Master of Magic - Implode's Multiplayer Edition

yeah, you guys caught me. I was actually hoping to use this as a spring board for AI creation too. the base idea behind this is not so that you allow the player manage the social engineering like you would in SMAC, but rather so that you can build new races or subraces from the ground up very quickl...

well, one simple way to do it is to take it from classic value theory approach, which roughly cuts things into three sections: psychology, economics, and sociology. Now, since we're talking about creatures with significantly different biological make up, we can add physiology or biology in there as ...

that's pretty close to what I was thinking. the key here is finding keys that is inclusive enough to get most races, with room allowing for exceptions. admittedly, a daunting task

yeah, that's sort of what I meant. To make things easier, here's what we can do. all races have a base attitude towards outsiders. That is, xenophobic races are going to distrust most races that is not their own, regardless of type. all races will have tags attached to them that describes an aspect ...

it really depends entirely upon what you need the hero for. There are by majority, 5 hero types that exist in game: Leader, Warrior, Archer, Healer, and Caster. The better heroes tend to be hybrids of these. There is also a special kind known as the stack mover. These are typified by giving movement...

One thing we might want to consider though, the more races we add, the bigger that table will become so perhaps we might want to come up with an easier way to manage things. one immediate thought that comes to mind is templating. that is, new races will have certain tags that means they share certai...

I figured there's plenty of room to make the less feral monstrous heroes have more human qualities, the rest of them could just be as feral as the source material

Well, as it turns out, with the more monstrous heroes, I'm better just taking real photos (this one start out as an ant) and working off of those. Here's our first klackon hero, I think. maybe. http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1221/klackonherotl4.jpg while I was at it, I re-did the draco mage in p...

that's because the image was based off of him. I just took the image from a website, shrunk it, and then went pixel by pixel to make the dragon look different. smaller horns, red eyes, and different clothes. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to make it look remotely feminine. but yeah, the image is su...

so I got bored at work and took my lunch break doing some bitmap editing.

BEHOLD! MY CRAPPY 8-BIT DRACOMAGE SHAIEL!

it would actually introduce another layer towards choosing your race if there are multi-race heroes. though, a beeman hero willing to work with the klackon? aren't they supposed to be like, mortal enemies or something?

I doubt any enhancement requests are going to make it into the build as of now. Implode's first priority is to create a reproduction of the game so that it's playable. all the other things like a dynamic event generator might come later on, but certainly not now.

Klackon heroes What characteristics does the klackon have? durability, for one. they have that +1 resistance and +2 armor as a race. But let us extend this beyond just their defense bonus. Klackons are basically insects. brain storming on that concept, the following phrases come to mind: hive mind (...

aren't there tools that can be used to pixel-ize an existing picture? maybe we can do portraits that way? though, copyright issues might crop up... Lucern, that was the primary driving force for me to have heroes that are race exclusive. It gives certain races more power and just more reason to play...

don't worry, that idea is not going anywhere so we can take some time to try out some concepts. I think having some more new abilities or new archetypes combined together will also help us come up with more ways to make certain races unique anyway. (Personally, I'm of the school that there should he...