Mod Reign of the Vampiri - Page 8

Amos · #71 November 21st, 2008, 04:37 AM

The vampires have to eat. The pop-killing dominion isnt that bad if you use Growth scale. And besides, this nation is so powerful that without a few handicaps you would be invincible.

Loren · #72 November 21st, 2008, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Amos

The vampires have to eat. The pop-killing dominion isnt that bad if you use Growth scale. And besides, this nation is so powerful that without a few handicaps you would be invincible.

I'm just saying that it feels inconsistent.

rdonj · #73 November 21st, 2008, 04:40 PM

It's basically like hinnom's pop-eating. Except easier to manage I think.

HoneyBadger · #74 November 22nd, 2008, 01:27 AM

I think it's an interesting twist. A blood Nation with pop-eating makes sense for vampires, afterall. It will definitely differentiate them from every other blood-Nation. And it will help avoid the 'Hinnom effect', of having a very powerful Nation that just gets more and more powerful by the end-game.

Loren · #75 November 22nd, 2008, 03:26 PM

I've been having bad luck with the game while playing this race.

Once it went off into la-la land while moving, once the game simply vanished during turn generation. I wonder if there is something about it that confuses the game engine.

Amos · #76 November 23rd, 2008, 01:35 PM

Play-tested this mod myself many times, and never had any problems. This mod doesnt have anything that could cause the usual problems - like holy pretender.

Loren · #77 November 27th, 2008, 02:21 PM

The Mighty AI's have been driving me nuts.

This race starts slow but becomes unbeatable if it has enough time to act. At the mighty level I'm getting overrun before I have enough vampires.

Loren · #78 November 29th, 2008, 01:15 AM

It looks like I'm going to win against the Mighty AI's--I cut back on the number of AI's a bit and it went better. I've been at war with all my neighbors basically the whole game but I was able to hold them off with assassins (I kept assassins in every province of theirs touching me and kept killing the commanders--while their armies could have walked over my empire they couldn't move because they were leaderless) until the vampire production ramped up enough.

I won't call it won yet because I have now come across C'tis and they outgun me 2-1 but they haven't declared war yet.

A couple of things:

The vampires are described as immortal but they are not. I waited to hit Pangea until I had a candle in the target province because it was going to be a tough battle (*LOTS* of troops had accumulated while my assassins kept killing their leaders.) I lost 1/4 of my army in the strike and nobody showed up in my capital.

The master vampire you get from Blood Trap either shouldn't be able to research or should require a specific "Summon allies" command. As it stands he researches and the vampires pile up. I just completed my research and have over 1200 points/turn.

Loren · #79 November 29th, 2008, 02:11 AM

P.S. I forgot:

Vampire summoning depends on the terrain you are in.

Put a sorcerer to blood hunting in the plans and vampires pile up. In the hills and nothing.

Amos · #80 November 29th, 2008, 01:15 PM

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The vampires are described as immortal but they are not. I waited to hit Pangea until I had a candle in the target province because it was going to be a tough battle (*LOTS* of troops had accumulated while my assassins kept killing their leaders.) I lost 1/4 of my army in the strike and nobody showed up in my capital.

You are right. I'll have to fix that.

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The master vampire you get from Blood Trap either shouldn't be able to research or should require a specific "Summon allies" command. As it stands he researches and the vampires pile up. I just completed my research and have over 1200 points/turn.

Will higher cost fix this?