C2C: Promotions

Thunderbrd said:

Does that include the anti-barbarian elements?

On a side note:

I believe I mentioned, ages ago before we started actually working on these, that we should have a 4th level of city defense. Additionally, it would be nice to include a minor city defense promo chain for melee units - perhaps something like:

Streetfighter I
+15% City Defense
+5% City Attack
+5% vs Melee

Streetfighter II
+15% City Defense
+5% City Attack
+5% vs Mounted

Streetfighter III
+15% City Defense
+5% City Attack
+5% vs Archery

Streetfighter IV
+20% City Defense
+10% City Attack
+5% vs Melee, Mounted, Archery

All available for Melee units.

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Dancing Hoskuld said:

Would it be possible to get the following promotions. All only available to UNITCOMBAT_SEA_ANIMAL? (Based on an idea by DRJ )

Note: not all sea critters can travel in all the terrains so it is no good giving a tropical coastal dweller a polar ocean only promotion.

Sea Creature I
+10% Polar Coast Attack/Defense
+10% Coast Attack/Defense
+10% Tropical Coast Attack/Defense
+10% Polar Ocean Attack/Defense
+10% Ocean Attack/Defense
+10% Tropical Ocean Attack/Defense

Sea Creature II
+20% Polar Coast Attack/Defense
+20% Coast Attack/Defense
+20% Tropical Coast Attack/Defense
+20% Polar Ocean Attack/Defense
+20% Ocean Attack/Defense
+20% Tropical Ocean Attack/Defense

Leviathan (I/II/III) Requires Sea Creature II
(I)+30% vs. wooden ships
(II)+180 vss wooden ships +120% vs. steam ships
(III/Godzilla)+360% vs. everything

Needs buttons also. I should have the new combat class up latter today.

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ls612 said:

I think we already have something similar, named Urban Combat or something. I agree that City Raider and Defense should have 4 levels though.

@Hydro: Would you be willing to make an icon for City Raider and Defense IV? Thanks in advance.

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ls612 said:

Ask Hydro about the buttons, I can probably make them tomorrow if Hydro makes/finds the art.

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Hydromancerx said:

Here ya go. Sea Creature I and II have a Goldfish while Leviathan I, II and III have a Shark. Enjoy!

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Dancing Hoskuld said:

Thanks, btw I put a blank blue button (dummy.dds) up for use by promotion button makers.

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ls612 said:

@Hydro: Thanks a lot for the Sea promotion buttons. Could you please make buttons for the City Raider and Defense IV that I'm planning? Thanks in advance.

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• attacks even if winning odds are low
• +15% strength
• dies after combat
  
• if you are attacked by a rabies-'promoted' animal and your unit wins but takes a hit, it will get the rabies promotion itself, will turn "barbarian" and will lose 15% health after first turn, 30% after secound turn and lose the rest the third turn and dies.
  
• if you attack and successfully kill a rabies unit without taking a hit your units wont get infected.
  This winning unit could chose if it wants to eat the infected meat and gets rabies or
  if he doesn't want to get it and leave that meat. However, if you chose to get infected, your unit would turn barb two turns later but you could still use the unit for the turn right after getting infected (why, see below).
  
• In first eras rabies would be more dangerous. Later, promoted hunters would take infected animals more easily out without being in great danger to take a hit due to promotions and firearms.

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DRJ said:

I have another idea for animal promotion:

Rabies

certain animals (badgers, racoons etc) would have a small % chance of spawning with rabies (perhaps 1 in 200?).

• attacks even if winning odds are low
• +15% strength
• dies after combat
  
• if you are attacked by a rabies-'promoted' animal and your unit wins but takes a hit, it will get the rabies promotion itself, will turn "barbarian" and will lose 15% health after first turn, 30% after secound turn and lose the rest the third turn and dies.
  
• if you attack and successfully kill a rabies unit without taking a hit your units wont get infected.
  This winning unit could chose if it wants to eat the infected meat and gets rabies or
  if he doesn't want to get it and leave that meat. However, if you chose to get infected, your unit would turn barb two turns later but you could still use the unit for the turn right after getting infected (why, see below).
  
• In first eras rabies would be more dangerous. Later, promoted hunters would take infected animals more easily out without being in great danger to take a hit due to promotions and firearms.

Yes, maybe there could be rabies epedemics, Think of this: an enemy stack of doom approaches your city. Your few people wait behind the castle gatehouse which will be bombarded down soon, making the city prey for the foreigners. Then - as a sign from heaven - a rabies-infected wolf appears in the forest next to the city! Your bravest man enlists for the mission to bring the illness of the demons to the enemy, gets bit by the wolf (or eats his flesh) and with the last drop of human spirit he achieves to deceive the enemy into thinking he is a deserted rebel of yours and thus is taken to further questioning by the enemy king thereafter. Kneeing down before the king, the pulsating rabies in his blood makes him jump and bite in the kings toe before being pierced by the royal gards. The fate over the evil king (imagine a "300"-like one) would be spoken. Turning totally crazy after a while (barb), but being the strongest upon the enemy army, he infects nearly dozen of them who in turn, upon having killed him finally, infect the rest of the once so huge army which turns into one of dying zombies, roaming around your city that still has enough gatehouse % to refuse the slowly dieying masses to enter the city, unable to to use the complicated and discipline heavy siege equipment.
[so in the game a suicidal, rabies infected hero of yours could do quite a damage to enemy stacks (especially with a new diplomacy of "mercenary" minions, heroes switching sides, broader bribe usage etc)]

A nice pic for a rabies-promotion icon (if I knew how I would make one I would try - any tutorials on hand anyone?)

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xartah said:

While a funny story I have to say that rabies does not work like that. I think the promotion you're thinking about is called zombie. Rabies kills quite fast once the symptoms appear and the idea that it could by humans to infect a large group of people like that is absurd.

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