Next Age suggestions

1) stop doing anything catwalk says, because his suggestions are seriously bad

2) If you don't want to wake up for a bad chain, don't do a bad chain in the first place and try smarter tactics.
I won't tell you how though, figure that out yourself.

3) remove mills -- rather useless building

4) lower farming sci multiplier, its quite ridiculous

5) gives elves lower offensive losses

6) give orcs some slight economic bonus. maybe more GC from dungeons for being so ruthless or whatever

7) lower dwarf elite cost to 800. it's pointless to have elites this expensive, you never train them in war anyway because not cost effective in the least, so all it does is make pump time longer.
It's a more fun game if pump times are shorter after a successful war.


AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:

PUT UTOPIA ON FACEBOOK AS IVE BEEN SUGGESTING FOR AGES NOW.
I want to play a game with lots of players, not a game where finding a damn war can take 3 weeks.
Never even mind the great profitability for your company....
Also facebook is perfect for utopia in terms of time investment

Race Suggestions:

Elves:
remove combat losses bonus
- Specialist Costs: +15%
rest left the same

Orcs:
+ Gains and Enemy Casulties on Attacks: +30%
+ Draft and Wage Costs: -50%
+ Free Accelerated Training
Add Fog to Spellbook
rest the same

Dark Elves:
- Construction and Raze Costs: +25%
rest the same



Personality Suggestions:

The Merchant:
add: Every Acre generates $5 per day

The Sage:
add: Generals at Home add 2% to Defense

The Artisan:
add: All Attacks and Spells are Anonymous
change to: 75% Protection of Buildings from Tornadoes etc.

The Warrior:
add: Every Acre Holds 1 Prisoner

The War Hero:
remove: +25% Enemy Casualties on Attacks
add: -35% Combat Losses

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Originally Posted by Micke-

NW based damage for both trad-marches and massacres is already in place. and has been ever since they started the NW based-gain formula

what this change will do (the one that was up and running on LIVE for a week or so earlier this month) is simply to reduce the attacktime for larger OR smaller provs to attack eachother. which is really intresting, it opens up for new tactics and promotes use of conquest.

both taking down the larger province, and having the larger province become more useful attacking downwards in NW.

even so, the GAINS is still affected by relative NW, and so is the honor gained/troops lost etc.

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Hurray for the removal of NW based attacktimes in WAR! give it back <3

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Err, how does it open up for use of conquest? Last time I checked, conquest was the attack of choice for people who wanted to keep down their attack times while gaining land while hitting into big nw difference. If you remove the nw based attack times, conquest would be made completely useless

Also, I don't see how bigger provs becoming more useful is a good thing. It just promotes the use of cows/banks. You'll want to have some biggies sitting there doing quad tm's twice a day with no risk of retaliation. That does not improve the game

I haven't really tried to find out, but if my memory serves me right, massacres are not as weakened by nw diff as tm's are


As for the facebook proposition, now that's really something that would make me quit instantly. Everybody doesn't like facebook, and I really doubt it would do much good for the game. You may get a surge of curious players at first, and then they would all leave because it's too much to learn and some new fad comes along. So I really don't think it'd be a good idea

Strengthen the other races, and dark elf will not dominate, because new players will have more strong races to pick from.
Orc that's immune to fog, and has free draft, although locked at 'normal' and below.

Human with fog.

Dwarf having fog, and being the only one who has access to meteors.

Make raze in war burn lands*0.1 buildings instead of buildings*0.1
Would slightly increase it's value while not overopwering it to destroy 10% lands.

And making Dorf the only one with ms will completely ruin the most powerfull spell in the game and hurt war cooperation. Dorfs are already among the strongest races out there, and mystics are useless without ms.
So just don't...

You must be blind.
Here, I'll educate you.

Like dark elf, dwarf has no bonus or penalty to WPA.
Unlike the dark elven economy, which relies on a spell to function, dwarf has 30% better buildings, and it builds those buildings for free.
Since dwarf has a bonus of 30% to everything related to buildings, it trains 30% more wizards daily, produces 30% more runes - you get the idea.

I hate all you dark elf and mystic fanboys. Not a single one of you has any education.
Only in the ghetto do you cover every province in meteors - here, we cover key targets, and use the rest of our mana to fireball.

All that is really needed to buff up orc is free draft(locked at normal or below as previously stated) And give them back there 6 def spec.

I don't see how that is an issue with what I said.
I'll make it easy on you, take it slowly...
Mystic is useless without MS because it's remaining bonus is double guild effectiveness and guilds are mostly for wizzies and oow I can easily run 60% guilds to counter this.
In war I really don't need more then 10% and the 5% saved in that building isn't enough to make Mystic a viable option, MS is.

