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quantum_mechani
July 2nd, 2004, 04:37 AM
At the moment the C'tis taskmaster is worse than indie commanders, but costs an extra ten gold. My suggestion is giving them a 'Capture slaves' command, similar to Mictlan's tribal kings, but creating (fewer) lizard slave warriors.

Of course, modding tools to allow this sort of thing would be great as well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

Thanks.
HotNifeThruButr
July 2nd, 2004, 06:08 AM
Supposedly, they're the only who can control the slave lizards, so I guess they should have something linking them to slave lizards. I agree with quantum
tinkthank
July 2nd, 2004, 11:30 AM
This sounds good.
Endoperez
July 2nd, 2004, 05:55 PM
Thematic. I don't see why not.
quantum_mechani
July 11th, 2004, 08:09 AM
A comment from the devs... please? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
Kristoffer O
July 11th, 2004, 10:15 AM
Actually we had something like that in mind when we developed Dom 1. Unfortunately we ended up with several dozens of commander types and it made leadership and micromanagement of armies a big bother. We had started to include leadership types for lizards, abysians, jotuns, knights (knights do not like to take orders from those not noble-born) etc.

Some kind of restriction with lizars slaves might be good though. The taskmaster is not very useful as it is.
Norfleet
July 11th, 2004, 10:26 AM
Well, the suggested alternative was to have the Taskmaster be able to create Slave Warriors via a "capture slaves" option. Then maybe if Slave Warriors were then removed from the recruitable list, so in order to get them, you *HAD* to use Taskmasters, so they'd be kinda like Mictlan slaves, only with regular upkeep.
tinkthank
July 11th, 2004, 10:45 AM
Originally posted by Norfleet:
Well, the suggested alternative was to have the Taskmaster be able to create Slave Warriors via a "capture slaves" option. Then maybe if Slave Warriors were then removed from the recruitable list, so in order to get them, you *HAD* to use Taskmasters, so they'd be kinda like Mictlan slaves, only with regular upkeep. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Good.
Cohen
July 11th, 2004, 11:39 AM
I believe this should be nice to have all those leadership different values.
Kristoffer O
July 12th, 2004, 01:06 AM
Originally posted by Norfleet:
Well, the suggested alternative was to have the Taskmaster be able to create Slave Warriors via a "capture slaves" option. Then maybe if Slave Warriors were then removed from the recruitable list, so in order to get them, you *HAD* to use Taskmasters, so they'd be kinda like Mictlan slaves, only with regular upkeep. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sorry. I read the Last post first. Slave production would of course not affect leadership in any way.

The problem with free units is that they are difficult to balance, but with upkeep this is less of a problem.

It is actually a good idea. We'll have to think about it.

Edit: I obviously didn't read very carefully either.

[ July 11, 2004, 12:11: Message edited by: Kristoffer O ]
The_Tauren13
July 14th, 2004, 05:02 PM
so are you saying mictlan slaves have no upkeep? didnt know that.. guess theyre pretty useful then.
Graeme Dice
July 14th, 2004, 06:11 PM
Originally posted by The_Tauren13:
so are you saying mictlan slaves have no upkeep? didnt know that.. guess theyre pretty useful then. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">They have the upkeep of a unit that costs 1 gold, which is 0.067 gold per turn each.