Brilliant Idea to make Indies More Interesting

[mivayan]

How does these scales interefere with the scales of your god's domain? (how does it work with sites today?)

What will the scales end up with if a heat3, magic0 race settles in province with 'natural' scales of +1 cold, +1 magic?

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by mivayan:
How does these scales interefere with the scales of your god's domain? (how does it work with sites today?)

What will the scales end up with if a heat3, magic0 race settles in province with 'natural' scales of +1 cold, +1 magic?

Currently, if a magic site says "Increases Heat" or "Increases Death", that is cumulative with the dominant scales. So... for example... if a magic site in a province under your dominion increases Heat by +1, and your dominion is Cold +3, then the province scale becomes Cold +2.

On the other hand, if your dominion is Heat +3, the province will stay at Heat +3. (Note: Personally, I'd favor a +4 to -4 scale system so that events and magic sites could tip scales off their normal limits).

I envision the independants and terrains affecting scales the same way as magic sites do currently.

Incidentally, one more indy scale effect:

Hoburg: +1 Luck

-Cherry

P.S. In answer to your specific question, the province's scales would eventually become Heat +2, Magic +1.

[ January 19, 2004, 04:49: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

[ExitJudas]

damn good idea there!

the possibility of giving each indy province some personality is god damn good. Illwinter. listen to this boy! It shouldn't be hard to implement this in a future patch.

[Keir Maxwell]

Very interesting. As social structures don't necessarily change when conquered I see merit in your suggestion.

Another idea to spice up indies would be having indie's start with their troops in a variety of useful, and not so useful, deployments. The character of indie bashing is so different from real fighting because you always know how the indie will be setup. Changing this could be spicy and would probably go best with the upper levels of difficulty.

Cheers

Keir

[Arralen]

Why not turn it the other way 'round?

Terrain -> Scales -> general Indie Type -> randomly selected Indie -> re-adjustment of scales

A.

[CayseP]

Great ideas to make a good game better! Keep it coming and we can keep our fingers crossed that it is included in a patch

[Wauthan]

Good idea. Now we just need more Versions of independants to allow for more Versions of scale adjustments.

Could get very interesting since holding a province will get a lot more important if the scales are "Right".