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Geny 
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posted June 19, 2007 09:09 PM |
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Edited by Geny at 21:12, 19 Jun 2007.
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The slight problem perhaps is that the distinction between magic and philosophy might become blurred.
That's exactly the reason why I wanted philosophies to be passive. Back when I first thought of it I had to invent different mechanics for three attributes: tactics, magic, philosophies. So I thought about stat increase, active and passive ability accordingly.
If you want to change it to racial skills that's fine by me. The only reason I wanted them to be similiar to Tactics and Alignment is because you wanted the player to have the ability to specialize in one of them more than in others, and you probably can't do that with racial skills.
Ultimatively, of course, you could do both. But I realize that's a lot of work and maybe should be left for the expansion .
All that being said, I really think it's pointless to continue this discussion until we know what mechanics (both adventure and combat and even city management) the game will use.
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bixie
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posted June 19, 2007 09:19 PM |
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really depends on how much people are willing to put in the game, how many coders we can buy, designers we can catch and artists we can herd into making out game.
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Geny
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posted June 19, 2007 09:23 PM |
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really depends on how much people are willing to put in the game, how many coders we can buy, designers we can catch and artists we can herd into making out game.
Umm... I just remembered I'm going away for a long time and I won't have internet connection ..... or any other way to communicate with the outside world...
Anyway, good luck with that project
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posted June 20, 2007 08:28 PM |
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The slight problem perhaps is that the distinction between magic and philosophy might become blurred.
That's exactly the reason why I wanted philosophies to be passive. Back when I first thought of it I had to invent different mechanics for three attributes: tactics, magic, philosophies. So I thought about stat increase, active and passive ability accordingly.
If you want to change it to racial skills that's fine by me. The only reason I wanted them to be similiar to Tactics and Alignment is because you wanted the player to have the ability to specialize in one of them more than in others, and you probably can't do that with racial skills.
Ultimatively, of course, you could do both. But I realize that's a lot of work and maybe should be left for the expansion.
All that being said, I really think it's pointless to continue this discussion until we know what mechanics (both adventure and combat and even city management) the game will use.
(On all of that)
I'll go for the passive, active, stat boost thing I think. But I still think it would be more interesting to have one philosophy per town. The philosophies won't be like HoMM5 as such, so not quotes or phrases - the term is a little misleading there.
I'm thinking;
Life - Sylphs
Death - Nekoma
Nature - Dwarves
Order - Naga
Chaos - Beholders
Justice - Lizardmen
Life - Justice - Death
Order - Nature - Chaos
Wow, it works out so well...
See you soon Geny 
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Geny
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posted June 20, 2007 08:45 PM |
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Edited by Geny at 20:46, 20 Jun 2007.
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*What? The financial thingie is over? oh right....*
Well, I'm back . Man, what a trip! It was so... so... ... well, actually it's all very secret so I can't tell you.
Anywaaay, what's our next goal?
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bixie
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posted June 20, 2007 09:30 PM |
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i would think that the nekoma were more about chaos, as they are all about destruction and causing as much havoc as they can
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Gnoll_Mage
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posted June 21, 2007 09:33 PM |
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Consider them swapped with Beholders.
Back so soon Geny? Actually, on a serious financial note, it would be cool if I could finish this and actually make some money from it. It's a shame I don't have the drive. Ah, if only we did have the money to get someone else to implement our ideas - and since you co-created the game, well, you might have to make another mysterious trip...
My next goal is to sit down and do some more programming, or at least make something on paper regarding it.
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posted June 22, 2007 08:50 PM |
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Yay, I've got something done. A user log in system (user "a" password "a"), the beginnings of resources, the mechanism for adding monsters (see the smiley face - it's different to the pink things because it's specific to the "a" player), and yet more database construction. Nothing particularly major, but then I wasn't expecting much...
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Geny
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posted June 23, 2007 10:06 AM |
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Great
Keep up the good work, we're all behind you on this one!
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Gnoll_Mage
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posted July 04, 2007 08:51 PM |
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Update for the loyal followers of the game: resources now on the map. Those 3 smiley faces give you wood, gold or both when you walk over them (which aren't permanent, and don't disappear from the map yet...). There's also a town, lovingly handcrafted with Photoshop brush of course, which you can enter by going to the bottom middle square. It opens up a window which should be your in-town view, although currently Google is getting in the way 
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Geny
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posted July 04, 2007 08:56 PM |
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cool
this is starting to look sound very good.
just don't give up now!
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Gnoll_Mage
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posted July 05, 2007 12:02 AM |
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cool
this is starting to look sound very good.
just don't give up now!
Cheers! (I think )
Getting good graphics may be difficult, but I won't worry about it for now.
Ooh, never said it to you Geny - well done on that 5th gold star you were coveting 
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Geny
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posted July 05, 2007 06:43 PM |
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Thanks, though there is a seperate thread just for this.
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Gnoll_Mage
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posted July 06, 2007 10:55 PM |
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Ah yes, so I see, I do apologise
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posted July 07, 2007 05:14 AM |
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I'll make some midi tunes for it, if nobody else steps forward,
in my spare time,
when I feel like it.
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Gnoll_Mage
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posted July 07, 2007 04:45 PM |
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Unhackable has made some suggestions to me for different races. See what you think.
FoG, thanks for your offer, but remember what I said before, I probably will not finish this project, and I don't want people spending time on it only for their efforts to be wasted But knock yourself out if you want to, at the very least I look forward to hearing your masterpieces!
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Geny
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posted July 07, 2007 08:07 PM |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing that was changed are the races' names. I don't have a problem with the new races, but I thought you wanted something a bit more "unorthodox" and not humans, elves, orcs routine.
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posted July 09, 2007 01:53 PM |
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Well I do, but it seems most people support races like these ones. If I did change from the ones we have, these would be a good selection don't you think?
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Geny
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posted July 09, 2007 06:12 PM |
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Who do you mean by "people"?
I don't see anything wrong with a bit of originality, for all I care you could even invent your own races.
But like I said, the names are not something that bothers me...
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posted July 09, 2007 09:26 PM |
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I really liked the original line-up,
sylphs, nekoma, lizardmen, nagas, and especially beholders.
the standard fantasy rehash of elves and orcs and such is really...
disappointing
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