Mod: Alugra, City of Wonders v1.06 - Stable version

[Burnsaber]

Sombre said:
I just went through the .dm and tweaked a load of descriptions, ironing out typos and clunky sentences. I didn't want to change it too much though :]

Anyway, the .dm is in the attached zip. It has the same name as the original, so careful if you want to make a backup.

I went them trhough and they're clearly superior. They will be added to next version. Many thanks for this.

[Burnsaber]

Folket raised many good points on IrC today and I went through the units again and hitting them with nerf stick. I compared the various gifted troops to other national infantry of similiar abilities and compared res & gold costs. I'm now pretty sure that both the gifted regular troops are now quite balanced. The nerfs and Sombre's grammar fixes are now in the version 0.65

Now the big balance question is the magical diversity and cheap national GoR.
Are they too powerful?

I hope that my coming duel with Folket will shed some light on the issue.

[Endoperez]

Burnsaber said:
Ok, Endoperez, how do you like Baa'Lah?

I just noticed this mod again, and decided to check it out. If I don't post anything else, everything was fine but I felt lazy. Seems interesting, any way.

[Endoperez]

Joe the Tanner is awesome!

[Burnsaber]

Endoperez said:
Joe the Tanner is awesome!

Since Joe is a bit "special" hero, I'll have to bug you about this a bit more spesifically.

1) How did you figure out how to use him. Did you need the "hints" I gave in this thread, or did you figure it out yourself?

2) Do you think that he's too powerful? I may have went overboard with his "special" power, since he can't wear too much stuff when his special power is "activated".

[Huzurdaddi]

Very impressive mod, really cohesive back story. It oozes flavor.

[Burnsaber]

Huzurdaddi said:
Very impressive mod, really cohesive back story. It oozes flavor.

Thanks. I'm kinda suprised that people seem to like the backstory. It's just your basic superhero myths and cliches altered to fit a medieval setting. Perhaps that's what people like about it?

Unlike one might think, I haven't claimed any 'inspiration*' from the "Heroes" tv series. It started showing on finland a week after I started working on this project.

*read: blatantly steal

[Burnsaber]

Okay, the blitz had to be premately ended, but my underwater struggle revealed some ugly sides of the fisherman unit.

Fishermen completely OWNED underwater independets with their high def and nets, making it quite difficult for Folket to counter them, since he was playing C'tis and only could recruit underwater independets. You really can't use their weak point, battle magic (40 gold heavy infantry unit, nice target) against them in uderwater.

I nerfed them in the new version along other gifted troops, just to be on the safe side.

I also scrapped the starting elemetal gem income. You have accees to all path expect nature, but only starting income in one. So you'll have to maunally site search for 7 paths of magic. A royal pain in the *** and it will make it harder for the Alugra player to capitalize on his magical diversity early.

You see, my plan was to have Alugra rely on the Gifted troops early, but as the game goes forward and there will be all sorts of nasty combat spells flying around, your magical diversity will start to kick in and patch things up a bit. Kinda like some nations are very vulnerable early, but strong in late game (shinyama). I'm planning on a nation that won't be especially weak (but not strong) in early/mid/late game.

I also made the Manifestation pretender a bit better. He now has small area fire and shock as his attacks. He seemed to be a pretty good early SC, but he will fall apart against anykind of planned opposition (I'll give you all a hint, he has no arm slots = no forged weapons and his natural attacks are all elemental damage. A high attack thug with fire and shockres 100 will completely own him). The new attack (or the combination of the two explosionsprites) also looks cool as hell on the battlefield. Seriously, look it up.

I played a bit the new version and to tell you the truth, I'm not at all sure what is the right way to play this nation. There are many, many stragedies to explore.

[Burnsaber]

Okay, I gave myself bit to take a look on this mod and I noticed few major bugs. The Ninja Turtles and Cutthroats didn't assasinate due to me being unable to spell. Fixed!

On my six month hiatus there must also have spurned new players and modders on these forums. Feel free to test this mod and give feedback.

[llamabeast]

Good to see you again Burnsaber. Hope your hiatus has been good.