Limiting Magic

[tesb]

are you going to actually implement such a system in rife? would be interesting so see how it turns out. i wonder what sephis opinion on this matter is.

 

[Valkrionn]

Not really planning to atm, but not because I dislike it. Just have other things planned first.

 

[tesb]

if this is possible you could even divide between arcane mana and divine magic, making the first pool be replenished by mana nodes and the second one gets reinforced by religious buildings.

 

[Valkrionn]

Actually, that's a good idea; Opera had an idea for faith points of some kind, rewarding staying with one religion rather than switching. Would be a very good way to do it.

 

[seizer]

Moving dispel to Metamagic III sounds like a very good idea. With dispel as it is now, defensive buffs (of which there are quite a few) are basically useless for the AI vs the player, and if the AI learned to use dispel, would be useless for the player as well. Part of the problem might be that IIRC it cannot be resisted. Move it to Metamagic III and give units a decent chance of resisting it (taking into account it would be casted by an archmage with metamagic III...) would be my suggestion.

About nerfing mages, how about blocking access to mobility promotions and limiting the effect of the haste spells to non-arcane units? This would make mage stacks much harder to defend against their natural counters. Also, it never made sense to me with mages running around everywhere...

 

[Tarquelne]

Moving dispel to Metamagic III sounds like a very good idea. With dispel as it is now, defensive buffs (of which there are quite a few) are basically useless for the AI vs the player, and if the AI learned to use dispel, would be useless for the player as well. Part of the problem might be that IIRC it cannot be resisted.

QFT - good points.

I also like the idea of making Metamagic quite a bit harder to get at all. But (ATM at least) I don't have an idea that doesn't then make it too rare, or simply expensive.

Also, it never made sense to me with mages running around everywhere...

Probably too involved, but it could be that magi *need* their labs. So they'd be limited outside them: -1 tier, only cast every other turn, something like that.


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Fingers crossed - hopefully this thread will be more or less moot with 9.0