[suggestion] Enchantements and Summoning

This could have gone in the other thread rather then making a new one, I would think....

As for your suggestion, how would that work when you also need to use essence to imbue champions and such...

I think instead; how about a 0.1 reduction in mana recovery rate for each enchantment/summon you're maintaining?

Or a small reduction in arcane research rate?

Or have intelligence and wisdom limit the number of enchantments/summons you can maintain?

I'd also tie intelligence into the strength of summons somehow (eg strength or health of the summoned creature); I don't think its right that summons should ignore intelligence completely.

true, since the more powerful the wizard, the more powerful his "creations" would be

i agree, summons should get more powerful.  i say that wisdom should be used for this.  since wisdom represents will, and you need will to hold a summons to your service.

I'd like to tie willpower to mana recovery, and then you could have summons with mana upkeep, so you need more willpower if you want to keep a reasonable recharge rate.

Problem is... should a wizard character really have to be spending their precious points on essence, intelligence and wisdom/willpower?  Too many attributes.  Maybe essence boosts should also boost mana recharge rates; so that it takes roughly a constant number of turns to replenish your mana pool; eg at 10 essence I regenerate 1 per turn, at 20 essence I get 2 per turn.

Another alternative; tie enchantment/summon upkeeps to charisma!  Its a wasted stat at the moment, and it makes a ton of sense to me that strength of personality would effect how many enchantments and summons you could keep going.

right now they are even too much powerfull

they basically cost 0

while an equally good unit may cost hundreds of gold/materials etc

i totally agree with this

int SHOULD do something, like a bonus hp to summons (maybe even to attack )    

also you should actually pay something to mantain summons/enchants or your idea of having them limited by other stats

I would have the effect of Int vary by creature type, and magic type.

So fire creatures might tend to have boosted attack, earth boosted health/defense, air boosted combat speed, ice some kind of utility effect (eg Int% chance that the enemy gets frozen in place for a turn).

yeah this is even better so we would have really different gameplays with different school of magic