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[quote who="moi-meme" reply="205" id="3354840"] Quoting Azunai_, reply 195 the point is - 3 level 10 heroes are on par with one level 16 hero (sometimes better, sometimes worse). with the split - it's a choice. without it, there's no choice at all. you'd be dumb to not put them all in one freaking overpowered stack. sounds like a lot of fun rampaging the countryside with an army of gods. NOT. OK. I did rampage with stacks

hmm yeah, it shouldn't be a problem, but this is the internet. if you do that kind of stuff, you can be (almost) sure that someone will show up and complain about how the game rewards atrocities and displays them in a favorable way. i generally don't care about that kind of stuff in video games, but there are people who do.

[quote who="moi-meme" reply="203" id="3354835"] Quoting sweatyboatman, reply 193 Yves, you are already on record in this thread saying you liked the way heroes were in FE. FE had the exact same XP splitting mechanism. You are wrong. QED. Well ; you did not play FE long enough, did you ? XP splitting came late ; one of the last update before the LH beta. I was very surprised when it happened.<br /

[quote who="joeball123" reply="198" id="3354822"] @Azunai_: The problem isn't so much the "one level-16 champion vs 3 level-10 champions" as that level 16 champions feel like they are (at most) mid-level champions, and level 10 champions feel just barely out of low-level, yet this is essentially where the progression stops, especially when you keep multiple champions in the same stack. Champions feel like they are just beginning to become useful when they run out of ways

you really don't get it, do you? it doesn't matter at which arbitrary XP threshold you compare them - a single hero instead of 3 heroes will never be so far ahead that the other option is irrelevant. in fact, 3 guys that are about 2/3 the level of the lone superhero will more likely than not outperform him. it doesn't matter if they are in one stack and do all the encounters together or if each of them has his own army and each of them clears about 1/3 of the lairs.

[quote who="moi-meme" reply="191" id="3354801"] Oh! Very good. So you agree with me! You feel that three level 10 heroes is almost as good as three level 16 heroes ? Then let us drop the XP split. You do agree ? Or, well, if you don't agree, then maybe you did not really think what you wrote and there is, after all, a serious difference between said heroes ? Maybe even a totally devastating one ? Yves[/quote] the point is - 3 level

[quote who="nukularpower" reply="47" id="3354793"] Quoting Anelyn, reply 42 You put it as if YOU have to fight non stop and early on before you develop economy / research / spells to decent levels to tackle enemies. Can you do weak quests on Ridiculous and Insane with your starting militia and spearmen? Can you clear lairs of 2 spiders, pack of wolves etc early game? No you can't, unlike AI. On normal you can go on a map sweep with starting army and whatever you grab alo

regarding 3 (Yithril): i think that's just coincidence. sometimes they will be strong, but in my games they are often really weak. guess Verga had just a streak of luck in your last 3 games ;) regarding 5 (Ophidians): are they considered medium? i'm almost sure they are classified as "strong" (at least their lairs with 3 of the beasts). strength ratings aren't all that reliable, though. better to learn which creatures are actually hard instead of following the rating. Air

hmm interesting idea. not sure. on the one hand, it's just a game and a few "gamey" features won't hurt. on the other hand, rewarding genocide with fame seems a bit questionable (from a philosophical point of view)

it takes a while to actually finish all those buildings. it's not so much about whether you eventually get them. the real decision is the priority - and there are actually situation where it makes more sense to put that town on "build gold" or "build growth" instead of wasting 20 turns upgrading the school to a college etc. so yeah, there's no real restriction that stops you if you want to ignore the building aspect, but there are somewhat important decisions that will impact

judging by the numbers joeball123 listed, the XP split is nowhere near as devastating as people believe (assuming the chart is at least close to accurate) let's just do a few examples, shall we? say you have encounters worth 1000 XP in your immediate area that you can defeat (let's ignore the implications of whether it's harder or easier to do it with multiple heroes) doing that stuff with 1 hero gets him to level 10 (almost 11) doing the same stuff

[quote who="moi-meme" reply="173" id="3354711"] Quoting Azunai_, reply 171 your logic is flawed. if you want to model the game in a way that allows you to solve it by math, you have to take more then just the single XP split mecahnic into account. i doubt it's even possible to calculate which playstyle is better. if one level 11 (or whatever) hero is better than two level 7 heroes for you, that's great. go for it. claiming that the alternative isn't smart i

