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  Sorcery/Chaos poll
Posted by: Seravy - August 8th, 2024, 12:41 - Forum: Caster of Magic for Windows (CoM II) - No Replies

Assuming I don't change the Fire Giants, do you think Sorcery/Chaos needs further additional synergy, or we have done enough by adding Breakthrough and making Aura of Majesty prevent diplomatic effects from tile destruction spells?

I feel this is a highly subjectve matter, as my initial evaluation was this before and after the changes (ignore the Fire Giant row)

Please keep in mind this is specifically about the early game (common and uncommon spells), as late game has good synergies and is very powerful in general for this realm pair.

   
     

but if I try harder to find synergies then I end up with this instead

   

If we do want to make changes, the pool of ideas (feel free to add your own)
-Resist Elements on Fire Giant
-AEther Sparks adds vulnerability to Fire, Ice, Lightning damage
-Blur raises the minimal armor of a unit to a certain amount (Hell Hounds have 2 armor, this is a major buff for them if the minimal is 4 or 5), might have the unintended consequence of making Zombies and Werewolves too good
-Flame Blade and Focus Magic can stack for a +5 ranged attack total on bow units
-Immolation and Guardian Wind combined grants Resist Elements
-Fire giant has Caster 15 instead of Fireball Spell (might be too powerful buff for Chaos?)

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  Ultra-Elite and Crusade
Posted by: MilesBeyond - August 7th, 2024, 11:55 - Forum: Caster of Magic for Windows (CoM II) - Replies (3)

Been thinking about this lately. I've been putting together a combat calculator/simulator for CoM 2 and like all good calculators it shows what most already knew: most ranks provide incremental bonuses except for Elite and Champion, which are major breakpoints. Nothing wrong there, business as usual.

The issue comes with the spell Crusade. Because Ultra-Elite is only a small improvement over Elite, Crusade becomes pretty anemic for a Very Rare spell if you don't have Warlord, to the point that I generally don't want to see it.

For reference, Ultra-Elite gives an additional +1 Attack, ranged attack, and defense over Elite. Conferring +1 ATT and +1 DEF on all normal units would be pretty bad even for a Rare enchant (I know Crusade is more complicated than that - there's also the free hero levels and free starting levels for units built in cities without Altars of Battle, but still).

But this is more of a discussion prompt than a suggestion, because I have no idea what the solution would be. Buff Ultra-Elite to make Crusade more interesting, and you've just made Warlord too powerful. Keep Ultra-Elite as is and make Crusade rare instead, but again, that's making Warlord too powerful. It could do something like also have all units start at max XP, but that's obsoleting Altar of Battle, which feels bad.

Maybe something like Crusade also buffs the Ultra-Elite rank, making it more useful for non-Warlords without making Warlords too strong? But the buffs would have to be careful - they'd need to be big enough to feel worth it, but not so big that they make the Crusade-Warlord combo feel bad or irrelevant.

Anyone have any thoughts?

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  Fire Giant
Posted by: Seravy - August 2nd, 2024, 21:59 - Forum: Caster of Magic for Windows (CoM II) - Replies (15)

See the Chaos/Sorcery discussion for more details.
I want to make Fire Giants a desirable summon for a Sorcery player by making it resist magical ranged attacks, the only attack type sorcery cannot counter effectively until much later in the game. (they have Guardian Wind for missiles and Flight against melee units)

By adding Resist Elements only, the giant goes from 5 to 9 defense against magic ranged attacks. A decent increase but far from omipotent, can probably beat 2-3 magicians effortlessly but any more and 1 such Fire Giant would be to few.
However if Large Shield is also added, the total defense become 12, which is high enough where even 1-2 Giants can effectively fight a large stack of 7-9 magicians.
As a side effect, the shield adds 3 defense against normal missile attacks too, which feels unneccesary - Using Guardian Wind and Animate Ammo should be the primary solutions to missile attacks, not Fire Giant's abilities.

SO...which do you think would be better, please vote

Fire Giant with Resist Elements only
Fire Giant with Resist Elements and Large Shield
Fire Giant with Elemental Armor (overkill for magic but nothing vs missiles)

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  Is Sorcery too OP lategame?
Posted by: GMBarak - July 31st, 2024, 08:05 - Forum: Caster of Magic for Windows (CoM II) - Replies (14)

The spells which make it overpowered IMO:

1. Spell binding = you can get 5 other very rare spells from other realms and can trade them.
2. Power link = 2500 Mana per turn in a many players game - will be much more than life force, for example.
3. Time Stop = give you free game turns.
4. Spell ward = makes your cities practically unconquerable
5. Mass invisibility = undispelable invisibility.

