My Small Balance Mod

[tinkthank]

I was just testing my own Oglala mod when I figured I would go ahead and mod Ghost Riders, False Horror, Wrathful Skies, and Send Horror as well.
Then I realized that Zen had put in huge amounts of work in his Conceptual Balance Series, of which I had only tried the Pretenders, so I DL'ed his work and ended up stealing quite a bit, because it is so good and clever and well-thought-through.
These are the results.
I hadnt planned to post this, but maybe someone would be interested.
The changes I have made are generally less severe than those of Zen's, some of which didnt work out for me well in SP. These have never been tried in MP, only by me in SP, and mostly with my modded race Oglala and some blood or death nations (Jotun, Abysia).
In general, I concentrated on distance-artillery spells (like Ghost Riders, Send Horror), SCs (Bane Lord, Ice Devil), Ultrakillers (FH and WrSky) and little-used spells.
Very few changes are more severe than Zen's (I also modded the False Horror to be slightly less fearful and have slightly less MR and Attack Rating), or more encompassing (I made Mechanical Men, for example, a bit more expensive)
or just plain different (I have also made Salamanders 75 gold and sacred, but that is just a peeve of mine).
Well, this is not nearly as good as Zen's, but it worked for me so far in my testing, and if anyone else like's it, then that would please me.
Whatever, here it is. Changes below.
Best
TT


#modname "Spell Balance Mod"
#domversion 2.15
#version 0.9
#icon "BalanceModIcon5.tga"
#description "Makes changes to a few spells, making them more expensive, and other less used ones, making them less expensive."


#selectspell "Ghost Riders"
#fatiguecost 900
#end

#selectspell "Send Lesser Horror"
#fatiguecost 1000
#end

#selectspell "Send Horror"
#fatiguecost 1800
#end

#selectspell "Revive Bane Lord"
#fatiguecost 1400
#end

#selectspell "Awaken Ivy King"
#fatiguecost 2600
#end

#selectspell "Tartarian Gate"
#fatiguecost 1200
#end

#selectspell "Wish"
#fatiguecost 15000
#end


#selectspell "False Horror"
#fatiguecost 30
#end

-- FALSE HORROR
#selectmonster 448
#fear -2
#mr 8
#att 14
#end

#selectspell "Wrathful Skies"
#path 0 1
#pathlevel 0 4
#fatiguecost 300
#end


#selectspell "Mechanical Men"
#fatiguecost 22
#end


-- SALAMANDER
#selectmonster 213
#gcost 75
#holy
#end


----------
CHANGES of ZEN's which I LIKE and HAVE ALTERED either A LITTLE or NOT AT ALL


#selectspell "Summon Ice Drake"
#fatiguecost 800
#end

#selectspell "Summon Fire Drake"
#fatiguecost 800
#end

#selectspell "Summon Sea Serpent"
#fatiguecost 800
#end

#selectspell "Summon Cave Drake"
#fatiguecost 800
#end

#selectspell "Summon Animals"
#fatiguecost 1000
#end

#selectspell "Raven Feast"
#fatiguecost 300
#end

#selectspell "Enchanted Forest"
#fatiguecost 5000
#end

#selectspell "Living Fire"
#fatiguecost 200
#end

#selectspell "Living Clouds"
#fatiguecost 200
#end

#selectspell "Living Water"
#fatiguecost 200
#end

#selectspell "Living Earth"
#fatiguecost 200
#end


#selectspell "Soul Vortex"
#pathlevel 0 4
#fatiguecost 30
#end

#selectspell "Army of Gold"
#pathlevel 0 5
#fatiguecost 400
#end

#selectspell "Army of Lead"
#pathlevel 0 6
#fatiguecost 500
#end

#selectspell "Polymorph"
#fatiguecost 100
#pathlevel 0 4
#end


#selectspell "Magic Duel"
#pathlevel 0 2
#fatiguecost 80
#end

#selectspell "Fate of Oedipus"
#researchlevel 8
#end


#selectspell "Mechanical Militia"
#researchlevel 7
#end


#selectspell "Gaia's Blessing"
#pathlevel 0 5
#fatiguecost 400
#end

#selectspell "Blood Boil"
#fatiguecost 40
#end


#selectspell "Bind Ice Devil"
#fatiguecost 6000
#researchlevel 6
#end

#selectspell "Curse of Blood"
#fatiguecost 6600
#end


--------
MONSTERS
--------

-- Storm Demon
#selectmonster 632
#mor 20
#end

-- Spine Devil
#selectmonster 638
#mor 20
#end

-- Demon Knight
#selectmonster 489
#mor 20
#end

-- Frost Fiend
#selectmonster 449
#mor 20
#end

-- Fiend of Darkness
#selectmonster 88
#mor 20
#end

[The_Tauren13]

I'm down with the sacred salamander. Maybe you could give him a water 4 earth 9 blessing and he could be usefull...

[tinkthank]

THanks for the feedback.
What does "down with" mean? (Is that approving or disapproving?)
I have never seen a human player purchase a salamander, and at least this way with Abysia as an AI, the salamander wont cost so much upkeep. Even without a blessing, purchasing a salamander now might not be such a kick in the shins.

[The_Tauren13]

Forgive my lame teenage slang... being 'down with' something means I think its cool (approving).
The salamander just dies too easily, so I was thinking some extra defence and protection in a bless effect would be nice.. and then 4 extra reinvigoration for that damn 20 encumbrance. And yeah, they wont be quite as expensive with halved upkeep.

As for the whole mod, I would like to try it out some. Seems to cover the essentials... Right now Im at school though, so.. no Dominions. But when I get home I'll check it out.

[BigDaddy]

You have a typo for Mechanical men, have you actually cast it? 22 fatigue. . .

I always thought mechanical men where well priced. I'm definetely with you on the Ivy Kings.

[Graeme Dice]

BigDaddy said:
I always thought mechanical men where well priced.

I don't quite get the change either, since they fall like a house of cards against anything other than elemental magic.

[tinkthank]

Sorry, I changed them from 20 to 22 gems in the last minute, it really was a mistake, for me the fatigue is now 2200.
Well thanks for your feedback, I personally feel that 15 gems for them makes every other earth summons of that type a no-brainer, the key being 100% shock resistance (fire resistance et al is just an added bonus). I find them exceptionally robust.