[quote who="fenwe" reply="158" id="3354589"]Actually, no, it isn't my choice. I don't play games to butt my head into a wall. The way all the math works out, you are always better running a single hero and troops. The single hero and troops will out level and significantly out perform a dual hero set with troops. You aren't even arguing that point. What you are arguing is that it is possible to do it with a dual. I'm stubborn, but doing it your way isn't smart. If it isn&#

i always wondered why they didn't just unlock the road building trait at economics, instead of (or in addition to) auto-buildng roads to outposts. would make perfect sense to me. capitar still has the advantage, since they can do it from the start; an early admin hero can still give you the ability early on if it's really important - and if it's not a big deal, you just get it later towards the end of the civ tech tree. i think that could work al right for everyone.

will the scenario be done before the end of the beta? i'd love to try it. i think i read a few comments of other forum posters who would also be glad to playtest it before the official release.

that dragon was level 16 i think (12 base, +2 from world difficulty, +2 from the bad moon event thing that makes all monsters higher). i couldn't have done it much simpler, since that dragon was on my doorstep and would have destroyed at least one of my cities if i hadn't stopped it at that point. it's perfectly doable with mid level heroes. the point is that heroes aren't underpowered. there's absolutely no gameplay reason why heroes need to be

i think the 4-5 cities plan is for the early game. they will be sufficient to get you to the mid game. what you do then depends a lot on how the game develops. if the diplomatic situation is stable, you can go monster hunting for fun and profit, perhaps aiming for a mastery quest victory, if your neighbors expand more, you may be forced to fight them and take some of their cities; this may lead to a conquest victory, or maybe a "diplomatic victory" (which really just means that you don't

interesting question. i guess my list would be Dex -> crit chance, dodge, initiative, Str -> attack & armor penetration, Con -> HP, resistances & defense, Int -> spell mastery, spell power, mana cost discount , Cha -> Trained unit attack & defense, city production/research/gold (depending on the city type - growth for villages until they spec into one of the 3 types)

[quote who="Anelyn" reply="42" id="3354448"] You put it as if YOU have to fight non stop and early on before you develop economy / research / spells to decent levels to tackle enemies. Can you do weak quests on Ridiculous and Insane with your starting militia and spearmen? Can you clear lairs of 2 spiders, pack of wolves etc early game? No you can't, unlike AI. On normal you can go on a map sweep with starting army and whatever you grab along until you can produce advanced (mounted)

i usually pick a path that seems appropriate for that sov/faction. for tarth/irane, i think archer assassin is more or less the "canon" path. i wouldn't play magnar or markin or carrodus as assassins, though.

[quote who="MM77" reply="16" id="3354426"] Azunai , will you help me? please write or paste the steps on how to do that. [/quote] i don't have much experience with modding, so i just tried the most obvious solution without cheching tutorials or anything. seems to work. i don't know how to make a proper mod, so i basically just "hacked" the game XML file that contains the relevant information. i think save games store the XML data, which means it will onl

i think there's a new mechanic in LH now that also reduces the XP gain when your army is stronger than the other. don't really know how that works. by gaining a higher level, i guess this mechanic might reduce the bonus XP even further. bottom line is still - remove the traits- they are a trap.

seriously? you want encumbrance back so your mage can wear heavy armor? if that's so important to you, just mod the game and put heavy armor proficiency in your mage tree. problem solved.

did you change any of the world/game settings between those experiments? maybe one of the many sliders impacts upgrade cost. i think it would make sense for the "production" slider in the world setup to affect upgrade cost (with slower production, upgrades might also be more expensive) EDIT: regarding the athican leather: it's the same for light plate/ master chain. the item in the screen just shows the effect of the full set (i.e. athican armor chestpiece and 4 pieces of leather

i'd love to see tarth :) there's one small mechanic within the default tarth setup most players seem to miss: their sov starts with air 2, so it's not exactly hard to get her to air 5. at that point, you can just tornado big stacks into small stacks/single units. with master scouts and the huge bonus when in small groups, you can then split up your army and kill the individual units easily. air 3 and 4 aren't that bad for an archer hero, either. i think air 3 gives you the tel