sweatyboatman

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="115" id="3349235"] Quoting sweatyboatman, reply 113I think most of the issues with road-building would be resolved if the local road system were recalculated every time you found/take a new city. It would be a little weird to have the roads redraw, but hey, roads are already magical abstractions. What are the issues "issues with road-building" that you mention and would be resolved if the road system was recalculated with new citie

Way to go, Stardock! If I didn't know any better, I'd think they were reading the forums and listening to our ideas.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="5" id="3347244"]Champions you have more attachment towards, so having more details is necessary, plus with champions, there are a host of other issues that have popped up from removing encumbrance that are unfun or quests will need to be reworked.[/quote] I don't understand this. Are you seriously playing the game and going "Man, I wish I had encumbrance to make it so I couldn't carry this shield I found unless I take off my boots!" Beca

In my opinion, this is a bad idea. You're trying to address the "whoever moves first wins" problem (which is only a problem if you already have an overwhelming force at your disposal). There's no need for a new mechanic in the game, especially something so weird, when all that is required is balance. Weapon damage needs a nerf, HP needs a buff (especially champs). If you did that charge/cleave wouldn't wipe out the entire opposition and would leave your u

[quote who="Alstein" reply="30" id="3346795"]The xp system right now is another of my big concerns, I think it's causing a "degenerative" impact- making the unfun thing that optimal option, which is to have all your XP on your sovereign or one champion, and sticking your other champs in one city to get Adventurer's Guild benefits. I think there are a number of solutions here: The issue here is how to incentivize building multiple champs up, without causing the hero stack of doom.[/quo

some of the low level treasure finds have become useless junk unlike before? From time immemorial, this game has always had a lot of useless junk. [quote who="GFireflyE" reply="7" id="3346526"]Without encumrance, why pick stuff other than the best available?[/quote] Equipping your heroes with the best equipment available? We don't want the player to do that! Next you'll be suggesting that they use the most powerful spells and make the

If you want to be able to expand without interference from the AI until the late game, play a 1v1 game on a medium (or larger) map . That should give you plenty of opportunity to build up and explore without ever even meeting the AI.

Pity the [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e] he has a lot on his plate.

[quote who="Satrhan" reply="10" id="3346073"]I whiped up some screenshots of what a game like that could look like. They're a little rough, but I think it looks pretty nice![/quote] Silliness. [e digicons]k1[/e]

The answer to why no boats is simple :the AI cannot handle it. Considering the difficulty the AI has with the land based game, and the sheer annoyance of boats in rats I am happy to skip that particular feature. I think the maps could use a warp stone feature which will transport units that entire the tile elsewhere on the map. I doubt the AI would understand that unless stardock included it in the base game, but that would make choke points a little less overwhelming.

It's really a question of balance. Heroes level too slowly. Units do too much damage and everyone needs a hp boost. There are too many traits and leveling is a slog. Many of the meatier skills are hidden behind meaningless ones. So not only do you have to struggle to level, the reward for leveling is frankly pathetic. If I were in charge I would change leveling so that it's a rare and wonderful effect. A champ or sov at level 10 would be uber powerful

To my mind there are two issues at play that could, without changing the underlying game, make late game more interesting. First and most straightforward the AI just isn't consistently good at the game. It doesn't take goody huts. It doesn't farm spawn points. It doesn't field armies worth a damn. It doesn't pick attributes with any purpose. And it doesn't use its most powerful spells .There'ss a rat's nest of interconnected issues a