why dont you just nerf it?

i dont get why you keep this absurd vanilla values

yeah it seems the only way to go, those passive dodge traits makes no sense to me ( same as warg bonuses )

and dont forget there is blindness that is pretty much a cheat, or fortify and enchants etc etc

yes exactly i though the same

basically to make things perfect we would need a diminishing return for many stats, so that stacking doesnt make them op like dodge is

anyway the point is a good player knows he has to stack whatever he is going to get, there is no point in building something with 5% dodge, 5 accuracy, 5 spell resist

stacking is the correct way of playing things so balance should prevent the right gameplay from being op

if a wrong gameplay is more penalized well imo its not a problem

v1.980.006 is up!

+This one fixes cities so they level

+Introduction to Staff changes: They now don't use Accuracy, use spell mastery and resist, have no initiative penalty for first staff, first staves are available for Sov customization at no cost, new staves added to 3rd book of the Magi

+Hunter's Bow and Poison Bow now do less damage

+Poison Bow now does poison damage

+Descriptions on abilities and spells added

+Axes have a small chance to do damage twice

+Daggers now use Pierce and have 2 counterattacks

+Sov traits renamed to sound more important

+Archsummoner unlocks Earth1, Fire1, Water1, but costs more

+Bugs on ability duration should be mostly fixed

+Paths are now possible to choose later if you miss one

+Fortress reduces training time by 33%, Barracks reduced to 33% for a total of 66% discount

+Altarian Blood now does +50% XP, meaning all heroes can stack for no penalty

+Adventurer Sov trait now gives extra points, but only +1 level and no Dodge

+Dodge has been nerfed to prevent high Dodge values

People will probably not want to play since we have a new core update today. I will try to get updated soon.

Several fixes need to be made before this mod is fully functioning again. I need to step back and play with taxes and the new content before it gets balanced again. Adding content and dealing with all the dev changes is very taxing. At least the vanilla game is passable and Stormworld is running great. I will try to update by tomorrow with a better balance.

I just had an epic battle. 267 turns into the game I finally defeated a single darkling lair. After dozens of battles I was finally able to kill more of them than they could of me and mine. I am playing as Magnar, using the Path of the Warlock. It took 6 groups of fire mages and a few mana blasts and Kill to finally take out the boss shaman. I had to kill ten armies to reach that battle. Now my western border is totally secure. It was simply epic and now I have a sweet little lair from which to train more troops. I will get one extra army of charging spearmen out of it. The darkling war has left me behind in the race to power. I only hold three cities where most have 5. To my north is Pariden, ripe for the taking. Constant war has made my armies deadly and my heroes above level 12. Now the conquest of the 7 factions can begin.

The worst thing is that spell resistance may not even be working. I think something changed since beta 3, because that is how I did it then. I can live with the Accuracy thing though, as long as I add some elemental resistance to staves, it should play about the same. 

In the game I mentioned, I am at turn 300 now and things are heating up. With that mega-lair gone, my armies can focus on wiping out all the trolls. Soon I will have 3 troll lairs. Since trolls are the only way to get tactical regeneration now, it makes them very powerful. They are perfect for tanking while mages sit back and rain hellfire upon my enemies. It's nice that I am at a point in the game where the more powerful factions are starting to declare war on me. I am having to pay other empires to go to war, so they don't declare it on me. Right now there is a good line of wars between kingdoms and empires. To keep it that way, I need about 300 faction power very soon. Pretty sure wiping out Pariden will do that.

how are ais behaving in your game?

it seems to me that with stronger monsters ai cheat too much, killing free everything and i often find ai 5 6levels above me

thats not a big deal ofc but still it bothers me

How modest

Sincerely
~ Batman!

I just added in a thing where casting spell of making makes your Sov omnipotent. So, if you choose to continue after winning, you get to crush the enemy with limitless power. 

Oh, well Frogboy assures me the AI is playing fair, so if they are winning, I have to assume it is because autoresolve is still screwed up. There are so many cases where autoresolve is buggy. I don't think it is the AI itself though. 

However, I am noticing some late game bugs, but since I am modding, I can't report any of them. I hope they are not in the vanilla too.

My theory is that there was a before, until He gained power and deleted the before in favor of these realities. No hard feelings big guy. I always choose the evil I know.

Each hero takes 50% XP away. So if each Altarian adds +50%, it negates the penalty. But I suppose that would only work if it did it for the whole party. So, a little troll logic there. But two of them together has no penalty. I would love to actually do that, but it is hardcoded.

I have two spells for each element that unlock from a tech and a level. You need to be level 5 in any element and get 3rd Book of the Magi or the Spell of Making tech to unlock the mega spells. They are still a work in progress, but the ideas are sound. As far as the code to do it, you just have a tech prereq and an ability prereq for it. Pretty simple really. 

Seanw3,

I really like your mod, from more logical Champion progression to more abundant (and more annoying) monsters.

I have a question concerning custom Sovs though. I created a few for the vanilla game, but when I updated to the Balance mod, those Sovs are depicted without heads and gear - so naturally, I didn't choose them for my current game.

Is this normal and expected, or I screwed up somewhere in applying the mod? Sorry if this was answered before.