Caster of Magic II Brainstorming Megathread

[ViterboKnight2]

I often perform a set of repeated actions like the following:
1- researched Wall of Fire, I want to cast it on all my cities
2- researched Flame Blade, Wraith Form and Cloak of Fear, I want to cast them on all my heroes
3- several Dispel Magic on combat have dispelled lots of spells on some of my heroes, I want to find out the dispelled spells and recast them again on my heroes

Some actions currently require a lot of single checks, city by city, or hero by hero, and a lot of memory effort.
I'd like a recap screen, or a couple of them, that:

1- list all my cities, but just tells me the active city enchantments on all of them, ALL AT A GLANCE (without having to hover on all of them, remembering which spell is missing in which city). A screen with the cities in rows, and the city enchantments in columns, and each cell indicating whether that spell is active in that city.

2- list all my heroes (or possibly a customizable list of units) in rows, and the unit enchantments in columns, and each cell indicating, ALL AT A GLANCE, whether that spell is active on that unit/hero. Perhaps that screen could also show the powers obtained through items (so, no need to cast Wrait Form if the hero is wielding a sword with the Wraith Form power).

[prokolyo]

These would be nice.

[Suppanut]

May I request game script for unit cost and building cost percentage modifier? (Like ones from iron ore, coal and high man racial bonus)

[Suppanut]

May I request expansion of hardcoded limit of custom display ability and include feature to add it from units.ini? I think it has potential to use it for display of lore and unit's descriptions.

[Demiansky]

I'd like to request a little more modding support for adding walls.  I added in a new wall with the appropriate sprites, and while it shows up great on the city map, it (as I suspected) also showed up in its entirety on the building selection screen (stretched across the entire screen, naturally looked wackadoodle.)

I haven't tested it yet, but I suspect perhaps if I revised the various wall sprites for wall sections, it would also not show up properly on the battle map?

Also, while it apparently is possible to put "isWall=yes" into a building twice to give it double the bonus, it would be good to have a proper way to give walls specific defense values as well as perhaps some other characteristics (arrow shows, catapult shots, etc).

Anyway, I was planning to add in Stockade and Wall of Bramble, and would be nice if there was some modding support there.  Thanks!

[prokolyo]

I've seen some ppl complaining about the new size of Earth Lore (I don't care either way). How about we make the spell with an additional mana slider with two positions: the first with the new size and the second with the old size?

[Slingers]

I've seen some ppl complaining about the new size of Earth Lore (I don't care either way). How about we make the spell with an additional mana slider with two positions: the first with the new size and the second with the old size?

It might be inconvenient to have to click more. As a Settings option maybe? However, it is fairly easy to change the size of Earth Lore in MODDING.INI and the cost in spells.ini.

Copied from stuffed Manual:

Compared with Earth Lore in MOM:
WxH = 14x12 = 168 tiles = 30 MP
Enemy units are not revealed!
This corresponds with the size of the overland screen view.
 
MODDING.INI Line 462 - Range of Earth Lore
EarthLoreSize=1 >   3x3 area = 9 tiles
EarthLoreSize=2 >   5x5 area = 25 tiles = 10 MP
EarthLoreSize=3 >   7x7 area = 49 tiles = x1,96 = 20 MP
>>> EarthLoreSize=4 >   9x9 area = 81 tiles = x3,24 = 33 MP
EarthLoreSize=5 > 11x11 area = 121 tiles = x4,84 = 50 MP
This corresponds with the size of the map screen view.
EarthLoreSize=6 > 13x13 area = 169 tiles = x6,76
 
>>> Fully reveal the maximum map size of Arcanus = 2640 tiles:
= about 22+ castings Size5 = 1100 MP
= about 33+ castings Size4 = 1089 MP
= about 106+ castings Size2 = 1060 MP

[prokolyo]

Yeah, that's true.

[prokolyo]

Another thing that occurred to me. I read a discussion somewhere, about when the win should occur in order to avoid the end game tedium. There were different opinions of course. Wouldn't it be a good solution to have the "win" button always available, so ppl could press it at any time, whenever they feel that the game is won?

[zitro1987]

Another thing that occurred to me. I read a discussion somewhere, about when the win should occur in order to avoid the end game tedium. There were different opinions of course. Wouldn't it be a good solution to have the "win" button always available, so ppl could press it at any time, whenever they feel that the game is won?

That wouldn't be different from a game having a 'see ending/epilogue' button.

A score modifier that allows the win button to appear more easily might be a better proposal.