Black Forest - Ulm

[Saber Cherry]

For the purpose of upkeep:

Thralls cost 1 gold (1/15 per turn). Wolves are free. And taking a 9-Blood 3-Death FoB makes you incredibly powerful... wolves and thralls make good patrollers to control the unrest. However... I'm thinking gypsies and witches... and bats. Bats are essential. Did gypsies and witches live in Transylvania? Or is the fortune teller a gypsy? I guess so...

Maybe this theme should have a forced misfortune scale, and a propensity for peasant revolts.

[Jasper]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Maybe this theme should have a forced misfortune scale, and a propensity for peasant revolts.

Better yet, it should be forced to have at least Misfortune 1, Death 1, and Magic 1.

Jasper is mean to the furry ears

If you didn't notice, it does Saber

Originally posted by Pocus:
huhu, from another company it would irritate me to be treated like a paying beta-tester. Now for IW, it makes me smile and a special treatment can be made
Seriously, some of the forumers (no I'm not speaking of me) are rather good as betatesters, perhaps you should give to them the patch a week before general release (Psitticine is still around, sometime Daynarr too, but I think they have their hand rather full). On top of my head, in no particular order : Cherry, Gandalf, Keir, Apoger.

I think this would be hard from a MP aspect (though I want to be a beta tester!) as the games take hours/days/weeks in order to complete. Logical deductions can be made and SP tests can be done, but if IW decides to do a beta testing team, they need to make sure they can find people who play (often) and who are abusive to the mechanics

More than a week would be needed for anything more than initial impressions. (Especially for new spells and such).

I don't mind being used as a paying beta-tester, if the game works and it doesn't crash every hour. Most companies do regardless, at least here they try hard

[ January 13, 2004, 22:20: Message edited by: Zen ]

[Dekent]

If you want to pay to be a beta tester, try out Knights of the Old Republic by bioware, that has to be the buggiest pile of goo I have ever played...there is NO WAY that thing had more then an hour of QA...if even!


And I made a good point for once wohoo...it seemed weird the guardian ghouls were wearing normal plate. I don't really see any balance reason as high level priests are still going to make altar boys outta em

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Zen:
Jasper is mean to the furry ears

If you didn't notice, it does Saber

Hey, what are you two implying? I knew that!

But still, I think national bad events would be very thematic... involving peasant uprisings, garlic farmer uprisings, silversmith uprisings, bloodslave mercy-killings by the kindly old butler who found the key to cellar door, national antiheros like Buffy appearing... the birth of daywalkers / compassionate vampire rebels, lynchings, vampires accidentally sucking the wrong blood type and dying from massive hemmoraging... those things! Floods, barbarians, earthquakes, and such tend to be much more rare in vampire-rich areas.

Any chance we'll get national events in the next patch?

[Jasper]

National Events would be very cool. I'd settle for exported and modifiable events however.