Dorf is an attacking race, it will be mostly attackers and with the bad thieves they will be:
1 ok wizzies and thieves but bad attackers or 2 ok wizzies and attack, but bad thieves.
All in all dorfs wil be target NR1 for massacres pre war and after a few masacres they will be AWed til they're utterly useless. There is no way even a strong race as dorf can keep a wpa high enough to get decent MS success while keeping the thieves to defend them and an actual usable army.

I've never played de, I don't believe T/Ms are viable at all, but I would like 3 DE mystics in my kingdom, for MS and Nightmares.

So, I'm not shure what you hoped to educate me in, but please do thet some more.

And no you can't give orc /6 specs, stop saying this, it's silly.

"And no you can't give orc /6 specs, stop saying this, it's silly."

The give a good viable reason why not to?

Because and 8/6 army would be too much, If you have one race with the best defence and the best offence in the game you are overpowering said race immediately.
It is to all intents and porposes a 20% increase to def me, assuming they keep same army formations as last age. But this can easily be transformed to higher wpa/tpa better income and be and so on.
All in all if you have one race with no real negative, no bad thieves, no bad wizzies, the best off and the best def you must agree you have a mandatory race.

While it might be viable for orc it's not viable for the rest of the races...

Meh thought the Topic starters wanted people to keep it short and to the point.
Well this topic needs serious cleaning some people is just spamming.
Suggestions only not a debate was asked for.

Here is my suggestions.

*As monarch I would like to see an option to send mass msg ingame to all provinces within the same kd.

*Balance the races more Dark Elf is way too good to be true.. no wonder so many plays it. OMAC should look at the survey and try make some adjustment accordingly.

*More moves/trades for kd's with low amount of players not the other way around.

*remove honour decay during war it's silly.

*add the option to withdraw after 1 day of warring -10% honour loss and -5% after 2 days of warring and -3% after 3+ days of warring.

*self spells add the following spell to everyone "dispel hostile magic" it has a 50% chance of removing hostile spells on yourself same difficulty as mystic vortex but only for self use. If not remove the silly penalty for doing mystic vortex at your kd mates when at war.

*decrease average attack time during war

*change gnome name to halfling again it is more suiting to the rouge style

*give an option to pay to increase BE same as ME.. this option however can never put your BE above 100%

*since chaining is a popular strategy and the best way to ruin the game exprience for people especially new and inexperienced ones I suggest 2 options.

1 - put back war meter since most top kd's is attacking based anyway.
After 2 days of warring the option to withdraw comes for both kd's and if one kd is at 60% the war automatically stops to avoid kd's getting stuck in a senseless war and make gains count more than ruining one by one in each kd.
To avoid fake wars if the kd's are within the minimum period even 49%-51% it's automatically MP'ed.

2 - make those hard hit loose less the same as when not in war.

*increase higher penalties for interrupting someone elses war instead of -75% put it to -90% and those who get outside attacks has -50% losses.

*let people be able to use elites for dragon slaying as well. Elites have a killing value of 5, specs 3 and soldiers 1. That elites refuse to engange with the dragon is silly it would make more sense if soldiers refused.

*add flavour to the game.. some random events occuring now and then.
Either for induvidual provinces or for the whole kd. Affecting the game for a short period of time like 12-24 hours. These events happen every now and then maybe once or twice a week.
Earthquakes destroys buldings, blizzard ruins the crops, rain slows down armies, a monster appears killing some peasants, bountiful harvest increases crops, trader's boon increases income, optimal weather conditions boosts army speed, contrusction boon decrease building time... I could go on..

optionally as a world event it affects everyone.

I got too many suggestion I will stop now. :)

Only two things:

Bring back the war meter.

Bring back raizes in war (you should be able to destroy enemies land, not just buildings in war)

yes, plz bring back raze in war.

also, i made the suggestion to add food in funding a dragon. i think it'll make food a more useful resource, also possibly increase power for shepherd

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Originally Posted by brado

I would like it if the formula for magic success in wars was tweaked, while running over 10 mod wpa this age I had little to no success in casting difficult spells (MS) on HUMANS, that does not really make much sense, furthermore it was nearly impossible even at that wpa to get MS on to 2-3 wpa elves and darkelves. Mages need to be useful, plz tweak.

Also, intel spells/ops should be made much easier to succeed on.

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I'd like to expand a little at this initial idea and some possibilities it opens up for new tweaks.
a) Fog for all races (1 race/pers with immunity)
b) tweak rax with slightly lower bonus, giving less active kds a means of competing with a slight handicap vs better ones
c) with well improved success rates for difficult spells on high raw wpa's would make a pure t/m prov these days more viable element to wars (disabling fog is a huge advantage)
d) perhaps instead of formula change to enable higher success rates, a strong modifying spell could be introduced (theres clear sight and magic shield to increase tm defense, but only invisibility for thief offense, why should mage offense be shafted a bonus mod?) <-- race specific perhaps

Im sure others could imagine other effects this change may have too