Patch Improvements

[Tortanick]

I'd quite like to see it that casting a global enchantment dosn't dispell existing ones.

[PhilD]

Tortanick said:
I'd quite like to see it that casting a global enchantment dosn't dispell existing ones.

This is most likely a positive design decision from Illwinter, as well as a possible way for non-Astral nations to remove a hurting enchantment (ie, fill enchantment slots and then try to overwhelm the annoying one with a new enchantment). So I don't think they will want to "improve" this part...

[Tortanick]

IMO its better to make dispel easier than have enchantments overwrite each other.

For example they could create a whole range of dispells one for each gem type.

[Cainehill]

Agreed - the limitted number of global slots tends to ensure that 75% of the global spells _never_ get used, because you'd rather use one of the limitted slots for a more useful spell.

[Hadrian_II]

It might be interesting when there would not be global spell slots, but just the limitation that every spell can only be active once.

[Tortanick]

That dosn't make any sense though for most spells.

Dark Skies. Gift of health. Fata Morgana.

Give me one reason why those spells can't be cast in seperate empires.

Other spells like Utterdark & second sun could be limited with a message like "someone else has done the hard work for you"

And there are a few spells that couldn't really be cast more than once, Motheroak. Well of Missery. Arcane Nexus. For those spells I'd say you'd have to use more gems then the current one to redirect/relocate the spell. For balance reasons probably all the gem producing global enchantments should be in here.

[Nerfix]

I can't see why multiple empires couldn't have Stellar Focuses (Stellar Focii?) or Gale Gates or such either. I'd like to see a split into empire-wide spells (Carrior Forest, Soul Gate etc plus some other spells) and truly global spells (Utterdark, Arcane Nexus, Astral Corruption etc.).

[Hadrian_II]

Tortanick said:
That dosn't make any sense though for most spells.

I think it does not make less sense than having 5 slots for global spells, and it would be like the wonders in civ, but with the difference, that this wonders can be dispelled.

Its just an idea, but i would like it.