Goodmorning, Having a general dispell and a gerneral ward spell, is one solution, but it leads to the 'i have to cast this spell on every city, and maintain them' micromanagment, also it doesn't give any fealing that the mages are battling, over the success or failour of the spell, if the spell is stronger then the counter spell, it wins, else it looses. It would work, but it seams a bit flat to me. I would ra
The method i'm propossing is more complicated, but definately allows research improvments. consider you can have a spell that boostes one aspect or another, so extra rock. for example the read mind euqation would be something like pmind% = (read mind mana - read mind defence + spell and artifact bonuses - artifact and spell bonuses) / (spell and artifact bonuses - artifact and spell bonuses + spell strength)*100. For example.
Goodmorning all, Some talk was had earlier about how to dispell and counters spells being cast. I liked the ideas where one channeler would get into a battle of the wits with another, Risking exposure, and risking having their minds read as a result of the magical conflict. Thus i propose the following, When you go to dispell or counter spell an opposing channllers spell, (this applies only for spells that take several tu
Goodmorning all, There are at least three types of +2 swords, Sword + potion of Plus two Sword + spell of Plus two Sword made of +2 native quality. It's not hard to think that at least one of these, the Sword + spell, could be cast to stop being active if not conrolled by a unit of the right channler. the other two would be more hard to explain... but Having a sword of native Quality +2 become a +1 after loosing a battl
IS anybody else tired of defeating huge armies and seeing thier weaponds and armour laying across the field in the immages.. and then your army just ignoring them and then complaining about needing new gear? If what frogboy promises is true that equiping an army is a truely monumental feat, then a defeated armies equipment might be worth as much or more then whatever it was they were protecting or trying to take away. To prevent this from being too powerful some f
Goodmorning all [quote who="stupored" reply="7" id="2370574"] For every adventurer that actually empties out a cave, 5 more will try but end up eaten by whatever monster/bear happens to be calling that cave home (and refilling the cave with their fancy equipment.) It's the circle of life [/quote] The only problem with that is that if you clear out a cave there is no more bear, and anybody the cave can whipe out now will only have weapons / armour
Goodmorning everybody, One concern with your channler moving from map to map with all thier skills and abilities intact, would they then have to travel with any unit they granted essence to as well, and what of the essence they fed into the land itself. One option is that in every map you gain hero's or family, or allies, but only a tiny few of them offer to serve you for life. Also i would love to see a 'choose your own adventure' campain
Goodmoring all Most of the reports from Frogboy and company have suggested a 'real time' battle scape with a pause and direct funciton, all units have orders they all act at the same time. But at any time you can stop all the action and give whole new sets of orders to all your troops. In multplayer this may become that the game auto stopps every 7 seconds, and both(all, battle of 5 armies anybody) players can give new orders. or something like that.
Goodmorning all, From what i understand, Stardoc wants to set multiplayer up as Dopplex was stateing. A central repository where you click to activate the mod's you want to play with. and then everybody who joins, sees the list, accepts playing with that list, and when they hit go, the game will autodownload any bits they are missing. This got me thinking though, How do you search this databace? and what about mods that change the underlieing mechanic
I thought i did in the title, and again in the first paragraph [quote]'PC's'{not channlers, just called PC's, they would be us, if we were roleplaying in the universe as them}[/quote] but i suppose i could have made it clearer, or stated it more times, It was 1 am, brain was not fully with it.
