Mod: Conceptual Balance Mod 1.6

[chrispedersen]

I'd like to see pangeae get Lord of Rebirth as a pretender.
Oddly enough it would be nice to give mictlan some pretenders as well. Something to compete with the std bless chassis.

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Something to compete with the std bless chassis.

God, what a disgusting visual.

[Snowcat]

Originally Posted by Sombre

God, what a disgusting visual.

The aforementioned Mictlan's new national Pretender with an >STD< bless:

The Old Man of Festering Fertility

The Old Man of Festering Fertility is dirty old man, a black sorceror whose corruptedness and amorality were so great that it pleased the darker demons of the underworld to an extensive degree. The demons decided to afflict the old man with a blessing of Festering Fertility. Part of him is now in a constant state of rot while remaining vigorously alive. The Pretender is able to pass his bless to his holy followers through direct contact. The Festering Fertility causes the blessed ones slight madness, gluttony and unquenchable burning desire, which also drives them to go berserk in battles. It also keeps all his holy followers to be constantly diseased and regenerated in the same time.
The maddening desires of the Old Man fuel his magical power to an extent which allows him to approach godhood.
If his wickedness is not stopped, the world will surely become a vile place to live in.

[Sombre]

Rotten fruit!

[llamabeast]

Gosh, that was horrible.

[BigDaddy]

Mictlan's pretenders don't "pretend" to be good while simultaneously raping the world they exist on, like, say, the Lady of Fortune.

[militarist]

Pretenders... cbm did really well in improving the balance, but I think there is still a long way to add some real diversity. there are a lot of unusable, for which some niche usage are possible..in theory..but nobody really uses them.
One common thing to consider - is giving all pretenders who have blood, like deva some bloodhunt bonus, less then fountain, of course. Freak lord, vampire queen. It's very thematic.
And those pretenders that have other weak blesses, like air, all of them but great enchantress... if to add them 1-2 more air, will not make them op, but in some cases at least some will stat thinking about using them. If it will make some of them OP for one of nations (sacred hidras comes to mind), those can be not available for specific nations.

Otherwise cyclops, master druid,mother of rivers will always be a priority (or some sc). Adding recuperation to some Sc's would be also cool, otherwise many of them just unusable..at early stage because of nott compensated encumbrance problems in addition to risk of affictions and to lose it, later - because just bigger armies. Adding recuperation to more pretenders would make Sc choice more fun of later use of them. Not just early game, especially those relying on force rather then magic.

[SciencePro]

I am reading through the .dm file trying to understand it and I notice a lot of blank entires that #selectwhatever then #end without any changes. Do these do anything? Are they necessary placeholders? Examples:

#selectspell "Summon Earthpower"
#end

#selectitem "Lightless Lantern"
#end

[Sombre]

Nope just placeholders. Do nothing.

[kianduatha]

I just realized that Ninjas aren't spies. This seems wrong to me for some reason.