[Campaign] Tales of Silventria

[Blake8]

Are you trying to make them replace spearmasters?

No as you've noticed spearmasters are far more powerful against air units as they have greater attack damage with a lower cooldown. Im just trying to give the ai a low tier unit that can respond to both ground and aerial attacks

 

[Apostle]

In that case I would recommend that you give them the special ability you mentioned earlier, either lengthen the cooldown for their air attack or lower its damage, as well as either lower their hp by a little (50-30) or lower slightly decrease their armor

I think that should balance out the unit

 

[Blake8]

I don't wanna make it too weak though, I mean a footsman will beat it in a 1 vs 1 if I lower its stats any more

 

[Apostle]

My advice is to balance it out to the point where it is slightly stronger than a footman but could never fully replace a footman since it costs 3 food, more gold, as well as takes longer to train.

 

[Blake8]

Good idea, so what do you think of the map now that I've altered the Crestkeepers?

 

[Apostle]

I only played it for like 20 minutes.

All I can tell you is that now the ai spams Crestbearers much less than it used to, so its not as frustrating when it comes to attacking brown's bases.

 

[Blake8]

Ok, let me know if anything else comes up

 

[Apostle]

I thought it was Crestbears

 

[Blake8]

huh?

 

[Apostle]

You called them "Crestkeepers" in one of your lastest posts

 

[Blake8]

Oh, did I, that's what I thought of naming them when I first got the idea to create the unit

 

[Apostle]

I see, what was your original intention with them, to me they seem like the Zephyr units weaker cousin.

 

[Blake8]

As Ive mentioned earlier I wanted the ai (as well as the player for that matter) to have a low tier unit that could respond to both ground and air attacks, mostly for the purpose of defending a base.

 

[Apostle]

Interesting, but if you dont want the player to be able to rush the enemy early on either make the distance between the two as great as possible, or simply put a bunch of towers in the enemy's base to make an early rush impossible to execute, also you can do things like have heroes in the base that summon really strong units (like several infernos) when they are attacked, this will really deter players from attempting to rush early on.

 

[Blake8]

That's a really good idea, I'll try that!

 

[Apostle]

Thanks.

Ye you gotta have some imagination when trying to come up with these things, sometimes the more creative the solution the better it works out.

 

[Blake8]

@Rem, please stop writing comments in the triggers sections, I have to remove this nonsense and I dont find it funny

 

[Rem]

@Blake8 Ok, wont do it again, just thought it would be funny

 

[PrinceYaser]

Hey, @Blake8! What's going on, man?
I've downloaded your campaign. Did you update the first post's campaign file? I don't see that screenshots' places in the campaign map.

 

[Blake8]

The first post campaign is the original mission, I will update it when the maps are fully functional and polished. Those screenshots were from several maps which are basically in the beta stage (around 60% or so done) The person who promised to help me with the terrain and triggers as well as other things is currently busy... I'm waiting for him to free up so we can get this done.

Other news: we've done significant work on 3rd continent for the world map, it should be done soon.

 

[Blake8]

-Update-

After witnessing some glitches and imbalances present with the Crusader units I've decided to completely remove them from the campaign. They will essentially be replaced as mini-bosses by strength-based heroes whos level will be determined by the game difficulty (6/8/10 most likely). @Razorfang I hope you're happy now, your dream came true...

 

[Rem]

Wont that make the missions harder ?

 

[Colonel Aster]

Hey Blake, in that tower chapter, why dont you have each enemy base come with one of those mana ruins that you could build a well over to get gold instead of a gold mine, the mines these bases have run out fast, and all you do is get a little boost in income that lasts for maybe 5 minutes, just sit on this idea for a bit.

 

[Blake8]

-Update-
Currently working on the third continent, here's a picture of what it currently looks like, also various spells and units are being developed and implemented, a big thanks to @Rem and @Siler

 

[Colonel Aster]

@Blake8 and @Siler It took a ton of work but I've managed to fix it, I've send it to you guys, cheers!

 

[Rem]

So has Blake named the continents yet

 

[Lord Siler]

The main continent in the middle is yet to be named, the eastern part of the long forested land mass is called " Vernesia " I believe and the northwestern continent is simply called the " Shattered Continent ". That's what I recall.

