I want Dark Magic to be a turtle faction. No offense, but that's how I like to play.
OK, BUT that is no reason for Gods Bane to be anti air AND anti ground. That really ruins Dark Magic IMHO, and outrules the [checks the name of the unit] Earth Serpent, since the Earth Serpent only has 1500 HP or so, and is weaker. Hmm...This just really ruins Dark Magic for me, also, when I first came across DM, gods bane was anti air only. It ruins DM for me because it awfully adds to the unbalanceness of Dark Magic. (Basically way too overpowered, almost everyone I know agrees, overpowered to all other factions in the glest world mostly, overpowered to itself sometimes even...and this was typically the first thing people would say after trying Dark Magic) The overpowerfulness is like Egypt(Splash) + Norsemen(Random powerfulness) + Persian(ANTI AIR Powerfulness, and elephants.) I can really tell you a lot of people in the glest community, or that have tried out Dark Magic agree with me, basically. (But then they say the quality is nice, besides some animations or models/ but at first is hard to get used to(etc,etc,etc.) )
Titi hated it, but I want to include a machine gun type unit which attacks ground only to compliment the Gods Bane.
I remember. I did not hate it, but I think it was pointless, and not really worth it in another sense. I remember I would not really use it compared to the Gods Bane or Earth Serpent. It was weak, no use, and I think one faction has a anti AIR building and a antiground/antiboth building. that is all... I mean it was cool, but it did not fit in...IMO.
OK...Didn't know you'll need it... Do you? I think some mods are not GAE only and that...they...don't have this "scenario".
If workers can attack right now, the whole faction goes down the drain for the AI. The workers go and attack the enemy and this is often cripples Magic. If I made LUA AIs, I would program it to send out maybe half of them to attack, or maybe they would attack if they came within the unit's sight.
Oh ok, sorry I somehow missed the "attack" part of your post. (I think it is the glestiness of the forum, the theme
) All I saw was change the healing one to hammering... Anyways, I don't think this needs to be discussed...yet.
Speaking of LUA, is Dark Magic a megaglest mod or a GAE mod. In the past, you said it was a GAE mod... Now, I am not completely sure... Please clarify.
Right now I haven't diverged the mod. I would really like to use the GAE features, one one side. If I get some particles for Megaglest, then there will obviously be Megaglest-specific release(s) too.
Alright, I guess we will have two versions then. You should/probably will get particles + other changes from titi by Sunday, and he is working on it like everyday (at least today/yesterday) (Don't know if he add balancing changes, there is probably too many to do/too hard/not enough time)
Hmm...I just played Dark Magic again, this time multiplayer. I think its good, but it really needs to be balanced...mostly overpowered. Such as, Gods Bane should be ANTI AIR ONLY. ...Shades (Was allyips...) are really overpowered too. They don't even run out of energy like archmages... Etc.
Thank you. That is the kind of feedback I especially like. I think all of your suggestions are reasonable. (What do you think of the Shade particle proj, eh? I like it a lot.)
Hmm, no problem. I probably won't give much feedback concering that area until Dark Magic is balanced...
The Shade Particle proj.? It was awesome. Not saying it could not be improved though...
Hmm, speaking of Shades. Why did you choose to rename the renamed units and/or buildings?
EDIT: The new icons are cool. I don't know if perfect...but much better.
EDIT: What use is the Devil Machine for (looks cool) but is equal to morlock right. I mean, AI does not use it much. People don't use them much, since...Shades are nice.
EDIT: I think I always use the 20 energy. No point really to use 5 or 10. Cept if you don't have enough resources...
Man, this post took a long time to write.
It is late now.
One more thing, I now think mediafire is better than Filefront. Why? Someone pointed out that it does not give direct links, like direct direct. So Mediafire is basically better than Filefront in that retrospect if not bigger then 200 MBs. Also that you don't need to register, etc.
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