[Keir Maxwell]

Originally posted by Truper:

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Alex P wrote:

Agreed.

How's this for an agrument... Magic Duel is -NOT FUN-. I consider it a burden. It is added complexity that almost never makes the game better. At least in my opinion.

Any other opinions? Does anyone out there ENJOY what magic duel brings to the game? This is perhaps the question that needs to be asked.

It's a question that I suppose only the MP vets can answer, as the AI doesn't use magic duel.

Why is it any -LESS FUN- than any of the myriad other ways you can get stomped?

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As a MP vet I would like to agree with Alex and Arralen.

Mind Duel is an obnoxious, no fun at all, kill lotsa race ideas mechanism that is a thorn in the side of MP Dom and has been kept in the game to let us vets now that while Illwinter listen to us they are in charge. ( )

That was serious except the Last bit.

I have never suffered from Mind Duel personally in MP so this is not a "I got wasted" whinge. The reason I never suffered from Mind Duel is I never played an astral race!? Why - to avoid the horrors and stupid randomness of Mind Duel.

In practice in Dom1 mind duel killed off maybe half the race design options for me. Don't play it because you, and everyone else, knows the absolutely brutal, largely uncounterable way of ruining your race - ooh thats fun - so much fun!

Fun in MP is related to the application of skill. While skill could and should endure a fair degre of randomness there is bugger all skill in wasting someones weaker astral mages and nothing they can do about it except not pick the silly race in the first place or invest in the Astral King crap shoot. No thank you.

Thats why its not fun - the counter to Mind duel for many, many, races is simply not to play them (or if you do don't use their mages).

That only reason I restrain myself from harranging Illwinter about Mind Duel once a month is that the Last few games MP I have played in have simply Banned Mind Duel. Nah nah nah nah - who is really in charge Illwinter? You can take my pants but you'll never take my freedom!


Keir

[ November 23, 2003, 21:44: Message edited by: Keir Maxwell ]