For some reason the Peasant unit is stronger than a comparable freshly designed unit.
"Good" Peasant units have an attack of 3, rather than the proper 2. This gves them the same stats as the more expensive Observer.
"Evil" Peasants also have an attack value of 3 and additionally have extra hit points.
They also seem to have some kind of defense malus, they have less defense than other units with equal armor.
It's especially egregious with the Fallen peasants, whose massive hp (13) turns into some 70 hp per head with shock trooper training and a levelup.
Not much to do with the conversation above, but the naming convention a friend used - when designing new units, was:
Peasant (the original start unit)
Peasant 1.1
Peasant 1.2
Peasant 1.3
Heh.
As cool in a geeky way as that is, I go with roman numerals for a slightly less immersion-breaking effect: Peasant III, Peasant IV, etc.
That is pretty awesome:) I tend to use profane names just to keep my interest level up.
Yeah, imo, the Peasant unit should either be disabled or fixed. Also, what is with that default avatar image... it doesn't look right for most races and should probably just be generated as well.
i imported the naming scheme i use in space 4x games like Galciv and name them Peasant MkI, MkII, MKIII, MkIV ect.
Not to mention the balance issues that occur once you realize you can "upgrade" your peasants and keep their 8 extra HP per unit.
The funny thing is that you can upgrade them and give them better weapons and armor, but for some reason they have different armor choices than the rest of your army.
There's also the thing with the 0.8 dex they have, which basically reduces all armor you give them by 20%. You can abuse this by letting them stay at 0 armor and using their ungawdly HP to make up for it. If you give them the berserker ring, the defense penalty is also reduced by 20%. So if they have no other armor, the berserker ring will only give them -2 Def (-2.7 rounded up)
All in all, the peasant unit needs to be fixed so that it's not so abusable.
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