Balance - Gameplay

[felwar]

I suppose this is the place to comment on the Luchuirp and a balance issue with them. I feel the wood golem and sculptors studio should be avilable at the bronze working level.

The reason for this is that because the unit cannot gain experience, it is really no better than a basic axeman with 2 promotions, which is very easy to get via training yard/apprenticeship/conquest. At present it requires that the player research construction to develop what is, ultimately, an inferior unit to the one that everyone else is building with bronze working.

Yes, i realize it does not require copper, but this hardly feels like a handicap with the prevalance of it on most maps. It also leaves them stuck with warriors for a very long time in the early game, resulting in no real offensive options.

 

[Kael]

I suppose this is the place to comment on the Luchuirp and a balance issue with them. I feel the wood golem and sculptors studio should be avilable at the bronze working level.

The reason for this is that because the unit cannot gain experience, it is really no better than a basic axeman with 2 promotions, which is very easy to get via training yard/apprenticeship/conquest. At present it requires that the player research construction to develop what is, ultimately, an inferior unit to the one that everyone else is building with bronze working.

Yes, i realize it does not require copper, but this hardly feels like a handicap with the prevalance of it on most maps. It also leaves them stuck with warriors for a very long time in the early game, resulting in no real offensive options.

Construction is equal to bronze working in the new tech tree. The wood golem is iCombat 6 and an Axeman with 2 combat promotions is 5.6. Plus the Luchuirp can make Barnaxus (in 0.13) at construction and he can grant combat promotions to all golems in the owning empire.

So I'll be interested to hear what you think after 0.13. But I think we have addressed these issues.

 

[Oldfrt]

Construction is equal to bronze working in the new tech tree. The wood golem is iCombat 6 and an Axeman with 2 combat promotions is 5.6. Plus the Luchuirp can make Barnaxus (in 0.13) at construction and he can grant combat promotions to all golems in the owning empire.

So I'll be interested to hear what you think after 0.13. But I think we have addressed these issues.

oooh... glad to hear this.... now I'm jiggling in my seat in anticipation of getting my hands on 0.13.....

 

[aurum]

Better late than never, but what about a massive boost to XP for killing a summoned unit? This would make attacking with summons with risky since if you don't succeed all those units in the city will now get a lot of promotions.

 

[Frozen-Vomit]

In my opinion dragons should be immun to diseases (don't know if this is the right tread to suggest this...)