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I think Machaka is a pretty nice nation on paper. The graphics needs a serious redoing though. Some of them are very blurry - shame on you Kristoffer! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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> Some of them are very blurry - shame on you Kristoffer!

That's not me! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

The blurring was done to all sprites when we went from dom-ppp sprites to dom2 sprites. About 1000 units from dom-ppp were resized and blurred. Since it is boring to redraw an existing sprite, I have put more energy into making new stuff. The uglies sprites were remade, but there are still glaring misses. Some Machakan units got fixed, but most are still ugly.

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Longdeads and soulless! They'd be no 1 on my list to update the sprites for, since they come up so often. Actually, apart from vampires, I think they are the only sprites which bother me.

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Kristoffer:

I cannot imagine anything more ugly than vampires http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I guess its from spiders sucking the blood and juices from its prey why I think of blood. Machaka needs a random in blood so crossbreeding can be viable. Crossbreeding has those spider monsters, even though they are not that great.

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I think spiders (without riders) MR is a bigger problem than militia for Machaka.

I'm fighting Machaka (who had a bless strat, so is rather forced to use his sacreds) with Arco in a game, and all our big battles end with me gaining half his hunter spiders as slaves -the other half being usually killed by his troops-

I suggest to give hunter spiders 10 or 11 base MR, even when the rider is dead. Actually Machaka is the only bless nation I know having so vulnerable sacreds against astral (of course he could have used an astral bless... and ended with 10MR on spiders, but I doubt it's really worth it).

Actually it's a good operation for any nation able to use enslave mind to attack Machaka, good way to gain a lot of free powerful spiders (eventually slavery as a reason to attack blacks may be seen as thematic http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif ).

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on topic (sort of)

the AI should go first http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Umm... Shadow Vestals look like blurry blobs. I would argue that they are more ugly. I love them, don't get me wrong, but I never zoom in on them for sure.

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I agree with Linglich. Vestals are ugly http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif


>the AI should go first

Unfortunately for you I only do sprites and descriptions and stuff. If I would try to touch the AI the game would probably go nuts (actually It would do nothing, since I would not be able to compilate the game). JK is working at his daytime job, and doesn't have much spare time atm. What spare time he has is not used on the AI.

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Kristoffer O:

You could consider giving someone from community access to that. You would have both time to do different games and decent AI http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Of course it just sounds easy and giving access can be hard. But I hope that AI in your next project will be much better http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Preferably with one person working just on that http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif