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Tuidjy said:Instead of proposing ridiculous, poorly thought-out anti-castle measures, which would create horrendous problems, like a 'move and storm' command, something should be done about making castles more varied and useful.
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No need to get rude! I immediately agree with you that being able to put a castle in every province is nothing that should be prohibited at all! Actually when I proposed a "move and strom" command myself, it was in another thread with the topic about diversifying the castle types and making other castle types more interesting. Sorry for being stupid, but I think of this forum here as a place for brain-storming and therefore not everything written has to be developed and balanced to the edge already for me!
The "move and storm" command that I had in mind was meant to diversify the game and to be
almost inapplicable to non-watchtowers (somehow, maybe by requiring to exceeding defense twice or more): So let's just state it the other way around, and propose merely the watchtower being weakened to be the only castle type to be vulnerable to "move and storm" in the sense of your other fine suggestions: This would give us something that would protect temples and bloodhunters against teleporters, lone SCs, and ghost raiders and their friends, while not being already a full fledged castle. So players would have a new choice: something cheap for the mere purpose of protecting blood hunter and temples, or choosing a proper castle like mausoleum or wizard tower or...
So I was talking about adding even more variety to Dom2 rather than prohibiting something, just inspired on the fact that I felt it somewhat unfitting that an almost unoccupied watchtower prevents an army of 500 militia men from pillaging an entire province. It is okay for a proper castle or a fortified city to do feats like that, but a mere watchtower? But this is not a real problem: I am capable to rename the watchtower in mind and think of it as the central keep of a half-built castle or something else which is able to do the things the watchtower does now and fits its stats. My suggestion was just inspired by that name...