Pawek_13 said:

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Am I the only one here that has a feeling that Limbic is exaggerating with lack of activated skills? I know, their overpresence is pretty bad but I have a feeling that currently devs are... afraid to give any activated skill at all. What do you think about that?

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Elvin said:

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I just realized what I do not like about those abilities. They feel more like a random collage rather than anything, no sense of specialization.

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Protolisk said:

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Just so I am reading Warfare correctly, unskilled should mean level 1 warfare units, novice is 2, expert is 3, master is 4, and the GM allows for the 5th level?

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Maurice said:

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With regards to neutral stacks respawning, how about this idea?

The map maker designates certain spots on the map for a neutral camp (randomly chosen from different camps or set as a specific camp or so). The spot is invisible for the player during play the most time. After the game has advanced for a while, a "bandit camp" or "monster lair" is spawned at the designated spots - which could be on one of a few possible spots, too.

The timer for this can be set and can have a minimum and maximum value - like spawn at anytime between 7 and 21 days or so - as well as possible starting triggers ("only start spawning after guard at location X has been killed", "only start spawning after Town A is controlled by player Y", "only start spawning when player Z's gold first exceeds <gold_amount> Gold", etc...). It should also have ending or pause triggers, as needed ("stop spawning when the fort at location (N, M) is occupied", "stop spawning when player X has been defeated", etc...).

The spawned monster den or bandit lair will spawn and appear on the designated spot. It will have guards of the appropriate type, which will grow each week like any other neutral creature stack on the map. But this den or lair will also have something like an "area of control" of its own. As its power increases (number of guards accumulates), its area of influence increases too. This area is independent of Town and Fort Area of Control, but can compete with it. Each week, each eligible tile within the "area of control" has a certain chance to spawn a neutral stack of the corresponding creature type.

When the "area of control" overlaps a map resource like a mine controlled by a player, its production is halved or even halted completely, as long as the den/lair covers it. Defeating the guards at the central locus will destroy the den/lair, remove its "area of control", stop the spawning chance and return blocked map resources back to the player's control. Furthermore, the den/lair will yield a number of resources, possibly related to the resource locations occupied by the den/lair until its destruction.

Of course, after its destruction, the locus opens up for a future den/lair to spawn.

This way, map makers can for instance immitate a faction spawning rebels within another faction's territory, or nature running rampant until some crazy Druid is defeated. The possibilities are only limited by imagination .

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ninjata12 said:

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I think Reinforcements is too weak for a GM ability. 5% increase is nothing... You must have at least 20 units to get 1 as a bonus. That means that mostly core units will benefit from it. And 100 skeletons becoming 105 is alomst nothing, we are talking about GM ability here.

We should probably open a new topic for game balancing, because there is a lot of work in that direction...

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Elvin said:

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Excellent, another Zelazny fan in the forums Corwin's cycle is probably my favourite series.

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icefield said:

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I fear that shifting and overlapping zones are a bit beyond the leval of map complexity that fits a Heroes game.

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Elvin said:

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Excellent, another Zelazny fan in the forums Corwin's cycle is probably my favourite series.

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