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  A request for help with Python coding.
Posted by: Gavagai - July 29th, 2024, 02:57 - Forum: Civilization General Discussion - Replies (7)

Hi, I am making a personal civ-mod for single-player gaming. It is based on K-Mod but I want to add some changes from Close to Home and also some stuff of my own making.
Unfortunately, my modding abilities are limited to messing with XML files and some of the things I want from CtH require Python expertise. Can anyone give me a hand? What I want is simply to transfer the respective code from CtH to my mod so that the respective XML tags are enabled. The functionality I want is very limited, almost exclusively related to leader traits: things like the Protective bonus for internal trade and extra barrage for the aggressive trait. Those cannot be implemented through XML alone.

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  Chaos-Sorcery
Posted by: Seravy - July 28th, 2024, 09:28 - Forum: Caster of Magic for Windows (CoM II) - Replies (52)

See post http://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showt...#pid853793

I believe there is a possibility that the Chaos Sorcery dual realm combination might need some improvement, so I'm trying to organize my thoughts and hope everyone helps with that here by answering the following questions.

1. Do you think Chaos+Sorcery is underpowered and/or not fun to play and needs additional synergy between their spells in the early game? In other words, is there even a reason to do something?
2. Which common or uncommon Chaos or Sorcery spells have a unique enough effect that a similar spell from the other realm would not benefit from whatever change we might implement? (We want to only alter how the two realms play together, without affecting mono realm gameplay)
3. What kind of effect from the other realm that matches the realm's capabilities could be added to indirectly boost those spells?
4. Which Chaos or Sorcery common or uncommon spell do you think could be altered in the first place? All the spells serve a specific purpose and have been tested for balance for a very long time, so careless changes are almost guaranteed to do more harm than good at this time.
5. What existing synergies are there in the two realms for common and uncommon tier spells?

An example of what kind of change I'm looking for, if any, would be Sky Fires gaining the effect to reroll curse resistance rolls and becoming Fate Mastery, an effect that does almost nothing to Chaos (and very little even for Life, Sorcery or Nature) but improves its synergy with Death significantly. The other example would be how Chaos Channel and being undead can coexist on units, making them count as both Chaos and Death units to receive buffs that affect either.

My thoughts :

1. Considering I haven't played the game for the past year or so, I'm far from being certain but I think yes. the overlap in spells between the two realms is massive (see linked post) and while I remember adding synergies for this realm pair, almost all of them were for mid and late game spells. I overlooked the early game as "that's where it should be difficult, this realm pair has the strongest late game" but it's very possible that the early game is too weak for higher difficulty levels now to last until the late game. Most of the powerful early game strategies have been made more balanced so it's not as simple as being carried by a strong early normal unit or hero anymore, or at least that's what I think right now. However I definitely do tend to overthink stuff so I might be wrong.

2. Phantom summons, Focus Magic(only casting ability buff), Blur, Flame Blade (only direct combat stat buff), Fire Elemental, Gargoyles (high armor), Philosopher's Stone (skill buff)

3. Some form of global and cheap attack buff could make Phantom Warriors much more powerful. A creature with casting ability or many figures and a magical ranged attack could make Focus Magic better. (I don't think adding a new create should be considered this late in the development though), Flame Blade would be powerful when combined with many defensive buffs on a low attack high figure unit. Fire Elemental would benefit from enemy units failing to do magical damage, activating the relevance of Weapon Immunity. Gargoyles would be drastically stronger if their attack could be buffed. Additional casting skill already benefits Chaos a lot, but mana crystals and range penalties for casting can still be a bottleneck, so improvements on those would have synergy with Philosopher's Stone.
As the two realms have many redundant common and uncommon spells with similar effects, a way to skip researching these "duplicate" spells or replace them with other spells could be beneficial. Chaos randomly shuffling spells in the research book would fit the realm's abilities. (However this is definitely a way too drastic thing to implement)

4. This is the hard part, idk. Disrupt could use some overhaul I guess. Not much else I can think of. However buffing Disrupt makes defensive gameplay in the early game harder which would make Chaos/Sorcery even harder to play so it is very likely to backfire.

