I don't like the way that this game is going with half-race children based on the dev journals. Having your children turn into monster babies would make players make bad gameplay decisions based on wanting a good character to look at. No one will want to make a marriage with the goblin types and everyone will always marry the Slaaneshland guys.
Just have a child from this marriage be one race or another please.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
Looking forward to this feature myself.. will be fun to see what can apear after a long time of mixing and matching..
Very interesting ideas, but if the devs were to use it, they would need to find a way to make it simple enough that it is useable. So what I imagine is that you would click on one of your offspring and a menu would pop up in which all of your major opponent civilizations would have an opinion score toward the viability of that offspring as a marriage option to one of their own. Then you could click deeper to assess what variables are specifically involved with that decision (if they think your kid is gorgeous, but are simply assholes who are demanding, you may not want to waste your super model on them.)
I agree, these equations would be purely under-the-hood: only the total attractiveness stat and other outside factors would be visible to the player... unless you can actually go all designer-baby and pick which exact traits you want Sauron Jr. to have....
Breeding a hideous half-human that serves my interests pretty much fulfills one of my life goals. I think doing in a computer game will just have to do.
If my grandkids don't have at LEAST 6 eyes, thier parents dropped the ball. Having fur on the eyeball doubles the count.
I want humans with cat ears, fangs, cat tail and pointy and hard like steel nails. Shapeshifting secondary abilities welcome. If mating doesn't allow such thing, I would need some flesh sculping abilities/magics.
Sorry, couldn't resist.........
Ewww, pureed meat. Wait...kitty-people would love that!
ohhhhhh, if we could import models in....
hot elven babes for all my kids. Its not incest if its magic, right?
Now that i think about it a little more, that might cause problems. If people make super detailed models it could be annoying to have to download everyone's model in MP. That or not see the same thing as them, which could also be annoying. But those are just MP problems.
I actually envisioned different people seeing their own version of the model for everything that isn't completely new. We'll see....
If people are using thier own models for infantry and stuff, then sure they should just see thier own models, but for soverigns everyone should see the same thing. It dosen't really effect gameplay but it might be intresting and add a bit if every now and then you run across a soverign or hero who you have never seen before.
Yes, folks around here taught me that name. I just thought the plain pun was irresistable. Plus, even though I appreciate open system design very much, I'm not happy to see so many beta critiques and suggestions dismissed with some kind of "well, mods will fix that" answer.
Most popular games get a complete overhaul mod. Although we can hope that elementals will not need one, if the modding community is solid enough its pretty much gaurenteed to get one.
Strategy on how to hit on the cute elven chick.
And her twin sister.
Oh shit... why you gotta say that?
"Excuse me ma'am, I think I've got an arrow for your bow."
"You must be tired, because you have been running through my kai'mel all night long."
"My World Tree also connects with living organisms..."
"I don't bite... but my spirit animal..."
Ughhhh....
If had pointy ears and double Ds i would be all over you.
And let me toss in, that being able to summon sucubus would also be awesome. Mentioned this elsewhere, but having kids with summoned creatures would be pretty cool. No reason to stick to just your wife, or just one wife. Harems for the rulers are a time honored practice.
Should I suggest that if you dare to mate with a succubus you should get stuck in the city permanently due to being unable to travel away for your... milker? Plus lose some stats points due to exhaustion? And increased spell failure chance due to distractions?
Really, such a thing would really need high magic (not to summon but to protect yourself + dominate her so she behaves like an obedient doll and not a devious being of utter evil*... which is what people thinks when talking of summoning one). Maybe some Essence cost (Essence as in the type of Essence used to bring land to life).
Next, we have polymorphed Dragons mating with the Sovereign! Hey, actually, I think that the idea of the Sovereign mating with "non usual" creatures can be interesting as long as it's done well. And to find such an special wife is a good quest by itself.
* and lust, yeah, lets not forget the favourite part, right?
Yes, it would be nice quest. Dragon Realms books by Knaak are full of inter-species breeding (namly humans, dragon, elves and some more). So it is completely imaginable to have this in the game. The only problem is technical - how to draw a half-dragon-quarter-elf-quarter-spider and what advantages/disadvantages the person (aehmmmm) being inherits so the game still remains balanced.
The charisma thing: it is true people will more like someone that is at least similar to them. So if the faction is "fallen", the human is a disgusting monster, because it has pink skin, no fur, and has only two eyes and not a single horn.
Mmmmm, perhaps we could have the sucubus just sit next to our throne wearing a colar and nothing else to distract ambasadors? Summon a sucubus to go mess up some other channelers family? if he has a teenage male kid then a succubus would have a 105% chance of eating his soul.
My point though, is that i don't wanna be stuck with some a single, boring wife. I want a harem filled with demons and monsters and magical beings and things so bizzare they don't even have names. Forget family, where is my menagerie?
THe problem I foresee with what I could read is that having kids seems that it's going to be a very puntual thing. After all, you must have this mechanic balanced of you might find someone that only uses the Sovereign to f... have offspring. Offspring that won't be channelers, true, but that are going to be at Hero level of deatil anyway.
I can also foresee a Harem Manga mod*. Those who know will understand.
* not really
Not really? it has spoken, now it must be done! The tough aunt with the cigaretes, the good looking one that you know you will actually end up with, but is going to a distant high-level college. The one with the glasses and gaint boobs. mmmmm. Makes me want to go reread some.
Perhaps we should have a way to make lesser children who are not heroes, just high-stat monsters?
OHHH, can we get gene-warping powers? Start with monsters, breed some kids, warp and twist them, end up custom nightmares? There is already code for our heir genetics, but could we apply it to trying to breed super monsters to fight for us? Forget recruiting pikemen! I can just use my army of 8 armed 10 foot tall scaled vat-grown troops!
Probably still too early in the 21st to expect Yaoi and Bara mods, though...
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