Conceptual Balance Series (Mod)

Edi · #1 September 21st, 2004, 03:55 AM

You're welcome, Zen. I'll be happy to help in this capacity in the future as well.

By the way, did you get my second PM regarding the MIQR? The one about the three items with non-obvious bugs?

Edi

Zen · #2 September 22nd, 2004, 02:56 AM

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Edi said:
You're welcome, Zen. I'll be happy to help in this capacity in the future as well.

By the way, did you get my second PM regarding the MIQR? The one about the three items with non-obvious bugs?

Edi

No, I did not get that particular PM. Please send it again.

Edi · #3 September 22nd, 2004, 03:30 AM

Done. Actually a good thing that you didn't get the first one, because the new PM has more comprehensive info after I checked the MIQR to confirm a couple of suspicions.

Edi

tinkthank · #4 September 22nd, 2004, 06:29 AM

This looks interesting; I will try to check it out soon, but probably wont be able to give non-trivial feedback for a month or so, so I'll just keep quiet until then. But thanks for your effort!

Zen · #5 September 23rd, 2004, 03:36 PM

This weekend will be another trial test for the Conceptual Pretender Mod along with a few updated deals based on feedback.

If you would like to participate in some of these blitzes, it will be during the weekend and most will be gathering in the Gamesurge.net IRC channel.

Cainehill · #6 September 23rd, 2004, 04:02 PM

If one's going on Sunday, I'll probably be in; too much going on this Satyrday.

Cheezeninja · #7 September 25th, 2004, 02:20 AM

You could leave the human pretenders with their inferior stats but make them dirt cheap(er), possibly even making their basecost negative, if possible. I think of it as being able to take a rather unimpressive god to have points for dominion, just like you can cripple your dominion for points for your god. So what if a gust of air could take them out and they have high encumbrance, bad precision, and 1 tacitical movement, you can afford all the scales you want and still a couple paths of magic on them.

Zen · #8 September 25th, 2004, 02:32 AM

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Cheezeninja said:
You could leave the human pretenders with their inferior stats but make them dirt cheap(er), possibly even making their basecost negative, if possible. I think of it as being able to take a rather unimpressive god to have points for dominion, just like you can cripple your dominion for points for your god. So what if a gust of air could take them out and they have high encumbrance, bad precision, and 1 tacitical movement, you can afford all the scales you want and still a couple paths of magic on them.

I thought about that approach. Or giving them a Pathcost of 0, so they don't need anything and every time you see a human it will at least be a 8 Path Raibow. In the end of my conclusions, it wasn't the fact that they were crappy, useless in battle, got owned by artillery spells, cast everything/search everything/have 1 hp in -1 dominion type of situations, it was the fact that you couldn't use your Pretender to swing the tide of a war because all his spellcasting strength lay in pure Rituals or Site Searching. With the negative impact of death (losing a level in all paths) that is *more* hurtful to Rainbows, this is a big "Uh, no" factor of them since not all of them have stealth and can avoid getting bombed by CT or Teleport if they are site searching/researching/ritual casting.