Mod Padmassa, the Black Coven - Alpha

Memento · #1 July 27th, 2007, 04:49 PM

ok, but you still get 31 cool units for just 18 blood slaves. Imagine how much blood slaves will you get at turn 30. The Mictlanian hords will look like puppets for you, especiaally if you take f9w9 bless. This nasty reptilians have a protection of 18 - arrows are useless against them. MR 14 + you can easily reseach enchantment 4 to further protect them against banishing.Again it is too much.
Maybe too make blood magic more easily used, you would give the conjurer dousing effect of 1? This will encourage everyone to reseach Blood Magic from the start of the game.

About magic: you give 5 magic path exept f, n, and air. Nachure is easyly gained through indies, and with some luck you will get air 1 Hich circle master. Too big from the the start imho.

My opinion - right now this mod is overpowered.

DrPraetorious · #2 July 28th, 2007, 08:30 PM

I'm confused - how do you get 31 per turn for 18? I'm counting at most 10 per turn unless you can boost your blood magic to 31.

Are you being sarcastic about the douse bonus?

Many EA nations get five paths. EA Arco, for example. EA Arco also gets a more powerful army (aside from blood summons.)

Also note that the nation has major disadvantages - particularly the very low admin in the capital.

Memento · #3 August 4th, 2007, 05:27 PM

Well when I played, I didnt bother to hire anybody except mages and maybe some indy commanders - and you dont need admin to hire mages.
the spell "Hatch draconoids" is level 2 reseach, cost 18 blood slaves and gives you 31+ draconoids.
I am not sarcastic about giving dousing to conjurers

DrPraetorious · #4 August 4th, 2007, 06:05 PM

The number of draconoids is a TYPO. After it is fixed you will not get 31+ any more. It should be 1+1/level of blood magic (which would be 4+1/level past 3), but I think I'm going to change it to a fixed number (it'll be comparable to a Lanka or Mictlan blood summon in terms of cost/effect.) I'm not doing another version of the mod until I finish some other stuff, though.

Conjurers are already nearly as eficient blood hunters as mictlan priests; I'm aware that circle masters are a much better deal, so I might make the circle masters capital only, or just drop the Conjurers entirely.

Admin also makes money; quite a bit of money, since your capital has 40,000 people in it.

Memento · #5 August 5th, 2007, 05:10 PM

Quote:

DrPraetorious said:
Conjurers are already nearly as eficient blood hunters as mictlan priests;

they are not sacred, so their upkeep is twice bigger then mictlan priests

Gandalf Parker · #6 September 11th, 2007, 02:15 PM

Has anyone tried this as an AI?
Does the randomness of the mad priests offset AI logic (one-minded stupidity) by making it at least a chance of doing a smart thing once in a while? That might be worth expanding on?

DrPraetorious · #7 September 11th, 2007, 06:11 PM

I played a couple of games with it as AI against some other people's nations.

It did better than most, but I don't recall what it was doing with the priests. As I recall, the odds of a crazy priest doing anything remotely useful (let alone cool, like becoming a bonus prophet) are quite low.