Don't know if this changes the priority of it, but known issue #2; the black off hand items, is not just while designing units, but also when buying for example a shield from the store for champions.

following this.

Well, I'd still like to see a fix to:

-The tactical battle "skipping a tile when attacking" bug.

-The "slow, double damage children with weird mana and life regen'" bug, where the double damage display as "daring strike". Good thing the magic system is broken, because otherwise they'd kill me dead.

And something severly limiting the amount of spellcasting that can be done, and the imbue champions exploit. Don't nerf spells, fix magic. And there's only one way I can think of doing it, even though there are several methods to implement it (casting points, cooldowns, etc.): severly limit the frequency of potent spells, moderately limit the frequency of basic spells.

I have noticed in 1.09r that spiderlings typically have 15 health, and wolfs have either 15(less common) or 24(more common),and that bears have(from memory) 9 and brigidands have only 15. I think that the spiderlings would be better around 5-8 and wolfs around 8-10 with brigidands and humans at 15 the darklings should be about 10-12 and bears about 20.

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Was the flavour text for spells changed to reflect the new spell values?

ex: "Heal giving +6 hp (was +10)"

Was playing r last night, seems like the back end may have changed but not the text.

I would definitely like to see a lot of work on Dynasties and the magic system in the near future. Though 1.1 is a massive step in the right direction in most aspects.

A simple idea to act as temporary bandaid to the magic abuse problem until a better system can be implemented is to simply add cooldowns to spells to prevent spamming. Simple combat spells could have cooldown of one season so they would still be useful every turn. Stronger spells like certain OP superweapon spells could have much larger cooldowns. This would make having a larger spell library useful, and make lesser used spells considered underpowered more useful when you can't use the stronger ones due to cooldown. Magic that causes effects like 50% chance for unit to lose next turn would actually be used over one shot and its dead spells as you would want to conserve your strongest stuff for worthy adversaries.

I also agree with those who think shards and Int should be much more useful with more spells. ATM lesser shards like water and earth are used mostly as mana batteries in my recent games. There doesn't seem to be much reason to increase Int for your Sov as they seem to be able to cast everything, although I like how the other stats are actually very useful now. Personally I think any numbers based spell should be affected by Shards/Int, with maybe spells that last for a turn lasting longer per related shard. A larger variety of spells would of course be nice too though I am sure that's planned.

Excuse me for the tl;dr-ish first post

We talked about it, and cooldowns don't really change the fact that a player with Arcane Arrow, Spell Blast, and Touch of Entropy could still fire off those three spells in one round. We're trying a code fix where casting a spell uses up all remaining spell points (still open to micromanagement cheese...using up most of your pts before casting a spell) but it's a step in the right direction.

You will see the day when "Spell Blast: X Mana and Y Crystals."

If you can put a minimum actions on there as well (50-100% of max AP to cast a spell) I think you'll be in good shape.

I approve of that mechanic whole heartedly.

Or a make "imbue champion" a permanent choice that forever reduces mana production by 1. Simple and efficient.

Critical:

- AI build first city (exept capital) when i have 5 - 7 cities.

- AI does not expand after finishing his great "second city" project.

- AI does not attack even if we have war.

- AI in no mood to grow his cities.

- AI build new units ones per 11 years (according to the solar cycle)

- Please, make AI on ridiculous more aggresive and cheat, let him restlessly attack player, make this lever ridiculously hard, not ridiculously stupid. 

I agree. This sounds like a good step at least for the time being. However, I just hope this is seen as a temporary band aid and not the permanent fix.

Another basic fix that would be easy to implement: increase the casting cost of enchantments like imbue champion dramatically, up to say 50-60. This would cut down significantly on the imbue champion exploit. It doesn't make it permanent (i don't think it should be), but it does make me really think twice about removing it.