Frogboy, can you please explain the global mana pool please?

Blood Magic. Let my Champions fuel their magics by blood instead of mumbo jumbo mana. Or magic that does something to the caster and something different to other target (through XML and different to that Drain Life).

Or do my dirty work and create text adventures a la Space Rangers 2. Come on, it must be easy... I suppose? Requires Python to create the setup?

I must say that I don't know what to ask for seriously. I wanted that RPG mod that you were to create... but I suppose that right now is not a possibility.

How to make champion/sovereign talent abilities use the champion's/sovereign's stats to modify existing ones or possibly create new ones.

Example: I want to make the Merchant provide (1 Gildar + Merchant's Level + Merchants Intelligence) per turn. So a level 3 Merchant with 10 intelligence would provide (1 + 3 + 10) 14 gildar per turn.

 Of course this is a random example and I really just want to know how to calculate values already in the game or if its possible as of this time or if it will be possible.

Thank you!

Id really like to be able to have a Lycan mod with transforming/morphing units, so mabe some kind of mod that makes certain channelers be able to transform into summons like Man to dragon, man to wolf, man to frogboy etc .

If you just do a simple mod showing the mechanics and maybe supply a few models i am sure the community could take this to new heights, Vampire to wolf/bat etc.

Thanks

EDIT, a spell that makes flesh fall off your eniemes and turns them in to undead skeletons that fight for you would be sick, maybe hard to balance though...

I'd love to see a tactical combat sandbox. Choose your troops before the fight, maybe have a points system where each side gets the same amount of gold/people/material with which to customize their troops, then you go right to the tactical battle. I.e. bypass the strategic building and resource gathering and focus on the combat.

I'd like to see "FirstStrike" and "Cooldown" tags functioning.  Also, a way to affect the stats of both CastingUnit and TargetUnit in the same spelldef.  If this is currently possible it is not very easy to do or figure out how to do.

A data dump of all available tags would be nice, as well as mods each having their own subfolders so we can keep them distinct.  Currently the game ignores anything that is not directly in the mods folder, so we have to have a big messy disorganized puddle of files that is difficult to manage.

But the best thing you could do for the modding community would be a straight dump of all available tags.

One thing people might want is an underground cave system where there are resources and tunnels on a piece of the world that you cant get to normally. I would assume that you can't just have multiple layers to the overworld map, so you would have to cut off some on the sides and put walls to make sure you cant cross from the "underworld" to the "overworld".

I know that once 1.1 comes out I am going to probably buy the game and make a MoM mod that imports many features into elemental. I don't really have any examples to request since I am a Game Dev myself so all the stuff I want to do is probably easy to make with the XML files.

I would like to see Vendors that any faction can visit.

Reputations would add a cool aspect to the game, for example if i choose to invade Capitar for no reason, the other factions may see view me in a negative or even positive way and be more willing for trade or alliance. If we did have Factionless vendors say i could choose to attack them, steal their stuff, and factions may see me in a negative way. At the end of the game based on my actions i would like to know what kind of ruler i was.

Stat editor in when designing units. So maybe i could make a fast scout with alot of moves but may have to sacrifice attack or health and maybe even have a bird scout whole can fly over mountains and oceans.

Customizing the map in game like building bridges across rivers or tunnels through mountains.

Be careful when you tell me to make some comments i can go on forever lol.

Ability to build structures on any tile within your influence.

Ability to have actions when structure is selected.

Example 1:  Shipyard/Dock: built outside of any particular city.  Click->Menu->Build Ships

Example 2:  Mobilization Center: built outside of any particular city,  Click->Menu->Build Units

How can we make a wizard tower that can sell spells and give quests. I was thinking it could work as each spell or item being a quest that you can accept or decline depending on whether you want the thing the wizard is selling. I run into a problem when selecting a specific spell to buy (how could we choose since everything in the game currently only has a one quest per building feature).

I also thought about copying the merchant function from a city but attaching it to a wizard tower in the wastes. Is that easier or do you have another way I haven't thought of? And how can we make a tile give us a random chance to get a quest from the wizard instead of buying things?

Hopefully you have a +1 wand of coding that can help. If not I will just make a 2X2 tile area with each part as a seperate function of the shop.

++ on ritual magic (long casting time, big effects), but that is highly nontrivial because you would want all the AIs to know at the beginning of casting so they can try to stop you (and then what "stops" the ritual?  Just engaging in combat?  Landing a hit on the sovereign, who must stay immobile in combat?  Killing the sovereign?).  There are a lot of things in here which would have to be addressed in a mod.

While I know this isn't Master of Magic, one thing in MoM that really added character and uniqueness to NPCs and items were "intrinsics" (water walking, phase strike, etc).  Being able to add these sorts of things as enchantments to characters (or items, via ritual...) would give champions or items a real "punch" they don't have now, and would fit into the magic theme, particularly if tied into shards (capturing an air shard gives you the power to give one unit the "flying" intrinsic which allows them to move faster and disregard terrain...).  So understanding how enchantments work and how much flexibility one could have to do a long-lasting custom one that does something besides tweaking existing stats would be good.

A mod which gave casters more power the closer they were to friendly territory would be nice (means you're weaker in attack and stronger in defense, for example).  By contrast, reversing that (you have more power the FURTHER you are from friendly territory) would be a very strange mechanic...

Not sure if it's possible, but what about different types of mana (fire, earth, water, air) which can all be global with each respective shard generating that kind of mana.  Then have spell casters have different affinities for each (they can be like stats I believe).  Example, if a mage has a high affinity for fire, perhaps his spells do more damage or he uses up less fire mana.  Some spells might use more than one type of mana (volcano =  fire+earth, some mud spell = earth+water).  Heh, might be a bit much though.  

I need some ghostly units. Something with a "See Through" model so I can skin parts but leave other parts blank. I've tried with Alpha Channels in Photoshop CS4 with no luck. Heavenfall has given it a shot too and doesn't think it's possible. Also, the Dragonlance Team could REALLY use those converters/plugins to get our models in game without having to use three different programs to do it. We've got some good models virtually done already and are working on animations. Whatever tools you guys planned on releasing could come in Seriously Handy right now, Chief .