[Keeperman]

You could give the forge upgrades like:

Quality I (Better quality equipment. More likely to get +6 chain mail etc.)
Quality II
Quality III
Production Speed I (Make things faster)
Production Speed II
Production Speed III
Production Cost I (Cheaper weapons)
Production Cost II
Production Cost III
No Lure (Doesn’t lure monsters)
Goblin Lure (Attracts goblins better)

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Ideas for library upgrades (costing 50 mana each):

No Lure
Shaman Lure
Shaman Lure II
Shaman Lure III
Spell research basic (monsters learn basic spells here)
Spell research advanced
Spell research expert
Mana generation
Mana generation II
Technology capacity (5 techs can be researched in the library)
Technology capacity II (All techs can be researched in the library)
Fire proofing

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Each room could be developed through a different upgrade path, where you choose the direction you want to take from the available options.

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The floors could look different depending on the upgrades the room has. The type of upgrades could change the patterns and colors of the room tiles.

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Rooms could start off standard (muddy/wooden/flammable). You could choose from a variety of upgrades such as:
.Efficiency/productivity upgrades
.Monster lure upgrades (eg. attract better monsters, specific monsters, no monsters, attract monsters faster, libraries that don’t attract shaman, lairs that don’t attract wolves etc.)
.High ground upgrades (to boost defense of occupying creature)
.Low ground (to lower defense of occupying creature)
.Fire proofing upgrade
.Combinations of these sorts of things
.Compounded upgrades like “Vampire Lure I”, “Vampire Lure II”, “Vampire Lure III” for graveyards.

[Keeperman]

Can I have something like: …?

.Cheap flammable wooden floors
.Expensive fireproof stone floors
.Gold floors for attracting better monsters
.Red magic floors (costing mana) for attracting monsters faster
.Blue magic floors (costing mana) to stop the room attracting monsters completely
.Green magic floors (costing some mana) to somewhat increase efficiency
.Yellow magic floors (costing lots more mana) to really increase efficiency
.Iron floors that give a defense bonus when occupied
.Muddy floors (costing wood) that give a defense penalty when occupied

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My Steam library says I’ve played 507 hours so far.

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Having said all of that, your game is awesome! I have been playing it for months and I am still entertained.

“Currently the player only faces a few major challenges, and the road to victory is either quick or contains long stretches of boredom.”

No, I disagree. More challenges will make this game even better though.

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Alpha 20 sounds like it will be interesting. Challenges 🙂

The existing technology tree is a fantastic idea, but with respect, it is very poorly implemented. There is no challenge. All you have to do is build a library and speed up the game until you can research everything. This is a huge missed opportunity for visible and well defined challenges and it sounds like a brilliant candidate for improvement in Alpha 20.

Fortunately it is easily fixed. For example, stop the library from generating more than twice the mana you have gained from killing things.

Another one is training. Stop the training room giving more than two levels since the unit has last killed something?

If this makes it too hard, then play father Christmas and give out some buffs that balance the game again. There are a long list of things that players have suggested that would help out there.

Whatever you decide, looking forward to it 🙂

[Keeperman]

I use the mouse to do that.

Also, using the mouse to move places has the added benefit that if a bump into a tree spirit behind a tree you stop moving instead of getting your head bitten off. Same if there is an elven archer hiding behind a tree.

One new thing that would be nice would be to wait 20 moves but stop waiting if you see an enemy in the line of site. This is because I keep dying by leaving my finger on space for too long.

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I can’t see any online adventurer maps to play either. I guess:

1) None are being uploaded

or

2) You can’t download them

Either way, it looks like a bug.

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yes, same.

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Dark elf caves have a pretty nice dungeon for loot and levelling.

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Congratulations Michal!

Sorry for doubting you a little. I’m sure it wasn’t as easy as you made it look, and you have pulled it off really nicely.

Well done!

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Sorry to hear about the Steam API. You would expect a big player like Steam to have technology that is really easy to interface with. It sounds like you will want to use Steam in the end when you get it working, so you could put your old crash reports back in, just to get us that testing build. (I want a go!)

Geology is probably a good idea. Mana loses its value later on in the game and more technologies are needed. Some of them should be expensive enough to not quite reach during an average game.

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