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Old June 30th, 2007, 03:41 PM
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Default Re: Mod: Mytheology Pretenders (update v1.4)

Monkey King, and probably many other old pretenders, have two heads. This is due to a bug whose effects were noticed (halved head protection), but the fix only worked to make the problem more apparent. You'll have to rework the bodyslots numbers to fix this.

Also, at least for me, the Monkey King (of MA Bandar Log and LA Patala) has wrong graphics. It seems to use the attack sprite of one of the new units in 1800s. It is also missing its description. Tarrasque of EA Marverni is also using the same mis-sprite, but it appears to have its description intact. The bug/problem appears to be linked to copying player-made units. Also affected are MA Caelum Great Egg and Thunderbird.


Some pretenders are horribly overpowered. Fallen Angel of LA Marignon has F4D3S3B3 AND Holy 2. It costs just 150 points... Giving Baphomet the same levels of magic costs 62 points MORE, and Baphomet is immobile and starts with two of the four paths Fallen Angel has... And Baphomet isn't flying, immortal flier with all slots available either! Not to mention that the Fallen Angel can bless itself! Symbol of Unchallenged Victory indeed! And the Djinn... Any pretender that can give Marignon five level 9 blesses is overpowered. F9A9S9E9 X9 takes all your points, but it shouldn't be possible. You can have F9A6E4S4 with an awake pretender and net positive scales!
On the other hand, Desire is useless. 18 hp on a seducer/assassin unit ensures her death. I didn't check out her summons, or if she has a temporary second form but she CAN'T be used as a seducer as per her primary form's stats. It'd be suicide.

Speaking of suicides, I gather Lord of the Plague Wind is supposed to only be used as either dormant or imprisoned...



EDIT: Also, the mod descriptions doesn't work because several pretenders use #description instead of #descr. The latter is for monsters, the former for the whole mod. #description works, because Dominions interprets it as #descr, some unnecessary stuff, "description of the unit" AND #description "description of the unit" at the same time.


EDIT2:

I'd like to add that I like some pretenders. Pantokrator might not be balanced, but I like the idea, and the outcome isn't too far from what I'd imagine myself. The Great Egg is excellent. It's just that there are many, many problems with the mod...
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