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Originally Posted by llamabeast
Actually I should mention I do like the fact that you're avoiding including buffs which may help Tartarians.
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Yeah, what can I say. I guess I'm a vitalist*. Besides, death has the best summons already and skele spamming is very good battlefield stragedy and MA/LA ermor are powerful nations, why make them better?
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Originally Posted by llamabeast
Do you really want land nations to be more powerful underwater? Is that a considered balance change that you think needs doing?
I am nervous of significant changes like that, because it makes the potential user base rather smaller. However, I'm prone to excessive caution in such things so feel free to take no notice.  |
I kinda forgot to mention that spells I'm adding will be quite.. minor. Single path, low pathcost and low level attack spells. The idea is that all mages have something to cast in underwater battle. Let's see, "Ink Strike" is N1 spell that severly poisons single guy. Acidize will be F1 AoE 1 cloud spell that does 1 damage and rusts armor (the idea is that it will only rust armor on the first round and on the second round the armor will be destroyed by the attack if the target stays in the cloud). I'll probably make Morrison's "deep drowning" pure earth1 spell and low level, and limit targets to one. Not really that powerful spells, but readily available to all nations and mages.
What I think this will change? You will see some more spells flinked in underwater, especially in the early game where it hurts most. It's kinda nuts that you have reach Evo 4 before you can have your first direct damage spell. You know, unless you're R'lyeh, in which case, Thau 2 will work fine.
On the balance discussion:
Well, Vedalkenbear said it some time ago. He his going for a large balance change and I'm going for a very minor one. The stragedic theory being thrown around is quite intresting to read. Some of Vedalkenbear ideas have merit, but it is not this mods intention to test them. Like JiMorrison said, it would be hard to make people play a mod that would do so dramatic changes.
*if you did not get the joke, read more Terry Pratchett. Your quality of life will improve.