5. Gargoyles with the high armor benefit massively from Blur and as they fly, also from having missile immunity. Sorcery can provide the much needed Resistance for Fire Giants to be viable against Death, Sorcery and Life wizards (Exorcism, Confusion and Sleep mainly). Water Elemental is buffed by Inner Fire but the latter is already a rare spell. Aura of Majesty helps negate the diplomacy effect of Corruption and Volcano to a small extent. Philosopher's Stone provides the much needed casting skill for Chaos to spam their direct damage spells.
Nothing else I can think of right now. Flight allows the chaos wizard to spam combat spells while out of reach, however Chaos Channels can already provide this buff which means no additional synergy is gained from it.


Right now the only semi-usable idea I have would be to replace Disrupt with a common combat global enchantment that grants wall crusher and an attack buff to fantastic creatures (indirect phantom warrior buff), however that might be way too powerful in general and alters the gameplay on a larger scale than intended. Maybe if it was specific to combat summons? That would be too weak and useless for Chaos though, they only have one common summon.

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  [Spoilers] Whosit is playing for second
Posted by: Whosit - July 17th, 2024, 21:09 - Forum: Civilization 6 PBEM 23 - Replies (218)

Hello.

It has been a long while.

I will start putting my thoughts together in a subsequent post, but to kick things off, my Civ picks:

1: Tokugawa of Japan
2: Shaka of Zulu
3: There is no three because no one would pick Shaka

Edit: Adding the game rules for easier reference:

Gives too much stuff:
-Venetian Arsenal
-Religious Settlements Pantheon
-Work Ethic
-Nan Madol
-Pillaging City-State tiles except for farms and fishing boats.
-Resource hiding ban. We would need more complex rules for a team game, but it is obviously intentional here.

Other:
-Tactical DoWs, especially regarding Australia.
-City-gifting must be approved by the wise council of lurkers.
-DoF blockades OKAY
-Scouts providing naval support OKAY
-Not accepting/rejecting DoF at once.

New stuff (maybe?):
-The player who proposed the DoF cannot declare war on the first turn after the DoF expires, unless the player who accepted the DoF is ahead of them in turn order. Not nearly OP as some other stuff but not having this rule gives "Player1" an edge for no reason.
-Ban mods because of what happened to Woden last game here. It didn't do anything because it was garbage time but it could be very bad if the game is competitive.
-Giant's Causeway

Saves:
https://www.playyourdamnturn.com/game/f3...e3537ed922

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  Sengoku Chevalier: Hiun no Kishi
Posted by: Chevalier Mal Fet - July 17th, 2024, 11:52 - Forum: Civilization 6 PBEM 23 - Replies (280)

I was so looking forward to my other Civ PBEMs ending at last...forgot I committed to this thing. 

Well, okay, so we have New Frontiers leaders available? Lots there that have never been used.

Abraham Lincoln gets free amenities and units with Industrial Zones, pretty nice

Tokugawa is Japanese and gets boosted trade routes (how does it compare with Hojo?). I still get boosted yields from adjacencies, but Hojo gets the half-cost Encampments, Holy Sites, and Theater Squares. Still a really strong megalopolis potential if I emphasize trade. 

Nader Shah, boosted attacks against full health units, boosted trade routes FROM conquered cities. Goofy. 

Sulieman the Magnificent, boosted golden ages. Eh. 

Yongle, boosted high population cities and some fancy projects to grow them quickly. Looks fun. 

Wu Zetian, Chinese Catherine but better. Too niche.

Qin Shi Huang, can convert barbarians. Niche.

Ramses, culture from buildings and wonders. Maybe good. 

Sundiata, more options for using gold on great people, great works give production. Eh. Variant.

Ptolemaic Cleopatra, boosted floodplains. 

Theodora, gets Choral Music for free essentially. Doesn't seem as strong as Basil (Who is an option?).

Sejong, gets culture equal to science each era. 

Ludwig, wonder from cultures. 

Elizabeth, boosted trade routes and pillaging. 

Harald, can levy city states, boosted pillaging. 

Victoria, boosted production on strategics, +10% production per IZ building. 

There's also Basil and Menelik. So many good choices!

Right now I'm torn between Basil, Menelik, Tokugawa.

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  [Spoilers]TheArchduke hitches a ride as the Khmer
Posted by: TheArchduke - July 17th, 2024, 03:20 - Forum: Civilization 6 PBEM 23 - Replies (139)

Yes I am.smile

Anyway, thinking about picks.

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  [Spoilers]C6PBEM23: Krill sidles yonder, and probably fails
Posted by: Krill - July 16th, 2024, 15:34 - Forum: Civilization 6 PBEM 23 - Replies (222)

Blurb. Blurb. Blurb. Blah.


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