[Campaign] Tales of Silventria

[Blake8]

Siler is busy, idk what happened to Apostle, and he was in charge of developing some very intricate stuff for us, one of the reasons the campaign progress stopped is because he went mia

well let's try to bring @San out here and lets hear what he thinks about our abilities if he's not too depressed

 

[Colonel Aster]

Mate I'll just talk to siler, also one of my other buddies (who's currently not a member of hive) may be interested in joining the project, I'll tell him the details if he appears interested

 

[Lord Aiden]

This project is not dark enough for San, he'd prefer something much bleaker like the 2nd book of arkain,

 

[Colonel Aster]

Some of the many iterations of this campaign had darker themes, just got eliminated because Blake felt (and rightfully so) that it would make the campaign too dark and depressing

 

[Blake8]

@Colonel Aster I just didn't want the campaign to have a gloomy mood, so certain elements were re-worked, however the original wasn't supposed to be gloomy at all, it was the 6th or so version which had some dark elements, I just dont see those things as being essential or necessary in any way to the story or gameplay

 

[Lord Aiden]

I understand, I really hate how they killed off Greymore in Arkain, feel like that was completely unnecessary,

 

[Blake8]

I feel the same way, but what can you do

 

[Lord Aiden]

So I know I've said this before but you got an awesome world map, how did you create it? Also was it originally like that or did you have to change some thing?

 

[Blake8]

In one of my classes I took a few years back I had a giant world map that emphasized oceania hung on the wall. I thought to use parts of oceania as basis for a world map, I stuck to the original ideas; the map has eight continents (the land mass to the right of the main continent consists of 2 separate continents) the map has a large amount of ocean on it, has a variety of climates and environments represented, the top continent of Thrinea is very cold, and the small continent which is the most southermost one is so cold that its essentially uninhabited by humans, to the top left lies the shattered continent, a barren land with little vegetation that's been shattered into pieces by earthquakes (or where those really earthquakes)... THe shape of the main continent did change somewhat, but this was due to the way it came out in the editor, also the southwestern continent had to be remade because I could not find the original file

 

[Lord Aiden]

so from what I understand :
The continent of Thrinea is A
The shattered Continent is B
The "land mass" to the right of the main landmass consists of 2 separate continents

 

[Blake8]

Yes, thats exactly correct

 

[Rem]

I like the abilities that you gave my character, but u guys put in too much time into the geographi,, abilities, battlefields (maps)

what about the characters and their development ?? after all their actions are what drives the story forward

 

[Blake8]

well we're working on that too, you should help with that since you seem so interested

 

[Rem]

ok. i can e-mail u some of my idea, also do you guys still attend the same chat??

 

[Blake8]

I'd appreciate that, and yes we still chat, let me know via pm or something if youre interested in joining

 

[Lord Aiden]

@Rem Ye ur character has some really good abilities

 

[Rem]

k

 

[Lord Aiden]

Lol deepstraz got pissed because after he gave me 0 rep with the comment that I should ask a mod to take off the poll I told him to do it if it bothers him

 

[Blake8]

lol

 

[Shar Dundred]

It is beyond me why you're not just using the thread you created for this project.
[Campaign] - Tales of Silventria

I mean, that thread seems pretty much dead, why not bring some life to it instead of posting here?

 

[Colonel Aster]

@Lord Aiden . I can see how his rep comments can get a little annoying sometimes

anyway as far as the discussion for abilities to prevent Rem from getting attacked, what about simply giving her spirit link as her default Blake? This seems like a really good idea to me

 

[Blake8]

@Shar Dundred It's because people keep asking me for updates and campaign progress when I post there, when there just isn't any...

people decided to ask me questions about my campaign here, so I've decided to answer them.. and also learn and apply some of the concepts that their replies may put forth

 

[Colonel Aster]

@Blake8 Well what do you think about the spirit link idea

 

[Blake8]

I'm all for it, but it needs to be approved by the high council aka @Rem before it can be ratified

 

[Colonel Aster]

lmao

 

[Lord Aiden]

Let us summon some of our favorite users to rate this ability

 

[Colonel Aster]

Are you suggesting we troll pyf?

 

[Blake8]

I think it may be slightly op, but we'll need some test data to disprove or support this hypothesis

 

[Lord Aiden]

You guys do this scientifically, lol

 

[Colonel Aster]

Yes, Blake is very scientific about his campaign, everything gets rigorously tested and the rests quantified

 

[Lord Aiden]

Wtf, you're joking right?

 

[Colonel Aster]

Naw, Blake would conduct an experiment in wc3, he would make the hero surround her by various amounts of units, copy this group to like 20 locations, each location would have groups of 5, 6, 7, 8, or more units which would then proceed to target the hero while the hero is triggered to cast spirit link, he would restart the game evertime he gets a result to make sure the occurenece isn't by chance and determine if the ability is OP or not by the amount of units which the hero can withstand attacks from 90 or more % of the time. So ye, there's the scientific method for ya

 

[Blake8]

Lol, yea I do that sometimes, but it's for balancing purposes only, just to make sure nothing is OP or UP

 

[Blake8]

Preliminary tests show that a level 10 Rem (without her summoning ability) along with six (6) un-upgraded footman can beat seven (7) un-upgraded knights with four (4) out of the original footman surviving, off course Flare Rain (enhanced by Arcane Aptitude) was used by Rem several times during this test

 

[Lord Aiden]

Is that good or bad?

 

[Blake8]

Well she's kind of OP, but then again this is her at level 10, also the adversaries she would face would be a lot stronger than regular un-upgraded knights so maybe not

 

[Lord Aiden]

Hmmm....u could always nerf her hp if what...take it down from whatever it is to around 875 or 850

 

[Blake8]

Naw the hp will not go below 900, however her attack damage may get nerfed

 

[Blake8]

It's normal for a hero to have a decent amount of hp at level 10

 

[Lord Aiden]

Oh so you cap the hero's experience in certain missions

 

[Blake8]

That is correct, she starts off at level 2 with Mage skills at level 2 (Evasion and Healing Aura learned) and then progresses to level 10 later on in the campaign, I'm not longer thinking of using her as a difficulty augmentation, but rather as a normal hero on missions where no other heroes are available...

 

[Lord Siler]

I think giving it spirit link makes the unit way too OP

 

[Colonel Aster]

I see that you're right now....maybe if we give it mana shield or maybe thorns aura thing will be perfect

 

[Lord Aiden]

not bad, but there are other good solutions out there, we need to be creative

 

[Colonel Aster]

Like I said Mana Shield, or an ability similar to gargoyle stone form?

Hardened skin will also make a difference, but it may be too op

 

[Lord Aiden]

How about you give it a very strong armor bonus ability? Like granting the unit +10 or so armor for 30 seconds or so. I surmise that this will accomplish the task

 

[Blake8]

@Colonel Aster Nice going in chat yesterday

 

[Colonel Aster]

@Colonel Aster Nice going in chat yesterday

you knew I was simply joking, why bother booting me

 

[Blake8]

Because enough is enough, It was funny at the beginning, then it just became repetitive. Anyhow about the ability mana shield would be ok, i think an ability that would add lots of armor may be good too, maybe even life drain,

 

[Colonel Aster]

W/e man, some thing are always funny, they just never cease to make me lmao...u know that shit