Forge of Godhood - started - Page 17

Meglobob · #1 August 18th, 2009, 05:15 AM

CBM's great, it makes things useful rather than useless. The Phoenix being a very good example, never seen it picked as a pretender until CBM made it better. The phoenix is in no way overpowered just by having phoenix pyre ability.

Overall, CBM makes the game more balanced and fairer.

LDiCesare · #2 August 18th, 2009, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Meglobob

CBM's great, it makes things useful rather than useless. The Phoenix being a very good example, never seen it picked as a pretender until CBM made it better. The phoenix is in no way overpowered just by having phoenix pyre ability.

Overall, CBM makes the game more balanced and fairer.

I disagree. I think CBM makes EA Agartha worthless for instance, but this is off-topic so I'll stop here.

namad · #3 August 18th, 2009, 06:39 AM

I hate realizing that you've made flaws in your initial gameplan during testing you do... AFTER you've already started!

don't you hate that as well?

Is it just me, or does this map have waaay too few wastelands and swamps? I can't hardly find ANY! (well I can find a few...)

Ironhawk · #4 August 18th, 2009, 01:13 PM

CBM definitely makes the game far more balanced and DEFINITELY more interesting. Who on earth would want to play vanilla any more these days? Like half the units in the game in vanilla are just unsalvagable garbage. At least with CBM, everything has a niche use, however small.

TheDemon · #5 August 18th, 2009, 03:50 PM

On the topic of the phoenix (and yeah, I should bring this to the CBM thread), it doesn't just get afflictions and become temporarilly inconveinenced, it racks them up so quickly that end of year 1 you'll have a phoenix with 6 or 7 afflictions and it'll take literally 4 or 5 game-years for that to heal fully, assuming you never throw it into battle again (unlikely). Plus, although it does work as an SC, the range of indeps it can take on solo or even supported by the starting army is very small. There are far more unbalanced combat pretenders. Phoenix is kind of like the Ghost King, except instead of being crappy SC + rainbow its crappy SC + Fire bless.

archaeolept · #6 August 19th, 2009, 02:58 PM

it's pretty sick - I blame QM

Alpine Joe · #7 August 19th, 2009, 03:39 PM

Oh Ermor, I was wondering which of your neighbors you planned to crush into dust first, and it just so happens to be me.

Oh well, I won't go down without a fight.

Jarkko · #8 August 19th, 2009, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by archaeolept

it's pretty sick - I blame QM

So do I

Sadly the troop generation (which was why I did cast CW) seems to be pure crap (I got a grand total of three manikin this turn), but the gem income sure rocketed. If I just had something to spend those gems on

Btw, as we are using this thread to comment CBM, it might be worth to consider making CW available for LA Pans only, but perhaps lower the gem cost there. Not only is CW thematic for LA Pans, but CW is actualy easier for EA and MA Pans to cast; CW needs 50 gems, which means EA and MA Pan can get it up after 10 turns (recieve 5 N gems per turn) unless there has been some random events granting more gems (when CW could be cast even earlier, say on turn 8...).

vfb · #9 August 19th, 2009, 08:27 PM

Toran will temporarily be taking control of Marignon for a few days. I've PM'ed QM.

Trumanator · #10 August 19th, 2009, 11:44 PM

A lot harder to move those manikins around however, w/out recruitable D mages.