Race Specific Abilities

[Freenhult]

-Create a balanced, racial specific abilities system, and a fair way to activate the abilities.

[Freenhult]

Fine... If you all are going to be lame and not discuss, then I will.

I'm totally for some sort of race specific ability. Whether is increased building per turn, or less food eaten. I think the idea, is to get away from all the %s if I recall correctly. Just have a race, that speciallizes in food, and is neutral for the "other" stuff. We'd have to rework what bonus to use, from the ones we have now, because a race that gets an indy bonus is prolly going to do better than anyone else, save a hawker.

Anyway,

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Race  	Offense  	Defense  	Build  	Expense  	Hawks  	Industry  	Income  	Scouting  	Bazaar  	Food  	Runes  	Orchards
Assyrian  22%  0%  -5%  5%  0%  5%  0%  0%  5%  7%  0%  -5%
Egyptian  0%  12%  -4%  3%  -5%  -3%  -8%  0%  0%  3%  3%  11%
Etruscan  -4%  -4%  5%  0%  -3%  -4%  12%  -10%  -12%  -5%  -4%  -5%
Gallic  11%  -9%  5%  -8%  -12%  0%  0%  0%  9%  -6%  -8%  8%
Germanic  6%  12%  0%  0%  -9%  4%  0%  -3%  0%  0%  -10%  0%
Greek  4%  14%  -4%  -4%  0%  -2%  0%  0%  0%  3%  0%  -13%
Macedon  12%  0%  6%  5%  -12%  14%  5%  -3%  3%  9%  -12%  7%
Persian  -4%  -4%  5%  -3%  7%  -4%  -2%  -8%  6%  -7%  6%  0%
Phoenician  -13%  -12%  9%  4%  23%  -13%  5%  5%  3%  7%  10%  0%

Those are the currect bonuses and such. Anyone else want to help try to get new ideas set up and such? Because all I can think of are, Farmer, Indy, Hawker, and Reseller.

[Gen. Volkov]

Too much like RWL in my opinion. I think we need to be distinct from them in this instance.

[Devari]

I think it makes sense, as long as the activation of the ability varies from race to race, and is not (except for hawker races) tied to hawks as RWL's are.

[Freenhult]

Too much like RWL in my opinion. I think we need to be distinct from them in this instance.

I wouldn't know... Can anyone elaborate?

[Devari]

In RWL, each race has (or had?) a special mission (or spell, or...) that does something - gather extra cash, allow extra lottery tickets, create troops, etc...

I think that race-specific abilities make sense; it's just that RWL implemented them poorly, in a manner biased in favour of hawk-users (apart from the massive imbalance between races). Furthermore, there is nothing saying a specific racial ability (beyond inherent bonuses) should not by passive, rather than active - for example, guard towers worth 50 extra DP each. I think a combination of active and passive abilities would be most effective, especially if each race (with an active ability) has their ability activated in a different way.

[Gen. Volkov]

I suppose that could work then, I just don't want spells that acitvate the abilities.

[Devari]

Oh, no, certainly not, except for, perhaps, a hawker race... But, that would come up in discussion... Overall, I think it would be smart to stay away from one single method of activation... Especially staying away from spell-based activation.

[Gen. Volkov]

K then, I have nothing further to add then really right now, I'll try and come up with some stuff.

[Freenhult]

Bump. Development sorta halted.