20FEB18 - Defy Death Update

Keep in mind that mountain has a million troops, minimum. Many hands make short work.

Ten Kulch wrote: Because the military game is about troops and the map, no?

While true, I think adding a bit of pizzazz to commander mechanics would be great. On the account of the "game about troops and the map", spicing up combat mechanics is badly needed, such as rebalancing defensive and offensive troops, introducing something to rebalance terrain bonuses, and coming up with ways to make combat mechanics less linear. The whole "surround yourself with plains" being the only option for decent defense ends up boxing entire alliances into one strategy.

But that's a whole different conversation.

Ten Kulch wrote: Isn't there already a benefit to high level commanders, due to their skills?

Well, I think the point that people are trying to make is that this benefit is linear. It's a fantasy game, we all want a Dragon Reborn or would settle on a Rambo. What we get instead is a progressively overbuilt Swiss army knife.

It is not very exciting.


Edited by Tink XX - 26 Feb 2018 at 01:42

I have 2 alternative suggestions. I offer them thinking about how a real life battle would play out.
In my mind, avoiding death in a battle should be an inherent skill that a commander has. The more experienced he is, they more likely that he could find a way to survive any battle. So the first step is to increase the likelihood of survival by a sliding scale method to cap out at 50% for a fully leveled commander.
With that baseline in mind, the 2 options I would suggest are either..
1) Change defy death's attributes to decrease revival time by some percentage up to say perhaps a 10-20% time saving.
2) have defy death add an additional 10 - 20% to the baseline battle survival.

To me, either of these changes would reward people for creating and keeping high level commanders, make the benefits of using the attribute actually worth spending the xp on on, while not making the benefit so disproportional as to harm the game.

Edited by Lord Stanley - 25 Feb 2018 at 19:34

I'm back (temporarily) rn as I am sorting out some issues relating to my gold... they should be dealt with soon enough and then I'll be off again. I don't intend to be in GC at all as that way lies a full return which I don't particularly want.