Wishlish! (For the next patch)

Teraswaerto · #1 January 22nd, 2004, 05:06 PM

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Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Teraswaerto:
At least one theme for all the nations that don't have one yet.

R'lyeh doesn't really need one. About the only thing that comes to mind, perhaps, is a theme that is less sea-based. The trick is in not taking this already-fine nation and either weakening it, or making it even more powerful than it already is.

No nation "needs" a theme, but it's still nice that we have them. There's no reason for Marignon to have 3 themes while R'lyeh, Atlantis, Mictlan, Machaka, etc. have none.

sachmo · #2 January 22nd, 2004, 05:26 PM

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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If possible, fix the bug where the game has to be windowed for the mouse to appear in Win98.

This does not happen to everybody's system. Mine for example shows up at all times.

Does that disqualify it as a bug then?

Darryl · #3 January 22nd, 2004, 05:43 PM

Didn't see it here, so I'll mention it: ability to name commanders! I've read the threads on why it wasn't implimented and I don't quite understand how unbalancing it is. Famous people (like Rock stars, Politicians, pro athletes, etc) "change their names" when they check into hotels and things like that. People even did this in war (reference Saddam Hussein and his 6 duplicates).

And besides all that I think it would be fun to have my pretender "Odin" with his prophet "Thor", commander "Heimdall", etc as opposed to what I have now: my pretender "Odin" with his mighty prophet....."Funde" and 5 commanders named "Duresdant". Is naming really so bad that it shouldn't be included at all?

Darryl

Leadman · #4 January 22nd, 2004, 06:22 PM

For SP only, the ability to save at any point.

Leadman

onomastikon · #5 January 22nd, 2004, 06:33 PM

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Originally posted by Darryl:
Didn't see it here, so I'll mention it: ability to name commanders!
Is naming really so bad that it shouldn't be included at all?

Darryl

If this is not difficult for them to implement I would love it not for the aesthetic value but because it would REALLY help keep track of who is leading whom. In midgame to lategame, I have 4-10 commanders with the same name, often in the same province, and that makes keeping track of things difficult.

If however this means them slaving away for 100 hours to implement, I would not put it high on the priority list.

Bowlingballhead · #6 January 22nd, 2004, 07:33 PM

I'll give you a R'lyeh theme. I want to see the Illithid enslaved by the Abboleth! The Abboleth hero is one of the coolest things in the game.

Or an even more void-oriented Version. Like Soul Gate, say, where you have no normal units at all, but can summon or generate Void Monsters.

After all, the whole reason anybody wants a special dominion is for style. Lots and lots of style.

Also, I have to say I really want to be able to rename my commanders too, but I didn't think it was practical so I was reluctant to ask.

Taqwus · #7 January 22nd, 2004, 07:46 PM

A possible R'lyeh theme would be 'dreamtime' -- prior to the awakening and their very public emergence. Make it into a stealthy, less direct nation more reliant on often-stealthy cultists. ConVersion might be yielded through commander order, spell, or perhaps even dominion or global. A Feeblemind-causing aspect for the remaining Things would not go amiss.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.