big head start.

The absolute simplest way, however, would be to use the pause feature.  You can pause the game, look around to see what's going on, and issue commands.  Then when you unpause, your units immediately try to execute those commands, so it basically makes your reaction time super fast.

[-Archmage-]

Yah, using pause, means if your careful, you can take down almost any enemy!
I've seen my Dad do it, it takes a while but definitely works!

[Weepleman]

Is glest > techs in the /usr/share/games/glest folder, or in the /.config/gleest? And how do you pause the game, because I cannot install the GAE or whatever it is, and I cannot save the game.  Oh, that was another question, can you save without GAE?

[Weepleman]

Okay, I found it thanks!

[Carl the Great]

Excuse me, why did you double post?

Thanks! 

[-Archmage-]

can you save without GAE?

No.

Excuse me, why did you double post?

Thanks!  Wink

I think it's worse than multi-posting, to make a short post, in which all you talk about is the guy double-posting.

[Omega]

Take a look at these great tutorials for magic and tech: http://glest.110mb.com/mdc/index.php#advancedmt

I admit, I never use pause, but then again, I'm the guy who is puzzled when others proclaim something to be difficult and then beat it on the first try, however it may help someone who finds that too many things are happening at once in an RTS. However, I would instead recommend you decrease the game speed with the - (minus) key. This doesn't pause, but slows the game down. Press it and + (plus) to change the speed either slower or faster until you feel comfortable. It's better than pausing IMO. You'll probably start with a very slow speed (0.5x) and eventually work your way up to using fast speeds once you get good (1.5x, 2x).

[modman]

One of the ways I think will be easiest for noobs to do is to use Cheat Engine.  Using Cheat Engine means that none of the Glest files will be modified, and so it is safe.  Just give yourself a lot of resources in the beginning of the game.