Conceptual Balance (Discussion)

[Endoperez]

Gandalf ran a few tests with all nations of all ages in the same game.

This is from memory, so it might be wrong, but...

The nations that did best were LA Ermor in the early game, but Oceania got past, and much later Arcoscephale got to the first place. I'm not sure which era of Oceania or Arcos was the one that got the upper hand.

[Turin]

I don´t think that those AI tests say much about the relative strength, since the AI still seems to have only a very poor understanding of magic and no understanding of bless strategies.

Both of those aspects are probably far more important to find out the true strength of a nation than to determine who has the better national troops.

[Nerfix]

Not a balance problem per say but perhaps Lady of Love should have Fire instead of Water magic? As of now she is pretty close to that spring goddes with Water/Nature. Fire seems to be a more passionate element anyway.

[FrankTrollman]

She is a literal picture of Aphrodite, a goddess who is most famous for rising out of a sea shell.

So it is of no surprise that the "Lady of Love" is designed to, among other things, make clams.

[Nerfix]

Mmm, that's true. But she is still very close to Lady of Springs.

[FrankTrollman]

I'd prefer a solution in which the Lady of Springs gets a new job. For example, if her magic was changed to WND, she would be able to put together both kinds of Naiads (the WN Naiads and the WD Naiads), which means that she'd be able to cast all the appropriate "springs" spells.

-Frank

[Cainehill]

Zen - I'd consider trying to do something myself, but I'm notoriously _not_ impartial or well balanced. Oh, and working almost two full jobs. Any chance you might follow past history, come out early with a pretender CB mod that also fixed blatant mistakes? ( IE, accuracy / encumbrance for Aby, Oceania's roadkill "stealth" commanders? )