Black Forest - Ulm

[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.

[Kristoffer O]

There are events tied to the presence of particular creatures at the moment, such as a dragon pretender munching up a few bloodslaves.

[Jasper]

Cool! I'd never noticed one of those happening.

[neurosis#5]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
Next theme is an Arcoscephale theme. It is missing descriptions, heroes and some other stuff, but they are in the works.

That's great! Arco is already one of my favs.

On a side note, I should have remembered the AI uses themes after the Last game fighting Miasma C'tis (shudder). Sometimes I have a hard time remebering which is the "main" theme!

[Pocus]

About a core team of betatesters:

I know Zen that one week cant be sufficient to test all aspects of new themes, and even more if you take into account MP.

But its better than the current situation, where there is overbooked IW, and thats pretty all. The aim would be to filter out the biggest loopholes (like having the possibility of getting a vampire count at turn 8). Sure some issues would still be there, but hopefully of less importance. Old MP veterans here (Pepe Mus, George McGinn, Nagot Gick Fel (Jacques Vidal), Alexander Poger, etc.) have sufficient insight to be able to spot issues even without playing actually. Give them a themes with all the parameters attached, and they can pretty well round down what can be abusive just by looking at it.

As of now we get a patch which can have big issues or exploits, and we will have to wait some time before having it fixed (no disrespect mean to IW, they dont have 8 arms...).
I say, elect a squad of people which are on a special mailing list that IW read, and lets them debate about what a patch change before releasing it.