Any interest in another playthrough?

Tuidjy

Join Date 08/2010

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Any interest in another playthrough?

A few months ago, before Beta 4, I posted two playthroughs: a Conquest on Ridiculous, and a Master Quest on Insane.

Now that there is a new version, I am thinking about attempting a new playthrough. I just won an Alliance victory without fighting anyone but monsters on Expert, and wonder whether one can succeed on Insane without being a brutal britzkrieger.

So if there is any interest, I will try a game like this: (Well, I'll try the game anyway, but I will keep snapshots and write comments if anyone cares)

The rules:

All settings maxed: Large map, dense everything, 8 insane AIs (no Capitar and Umber, they keep starting headless for some reason)

No cheating, but full abuse of production rushing, city snaking, troop blocking, outpost spamming, etc...

No restoring except for crashes.

Start position: rerolled until I get at least a 3/4/2 location.

The handicaps: Only Conquest and Alliance victory are allowed. In addition, the player nation will never declare war first, i.e. no steamrolling.

The insanely overpowered custom race:

Formal name: Kingdom of Men

Short name: Men

Race: Men

Advantages: Enchanters, Master scouts, Heroic, Wanderlust

Weaknesses: No ranged weapons, Vulnerable to magic

The leader:

Name: Lord Petar

Equipment: Procipinee's Crown, Rusty short sword

Talents: Brilliant, Clumsy

Magic proficiencies: Earth disciple, Life apprentice

Profession: Armorer

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Quoting seanw3,

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Feature completion time according to Frogboy probably means feature lockdown and refinement. You might see a few new spells or something small that was held back from beta 4 for extra development, but nothing major. Content probably means more spells, events and quests. Those are the only things that have been previewed.

They made it pretty clear that expanding on the content already in the game is still open season for Beta5. New monsters, spells, quests, city improvements, traits, abilities maybe even wildlands and such would still be on the table. By feature lockdown they would just mean that you won't see dynasties making a comback during beta 5 or that we suddenly get a MoM-Myrror style alternate plane or some such. Major, game defining features. Still plenty of time for more aggressive monsters, a popup for destroyed resources, etc.

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Quoting CogBurn,

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Still plenty of time for .... a popup for destroyed resources, etc.

One would hope ... but I'm not counting my Skaths before they hatch.

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Quoting seanw3,
reply 21
Feature completion time according to Frogboy probably means feature lockdown and refinement. You might see a few new spells or something small that was held back from beta 4 for extra development, but nothing major. Content probably means more spells, events and quests. Those are the only things that have been previewed.

They made it pretty clear that expanding on the content already in the game is still open season for Beta5. New monsters, spells, quests, city improvements, traits, abilities maybe even wildlands and such would still be on the table. By feature lockdown they would just mean that you won't see dynasties making a comback during beta 5 or that we suddenly get a MoM-Myrror style alternate plane or some such. Major, game defining features. Still plenty of time for more aggressive monsters, a popup for destroyed resources, etc.

This is what is worrying me.

As an example, I would think Pioneer spam is a pretty big concept that still needs fixing. Hoping they changed it so that scouts build outposts instead. But if they didn't...there's no recoarse....

Another example is the road building concept. Individually building roads (in very specific circumstances) isn't the way to do it, imo.

BUT, having said that, I'll wait and see what beta 5 has to offer before continuing with this list again.

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I guess we will find out on Thursday.

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