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i haven't sent it yet, influx of things to do
it'll be out within the next hour
sorry for the delay guys
No worries. Things happen and real life is kinda hard to dodge. I hope I'm not being too pushy.
e: Got one person for my play by email game, I need at least two more to start.
e2: two people now, just waiting on one more person. If we can't find that one more person by this time tomorrow, I'll start the game anyway.
Just PM me your email.
Sure it is. The other saps are aware of your advantage and thus can join together to unmake you.
In Hell.
Yeah.
Edit: Hell yeah.
A word of warning: It seems it is possible to run out of praetors. In my epic game, none are available. A lot have died because I farmed Telemachus for prestige, but then he died by a random act of hell.
Here's a tutorial for all the newcomers and/or people that can't get into the game.
e: There's been a real run on praetors in Evil's game. I wonder what these people know that I don't.
praetors are just a great way to power up your legions.
The game feels fiendishly complex in a good, well-thought-out kind of way. A good UI designer getting a crack at polishing it up would be a good thing, but most of the basics are not so hard to figure out as some posts in this thread led me to think they would be.
That said, here are some things I wanted to know but could not figure out in the first game:
1. What do each of your avatar's attributes do?
2. How do you gain a) more resources per tribute demand, and b) more order slots per turn?
edit:
I guess the main answer to my question 2a is "more Charisma". And the answer to 2b, or one answer to it anyway, just showed up at the beginning of my second game in the form of a Place of Power that gives me +1 orders.
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As you increase the attributes, you access new powers. Most of them are self-explanatory. Increased attributes also give you bonus modifiers to using those powers, so they're more likely to succeed.
For 2), a) increase your Charisma, and also be aware that constantly demanding tribute slightly lessens how much you get, and b) every time you increase an attribute to rank... six, I think? you get a new order slot. It tells you all that on the powers screen, anyway.
why have I not heard of this before?
No problem, We're doing about a turn a day anyway, and you were the first in for the next turn. It evens out.
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Yeah, the AIs in the demo are total wusses. The last couple of patches have made them a lot more aggressive and entertaining to play against, though - so if that's your main complaint, I would be fairly confident in stating that the full version has it fixed.
As an example: yesterday, I finished playing a small map, 4 player (myself+3 AIs) as a charisma/cunning avatar. Around turn 20 (strongly in the lead), I manipulated Mammon into vendetta, only to have the other two AIs both demand outrageous amounts of tribute (4 or 5 cards each, I think). I refused, being a poor mutha because of my vendettal preparations. So I ended up in three vendettas at the same time.
Then a host of angels showed up and killed my best legion.
Yeah, that game didn't end well.
That's good. Sounds like a lot more fun.
In my game I had the Illuminatus legion tricked out with the Vats of Ichor and a combat card to reduce enemy melee by 8, and I think I could've run the table with that guy against all my enemies' legions combined. But I could never use him! I could certainly see how it wasn't in anybody's interest to actually fight me, but the payoff I was getting from my insults wasn't sufficient compensation. It's kind of frustrating how low the prestige cap is on insults. Moloch ran away with the win because I could only insult him for 4 prestige once every 6 turns, and he was gaining 3/turn from the locations he controlled. It didn't seem there was anything else I could've done against him.
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Sorry for quoting myself, but reading everything everyone says has me really wanting to try it. I certainly can't buy it until I can figure out if it'll work on my system, and I'm sure something is just configured wrong.
are you doing anything else while you play? i only get script errors if i spend some time in another window and don't touch the game for a few minutes.
Er... I don't think I am always doing that. I was alt-tabbing to the tutorial the first 3 or 4 times it happened, but the last couple times I wasn't.
check the official forums on cryptic comet's site, i think it's a fairly common issue
You may want to throw this up in the OP.
Also, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to do that, as it sounds completely ridiculous.
But why? If it helps, who cares if it's completely ridiculous. This game is awesome and you should definately play it.