Sean, in your mod, does merchant building no longer work? I am using a custom faction, built the first merchant building which is supposed to give me +2 gold but it isn't giving me anything. Still only making .8 gold on low tax with a lvl 1 town. Did you change how it works maybe?

The code in coreimprovements seems fine, so not sure what else could be affecting it. I should be producing 12 gold right now but I am only producing 2.4 and I built 1 spearmen which is costing me 1.1 so I am basically making no money. Given, the rate is on low, but still even on higher levels it isn't much. At normal 4.8 and high 7.2. This is with 2 cities. Something is wrong here.

I guess I see what you did, you changed the way resist magic works perhaps?

Also I see how the taxes work. You get a percentage of the max. The percentage depends on tax rate?

Cuz I designed these spear dudettes. [e digicons][/e]   I added the negative trait weak which Sean modded to -20 labor cost. Note they cost only 3 production to build. I think the game looks at them like slaves.

You are playing on a small map (even large size is small) 

I created a much larger map with elementerra. There are lots of monsters around but I can still settle and develop comfortably. I prefer it that way. Although I might have to add more factions so that no one faction can get too big quickly. Map is huge so there is a lot of space to settle.

Spells are doing 1-Max Damage for some reason. That is a vanilla game mechanic too. Same with Merchant. The vanilla sets up taxes so that you only get a percentage of the max gildar a city can produce. Increasing your tax levels will increase gildar per turn, but increase unrest as well. Empires are able to get to Oppressive Taxes in the late game with Slave Pen and Slave University or whatever I called it. Kingdoms have more ways to reduce overall unrest, instead of ignoring it. I am trying to get the faction types to play differently. Let me know how that goes.

As to weapon balance, you have to think that a mace army is going to be bashing a ton with those high values. So even though their damage over 100 turns is low, you will have several situations where you incapacitate your foe. And certain factions get bonuses to weight capacity, allowing them to have better initiative with maces. It really depends on who you play as. There is also a trait rebalance incoming that removes all trait labor and has the traits based on race and faction bonuses. Each trait will have a trade off. Your choices will direct a unit towards a specific tactical or strategic choice.

I was referring to mauls and doom mauls. Maces are fine. The wieght on mauls restricting gear and the initiative penalty inhibiting movement not withstanding, the damage is half of same tech weaponry. But whatever.. I did find a bug though. Masterwork chain is available at armor tech, instead of chain being available at armor tech, and mastework chain at heavy armor tech.

Anyone else getting a consistent crash between turn 50 and 100?

Sean - continued the 1.0.002 playthrough in a new thread here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/435202

After some further testing, the crashes seem to have been coming from my custom maps. I think there may be some problems with the cartographer's table.

I figure you're probably already aware of these Sean but thought I'd mention it just incase.

Was tinkering with the mod today just for laughs and noticed a few ultimate spells so busted out the cheat client to give a couple a whirl. Ran into a couple issues.

Diluvium - causes some pretty serious client chugging when cast, talk about drowning everything in the remote vicinity though yeesh ._. Units whose tiles have been turned to water (AI) just end up standing on water. Quite odd to watch.

Great Flood/The Oncoming Storm - client locks up when you click cast spell on these. Seems to show most targets as invalid. Wasn't actually able to make it cast in the end.

Omen of Astaroth - No delay issues but shows all targets as protected from hostile spells

Strip Mountain - Seems to work mostly though I have yet to see any resources pop out from the ones I tested.

Break Realm - Guessing this is meant to be ridiculous with that crazy mana cost. Talk about turning everything into bananas, floating rivers and resources popping out of the side everywhere ._.

Tested on an i7 @ 3.85GHz, Nvidia GTX 480s.

I have never installed a Mod before but really want to try this out. Can someone walk me through on how to do this? I would be greatly appreciated  !!!

Hi Sean,

Your mod is simply incredible. I spent the last 10 hours playing with Altar and trying to survive and to expand while fighting the never-ending hordes of brigands, darklings and shrill. The tweaks you’ve done to the monsters aggressiveness and groupings really add an impressive challenge and depth to the game. We really need to cleverly plan our defense and your mod makes city spamming a non viable solution, as we need to fortify, build defensive structures and really plan our expansions. As a long-time strategy gamer, I never felt such challenge in any game so far. Many thanks for your effort, and I’m eager to see the next update to your awesome mod.

PS : I really hope that Master's Affliction will be one day compatible with Stormworld.

Thanks,

Mat