The next patch

Come on, this coming from a guy whose avatar is a big head?

Lets get realistic folks!

Plus I thought swedes were already megalomaniacs by geography ;P

[ March 22, 2004, 21:00: Message edited by: Zen ]

[magnate]

One thing I'd like to see in the next patch is a 2nd visit to the races screen, after the map is chosen. It shouldn't be too hard to do, and you don't even have to allow any changes on this 2nd visit (open to debate but whatever), but just show us what changes the map selection has made to the race selections. This would vastly simplify the use of user-made maps and scenarios, especially for SP. Good for MP too - maybe you could choose a different race if you really didn't like the map they chose ....

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[Stormbinder]

What I would love to see is some way of selecting which players you want to send message to. (like to everybody other than Ermor ). It is huge pain in the butt to typ the same long message 15 times, especially since there there are no "copy and paste" function avalable.


It's not only ermor of course, you often have few allies and you oftten want to send them similar messadge. as it is you have to type it again and again, which is vert frustrating and discourages dimplomacy in the game, unless you have unlimited time to retype your Messages.

Also as me and many other players have noticed, currently by the end of every medium and long MP games 99% of gem income comes from not from your provinces , but from stacked hundreds and hundreds of clams and fever fetishes. Many players myslef included think it is not how this game was intended to be played, with all these nice magic gem-producing sites , eetc. IMHO magic shold mostly come from the magical lands you control, not from 500 clams that give you astral to alchemy into everything else (mostly into water to make more clams). It would be great if the cost of clams would be increased to 15 or 20 and their would be moved to con6. That would still make them avalaible to people who really wants but it would make end game much more fun and strategic than current clam hording. Same (although to slighly lesser degree goes for fever fetishes). Btw the desease cost of them is not really a disadvantage, since you can just give two fetishes to the cheapest undeads asiting in your fort and and forget about them, since undeads have no deseases.


Also I wanted to say that despite this the game is really fantastic and obviously work of love for developers, as well as pretty well balanced, I am enjoying it more than any otehr games during Last few years. That's why I am posting this - because I would love to see it a bit more balanced in the area where in my and many other MP players opinions it is still unfortuantly not very balanced.

With best regards,
Stormbinder

That's an interesting way of saying you and other people define something a certain way without having them speak for themselves.. I personally think the game is extremely balanced.

It has slight issues, most of which stem from certain nations but "not very balanced" is what I would consider an innaccurate statement.

[Alexander Seil]

Negative feedback in this case is simply ridiculous...this game is the FIRST game that beat Master of Magic. I didn't expect much when I downloaded the demo, but once I actually started playing and saw the sheer depth and detail of this masterpiece, I realized it was a MoM-killer. This is the end of the fantasy strategy genre...there's nothing else to make now

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Zen:
That's an interesting way of saying you and other people define something a certain way without having them speak for themselves.. I personally think the game is extremely balanced.

I am glad that you feel this way. However, I never said I speak for *you* Zen, so your sarcasm is misplaced. I only said that me and many other players, with whom I've spoken about it, feel this way, and this is true. If you don't like this statement, there is nothing I can do to help it.

It has slight issues, most of which stem from certain nations but "not very balanced" is what I would consider an innaccurate statement. [/QB]

Me too. However this is not what I said. If you read my post carefully, you'll find out that I've said quite opposite, that the game is "well balanced". However it doesn't mean it is perfectly balanced. And the point of my post was to try to bring attention to the particular areas, where I feel there is opportunity for improvement, like messaging system and Clams-hording.

Like I said, I am deeply in love with this game. However it doesn't turn me into "fanboy" who would say that everything is absolutely perfect in the game and there is no need to change or improve anything.

With deep regards,
Stormbinder

[ March 25, 2004, 04:53: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Alexander Seil:
...this game is the FIRST game that beat Master of Magic.

I agree. I didn't expect this to happen in my lifetime, but it is true nevertheless.

This is the end of the fantasy strategy genre...there's nothing else to make now [/QB]

Not even Dominions 3?