[0.95] create materials/grain/essence spells and city razing/building

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This is a world of magic.

 

We can lower mountains, and drown them down.

Why a sovereing is unable to make the place inhabitable with spells, if that's even the first chapter of each kingdom/empire when a sovereign settles?

 

Would it be too OP?

How about 200 Mana spell, add +1 material to the spot, or +1 grain. or 350 mana +1 essence?

doubel that for increasing from +2 to +3 and further or whatever, it's a matter of balance, but why we are unable to do so?

 

Human mages would be able to create places for cities.

 

Why a fallen cannot build a city on ruins of other city? That razing thing stuff, is strategically fine, as long as there is a counter, there should be a counter for everything to form a good game I think. so maybe just reducing the place by -1 material/-1grain?

 

Why a city cannot be formed on 0/0 place? you could still rush some building to get the production going.

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Essence is exponentially powerful and would quickly get out of hand. No spell or ability should be able to infinately raise essence. 200 mana is too cheap for +1 material or grain. This also runs a similar risk of inifinity (though not as major). For 50-100 mana switching 1 grain with 1 material (or vice versa) would be fair though.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Whatever, make it more costly. disallow asting on existing cities, wake a demon with every cast (it's spring, everything is coming out from the ground, no kidding, i buried my mother in law yesterday... )

 

you need a 2/2/1 city to be worth settling, together this could be 2000 mana. fair enough for me. 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top


I can't answer to the magnitude of how OP this would be, but it has potential to be game breaking.  Unless you limit the casting to 1 of each per tile, or 1 per tile.   The mana cost should be more than 2 to 300, like 500 or 750.   Then there's the which spell book this stuff goes under.  (not getting into that )   But it's a factor.

Then I can start seeing this suggestion not being OP.