Balance opinions

[Ironhawk]

Cor2 said:
2 "unbalanced" is subjective and therefore anyone elses attempt at balance will be unbalanced to someone else.

While I agree that balance is a matter of opinion, I think its unfair to just disregard the entire process of balancing as a result. After all the goal of a balance mod is not to have every single dom3 player out there consider the game balanced - but rather to find a happy medium where most of the players think the game is improved by the mod. I think that CBM does well at this as it currently stands and that each new revision will bring it closer to its theoretical goal.

[Cor2]

Point well taken Ironhawk.
I am likely one of those minorities, but last time I tried cmb I felt it was no more or less balanced than the standard game. If it pleases most people I say hurray, I still will only play it when i must for an MP however.

[Morkilus]

I pretty much only had issue with the path cost changes for boosters as well. It's by far the most complicated part of the game for me, and the manual is always open to that page - if I had a new boosting chart (yes, I'm lazy blah blah) I would be more likely to use it.

I was initially turned off by the MA Ermor priest nerf, but I realized once the "huge army of skeletal cavalry" strategy was better than, well... anything else, I couldn't agree more with it. It is instinctual to hate nerfs.

[Meglobob]

Morkilus said:I was initially turned off by the MA Ermor priest nerf, but I realized once the "huge army of skeletal cavalry" strategy was better than, well... anything else, I couldn't agree more with it. It is instinctual to hate nerfs.

Lowering MA Ermors priest levels really hurts the nation.

A better solution would perhaps be to reduce the number of undead horseman reanimated from 5 (currently I think for a lvl3 priest), to 2 or 3 if this is possible.

[Morkilus]

I'm almost certain reanimation isn't moddable, and that would affect the other reanimating nations as well if you could do it. Yeah, it kinda sucks, but I've tried it and Ermor seems to work on the same level as they did in Dom2. With recruitable Shadow Vestals, you could hardly call them weak.

[Twan]

Using a #makemonster "Longdead Horseman" for unholy priests may do the trick if needed (don't have an opinion on this). They simply would have to use "summon allies" instead of "reanimation" for them.

[DrPraetorious]

That would work, but this is one of the other nerfs with which I simply disagree - I've never found the undead horsemen to be so overpowering that it needed nerfing.

Now, MA Ermor *can* use those undead horsemen to propogate an already strong position - if you can get away with losing the research.

But there are lots of nations that can exploit early strength in a similar way.