Leaders

[Sengir]

I was afraid that it wouldn't work, because as far as I understand, the national unit is used up upon attaching, making room for another. I'm going to try something myself now, though I'm not quite sure whether it will work. Will report back asap. Didn't work.

 

[Sengir]

Can we have a building that spawns a son every x turns (depending on gamespeed) and obsoletes after 8x+1 turns (also depending on gamespeed) so that it never spawns more then 8 units? I seem to recall a building somewhere that spawned units, can't remember where though.

 

[xmen510]

That is sort of like what I was talking about, but linking it to a Project. You get 8 Units. 1 Appears immediately and 7 more appear in increments of say 10 Turns (Modified by Game Speed like Sengir mentioned). Something like that.

 

[Berenthor]

Sounds like a good idea, but I don't know if it is possible. Sengir, do you remember by any chance were you saw something like that?

 

[Sengir]

Nope, can't remember. On second thought I it could also have been a random chance each turn instead of a fixed number of turns.

If all else fails, we can have all the sons appear at once, with a Pact of Nillhorn (sp?) kind of wonder, available only for Fëanor.

I think that it is possible in the end to mod it ourselves, though we might have to delay it to a later release. I will look into it a bit more and try to find something as a working base.

 

[T_F]

I like the slow spawning idea, though spawn times should be s p a c e d o u t fairly well. I think having them all appear at once is a bit overwhelming.

 

[Superjebus]

G'day guy's. I hope you don't mind me putting my two cents in.

I am really looking forward to this getting off the ground. Unfortunatly I have no skills in modding.

I noticed in the Leader lists that Finwe is of the house of Fingolfin, but in the book, he has so much love for Feanor, that he goes into exile with him, and never returns to Valinor. The Rule of the Noldor gets passed to Fingolfin because Finwe renounces his own people for not going into exile with his beloved Feanor. It just doesn't feel right seeing Finwe in the house of Fingolfin.

 

[Sengir]

I think the reasoning behind putting Finwë in for Fingolfin was to have him in but have only Fëanor for his house. I do agree however that Finwë had more love for Fëanor then his other sons, so an argument can be made for not having him for Fingolfin.

What are the opinions of the others?

 

[Berenthor]

I completely forgot about that. I'm not sure now. We could take him out completely because I don't think we should put him with Feanor if we go with the sons idea. If we don't do that, than Feanor, Finwe and maybe Celebrimbor can go there as leaders.

 

[xmen510]

I do not have a problem with the removal of Finwë from the list at this current time. Good catch on that one Superjebus.

Shall I remove Finwë then?

 

[Berenthor]

So sons of feanor or not? I think we should either go with all of them at once but costs quite some money to upgrade and the wonder is quite expensive or to just have one hero (who did we have again in the hero list?) and then we add Finwe and Celebrimbor to the list as leaders.

 

[Sengir]

I'd say remove him, unless we decide to drop the Sons of Fëanor (then he can be a leader for the House of Fëanor), but I think we should be able to get the sons in.

 

[Sengir]

@Berenthor: I know which building it was that spawned the units: Planar Gate, but it was indeed random, so it is not as good as a base as I had hoped. Still, I think it is doable.

 

[Berenthor]

Oh yeah I completely forgot about that building. In general the spawning is quite fast as soon as you have it depending on the AC at that time (it should be nicely spaced enough and always equally fast/slow if we fix the AC at 0 (we can calculate this in advance and tweak it)). We have to see though if it is possible to set how many units you spawn per planar gate (now that is determined by the AC). Also the planar gate now starts spawning units again after one dies (it always fills it up to the number of units it can support in total). We have to see if we can disable this so that it only spawns once.

Now that I think of it, I like this idea more and more and I think it is doable (with some effort).

 

[xmen510]

If you guys think that is the best way to go and can make it work, then that is great.