What to do when the story "ends" (heavy spoilers!)?

[Darmachakra]

SPOILERS ahead! You have been warned!!!










So I have
) planted the sporut of the cosmic tree and it grows
) made contact with the elven in their city
) Fullfilled the quest of the giants (defeated both bad ones) and now have a Planetnik with me
) explored the complete map
) killed Dragons, Trolls and whatever else with 5 skulls
) I already had 3 victory screens, but since the first one appeard while I had not finished the cosmic tree quest, i played on)

Still there are more and more enemies spawning and no more blue ? are to be seen (except the Herbalist, the elven city and the city with the healers of curses). I have much more superior weapons crafted than anywhere to be found (and still have not completed the craft tree).
There is no more challenge that my warrior party even get scratches. Even my pure gatherer party can defeat 5 skull with ease and 5 sjulls maybe with one wounded.

So suddenly the story ended here for me....what to do now?
Fights are no challenge anymore, I have gathered heavy amounts of ressorces, there seem to be no more "new" quests and the old one repet over and over.
I loved this game so far but now I am clueless how to proceed with the story :(

[jwinter]

increase difficulty and play again. Change god probably?

[Amaren]

what are you to do when you complete the game? Start new one.

[Darmachakra]

Maybe I miss worded my question: is there an ending of the game where the story completes? I love story driven games but after a quite nice story there seem to be no proper ending.

[Stefan]

Originally posted by DailyLama:

Maybe I miss worded my question: is there an ending of the game where the story completes? I love story driven games but after a quite nice story there seem to be no proper ending.

If you end this game you will get a summary screen about the main quests that you have finished, but there are no other "main" quests that you could complete.

So you could keep farming experience for your god, or move on to a new game and try another god, raise the difficulty, choose differently in quests...

[Darmachakra]

Since there is only one save game I dont like to start a new game when I am not sure I have ended the story this time. I already got 3 "victory" endings so I have no idea why the game would stop in the middle and if i finished the main story or not....

[jwinter]

You can backup your save game files into separate folder manually.

[Lampros]

Just curious: What benefits do you get from the elven city?

[Grahor]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Just curious: What benefits do you get from the elven city?

You can get some ancient and dryad wood for food from them.

You can get some magic training.

You can get some elves in exchange for your people or children.

You can get some small type "quests" like "place of interest" from there.

Similarly if you burn the seed, you can get University town and get scholars, inventors, mithril for food, int training etc.

If you take "the middle ground" you don't get any city, as far as I know.

[Grahor]

P.S. As for "endgame", you may achieve "Domination victory", aka "Advancements victory" - through development of your settlement and research. Prerequisites for Domination victory are shown in the game interface, I don't remember where exactly. After Domination victory you should either click "end game" button in the victory screen or, if you've clicked "keep playing" - finish the game manually. You've played through all the big story quests of the game.

There is no mandatory "endgame" in this game.

[Davypi]

If you click on the portrait of your god inthe upper right corner you get, for lack of better words, a victory progress screen. The first three tabs on the left show the three ways you can "win" the game. Once you have completed those, you are basically in sandbox mode, so its up to you when to quit and start a new game. Since you've seen the victory screen three times, my assumption is that you have already completed them.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Grahor:

Originally posted by Lampros:

Just curious: What benefits do you get from the elven city?

You can get some ancient and dryad wood for food from them.

You can get some magic training.

You can get some elves in exchange for your people or children.

You can get some small type "quests" like "place of interest" from there.

Similarly if you burn the seed, you can get University town and get scholars, inventors, mithril for food, int training etc.

If you take "the middle ground" you don't get any city, as far as I know.

I did burn the seed option; and I was disappointed that I got only units already available ;(

By the way, how do you get Elven Wanderers and Druids normally? I've gotten them normally, but I don't recall how.

[Kaerius]

Originally posted by Grahor:

If you take "the middle ground" you don't get any city, as far as I know.

Shadow village. You can trade villagers to them for orcs(often shamans and matriarchs).

[Kaerius]

Originally posted by Lampros:

By the way, how do you get Elven Wanderers and Druids normally? I've gotten them normally, but I don't recall how.

Quests/events only. Wanderer is an event, and might be repeatable, hex challange. Druids I've only seen as a reward for completing cosmic tree with the full replanting choice, or subsequently from trading villagers with silveroak. I may have gotten it from some specific deity's divine quest too, but I'm uncertain on that.

Elf attraction has only ever given me "Forest Elf" villagers, not wanderer/druid/mage.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Kaerius:

Originally posted by Lampros:

By the way, how do you get Elven Wanderers and Druids normally? I've gotten them normally, but I don't recall how.

Quests/events only. Wanderer is an event, and might be repeatable, hex challange. Druids I've only seen as a reward for completing cosmic tree with the full replanting choice, or subsequently from trading villagers with silveroak. I may have gotten it from some specific deity's divine quest too, but I'm uncertain on that.

Elf attraction has only ever given me "Forest Elf" villagers, not wanderer/druid/mage.

Druid is definitely not Cosmic Quest alone. I've gotten him in many games where I did not complete the Cosmic Tree quest. In fact, I've never even completed the Cosmic Tree quest until yesterday or the day before.

[Tiasmoon]

Elf Wanderer is the Sad Elf encounter. If you have enough magic a Hex (its only 2 skull I think) will show up and he/she joins. It can happen multiple times in a game.