Observations from a MoM Fan

Yes, you can purchase equipment as part of the Sov creation process, on a tab in the same menu you assign clothing and stuff.

However, it is probably a far better use of those points to put towards permanent stats for your sov, since you can just buy equipment and will outgrow it. Equipment purchased during Sov creation are wasted points.

Truth=( I miss having very diverse fantasy races.

Yes, as an Old Fart who played MOM ever since it came out, I also miss the very different races. Maybe they'll be added, shouldn't be too difficult. (Add-ons, here we come!)

I also like your idea of adding the magic power to the game - define how much of each one you have, instead of only turning each type on or off.

Lvl 3 treasure chests: do some more research into adventure - the number you see on the map has nothing to do with your 'normal' level.

Ciao,

Klaus

Yeah - there's no strategy whatsoever here.  Even Brad gives this away in one of the video tutorials when creating a custom leader; he says something about "I like to just take them all" in regards to the magic books.  And all the default leaders have all the books.  Kind of makes magic one-dimensional.  I want leaders to specialize, or pay a price to generalize.  There needs to be some distinction.

Thinking more about this.... since magic was "lost" in the cataclysm, maybe ALL the books of magic (except maybe light/dark or whatever they're called) should have to be researched like Summoning is now.  This would create a cost-benefit choice that actually requires some strategic thinking on the part of the player.  If this were added in, would the AI be able to handle it?  Could this be modded?

The TS has a point, ideally it would be nice to have different damage type and resistances to a different damage types for different units/creatures , same for the magic. And this thing better be shown both in train and combat screens.

Regarding the Magic books the cost maybe should be increased,now its 3 points i think,maybe up it to 5?

So that u cant take all of them from the start.As said earlier it makes magic a bit OP  if all heroes  can have all schools from turn 1.

Yeah I miss the diverse races too.  My favorite race was the Draconian race in MoM.  The game also feels kind of incomplete without the elves and beast races too.  Of course this isn't MoM.

I don't believe Brad or anyone from Stardock ever said they were making Master of Magic II? I believe he said he had taken ELEMENTS from many of them an incorporated them into Elemental. So everything from Master of Magic isn't going to be in this game, nor Age of Wonders, nor HOMM and all the rest. I think he did a very good job incorporating them this much this far. He had to make limits somewheres for each game. People really should stop comparing what is left out from those previous games an accept what is IN the game from them. Play it as it is intended not what you wished it was.

You should register with Impluse and download the patches.  Each spell is subtly different.

I agree, the magic book costs should be higher. Researching/acquiring them shouldn't be as easy as it's now - I'm referring to that tech that gives Summoning, Restoration and some third school, and it's really easy to get. Imo tech/spellbook, and some if not all spellbooks should require a quest or goodie hut also. Atm spell books don't really exist in any practical sense, especially as the spells are all so similar, boring, and often really weak.

I realize that from a MoM perspective you guys want to make the schools more exclusive, but trying to say having them all makes heroes OP seems like quite a stretch. These magic schools are not nearly as comprehensive as MoM was. I made a hero with access to only earth, water, enchantment and summoning (pre-nerf). For the first 5 spell levels I could barely find a spell I really liked. Only the nature's ally was any real value to me. In MoM it was many times preferrable to just fill all your spell books with one school. This depth to a spell school just does not exist in this game from what I've seen so far, which admittedly, is not a lot.

This is a totally off-topic question, but since you mentioned that you play GoG's version of MoM: Does it work in Windows 7, too?

Yes, the spellbooks not only shallow, but lack any distinct 'feel'. in MoM Nature indeed felt different then chaos or life or death. Here spells are similar to each other but with different names 

One word - DOSBox if you would like to run MoM on W7

http://www.illustrious-software.co.uk/showpage.php?page=clonemain

I second your thought OP.

Right now the tactical spells could be labeled as "Generic Damage Spell 1" and "Generic Damage Spell 2".

The lack of varied damage and defense types for magic and melee is pretty awful and should be high on the list of things to fix.

My favorite is when you actually own some shards (I have 3 in my current game due to dumb freaking luck of the draw) and spells in those school still hit like a wet paper towel.  Nothing like a single target spell that's supposed to hit for up to 68 damage *regularly* doing under 10 on level 1 creatures...

Yes, MoM from GOG works with Windows 7 - I have it. Although, it also runs fine with dosbox on Windows 7. And, I think that the GOG version launches MOM via Dosbox (I'm not 100% sure on this, I'll try it when I get home).

It could always be bad luck - with the way the system rolls for damage now, it's just 1-68; 1 and 34 and 68 are all equally likely (or maybe it's 0-68, was never really sure). It'd be better if it calculated in a way that favors the middle range over extremes, making 34 more likely than 1 or 68; i.e. 2 rolls of 0-34 or 4 rolls of 0-17 instead of one roll of 0-68. There are of course other, more complicated calculations to accomplish the same thing ('normal' distribution), but the main idea is just to make damage more consistent and less frustratingly random.

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This is a bit vague when first playing. You have to read the descriptions of the techs themselves, not just the summary on the right. Some techs raise your quest level, some your notable locations level, and others open more resources (food, gold). If you check out the kingdom report, on the right hand page it lists what the "world"'s notable, and quest locations are, and what your level is. Kingdoms and Empires seem to differ a bit here for research, but essentially works the same.

 EDIT: Doh...all of them are in the adventure tree.

They're working on it. We already had the generic damage spell for water replaced with the slightly more interesting ice spike, and hurl boulder now ignores the target's armour.

Weapon damage types are in there but they're simply not shown. Just like it's unclear how much of the defence represents difficulty to hit as opposed to armour protection.

Glad it's not just me, I think it's a  game with bags of potential but I'd really like to see a mod that gave races real distinct flavours, like the draconian's flying abilities or the troll's regeneration.

I know the manual says they are in there but in game experiments seem to show that the game engine was never given this ability. Right now the combat calcs are just ATK vd Def in geneeric round terms

If the devs did put something in there for it it never shows up and they need to do a far better job of it than they have.

Either it isn't in or it is broken to the point that being there doesn't matter.