I was using the term PC in the sense that it's used in 'the order of the stick' "IF any of you encounter real resistence, retreat, I don't want to see anybody trying to be a PC out there." All the towns foke are NPC's, and your family members are NPC's of a sort, but they are conrolled, until you marry them off presumibly. I could have said 'non family hero's' all the time, but that seamed clunky take care
Goodmorning all. I was thinking of Diablo like caves. where each level of the cave has it's own set of monsters, each just strong enough to keep the next layer down from barging up into the world. In the game each cave would have a set number of levels to it. depth. Which is unknowable till the cave is completely emptied. (caves near starting points would probably be shallower, caves on mountain sides would be deeper.) And only
Goodmorning all, Frogboy on several occations has hinted at or stated that, what they are trying to produce is the environement in which our RPG's take place. But instead of being the guys on the ground, the PC's fighting in a 5 person group against the world. We're going to be the kings, Frogboy has also hinted that the 'PC's'{not channlers, just called PC's, they would be us, if we were roleplaying in the universe as them} will still exsist, hero's or groups of non control
[quote]While there can be 32 players max in a game, it would be suicidal IMO to have 32 people playing a multiplayer game. A bit of maths - even if all battles are auto resolved, it will take say an average of 5 minutes per turn later in the game x 32 means you would be waiting over 2 and a half hours between turns. And the game will last hundreds of turns. Netaddict's idea might work though.[/quote] Stardock has stated that turns will be simutanious, so if turns are
Goodmorning all, So i've been given this some thougth, and since nobody added any questions, i'll set up and answer my own. [quote]What does it mean for a citizen, or a town to 'believe' in a channler (anything):[/quote] I propose that beliving in something be moddled in the game by being willing to preform a ritual. The question isn't if you believe or don't belive i the channler (who is very nice and gives you extra tip when you ser
Goodmorning all I think what Demiansky is going for, at least in part, is that you would see a % chance, the computer would look at the situation, what 'you' know about the opponent, and what 'you' think the opponent knows about 'you'. Useing that information it would say 'you've got an 76% chance of this been acc
Goodmorning all, One point i would like to make is that one way to make going Gandalf possible would be to make it so that you can go gandalf and never really fight in any major wars. Gandalf was just an old man with a stick to anybody who didn't know him. For a player to go gandalf they would walk about the map with no army, and would never single handedly take on armies. If Gandalf meets an opposing army, they push him off the road and he waits till they've all passe
Goodmorning all, As far as desperate moves go, another optional desperate move was discussed earlier, at https://forums.elementalgame.com/357530/page/1/#2278923 But I fully agree one of the key things to a good AI will have to be " you got to know when to hold them/ know when to fold them/ ... " any AI that can't see the writting on the wall, is just endlessly frustrating. Take care all Robbie Pri
Goodmorning all, I like this idea, it fits well with what i was suggesting back in https://forums.elementalgame.com/361586 and https://forums.elementalgame.com/354543 . Spys would be units with hidden true loyalties who would have two loyalties numbers, one shown to the spyed on channler and a real one to the channler they came from. this would also allow units to have missions to errode the loyalty of heros / family members of opposing factions by sp
Goodmorning all I would like to add that one magical victory has already been talked about, the spell of making. somewhere, but i can't find it, i suggested there be 2 mutually exclusive ways to win the game by magic. (if somebody can find the link, i would be much appreceative, i didn't see it in my posts, or my replies of my profile) The first being the spell of making, you research a big big big spell, then focus all your attention for sever
Goodmorning all I would like to add that one magical victory has already been talked about, the spell of making. somewhere, but i can't find it, i suggested there be 2 mutually exclusive ways to win the game by magic. (if somebody can find the link, i would be much appreceative, i didn't see it in my posts, or my replies of my profile) The first being the spell of making, you research a big big big spell, then focus all your attention for sever
Goodmorning all I would like to add that one magical victory has already been talked about, the spell of making. somewhere, but i can't find it, i suggested there be 2 mutually exclusive ways to win the game by magic. (if somebody can find the link, i would be much appreceative, i didn't see it in my posts, or my replies of my profile) The first being the spell of making, you research a big big big spell, then focus all your attention for sever
Goodmorning all, When i think of god's or religions for Elemental, i think much more in terms of how Dominions handles them, Your channler, (and anybody else infused with essence?) are living immortals, walking the earthly plane. What is religion and faith when your god buys his dinner baggettes at the same city bakery you do? In a sence all wars in this game will be religious wars, since you, the channler are the high priest, the profit, the dev
Goodmorning all, I agree with a system somewhat like what Iwarmonger is suggesting. A non directly controled agent using thier own money in a city you contructed to turn a profit for themselves by building buildings you would normally have build but not got around to doing so yet do to other pressing matters(with your premission). Then all that's needed is some fair and ballanced way of discuraging this system because otherwise it's just f
Goodmorning, AOW:SM had both simunanious and wait forever turns. Heroes of might and magic has Wait forever turns (5 may have Simutanious, i don't know) Moo2 had plan your turn, execute all turns, simutanious play. Dominions is the same way i belive. other TBS i don't know.