New Trait: Wise (or something along those lines)
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New Trait: Wise (or something along those lines)
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Well I was chatting with my friend and though up an idea for a caster trait since it seems as though most traits are either detrimental or just useless (coughstrongadeptscough) for casters.
This idea MAINLY came from the fact that I recently had a game where I had 4 strong/quick adepts, which made me very sad that they were useless. I thought about what traits that would actually be super beneficial for them, and the only things I could think of would be resilient strong, but adepts can't even use the +1 attack so it seems weird that the best thing for them is just +1 HP over all of the other things they could get.
Intelligent might be good for getting them up faster, but still it doesn't really seem that great when I think about how fragile mages are already.
Wise: - 1 HP, +1 Magic attack
explanation:
basically it would work like strong, but for magic. It's probably not very balanced although I was thinking a 10% drop would be a little much (especially if it was quick as well).
possible pitfalls:
-it could make adepts ridiculously strong (and red mages too, a 9-4 fireball is scary no matter what time of day it is)
-another trait to balance things around, and also another one to juggle in there
-I tried to keep it simple from the programming aspect, but obviously I don't know everything about how they coded the game and it would still require effort
Well I was chatting with my friend and though up an idea for a caster trait since it seems as though most traits are either detrimental or just useless (coughstrongadeptscough) for casters.
This idea MAINLY came from the fact that I recently had a game where I had 4 strong/quick adepts, which made me very sad that they were useless. I thought about what traits that would actually be super beneficial for them, and the only things I could think of would be resilient strong, but adepts can't even use the +1 attack so it seems weird that the best thing for them is just +1 HP over all of the other things they could get.
Intelligent might be good for getting them up faster, but still it doesn't really seem that great when I think about how fragile mages are already.
Wise: - 1 HP, +1 Magic attack
explanation:
basically it would work like strong, but for magic. It's probably not very balanced although I was thinking a 10% drop would be a little much (especially if it was quick as well).
possible pitfalls:
-it could make adepts ridiculously strong (and red mages too, a 9-4 fireball is scary no matter what time of day it is)
-another trait to balance things around, and also another one to juggle in there
-I tried to keep it simple from the programming aspect, but obviously I don't know everything about how they coded the game and it would still require effort
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Is there any reason that need be so, though? There certainly are potential traits that it would make sense to allocate to certain unit groupings rather than races per se.Noyga wrote:Traits are usually given by race.
A caster-specific trait is a good example. It would have to be carefully balanced against existing traits, of course...
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Personaly I think that if you are going to give mages/adepts a bonus to magical damage the penelty should be much more severe than -1 hp.
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Simplicity - KISSirrevenant wrote:Is there any reason that need be so, though?Noyga wrote:Traits are usually given by race.
(I know there are already exceptions and I hate that. One exception leads to another which justifies the next ... )
Remove the exception that adepts don't get the strong trait .UngeheuerLich wrote:but 2 out of three adepts are quick now, which means they are very fragile now... a different trait for them would really be helpful
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All traits should be completely positive. having a malus to 'balance' a bonus is generally a bad idea. A little searching will find my explanations of why.
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http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 760#131760
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 1358#11358
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Yes, and that is a poor design issue left over from its first inception. The rebalancing necessary to make it a pure positive is more work than people want to do.Baufo wrote:Doesn't the quick trait also have a malus?
ok, a quick search on 'trait' posted by yours truly yields amongst others the following posts on the subject of negative traits:
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 093#187093
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 647#102647
"you can already do that with WML"
Fight Creeeping Biggerism!
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 760#131760
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 1358#11358
I've been using the stable version since thats where most of the people are, I didn't notice that they had strong removed from adepts in the development release.
as for the whole weakness with traits, guess we heard it straight from the fool's mouth... er wait. I still like the idea that theres a -1 HP, since it somewhat fits in with the tag that a wise person is generally older and weaker (of course I may just be having Gandalf syndrome or something), and it's not exactly that big of a loss. Still there is that thing called effort getting in the way.
Something else I've noticed, shamans can get dexterous, which raises their magic damage, so something would probably have to happen there.
as for the whole weakness with traits, guess we heard it straight from the fool's mouth... er wait. I still like the idea that theres a -1 HP, since it somewhat fits in with the tag that a wise person is generally older and weaker (of course I may just be having Gandalf syndrome or something), and it's not exactly that big of a loss. Still there is that thing called effort getting in the way.
Something else I've noticed, shamans can get dexterous, which raises their magic damage, so something would probably have to happen there.
The problem with the way you worded your problem is that "magic" is not a range, your wize trait would pretty much be identical to the dexterouse trait except with a minus one and given to magic users.
The problem is that magic users with +1 damage is scary.
The problem is that magic users with +1 damage is scary.
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Since when were traits given by race? Aren't strong, quick, resilient, fearless and intelligent universal? (with exceptions) Aren't the only other traits healthy and dextrous? Also why wouldn't giving the traits to all units be more KISS?
EDIT: Forgot undead, but my point still stands, also I've never liked that being a trait and a race.
EDIT: Forgot undead, but my point still stands, also I've never liked that being a trait and a race.
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