Make kills from your summons give you experience?
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Shock Trooper
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written Monday, June 2 2003 03:27
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Anyone else think this is a good idea? It would make summoning spells much more useful which would give the game more tactical depth, right now they're not that great. -------------------- "If you held a weapon to Fwiffo's head, he would say anything you wanted him to. In fact, if you held a vegetable to Fwiffo's head, he'd say whatever you wanted him to." - Spathi high council, Star Control 2. Posts: 346 | Registered: Sunday, December 30 2001 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Monday, June 2 2003 03:49
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This I think would make it to simple to gain higher levels way too early in the game and unbalance play, which is never good. Anyway, it would be time consuming and tedious. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to stand around and kill weak monsters for an hour just to gain one level. Posts: 127 | Registered: Wednesday, February 20 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Monday, June 2 2003 05:19
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How would it increase tactical depth may I ask? -------------------- Riot Shields Voodoo Economics It's just business Cattle prods And the IMF I trust I can rely on your vote Posts: 530 | Registered: Sunday, September 1 2002 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, June 2 2003 09:22
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I don't know about tactical depth, but it would be nice to not have all the summoning spells rendered virtually useless since depending on them cripples you in the long run. —Alorael, who still probably wouldn't use summoning. It's more fun to splatter yourself with ichor and gore than watch other things get splattered. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Shake Before Using
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written Monday, June 2 2003 09:50
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I think Melaw misunderstood - killing your OWN summons is bad, but you should get experience if your summons (and allies, possibly) do in the enemies. Posts: 3234 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Monday, June 2 2003 09:58
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Why should you get experience (think abbout what that actually means) for something else killing things. Experience comes from practice, ie. killing things yourself. It would make sense to get experience from actually summoning things, but that obviously wouldn't work in a game, and especially not in Avernum. -------------------- Riot Shields Voodoo Economics It's just business Cattle prods And the IMF I trust I can rely on your vote Posts: 530 | Registered: Sunday, September 1 2002 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Monday, June 2 2003 19:46
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personally i agree that summoning aint that great and that experience shouldnt be gained from summon's kills, but from actually summoning, so along with the suggestion of breaking up the spell classes differently, not into mage and priest but healer, offensive, summoner shielding/blessing/etc for example it could be that summoning has a % chance of success just like physical attacks have a % to hit and cause damage you could do this with offensive spells as well, think about it: when flinging an ice lance at someone they arnt going to sit there and take it square on the nose... "argh an ice lance *duck*"...plus even if they did you might just miss or even fail to complete the spell because you're more concerned with dodging the halberd being swung at your head, though taking the real nature of combat into account in the turn based structure could be nigh impossible... anyway where was i putting the experience on successfully casting the spell would make it very easy for people to level their summoner, find a town and go summon happy... simple answer make summoning a combat only spell (cant remeber whether it is or not) and make it so you can only enter combat when there are hostiles in sight Posts: 165 | Registered: Saturday, April 20 2002 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Tuesday, June 3 2003 02:11
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So, basically you want it to be like FFTactics where you got exp from everything? You got it practically by moving (and there are abilities where that is possible). That would certainly be interesting, possibly more realistic, but I don't know if it's feasable for the game engine. Yes? no? Although, spell percent-to-succeed would be neat. -------------------- -Daravon Posts: 104 | Registered: Friday, March 8 2002 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Tuesday, June 3 2003 12:41
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You already get experiance from when a friendly kills a hostile. But not nearly as much. I think summoning is useful when up against a particularly annoying sort of mage, and you need to provide him w/extra targets. Though I've never gotten very many monsters from summoning in Avernum. Exile, on the other hand, can provide you with Ghasts, which are very effective. And also: quote:Ya see that? That's where you lost me. That whole extended sentance there confuses the heck out of me. [ Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:43: Message edited by: Desert Plah ] -------------------- "Oh, North Wind, why frighten others? In Nature's family all are brothers. Puff and blow and wheeze and hiss; You can't frighten Shingebiss. Bring your frost and ice and snow; I'm still free to come and go. You can never frighten me, One who never fears is FREE!" -Shingebiss, the mighty duck Posts: 830 | Registered: Tuesday, August 20 2002 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, June 3 2003 14:07
