Ya, monster allies are worthless. Only dragons are any good. This is in fact one of those problems that has been around so long I've given up hope of functional monster allies. In fact they seem to keep nerfing monsters more and more, which is weird because they were never any good to begin with.
Huh,Ive never seen or heard of that before. Wasn't even aware buildings could be quest rewards. We need more of these!
[quote]I have also had a L9 hero have about three different magic traits, and not much else. A L9 unit should have at least 11 traits (not including race trait).[/quote] This, a big part of the problem is that champions pretty much never come with base stat traits. Sure its exciting to get a wildling hero that has coalstones, but the fact that hes lv 5 and has no traits beyond coalstones, Air I, Fire I and Mage means hes worthless till you get him to some evoker at level 9. Even the l
Good to know its not just me. A couple of times I was experimenting with a life/earth summoner which led to some funny Bacco beatdowns. Bacco would drunkenly challange me to a one on one only to get mauled by a summoned bear.
Update: Pyre of Man is a terrible terrible caster in both terms of AI and stats. His fireball was thrown at a single wisp and failed to kill it, only dealing like half damage to it. Counterstrike doesn't work on abilities like impale, doublestrike and cleave. Severely reducing the utility of counterstrike. For the sake of balance units should counter when targeted by skills. Oh and sure, everyone feel free to add to the list.
The random event of stumbling upon Baco the Beggar, a lv 5 warrior hero who drunkenly challenges you to a dual never fails to happen to me. Kingdom or empire, in the early stages of the game the event happens. He is actually quite tough at lv5 and wins fairly often with hilarious results. Twice hes beaten me and roamed the world, destroying towns in a drunken rampage. But seriously, Ive run into him every game without fail. Anyone else have this problem or is it just me?
Seconded [quote]And woods and rivers still act as essence repulsion objects, where you'll NEVER get a good city with essence and access to woods and river tiles[/quote] I have on rare occasion seen essence by a river or forest tile. It is ridiculously rare though. It seems that any tile by a river or forest has a max yield of 7 instead of 9.
Theres a Gilden Mage/Defender that can summon cave bears. He cant access his mage trait tree. Also cave bears take 2 turns to summon and can only be done tactically.
[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="6" id="3338321"]Is Ythril powerful at yielding large, well armed armies? Yes.[/quote] No, no they're not. Yithril is average at troop creation and that's the issue. It's not difficult to build forts that can pump out any troop in one turn and give them huge bonuses (Ive done it with Altair and Magnar). Almost any lv3 fort can do it. Labor costs are irrelevant to anyone with a decent fort, even the mediocre one take only 2 turns. A 10% inc
Very nice analysis, makes me want to write one. Probably wait for 0.52 though. [quote]By this time I had a some very high level fortresses that could pump out even Grey Wards and Dreadnaughts in a single turn. Kinda OP.[/quote] Have the same problem. I like to create mounted chainmail paladin units with 3 traits and artifacts and steamroll the world. I only ever run out of crystal and can build them in a single turn. Either labor prices need to go up on traits a
Thanks Cant wait to test it out. Your points 4 and 6 are very important Daynarr A good fort doesn't actually need more than 1 essence, for growth or material bonus. Spell stat boosts are good but just being able to pump out high end troops is enough.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="38" id="3338135"]I think that alone would make things funner. But I also think that the LEVEL of what gets summoned should be the same as the caster.[/quote] +traits and shards? Because that would get rid of a lot of traits including summoner starting one or inversely some really high level summons. Also be a shame if shards had no affect on summoning. [quote who="Frogboy" reply="38" id="3338135"]1. Getting the AI to summon things effectively is a lot of w
[quote who="vmoped" reply="36" id="3338082"]I agree with the majority that strategic summons are severely lacking compared to MoM, but tactically I disagree with the majority. I have run two empire summoners with summon skeletal horde backed up by mages/archers and decimated everything. [/quote] Thats a very specific example of 1 offshoot skill that better AI would probably stop. Hardly reflective of the vast majority of worthless traits. Wisps and Lightbringers are also good start-mi
[quote]In my second game it send single heroes and even it's faction leader without any support to destroy one of my resources or two instead of using outdated troops (like militia) or spezialised fast troops like scouts and cavalry to harass me properly. - One big issue is the stack quality. AI stacks are far inferior to mine in terms of troop quality. Their armies are often composed of outdated troops together with some better units and no leaders, which are busy running arou
Bugs 1) Disease that lowers health by -1 broken. Only health maximum affected, units had 21/20 health. 2) Forest/river tiles never have essence, Tile yields always low there, even when they are next to 2 resources. Why? 3) Deadly quest with demon Kainen in his tower broken. When he dies you get like 20exp and its just over, no message or rewards. 4) Blessed hammer is offered as a reward f
Good Post [e digicons]k1[/e] [quote]I also got really nailed by corruption after an early game war netted me two cities. That really slowed me down & I felt it was too much of an early penalty just because I had a war.[/quote] Grab an administrator hero and keep enough gold around to rush some unrest control buildings, as enemy cities usually don't have them. If you don't have enough money you should invest more in towns. Finally if youve taken too many cities ra
Very Good Post, art critique aside [e digicons]k1[/e] [quote]On one hand this is an strategic Ai issue, on the other hand it is also due to horrendous outcomes of automatic battles, which is the only option for the ai, unless it fights against the player. If i had to rely on automatic battles only i would loose much more battles instead of the very very few when i misjudge the difficulty of a fight by a slight margin.[/quote] Main weakness of enemy AI is targeting units they
[quote who="parrottmath" reply="12" id="3337425"]I would maybe look into creating a summon group spells as well, instead of summoning 1 fire elemental, the option to summon a group of 3 minor fire elementals (or something). This could leave you with 1 large fire elemental you can summon but you can summon multiple groups of fire elementals.[/quote] We need a shrill summoning trait. [quote who="parrottmath" reply="12" id="3337425"]I would like to see that tatical summons cost
[quote who="Takkik" reply="9" id="3337420"] Having all the summons in one skill tree, and unlockable in a linear fashion One at a time isn't the most interesting.[/quote] It is in fact torturous. Worst part is the incredibly tiny amount of choice we have in what we summon. Not a water mage and don't have any water shards? too bad your only summon for the next 3 levels is a water elemental. Just because.
[quote who="Lokitako" reply="2" id="3337400"]And I still find tons of leather legplates on enemies heroes, just like in FE. No idea why they are so obsessed with them.[/quote] I find the combination of tons of Leather pants and horses oddly hilarious.
[quote who="dday235" reply="6" id="3337392"]No, they changed it back. Champion XP splitting still exists.[/quote] Oh Well then......
Food Beyond that its nice to create a couple towns, especially on rivers with decent food. To increase food in other places and earn some money.
A multi summon trait isn't a terrible idea, there's no way to balance unlimited summons though.
Are you talking about surrendered Sov? I once got a lv10 Magnar assassin with only 7 general traits.
Its OK, late game champions are terrible anyway. But ya seems like a lot of autosave problems are being noticed. I like the one where autosaves undo AI's attack phase.