May 4th, 2004, 01:16 AM
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Re: Humanoid Pretenders are too expensive
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Originally posted by Kel:
Given that an SC pretender means more provinces to search and more income to build mages to search with, it's hard to see, losing the ability for a single pretender to run around searching seems to be, at best, an even trade off and, at worse, totally inefficient. (Note this is why I made the suggestion of letting them auto-search a province without spending a turn on it)
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Where is the potential to be afflicted and die and lose magic in site searching? Do you have to wait for items/magic levels to site search? What kind of versitility of effects do you get from site searching? (I'll answer this one for you, gold, units, fortresses, temples, gems and magic bonuses).
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I like to use a 4-5/4 N/E Nat, for example, playing Arco. With natural mages covering gaps, that leaves only D/B paths weak. I realize that arco lets me use Nat with less fear of afflictions so take the VQ, so much under scrutiny now, which is half rainbow in addition to being an effective SC. Maybe for a nation that has both poor natural mages and no access to effective rainbow SC's, like the VQ, AND is playing in a game with conducive settings/map, could fully benefit from an RB pretender.
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That is alot of points for a "SC". Take a VQ with alot of paths and play Ermor a gem only income and explain to me how much of a decision it is to search provinces or use your SC. And at what point in time do you make those decisions.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't want everyone playing rainbow pretenders either  I don't think there is a lot of danger in that right now, though, unless we truly over-compensate.
- Kel
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I don't think there is danger in it either. But it is because you want to make rainbows more attractive with the human pretenders that is the problem.
Ask yourself this question. "If I chose a Human Pretender right now, what would I do with it?" Now apply the changes you mentioned. Does this change the answer to that question? I don't think so. I would rather see using each pretender for a different type of role rather than making a whole slew of pretenders good at just one thing and one thing only. Sure, make a few like that. Archmage, Sage. Those should be Rainbows, but Frost Father? Druid? Why should they be regulated to Rainbow status. I would rather have some of them be useful for other things as well.
[ May 04, 2004, 00:17: Message edited by: Zen ]
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