13-04-2014, 09:07 AM
What I suggested was mainly targeted to limiting the production of those super-powered creatures so you don't have players, as soon as those are available, just spam the dungeon full of those and just ignore the weaker creatures as utterly inferior. By creating a special requirement for special creatures you:
Otherwise, if all creatures were created from the same pool of stored creature points or whatever they're called, these special, rare, very powerful creatures would be used as if they were common orcs and goblins, which would upset the balance of the game. By not having anything but orcs and goblins, it becomes a numbers game of who has the most creatures wins the battle. This forces the player to make decisions. Do you use that gold to make a cow-dragon, or do you just feed it to the dark mother to make more orcs, or do you maybe make jewelry to make your creatures happier, or do something else with it entirely?
As for different creatures consuming different amounts of resources like food at different rates per individual, I never said anything about that not happening, I'm sure I suggested that idea in the first place. If I'm wrong about that I apologize to whoever did suggest it. I was speaking in terms of total resource consumption per all members of a race. For example, 30 orcs could consume less food then 6 cyclotaurs, even though 1 cyclotaur would consume more food then 1 orc.
- Make the special creature actually be special by limited numbers and special production requirements
- force the player to continue to use the common creatures
Otherwise, if all creatures were created from the same pool of stored creature points or whatever they're called, these special, rare, very powerful creatures would be used as if they were common orcs and goblins, which would upset the balance of the game. By not having anything but orcs and goblins, it becomes a numbers game of who has the most creatures wins the battle. This forces the player to make decisions. Do you use that gold to make a cow-dragon, or do you just feed it to the dark mother to make more orcs, or do you maybe make jewelry to make your creatures happier, or do something else with it entirely?
As for different creatures consuming different amounts of resources like food at different rates per individual, I never said anything about that not happening, I'm sure I suggested that idea in the first place. If I'm wrong about that I apologize to whoever did suggest it. I was speaking in terms of total resource consumption per all members of a race. For example, 30 orcs could consume less food then 6 cyclotaurs, even though 1 cyclotaur would consume more food then 1 orc.
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