Artifact Game - ready!!

[archaeolept]

just checked to make sure you had gotten rid of the soulstone ;P

looks intriguing

[Ironhawk]

archaeolept said:
just checked to make sure you had gotten rid of the soulstone ;P

Just to jump back to Arch's comment here: Yes I removed the soulstone in the 2nd revision. Its fun, thematically, but I realized that it horribly unbalanced things. Cheap summons that early in the game is just too much power.

In other news I also cut Amon Hotep in the same revision. You could stick that thing on a stupid indy commander and practically have an SC Substituted in the crown of katafagus so Ctis still gets mummy spawn which I thought was funny and thematic.

[Wish]

an army of mummys can be pretty mean. auto disease their enemies.

[Cainehill]

Ironhawk said:
Just to jump back to Arch's comment here: Yes I removed the soulstone in the 2nd revision. Its fun, thematically, but I realized that it horribly unbalanced things. Cheap summons that early in the game is just too much power.

Heh. I actually think the summoning of the wolves in battle is more useful / powerful - up to 50 turns worth of wolves pouring in from all quarters of the map. Screws up targeting for the mages / archers, and chews them up as well. But yeah, Soulstone was just a bit too powerful - even lategame it's still packs a wallop.

(But I wanted it! )

[Ironhawk]

Cainehill said:
Soulstone was just a bit too powerful - even lategame it's still packs a wallop.

(But I wanted it! )

Hahahah, yes just so. It is exactly that feeling that made me remove the soulstone When I was looking at the list of nations I always kept coming back to the soulstone and pangea as the one I would play. Thats how I knew it had to go

[Ironhawk]

OK! Here we go with, what I believe will be, the last revision of the artifact allotments

Re-Revised Artifact List (v3)

Added a couple of minor items to Atlantis, Caelum, and Pan. Gave Ryleh the Armor of Virtue for sweet Void Gate summoning. Moved the Monolith Armor away from Jotunihiem (I envisioned an invulernable, regenerating Niefel wearing it!!). Additionally, I've added a handful of regular items to boost up the early game of some relatively weaker starting nations - these items are listed in parenthesis.

[shovah]

i like the ring of wizardry in there, if anything it can be used to restore a pretenders magic if he dies. i will probably come in as pythium if possible just because i havnt played them much

[Rathar]

Psst, this idea arose from a small pile of folks looking to play some/a new multi-player game in the multiplayer forum and there is a line!

No cuts!

Heh, I just want to play a game with some random folks instead of all friends (who can guilt me into not slaying them..!)

I'd die quick tho as I haven't finished a MP game yet and have only started two so far.

Rathar

P.S. I very much like the idea of all human pretenders

[shovah]

i use humans anyway, i cant get enough of all the magic. now that i think of it theres alot of nations i wana play: marignon,man,pythium,ctis,caelum,jotunheim,ryleh,a tlantis, vanheim and maybe TC (probably pyth or man)

[Ironhawk]

Rathar said:
Psst, this idea arose from a small pile of folks looking to play some/a new multi-player game in the multiplayer forum and there is a line!

Indeed. Everyone hold off on claiming nations until I start the game thread. Then the feeding frenzy can begin!

Heh, I just want to play a game with some random folks instead of all friends (who can guilt me into not slaying them..!)

Hahahah - No Mercy!! As for the game itself I will most likely put the game thread up tomorrow (wednesday) night. Just want to give everyone a chance to comment on the last round of revisions. Any last words?