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There are currently no dispells in the game, but in a video of a build FB posted within the past couple of days, there was a hint that there might be a dispell coming soon.

I agree about the gallows, but I think the level three choices are just plain bad.

[quote who="Rhadagast" reply="6" id="3101775"]The multi-turn mechanic is required to allow for the counter spell mechanic[/quote] Not true. All they would need to do is make all non-instant spells cast the next turn with an initiative modifier if necessary. this would allow the opponent to cast a counter if needed.

I understand the rationale behind the level up system. And I didn't mean the system as a whole is useless, just the current implementation of said system. I think locking all of those buildings in the CLU system - and thus, removing them from the tradition improvement production system - is really causing the devs to scramble right now for additional improvements to add to the traditional system. What I recommend is transferring some of those CLU buildings to the tra

Yep - they pretty much made it useless! (Along with all of the other improvements that are trapped in the horrible city level-up system.)

In response to FB's question about early city improvements - There already exist a vast number of city improvements in the game which are depressingly under-utilized: the city level-up bonus improvements. Currently, every time a city levels up I sigh deeply and almost want to quit the game, because not only do I have to choose one of the basic buildings presented at that time, the buildings I do not choose are irrevocably locked out of the rest of the game. Thi

I absolutely love this post. It is a clearly written an argued piece which brings to light the most pressing fundamental flaws of the system so far. There's one main issue that I see which ties many of the various segments of your post together. That idea is scaling. When I refer to scaling what I mean is a natural "inflation" system that is certainly not present in the current version of the game. When a 1 gildar maintenance cost on a bu

I agree with eliminating about the first 33% of the tech trees, and adding more specialization and "epic-ness" to each individual tech tree. Basically, the sovereigns should know how to start and run a basic civilization, but they need to *learn* how to take over the world. Also, why can't traits and (more) spells be unlocked via the tech tree???

Looks like they added City Management as an option after the poll started :-/

[quote who="seanw3" reply="17" id="3097538"]They will divide N by number of votes for M to help decide where to allocate time. Not voting is a bad strategy. Vote for AI.[/quote] Don't care. If my choice is not represented I will not vote, and I will let it be known what my choice is.

[quote who="Stupidity10" reply="12" id="3097514"]Magic Resistance Balancing Stats Encumbrance & Initiative Making Assasins/Defenders Playable and unique[/quote] Exactly. If one of the options was "Balance of Game Mechanics" I would probably choose that.

I think there are still many issues concerning the core mechanics of the game which need to be ironed out prior to "moving on" per se, so I'm not sure which category to select to show my preference.

Dex absolutely should not have anything to do with accuracy or initiative. Encumbrance affecting initiative is just fine. Level determining accuracy is great. Dex affecting crit chance and dodge is perfect. What needs to happen is the devs need to tweak and balance xp gain with dodge bonus and encumbrance to find the right interaction between the three. Then of course throw in traits and magic items and spell effects and sov bonuses and you start to

These are the kind of changes that need to happen to truly make factions unique.

No. These are hard-coded values.

[quote who="ddd888" reply="6" id="3095857"]guys you are just getting the wrong point frogboy is talking about enemy sovereign killing monsters but not going to get the loot and he is wondering the impact on balance on ai getting tons of better stuff in the next patches... basically their champions sovereigns were playing with basic vendor stuff[/quote] I think everyone understands the point FB made, they are just continuing the discussion of monster

Aye, initiative is broken. There should also be very few insta-cast spells in the game as most spells should reduce initiative for the next (casting) round, instead of the spells actually taking multiple rounds to cast.

Most spells are insta-cast right now, which kinda makes counterspell useless. Not sure what the devs are up to here.

Then the unit was probably not set to have upgradeable weapons and/or armor.

Factions need to be orders of magnitude more unique than they currently are. Units, bonuses, city improvements, traits (sov, champion, etc), spells, abilities, quests. They need to be so different that they will alter the strategy with which you will play the game. See Starcraft for one example of different play-styles between factions.

Agreed.

[quote who="CdrRogdan" reply="18" id="3092399"]Addtionally I take offence at your claim that all rpgs use this sort of system. Skryim, Final Fantasy and Shadowrun, among many other games, do not use strength as the determinant to what your character can carry or equip.[/quote] Quite right. Don't know about the other two examples, but Skyrim's encumbrance is based off of Stamina. In that instance there is no strength score. My apologies. However, I s

[quote who="Yazari" reply="3" id="3094273"]The file corespells.xml indicates that it stuns all enemies for 3 turns unless they resist. "Stun" being defined as "losing your next x number of turns" [/quote] Yes that's all fine and dandy but the point the OP is trying to make is that you don't know that in-game, in real time, as it's happening. Do you really want to have to alt-tab out of the game and open an XML file to figure out what an effect doe

[quote]Unhappiness in each city could be affected by buildings[/quote] There are a few buildings which mitigate unrest, but I agree there could be more depth here. Unrest is probably the most pronounced limiter of the economy as it stands now. It should be more of a central theme in the empire building aspect of the game. [quote]grain and food seem very abstract and while I try to increase them it is very unclear to me if they have any tangible return - is food onl

The defend animation is simply way too drawn out.