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Originally Posted by chrispedersen
Sept, as I said in private, I do not want to change the terms of the pretenders to this.
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I am strongly in favor of this new rubric, but as I say, if DrP is against it, and we are sure you will actually be in the game, reverting back may be considered.
Another type of mod I would consider is one that makes all of a teams pretender choices available to every nation on that team. So in all cases (but especially vanheim, jotunheim, Mictlan (if chosen)), a nation such as jotunheim for instance, would be able to choose a Moloch, fountain of blood, black bull, etc as a pretender.
This may require quite a bit of work, lines of code, and all pretenders so designed would need to conform to the standard number of design points as used in-game on awake pretenders and to the path rubric as well to keep things fair, so as an alternative, if DrP feels he wants a certain generally available team pretender for Jotunheim or Vanheim, or in the case of Mictlan, then we can likely handle it quite easily via a simple map edit, known only to Gandalf (will have to confirm with him on this). This is optional of course (DrP seemed OK with the choices he had), but if he wants something already available to his team in leiu of the Green Dragon, like a Moloch for Van or Jottun, it can be probably be handled without the need of a mod file in such limited cases.
For game 3, if themes are used, I will likely create a large mod that make all team pretenders available to all nations, and also perhaps adds a few non-standard pretenders to each team for fun
. This idea was expressed earlier by DrP, but I think a dry run using only standard pretenders is the best way to go first. Many commander type units in the game may in theory be used as pretender for either AI or human players (but there lots of balance considerations to think of).
