It's kind of funny too how you can tank your economy by doing heavy questing early on and getting loaded with all the champ wages. Nothing you can do to avoid that but steal their souls.

Agreed this would be a much better system.  Let players hire the particular champion that they want, when they want to, picking from a much larger list. 

Forcing us to pick from two random champions is boring and restrictive, hardly deserves the honorific Legendary

At present Fame is often a liability rather than an asset.

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As well as being able to buy the champion you want rather than being forced to pick from a list of two, I would like a much more sophisticated "Fame system" where Fame could be used (spent) to do other strategic things like reduce global unrest as part of the casting cost of a sovereign spell. 

Another good use for fame would be for upgrading champions (not the sovereign) using a spell similar to the Paragon spell that costs the sovereign 5 HP to give a champion an extra level, this spell would instead cost Fame proportional to the level of the champion and maybe mana to upgrade one level.  The spell might be restricted to casting once every 3 turns or similar. 

A Fame system like this would give the feel of managing a very valuable resource rather than being forced to pick a mediocre champion that is nearly useless in the late game since it has all its level picks already spent on things the player doesn't want or need. 

Fame needs to the most important strategic resource that players really value rather than an irrelevance to winning the game as it is unfortunately now.

JJ

I have to agree.  I really don't like the new hero system in LH.  I preferred the old system in FE, or as suggested unlock them but recruit them at your leisure.

Great idea thadianaphena! 

I agree that it's better to buy heroes with fame when you are ready rather than being forced to accept them. However I disagree with having more than two options. Despite I agree that too much random is unfun, LH has very few randomness, and we don't need even less randomness.

Also very good ideas about using fame for other things. Perhaps there could be some benefits that can be bought with fame, and each benefit you buy increases the price of the remaining benefits. Big benefits would have minimum fame price to avoid them being bought too early.

There could be "shop" where you can buy a random selection of champions, magical items and xp books with fame.

I like this idea

it shoud be something like shop, with champions available at cost of fame, without any pressure, player shoud be allowed to purchase hero when he want and only hero he want.

or just accumulate fame for more powerfull heroes. 

I would have to suggest that we not use fame as a resource. I cannot spend fame and get less fame. It sounds as if people want to do anti-propoganda to themselves. To satisfy some needs, maybe there should be a third option of not choosing a hero, the ability to decline both of the heroes.

Shopping for heroes seems rather gamey to me.

You can spend fame and get less fame if you train henchmen.

I also think that a full shop seems gamey. But a HoMM-like tavern where you can pick one of two available champions is a fair compromise between forcing to get a champion at that very moment and giving too much freedom.

I also agree that it seems weird to "lose" fame. That could be solved in a similar way to what airlines do with their frequent flyier programs. In those programs you have "expendable" points you can buy rewards with and "star" points that cannot be consumed and are used to define your status level. Both are earned at the same time but one can be used and the other not. Similarly it could be a "Fame" statistic that can't be used and "Popularity" that could be used to buy champions and other perks.

Being able to choose their level-up traits would make them useful though.

I like the current system as well, the aforementioned forced choice, the theme of heroes approaching you based on fame.  I do think that could be balances, in particular, slowed.  They come a little too fast.  Either reduce the accumulated fame, or raise the benchmark point where they offer themselves.

It's also getting more than a little annoying that the champion list doesn't seem to be particularly randomized. It feels like I could play several games in a row, and, as long as I could stack fame levels so everyone gets champs in the same order, the options would be exactly the same each time, assuming the choices were also the same each time.

On a different note, in my current game I got a 400 fame champ at level 1. My average champ level at the time was around 8. What the hell use is a level 1 champ (aside from not having all his traits pre-picked for me?) at turn 300-something?!