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I personally like to use Summoning just to put some cannon fodder between my mage, preist and the hordes of monsters, as 1 Soldier, and 1 Berzerker cant cover that much space when fightin larger groups. I think what he meant was that Summoning should have a %chance to fail, it shouldent be garunteed, although that part about the Ice Lance kinda lost me... -------------------- And lo' thy Floodgates have opened once again, and the fetid sea of Darkness comes rushing out to consume the world of man. Their number is legion, and their power absolute, for nigh are the end of days, and who, now, shall intercede for the souls of men? Posts: 9 | Registered: Saturday, May 31 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, June 3 2003 16:18
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It would add tactical depth, because then summon spells would be a lot more useful (right now most people seldom use them except the occasional illusions and simulacrum. The more viable options for the strategy you use, the better. [ Tuesday, June 03, 2003 16:23: Message edited by: Jawaj ] -------------------- "If you held a weapon to Fwiffo's head, he would say anything you wanted him to. In fact, if you held a vegetable to Fwiffo's head, he'd say whatever you wanted him to." - Spathi high council, Star Control 2. Posts: 346 | Registered: Sunday, December 30 2001 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, June 4 2003 04:20
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The main strategic use of summons is as cannon fodder or to attck people (although the latter tends to become less useful). Making summons give you experience adds an extra incentive to use them, but adds no depth to current tactics using them, and creates no new tactical ways of using them. -------------------- Riot Shields Voodoo Economics It's just business Cattle prods And the IMF I trust I can rely on your vote Posts: 530 | Registered: Sunday, September 1 2002 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, June 6 2003 09:47
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Yes, but if summons gave you experience it might add another viable way of doing your battles besides the standard "buff, hack, and burn." -------------------- "If you held a weapon to Fwiffo's head, he would say anything you wanted him to. In fact, if you held a vegetable to Fwiffo's head, he'd say whatever you wanted him to." - Spathi high council, Star Control 2. Posts: 346 | Registered: Sunday, December 30 2001 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, June 13 2003 15:18
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Actually, being able to chose where you put your summoned creatures would be nice. Especially if you could specify the type of monster you were going to summon, or at least the type of creature (melee, missile, magic, fire-breathing, undead, etc.). Give the spells a low maximum range (say, five spaces at most) and then allow the summoner to choose where the beasties will show up. That would allow a more tactical use of the summoning spells. -------------------- The Home of 8-bit Theater! Some cool WoT art here Nono! Bad Surfer!! This is it, The Document That no Evil Overlord can do Without Posts: 505 | Registered: Saturday, September 14 2002 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, June 18 2003 17:49
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I realy like that idea of being able to chose where you put your summoned creatures, like in the good old exile series. Its kind of anoying when the summoned creatures appear behind the caster in a close indoor combat. Placing the summoned creatures could require a 4th level in summoning. Also, if summoned creatures gave you experience then it should be considerably less than in normal combat because you could actually get some experience from observing combats. By the way, one idea that could be realy usefull is the capability of targeting a particular friendly unit to use spells on. One more thing, It should be allowed to slay your own summoned creatures and not make a friendly town angry...you give them life you sould have the right to take life from them. Not that I am a sadistic murderer or anything but sometimes you just need to release some anger... -------------------- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." Posts: 469 | Registered: Thursday, May 1 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Monday, June 23 2003 19:56
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It would be nice 2 get XP from yoyur creatures and be able 2 choose where they r placed and get xp from killing them. Especialy since I do it so much. I just don't get enough fights, so sometimes i just have 2 create some 2 have fun with ya know? It's better than ,killing off whole towns and ticking people off. -------------------- Help me out, click Here Join it and get me some cash, and have fun! Posts: 151 | Registered: Sunday, June 22 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, June 23 2003 21:39
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This is funny: Did anyone notice that the last two posts said almost exactly the same things? :D Just, uh, differently. ;) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |