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Author Topic: Question about the Monarch  (Read 4813 times)

zzedar

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Re: Question about the Monarch
« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2013, 10:33:32 am »

There's the legendary soldiers in his entourage, they're a nice bonus (though there are a lot of caveats that mean they're not as nice as they could be).

Basically, the king is intended as a challenge, not a bonus; you go for the king when you want an extra little restriction to make things slightly more interesting (depending on the king's preferences, this can be anything from a negligible restriction to an almost crippling one)
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Re: Question about the Monarch
« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2013, 12:17:17 pm »

In a mod I made, one race has the king modded to have succession restricted to a specific caste that has a one in a million birthrate, but are set up to be super strong. It's an interesting incentive to get the king down here and NOT murder him in the face.

I also did not know that succession was inherently broken. I've watched worldgen and seen one of these super-kings (somehow) get ganked during the hilariously broken worldgen combat, and they were replaced by another one. Not sure if this happens outside of worldgen, but... yeah. That happened.
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Re: Question about the Monarch
« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2013, 01:43:50 pm »

I also did not know that succession was inherently broken. I've watched worldgen and seen one of these super-kings (somehow) get ganked during the hilariously broken worldgen combat, and they were replaced by another one. Not sure if this happens outside of worldgen, but... yeah. That happened.
Currently succession works during world generation, but does not work outside of it. I believe this is one of the bug fixes/features that will be added in the next version when we get a persistent world.
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Re: Question about the Monarch
« Reply #33 on: April 25, 2013, 05:40:40 am »

In a mod I made, one race has the king modded to have succession restricted to a specific caste that has a one in a million birthrate, but are set up to be super strong. It's an interesting incentive to get the king down here and NOT murder him in the face.

I also did not know that succession was inherently broken. I've watched worldgen and seen one of these super-kings (somehow) get ganked during the hilariously broken worldgen combat, and they were replaced by another one. Not sure if this happens outside of worldgen, but... yeah. That happened.

Hope I'm not being offtopic but can I have a link for your mod if it's available? I'd love to play with that next world gen
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