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Mm... the only thing you'd be missing out on are the nature summons (Kappa, karatengu, nushi)*, though getting a Dai-Oni that can summon Dai-tengu is pretty rare (though if you've got a pretender that can build air boosters -- or summon something that can -- you've got a 1 in 4 chance of recruiting a sorcerer that can summon 'em. Or just trade for one, if you're in MP.). You've got easy access to the death nationals, and your sorcerers (and dai-oni, though if you're using dai-oni to summon things something has probably gone incredibly wrong.) have a 1 in 4 chance of being able to summon konoha tengu. You're not giving up much not having a pretender that's an AWN mix.

Though, that said, I don't think WN would be a terrible bless for Yomi. Maybe not incredible, but not terrible. And then you'd have a pretender that can summon naiads to deal with summoning the part-nature nationals (barring the karasu tengu, anyway, but screw them. AN is kinda' rare.). Assuming you ever want to summon kappa (nope**) or nushi (maybe).

*And, uh. They're not exactly the most mindblowing of summons, those.
**3 water gems and a caster's turn for three kappa? Are you kidding me?

Now if GUNIN doesn't make a game about sweet tank love, I'm going to shank his ass.

Yeah... yeah, I remember infantry. Combined Arms ;_; That zombie mode. The RTS zones. Hockey, and the other sports games. The CTF and mechanized infantry maps, of course. CM. All the other stuff. I bloody loved that game. It remember it more than I do my middle school years. It taught me more about writing than my english classes did. Near the end days, I think I was cycling between Ratatosk and Hrimfaxi as names. Back when it first came out, I was running as Thor's Hammer V2.0 or something along those lines, then Mjolnir for a while. Frumple was probably in there too, somewhere.

And yeah, Freeinf's been running it again, and, as you note, population issues. Damn shame, considering that it's one of the best multiplayer games I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing.

Also I'm not sure it's something to be discussed on this forum, for though while it is as awesome as awesome can be, freeinf's efforts are unfortunately illegal. SOE never released the game to the wilds, and probably never will (iirc, something regarding the netcode is proprietary and used in their everquest stuff, which is the why of it). For which I will forever hate Sony with every burning fiber of my being.

Eventually *shrugs*

We've got a fairly functional PS2 one, after all. Xbox'll come. In due time, they'll all come home to the PC.

Quote from: mastahcheese on April 24, 2014, 08:01:45 pm

is it sad that I've actually tried to play games like that before?

I wasn't successful, but I tried.

I completed Fable with no working textures. Except the water, which looked like vomit. It was yellow with green and red chunky specks in it, and it flowed.

... yeah, there was a point I was only able to get WC3 running decently by taking a third party program and disabling... nearly everything. Stuff like shaders, iirc. And colors. Everything was basically a textureless black and white wireframe or... something along those lines. But it ran better!

Assuming nothing comes up, sure.

I personally prefer non-wrap maps to wrap, m'self, heh. Wraparound gives me a lil'bit of a headache. Left is right, up is down, etc., etc.

Re: Map settings: I'd also be throwing in for higher than base site frequency ('cause that makes things more interesting) and common events (ditto). In the event of a catastrophic early event, maybe there'd be room for one or two mulligan chances -- basically, if someone gets event wrecked on turn three, we restart or roll back a turn (if that's possible and changes event RNG).

I'd kinda' vote for score graphs on, given the amount of beginners we have... it'd take a little pressure off micromanaging scouting and whatnot. On the other tentacle, low-experience folks have a harder time meaningfully interpreting the graph info, so it might be just as much of a boon to leave 'em off. Big advantage for team two, though, in that case... recruitable flying scouts are glorious.

Definitely 10 or 15 hall of fame slots and limited artifact forging. Not really an opinion on anything else. So long as renaming is on by default for something like this, heh.

Map wise, I wouldn't exactly mind Valanis, though sweet zeus would that put the tentacled dudes in a position. Though, can I make the request any non-default maps recommended come with a link, so we can look at it? Search can find it fairly quickly, but it saves a little time.

BRAUM LOOKS SO AWESOME

sweet mother of zeus that beautiful mustache

braum should come with the introduction of mustache mode, which does absolutely nothing but paste his mustache on all other champions