Kalin

Kalin

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Roadbuilding is done via a trait that unlocks that ability. Any faction can do it with a governor hero (they have a road building trait), but you'd have to level one up until they get the trait. Mancers (Capitar) can build units with that trait.

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Items only shows up in the shop normally if it was researched (the prereq tech part), if you want non-researched items to show up, you have to mod the CityHubs or a building to activate the sale of those items.

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If you look at my original comment, it was a response to your "It's a lot less overpowered than the original Celerity" statement. There's no way that this can be considered a less overpowered version if the benefits are higher. It's true that you can't stack it on one unit, but you don't have to use it all on one unit. Even if you have nothing else to use your mana on, if you have 1500 mana, what's to prevent you from buffing 6 units and roll people? Or 5 people and st

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Here's how it is suppose to work: Whenever you research a tech, you get 10% of its value in knowledge (in the same tree as the tech you researched). When you trade the tree knowledge away, you lose those points. You basically have an effective research rate of 110%, but you can only get that last 10% by trading (or you can trade it for something else). When you trade FOR knowledge, you gain those points in a random tech in that tree. Sometimes, if you're late in a game, a coup

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There's no limbo. I've said it time and again, people just don't want to accept it. It's precisely because those units are usually level 12+ with massive HP that they don't want you to be able to upgrade them... as that would just make those units all the more invincible afterwards. If you want better units, you have to train them from scratch and gain those exp again. This is part of the balancing needed to make sure you don't just mow over everything in your

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They don't, the world difficulty only affects monsters. The AI difficulty determines the AI bonuses. Yes, it has been nerfed. It is, however, very easy to mod back, as some people have pointed out. Although to be completely honest, the HP bonus of mobs have never really impressed me. Usually, if you can fight something with twice its normal HP, you usually have a strategy in mind that would work just as well with 3x or 4x. I'd love it if mobs get extra traits (from a r

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Would you like a mod for this? In my mod all cities generates 2% empire wide unrest, with certain buildings negating part or all of that (can be easily adapted to townhalls, palace, and towers of dominion). Basically, it means that you need to keep your unrest under control while expanding or it'll slow down your empire overall (research/production wise). Unfortunately, in general, the AIs just don't handle unrest control nearly as well in vanilla from my trial runs (that's why it

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[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="5" id="3292847"]It still costs 250 mana to cast as before, but it gives you 6 points in Initiative, not 1. You need some sort of up-front cost otherwise you could cast it right before battle and then dispel it before the maintenance kicks in. The real advantage is that you go into battle with it already on, as opposed to Haste which must be cast on the tactical map. So if you like you can make your first move something other than Haste sel

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No offense, but with 2 mana regen, in order to make up for 6 init worth of mana (1500mana)... you'd have to have it on for 625 turns... I don't think I've ever played a game that long. It's a pretty big buff unless you have nearly infinite mana. With that much mana you might as well toss around volcanos.

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The reason quest maps are in a different trait is because quest maps allows for infinite quests, which when combined with heroic bonus allows nearly infinite prestige (growth) and influence. They wanted you to have to spend all 3 points in order to get those bonuses. Otherwise people would always take heroic and never bother with wanderlust. As for the OP, if you think Heroic is worth only 1 point by itself, I'd have to respectfully disagree. Even without quest maps, you're ta

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I never really intended to make it a mod, I was just sharing some stuff I was playing with since it's easier to see the results for yourself than read the long post, but why not. I edited the main post with a link for a version for MM as requested. Hopefully it works.

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This weekend I've been looking at the final piece of my 3 part attempt at balancing unique units. In this case, it's Gilden's Iron Golems. The general consensus on these guys is that they are vastly underwhelming aside from their look, so this is definitely going to be a buff of sorts (although I tried to balanced it out via cost). Originally I thought that there was 2 ways that I could have gone with this. The first and simpler thing to do would be to move these guys up the tech

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Odd, I got the shroud last game, fought a garrison for it (a bunch of darklings), and the city generates darkling defender... ... until it upgrades anyways.

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