a very small suggestion for the next patch for ryhleh ( devs plz read )

[Boron]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
You could cast Murdering Winter on yourself. That'll get rid of them, especially if you also took some Cold, as it does not affect you underwater. You probably have a ton of water gems somewhere.

they're all clams
again a funny bud bad idea . at least if you have 20+ coastal provinces in faerun

do you play sometimes ryhleh norfleet ?
since you like castling and ryhleh is just designed for the watchtowers do you castle your coastal provinces then or not ?

what do other serious ryhlehplayers do to minimize the harm done by the stupid hybrids ?

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
You could cast Murdering Winter on yourself. That'll get rid of them, especially if you also took some Cold, as it does not affect you underwater. You probably have a ton of water gems somewhere.

Actually the simple and effective solution to this problem, as well as to all other similar problem, is just to add a small button "Dismiss unit" to Dom2's GUI.

I mean - why can't you have ability to dismiss unit when you don't need (or can't afford) it anymore?? It's not that it would break the mood or be thematically incompatible with the Dominion2 vision AFAICT.


If devs would want to add a bit more flavor (as well as realism) to this option, perhaps they could make province's unrest increase by 2% for each dismissed unit. (when you fire a large number of trained soldiers you are very often looking for trouble, since some of the disgrunted soldiers can join bandits or just stir unrest in the civilian population of the province).

[ July 11, 2004, 21:45: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Boron:
do you play sometimes ryhleh norfleet ?
since you like castling and ryhleh is just designed for the watchtowers do you castle your coastal provinces then or not ?

what do other serious ryhlehplayers do to minimize the harm done by the stupid hybrids ?

I do, but I've never encountered a problem with huge numbers of hybrids. R'lyeh has the easy ability to move them into battles via Gateway, and if you run them into nearly anything, they tend to die rather quickly. If their constant running bothers you, try communing up for a nice casting of Growing Fury, which should helpfully make sure they fight to the death. All in all, I've never had so many hybrids that they've actually caused a noticeable upkeep drain. Maybe I just abuse them more than you do.

[Boron]

yep that's what i wonder always too stormbinder
it's one of the few features dominions is missing .

in aow 2 shadow magic this worked very well for me once i was strong enough i disbanded my quite useless cheaper units
it would perhaps enchance national units a bit even because you can buy them in the beginning to expand and don't need to bother if you sacrifice them later .
and another similiar problem is the sucky militia you get as a "good" luck event

[drool]

[ July 11, 2004, 22:12: Message edited by: drool ]

[Boron]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Boron:
do you play sometimes ryhleh norfleet ?
since you like castling and ryhleh is just designed for the watchtowers do you castle your coastal provinces then or not ?

what do other serious ryhlehplayers do to minimize the harm done by the stupid hybrids ?

I do, but I've never encountered a problem with huge numbers of hybrids. R'lyeh has the easy ability to move them into battles via Gateway, and if you run them into nearly anything, they tend to die rather quickly. If their constant running bothers you, try communing up for a nice casting of Growing Fury, which should helpfully make sure they fight to the death. All in all, I've never had so many hybrids that they've actually caused a noticeable upkeep drain. Maybe I just abuse them more than you do.

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hm so if you play at faerun e.g. when you have e.g. 20 coastal provinces and 150 or so in total you gather them together every ~5 turns to send them on a suicide mission ? that's horrible unneeded micromanagement ihmo

perhaps you are expanding fast enough and doing this every now and then but it's simply unneeded ihmo.

in 20 provinces you get about ~40 at least per turn , that's about + 25 upkeep per turn .
if you are in a pattsituation for some turns or even loose some inlandprovinces it sucks ihmo

perhaps you didn't notice it because you always win anyway

[Mardagg]

Maybe this was intentional from the devs to balance out the castling strategy for this nation a bit.
I am no expert R`lyeh player,but as you say,the Watch Tower seems very well fitting...maybe too well without all those Hybrids spawning up and annoying you

Faerun is also an extreme situation ,because of the massive amount of provinces...and extreme situations always require different/more brutal approaches.

btw I used the disband option in AOW2/SM also a lot,this option is clearly missing here.