what about castles

Mortifer · #1 October 8th, 2003, 01:56 AM

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Originally posted by Pocus:

Just to get a new discussion rolling on castles, the forum is slowing his pace

Eheh, this is because the game hasnt been released yet.

Psitticine · #2 October 7th, 2003, 04:46 PM

The theme alters what archers/support units you get but the fort choice does not. It would certainly make sense for it to do so. Possibly, the bonus for fort defenses are meant to be rolled into their larger Defense stat, but I'd rather see the troops in combat.

Gandalf Parker · #3 October 7th, 2003, 05:35 PM

This may have already been covered but are castles spreading out alittle? When the stats on castles were changed in Dom 1 the lowest two dropped off of everynes use list. The highest ones also I think.

IMHO Id like to the more variety in the pros and cons of the castles to allow for more variety in tactics. Just a couple examples...

If the mausoleum were 100 and a 2-day build then it would be quite useful strategically to races such as Ulm and Pangaea.

If the high end castles were long-build, high-cost, but had great admin/supply boosts it would be useful to races such as Man

st.patrik · #4 October 7th, 2003, 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
IMHO Id like to the more variety in the pros and cons of the castles to allow for more variety in tactics. Just a couple examples...

If the mausoleum were 100 and a 2-day build then it would be quite useful strategically to races such as Ulm and Pangaea.

If the high end castles were long-build, high-cost, but had great admin/supply boosts it would be useful to races such as Man

I like the sound of this. right now the advantages of some of the higher end castles don't seem to outweigh the long build time and cost.

I would also like to see some more variety, like an expensive (in gold) castle that takes a while to build, but because of (relatively) low admin% etc. is really cheap from a design point perspective.

I also like the sound of different castles having different kinds of defense, but I think it's unlikely that we'll see that. But for whatever it's worth, it would get my vote.

[ October 07, 2003, 18:51: Message edited by: st.patrik ]