Emperorjarin

[quote who="taltamir" reply="30" id="3231268"]5 essence city is awesome and should be awesome.[/quote] I agree, I just believe that the benefit should lie in the number of enchantments, not both their number and power. That's too much power from one resource. [quote]I don't see why making it beholden to shards is any better. Heck it makes it even stronger since pretty soon I have enough shards that EVERY city with piddly 1 essence has an enchantment giving me a b

[quote who="darkehound" reply="5" id="3230691"]We started this ride with a simple city placement model and every step further has reduced our options. I see absolutely no reason to go from OOOh look a mana source to the current system where you end up sucking hind tit if you dont have a forest and a shard and a farm and 3 essence...needless complexity is needless. Just before essence there were MANY complaints about food/mats values being low. Now we have another value on top of that which di

I've been playing a game with a custom summoner sov, and I'm really happy with the exp and monster changes you've made. I've spent around 100 turns so far farming the overridden countryside for exp and some cash. On a side note, darkling hordes seem bugged. Sometimes the 5-unit groups of darklings will get charge on the first turn, even though there's no indication that they should be able to do so. Also, my earth elemental's overpower trait doe

I am creatively boring with my city names. My first town is always named Townsville, fortresses are named First/West/Rear/etc Guard, and I normally don't bother renaming my conclaves, unless RNG was particularly terrible.

I want stealth to be more of a defensive gap-closer, where teleporting is, IMO, an offensive gap-closer. Yes, it represents the same thing, but if I 'port a unit behind enemy lines before anything else moves, that's the character that the entire enemy army is going to go beat up. I suppose you could just keep your assassin hanging in the back until the front lines have been lured away, but... I dunno. It doesn't 'feel' right. Once the modding tools

The thing I would most love to see in an assassin class is some sort of stealth ability, letting you get through the battlefield unseen. I realize that this is probably impossible to do in tactical battle, so something that could approximate it would be an ability that gives you like +200 air dodge or something, so you can pretend you're unable to be seen by enemy archers.

Fortresses are the easiest to figure out, as they're the ones with the shield icon. Towns and conclaves could be a little clearer, but towns turn into squares, and conclaves turn into stars.

Masterful.

That... is some awesome news, Frogboy.

I like the differentiation of horse vs wargs at the moment, they're designed for very different purposes. I generally give my ranged units wargs for the huge initiative bonuses, while armored melee units need the weight and move bonus more. [quote]One thing I don't understand is why they have prone avoidance. They ought to be MORE prone to prone.[/quote] I think that's more a code limitation than anything, but it also doesn't make sense for a horse to

+1 for sure.

The more zoomed-in screenshots show off the changes quite nicely. A definite improvement.

How does bash chance work, exactly? Is it a % chance, or some other rating? I've never been clear on that, and as a result I've never really used maces.

This looks awesome.

I still say the best way to balance bows is to have 2 bows per tech; high-init, low-damage shortbows, and high-damage, low-init longbows. But that will probably have to be modded in. I've been waiting to try to mod anything until the devs release their tools, mostly because xml scares me (I know nothing about code).

I've noticed that if I move my units quickly enough, I can sometimes evade pursuing monsters for precisely that reason. Hopefully that issue is fixed, though I'm not sure how this issue can be addressed without significantly increasing the amount of endgame lag as each faction resolves their turn.

As the title says. Instead of getting +2 to all defense, as the infocard says my units should, they only get +2 blunt defense. I haven't had time to test beyond the armory improvement, but I suspect it will be true of all subsequent improvements as well.

I've noticed something that might be related with the armory improvements, available in fortresses, only improving blunt defense, instead of all 3.

I noticed today that the General trait only increases cutting damage, not pierce damage (haven't tested blunt). I also noticed a similar problem in vanilla, where the armory buildings only increased blunt defense instead of all 3. Maybe related?

Norton is an idiot. I say this as someone who has Norton on my computer. You did the right thing.

I approve of your spell ideas, other than the drake. I don't think that something that powerful should be available to summon at level 9. I do, however, think all the shrills, including the shrill lord, should be available to summon. Shrill lord should be unlocked by any combination of two rank 5 elemental magics (i.e., fire 5 and earth 5, water 5 and air 5, water & fire 5, etc.)

Also, seems your trait letting non-Altarian races use Henchmen doesn't work. On the plus side, Altar can still build 'em, so presumably custom factions using their blood can too.

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="66" id="3222047"]Sorry to hear this. I wish you the best, and hope your Grand Tour is a short one.[/quote] This. Also, just found the Scroll of Fortune vanilla item, unable to be used (normally permanently increases your income by +1 when used). Intentional change? Or a bug?

[quote who="Chalkbot" reply="11" id="3221536"] If this system was implemented, wouldn't you have to rebalance the higher level spells to account for the fact that you could gain access to them very early?[/quote] In a word, no. The spells are (or at least, should be) already balanced around the idea that you can acquire them at their earliest possible opportunity (which seems to be 2x-1, where x=spell rank). The problem is, there's no guarantee that your archm

Good catch. I've seen that in previous iterations as well, though lately I've been playing with Altarian enchanters and just giving my mage henchmen the actual books.