 

[Rem]

ok I see. so no name for that new continent he just unveiled

 

[Razorfang]

@Rem I'll send you the map with the labels

 

[Lord Siler]

@Razorfang thanks for sending Rem the map, I lost that one

 

[Colonel Aster]

I don't know if you guys noticed this but the map Blake send me has a few bugs:
1 using pacify on the enemy hero, the knight, causes the game to crash
2 for some reason archers get extended range with their upgrade, this really disbalances the game
3 the hero's healing ability doesnt always work

 

[Lord Siler]

I've already mentioned the pacify thing, but thanks for pointing out the other two

 

[Colonel Aster]

My units kept getting beat up while I was trying to heal them, then I noticed that at times the spell just doesn't work, anyway this map's terrain is better than the previous ones and the location of enemy bases is perfect*

 

[Colonel Aster]

@Blake8 and @Siler I just thought of a good use of that tank on the world map, it can be used to clear rocks and debris that wouldnt normally let you pass, seems like a genuinely good idea to me

 

[Rem]

@Blake8 and @Siler I just thought of a good use of that tank on the world map, it can be used to clear rocks and debris that wouldnt normally let you pass, seems like a genuinely good idea to me

Good idea! THe last use they had for it was kinda of ...not working...

 

[Razorfang]

@Blake8 and @Siler I just thought of a good use of that tank on the world map, it can be used to clear rocks and debris that wouldnt normally let you pass, seems like a genuinely good idea to me

interesting, the same concept could apply to ships, u can have 2 ships; one that is armed with a cannon to clear floating debris and another which isn't

 

[Lord Siler]

Very good ideas guys, originally the "tank" unit was meant to be able to pass through briar (thorn) forests. But that idea was scrapped due to bad mechanics, then we tried other things that didn't give the desired results, these new ideas (both tank and ship) however are more practical since we can easily implement them without having to create some sort of complex systems to make them work

 

[Colonel Aster]

I send you guys an e-mail regarding the various concept, I think you'll really like them

 

[Apostle]

Good concept but we need to develop mechanics for some of them

 

[Razorfang]

good job on the concepts, i can already see the mechanics to make some of them work, get into chat or gtalk or whatever later on and i'll explain, also a very good job on that continent I see the terrain is getting better, so were slowly but steadily making progress

 

[Razorfang]

@Colonel Aster just send me a pm or e-mail I'll tell explain how we can make it work

 

[Razorfang]

you can use this ElvenMagicGenerator as the mana harvester rather than a moon well, it looks very appropriate

 

[Lord Siler]

@Blake I think it will would be a good idea to start one of those wikias for your campaign

 

[Lord Aiden]

I find him to be a very fascinating character

 

[Blake8]

Yeah, he's definitely interesting

Eliver the Diviner from my campaign was sort of based on Yuri, if you ever wanna check it out just click the picture in my signature

 

[deepstrasz]

Spoiler

Communism incarnate.

 

[Lord Siler]

@Blake8 Didn't you tell me that Dioneve character was based on some girl from chat? Or was it someone you knew irl?

 

[Blake8]

@Siler Dioneve was loosely based on someone I knew irl, this girl who had a holier than thou complex, thought she was smarter than everyone else and pretty much couldn't get along with anyone, I was assigned to be partners with her in one of my classes, she was such a damn pain to be around. This girl got ostracized by like every social group, and got kicked outta clans in wow, her reasoning for it was basically that people are assholes...its fucking impossible to be around someone who thinks they're smarter than you, doesn't know what the hell their doing and yet wants everything done just the way they want it without compromising at all...ye there's a reason why people that like have few or no friends you just gotta stay the hell away from these fuckers...

 

[Lord Siler]

I see, people like that tend to piss me off, but the people that you really gotta stay the hell away from are the snakes, those are the ones who really fuck shit up, but I agree people with attitudes like that(the girl you described) are a huge pain to be around, sometimes too much of a pain to tolerate, is that why you loosely based your villain off of her?

 

[Blake8]

Again the character was loosely based on her, but she just makes for a good villain, think about; someone who has an "I'm better than you" complex ("I'm smarter than you" complex in her case) and this very attitude causes her to get severely ostracized and yet she completely doesn't see that her attitude towards others is the cause of others hating her and instead plays the victim and demonizes these people for their actions...and it's basically a cycle...now this could make for a rather nice villain, don't you think?