How far along with the new spell UI are you Brad, seeing all those pretty new Icons in that bland ole book makes me sad. P.S. you may also wanna tailor each 'book' a bit per side. Something nice and ornate and parchmenty for Kingdoms, and something more worn and bloodstained and skiny for Empire :P P.S.S. and by 'skiny' I mean bound in the skin of my enemies.
[quote]Too many solid and amazing games lost a lot of their meat due to "multiplayer balancing". I'd hate to see that happen here.[/quote] Yeah, I too would rather see MP being a little out of whack for a better SP experience, but some ppl live for MP soooo... can't win them all I guess.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="2693688"]I'd imagine in MP being able to manipulate AI players to be a big deal.[/quote] Oh I agreed, for now. However, there is no reason that it can't be made to work against players later(say 1.1 or 1st xpack). Diplomatic capital gives a definable value on things like reputation and fame/infamy. Forces Ceasefires, Involatile borders, Champion treason, these are things that could get bring diplomatic capital into the playe
There is always the option of later addons for alternate usage AGAINST OR FOR players. I.E. spend diplo to reduce your enemies production/food/research or boost an allies. Easy enough to also just add in FORCED trading with humans via diplotech. I.E. more or less demands weighted by spending, that would be able to force certain turnovers of units/cities/resources whether or not the 'human' behind the game agreed.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="2693608"] Yes. [/quote] Excellent... MWAHAHAHA! Means I will be able to look at your ability linkage structures and see what i can steal graf 'borrow' :}.
To add to that if that dragon is breathing fire, does that mean that you have started hooking up special abilities to Monsters/Champions. If so... Woot!
[quote who="Omnax" reply="7" id="2693520"]I do not want to be rude or anything, but have you considered make smaller squares in tactical combat? I mean, at the moment, if you attack somebody, that unit runs arround in that square, which is a little bit stupid for me.... also, how you will add something like a sweep attack etc... which attack more units arround? Would not be better to have smaller squares, where bigger units take more squares, like 4 for dragon and one for normal army et
[quote]In my opinion, people should be concerned about diplomacy being too powerful, not too weak. Doesn't this also move hand-in-hand with espionage? Diplomacy has the potential to be every bit as gamebreaking and destructive as less subtle methods, but I think it's not being done in a way to correctly realise this.[/quote] Which is as it should be. Many armies of great power have been defeated by clever alliances and popular sentiment in their homelands. Diplomacy need more
[quote]Absolutely. If we had actual champion classes such that your researchers and merchants and farmers had no combat stats, I would happily support having them increase their skills by staying put in a city. But, currently, this isn't the case. Your merchants and researchers are fully capable of equipping armor and weapons, increasing their attack skills, and basically doing everything a "combat" hero can do (even though there's no actual hero with a combat bonus).[/quote]
Hell as I think more about it, the more the current Blandpions annoy me. There is soo much room for Strategical and Tactical Specialists in this game. An Apothecary would be a fine example of a unit that participates both in and out of battle. He could be very much like a normal Adventurer champion. However instead of Strength and Dex, he would get triage and potionmaking. It would behoove you to protect such a frail unit during tactical because he will heal you, and w
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="108" id="2692271"] Nor do I. If you want them to level up, you gotta risk fighting with them. Otherwise everyone's just going to keep them in town until they're unkillable, then go wipe the map.[/quote] That only applies if the hero is a combat hero, and/or the exp they are gaining is combat xp. If the noncombat classes only gained noncombat levels, then your scenario has no fear to it. And honestly, no researcher in the world has ever go
[quote who="Spitz" reply="84" id="2691525"]Champion units: I'd like to see more differentiation between champion units, with some of them coming with special abilities like increased damage against a particular creature type, increased movement or defense on a specific terrain type, immunity from attack by certain creature types, resistance against damage from a particular damage or magic type. I'd also like to see some Fallen and magical champions. It would be nice if t
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="2690611"] Quoting Sarudak, reply 1So at this point the major features and functionality is all frozen to prevent it from differing too much from the box version? No. As anyone who has played a past game of ours, we don't even promise that v1.1 of the game will play exactly like v1.0.[/quote] Oh yeah, SotS played very different after pretty much ever major patch! Now some of us love that, digging through and relearning the game, discov
[quote]It's basically as inaccurate as it can get. Because people who take web surveys most surely don't skew the responses towards digital downloads, plus the sample size is pitifully small for the size of the industry.[/quote] Not just sample size, but sample diversity and penetration are terrible too. I would regard those results as questionable at best, and more leaning toward simply unsound. As tempting as it may be, we of the 'preorder beta' forums are not exactly
Indeed, the 'cheese' as you call it relates just as much to Melee and Armor(more so under proper stating), it is purely related to the non-separate function of attack/damage and armor/mitigation. As said earlier, simply make HP higher, and then mitigation/missrate and hit/damage separated stats. Just as an example, a Warrior Sovereign, Lvl10, Berserker Amulet, 2 zerker rings, Claymore, Horse and all STR + 15 str start will have 35 str meaning 250% multiplier on (30+6+6+3) = me
He wouldn't be able to attack either, takes 1 action to attack. If you level him up, and put 1 point in speed, you get the .5 to complete his 1, and then he can move and attack like a normal unit.
Thank you Tridus for fielding Saije's latest 'it works fine' post. Still playing around with 3b, but like I said, I will later post the math as to why the current system is nonfunctional in regards to essence(and several other things, you reeeeeeally need to take a numbers pass Brad).
[quote who="Saije" reply="40" id="2684629"]@VermillionChaos You lost me... How does that gimp casting sovereigns? If your a casting sovereign you'll have a higher Wisdom anyway to get better spells. Now you can raise one stat and effectively raise three. + Wis = + Ess = + Mana I just don't get where all the casting sovereign hate is coming from. So they can't spam world ending nukes... I don't think that makes them a gimped play style, qu
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New build: Excellent... However, + Starting essence for a new sovereign = wisdom ... I will reserve Judgment. However, at a glance and without any other manaregen/casting modifications this is WORSE than it was before. Should prolly just change the title at this point from Element:War of Magic to Elemental:Sorcerers need not apply. Also: From the front page, it claims: "In Elemental, you design and train your soldiers, archers, knights, <span styl
[quote who="Elurian" reply="99" id="2683947"]I'm not crazy about arcane/divine/psionic etc. in the core game, but it would make a lot of sense to have the "key stat" that determines a spell's power be a flag that can be easily altered for purposes of modding. [/quote] Yeah, although I could see Divine/Mental/Other being great xpack items. There was an Armageddon, so chances are some civilizations got totally isolated with no shards and had to make do. Arcane however is im
[quote who="arstal" reply="90" id="2683590"]Question- should essence-costing spells be allowed to provide some resources or switch resources , like alchemical magic- iron to gold for example? [/quote] Yes! See now spells like that is what essence should be used for, provided they get it Essence balance. Transmutes like that, would allow you to change the very shape of your game, and would be very fitting of essence level spells. Spells like: Ra
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="46" id="2682967"]The thing about essence being equal to where your mana maxes out is that the player is having to decide whether to imbue champions or stay powerful themselves. [/quote] Sorry for the rapid post, but this just annoys me so much. Gonna throw down a few things, sorry if this sounds judgemental, but the way essence works currently is IMPOSSIBLE to balance. Wisdom is neigh useless in its current for
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="46" id="2682967"]The thing about essence being equal to where your mana maxes out is that the player is having to decide whether to imbue champions or stay powerful themselves. [/quote] See that is only a choice up until you decide you don't feel like Role playing a channeler, and you realize that you can spend some essence on 1 other champion, and then some farms, and then have your strongest unit ignore every other aspect o
So... Every Tactical Battle that plays on a set type of terrain will have the same Map? For the moment, it would be easy to make 10 more maps of each type, and then random them, or have a seed type depending on the terrain, and then add random elements [quote who="Reianor3" reply="84" id="2682564"]*sigh* IMHO It would have been better not to put so much emphasis on TB in the 1st place. I mean, it's not HMM where every other aspect is there for the sole purpose of be