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Zarathustra_the

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Prophecies don't really work in a linear game structure though without it feeling to railroaded where we are not predicting the future but give you a random event then force an outcome to happen instead of it being random. Also the dragons don't really have much else to them :)

Prophecies can be done with clever event code. And dragons could always be better, Hell I could share some code that lets there fire breath growth stronger with their age...
 

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Prophecies can be done with clever event code. And dragons could always be better, Hell I could share some code that lets there fire breath growth stronger with their age...
Yeah but it will ultimately feel cheap as there will only be so many variations of "predicting" and then using events to force an outcome before it becomes less of a surprise and interesting
It does grow stronger with their age already :p

Also I feel like we have totally derailed this thread... whoops
 

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Even though I love the Warhammer mod, I gotta admit that I wasn't really impressed with your dueling engine from a player perspective. I really prefer the one AGOT uses for it's simplicity and also because it feels less punishing. I think I lost 9 out of 10 duels against foes that should be inferior.

I know, I know. It's heresy. I will report to the next Witch Hunter ASAP.
 

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@Zarathustra_the
Even though I love the Warhammer mod, I gotta admit that I wasn't really impressed with your dueling engine from a player perspective. I really prefer the one AGOT uses for it's simplicity and also because it feels less punishing. I think I lost 9 out of 10 duels against foes that should be inferior.

I know, I know. It's heresy. I will report to the next Witch Hunter ASAP.
I think you played with a version not properly balanced :D. We had forgotten a bunch of creature traits.
 

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Reading through this I realized that if someone was going through the messages looking at only the avatars and not the profile names, they would probably think Zarathustra_the and blackninja9939 were really just one person arguing/talking to themselves..... This thought amuses me greatly :D
 
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Reading through this I realized that if someone was going through the messages looking at only the avatars and not the profile names, they would probably think Zarathustra_the and blackninja9939 were really just one person arguing/talking to themselves..... This thought amuses me greatly :D
The solution for that is add more emperor tier avatars for me to use paradox :)