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Goblins, evil kidnappers...

Necromancers, uber-evil mages...

Skaven, underground-living ratmen with clans...

Insect hive, zerg/tyranid-style...

Naga, water-based magic snakemen...

[Curlygraves]

Would it be possible to use a retired adventurer as the civ start of Hermit mode?

Because that would be pretty sweet.

[Rekov]

[Boltgun]

I still say that elves are savage tribes of rainforest cannibals.

[Jaso11111]

ELVES GO HOME!
MAKE GARDEN OF GAIA GREAT AGAIN!

But yea my vote is for Necromancers. I absolutely adore them!

[Rekov]

I still say that elves are savage tribes of rainforest cannibals.

I agree with you, but it's a lot harder to find art for adorable crying rainforest cannibal elves.

As far as concept goes, I always think of a piece of art from Mortal Online:
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[Meph]

That is a freaking cool design.

[Rekov]

It's a shame Mortal Online was something of a let down, but yeah! It's amazing how much you can take from just a piece of art. Spear as a weapon type, they don't care much about nudity so you can do away with a lot of the clothes industry (It's a shame you can't make different civs want specific types of clothing, or maybe you can?). Tattoos, which could be some kind of tattoo based magic or something.

[leoniswulf]

Personally I think creating a race of bee people would be great for hivemind cavern invaders. That being said I would be equally happy to see an insect type playable race.

[Insanegame27]

Personally I think creating a race of bee people would be great for hivemind cavern invaders. That being said I would be equally happy to see an insect type playable race.

I ended up making hivemind wasps for 34.11 and it ended up flopping. theyre fully playable for 34.11 though if you want them.

[Meph]

(It's a shame you can't make different civs want specific types of clothing, or maybe you can?)

sure you can.

[cerevox]

Well, the succubus are all about the skirts, stockings and corsets, although I suppose dwarves would probably wear em if they had em. Dwarves will wear anything.

[Jaso11111]

Well, the succubus are all about the skirts, stockings and corsets, although I suppose dwarves would probably wear em if they had em. Dwarves will wear anything.

Aaaaaaaaand the mental image will never go away now, thanks...

[cerevox]

So, since metals have come up, how do the new ones compare? I know heavier is better for blunt, and that whips act like anti-armor lasers almost regardless of materiel used, but beyond that is there any obvious tiering?

Edit: Stuck all the metals into a sheet, and just armchairing it, it appears that...

For blunt weapons, Cobalt and Styg are below steel, while other new metals very from better to WOW. For blades, Mithril, Tungsten and volcanic beat steel. Tungsten outstrips everything except candy blades, but on the flip side, tungsten is hella heavy.

Edit2: And now I am not so sure that the new metals are actually WAY better. Their sheer/impact elasticity is higher, which is worse. Tungsten may not actually be that good as an edged weapon, because of higher elasticity and higher density. Well, it should still be good, but not massively better than steel. Someone with more spare time should arena test these metals.

[Meph]

Cobalt should be like iron.
Mithril is like steel, but lighter.
Tungsten is better than steel, but far heavier, if you make armor with it, your units are super slow.
Volcanic is better than steel, made of steel, mithril and obsidian, so its expensive. It also requires magma. Its a end-game material, the only one I really put between steel and adamantine.

Dont know about styg and afelsteel, the succubi mats.

[cerevox]

Right, but lighter makes things better at cutting so mithril should be significantly better as an edged weapon than steel. Tungsten also appears to be better than volcanic, but both of them have higher elasticity, so im not sure how much that counter balances their higher sheer/yields.

Styg is pretty much a super light bronze, and Afelsteel looks like a slightly heavier steel clone.