Post by Stark Bledfast » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:44 am
Mr. O wrote: The points for the cities are set that way, because knowing the level of the buildings lets you know how difficult a target that specific city is.
Kind of, but not really. A level 30 City hall, farm, Ironmine, etc do nothing to defend a city. Really, only Walls have any defensive property, and even there a 43,999 point city can be taken with 1,144 lancers and 4 scholars if it has no units to defend itself with.
I would like to see armies factor into points. Perhaps make the building representation (town, village, keep, castle, mega-castle) indicate the building level, but the total points factor in the army size which can flux.
This would also open up some strategery... if you build a 40k city and your city has 40,100 points, then everyone will know it is defenseless. You have the big icon (which represents at least a 40k point worth), which leaves you at most 100 points for units. Easy pickings.
Yet if you stop building at 39,993 points then you still have the regular castle icon. No one knows if you have 10k of buildings and 29k of units, or 39k of buildings and no units, etc. It's a guessing game.
And those with the mega castle icon and points around 80k? Yeah, don't mess with that city unless you have a big, big army.
[quote="Mr. O"] The points for the cities are set that way, because knowing the level of the buildings lets you know how difficult a target that specific city is. [/quote]
Kind of, but not really. A level 30 City hall, farm, Ironmine, etc do nothing to defend a city. Really, only Walls have any defensive property, and even there a 43,999 point city can be taken with 1,144 lancers and 4 scholars if it has no units to defend itself with.
I would like to see armies factor into points. Perhaps make the building representation (town, village, keep, castle, mega-castle) indicate the building level, but the total points factor in the army size which can flux.
This would also open up some strategery... if you build a 40k city and your city has 40,100 points, then everyone will know it is defenseless. You have the big icon (which represents at least a 40k point worth), which leaves you at most 100 points for units. Easy pickings.
Yet if you stop building at 39,993 points then you still have the regular castle icon. No one knows if you have 10k of buildings and 29k of units, or 39k of buildings and no units, etc. It's a guessing game.
And those with the mega castle icon and points around 80k? Yeah, don't mess with that city unless you have a big, big army. :)