The Middle Way X - Faerun EA [Abandoned]

[Sir_Dr_D]

I played with the concpetual balance mod and liked it.

I was playing middle age Man and was placed beside double blessed Vanheim. It was fairly even and wasa lot of fun to play. In the regular game I netither want to be Vanheim, or play against them. They are too empowered and it is no fun. With the balance mod I do.

ANother thing I liked was the very subtle changes to some of the troops. When I look at the regular game, and see the prices of some of the troops, I think that there is no way I would purchase some of those.In the balance mod (I am thinking things like spearmen and militia here) I would. I wouldn't completely get the spearmen instead of the other troops, making the other ones obsoltute. Instead it is a trade off as to which one you want to get, and there is uses for both of them. It increases the variety of troops you create, and that makes it more fun.

There is also speels that weren't used before, that now have their cost reduced, increasing the variety of spells that are usable. And magic items that wern't used before, or used too much, have been altered, increasing the variety of items to build.

Yes some of the changes in the mod might have unbalanced it more. Other ones balanced it. Other changes might not have made much difference, but it is still a change from the regular game, which is nice. All the arguments saying that the mod is to new, and isn't balanced enough apply to the game as well. The unmodded version of the game has its issues and balance problems. It comes down to who you think can balance it better, the developer of the conceptual balance mod, or the developers of the game. And I say that the Concpetual balance mod is at least equivalent if not better, and will only get better with time. The change alone is nice.

I would like to use the balance mod, because the other game I am in is not using it. And I like the variety. It comes down to what the host of this game wants. If you want to use the conceptual balance mod, say so, and those that want to use it can play this game, and those that don't can find another game. I hope you say you do want to use it, becuase no other games that are currently running use it, adn I did find it fun.

(And fort the argument that says it was buggy, I did not run into any bug issues in the COncepts of Creation games, and we were using an older version of the mod. The new one would have lots of those issues removed.)