The Cost Of Living

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This is the feedback thread for The Cost Of Living.

The main thread on design, story, prose and any kind of general comment is over there.

Reviewing individual scenarios is most helpful, but reviewing the campaign as a whole is also fine.

The questions:

1) Which scenario are you reviewing?

2) What version of The Cost Of Living did you use?

3) What version of The Battle For Wesnoth did you use?

4) What difficulty level did you choose to play the campaign?

5) How clear did you find the mission objectives? (0-10)

6) How difficult did you find the scenario? (0-10)

6a) Were there any major challenges in meeting the mission objective?

7) How interesting did you find the scenario? (0-10)

7a) Regarding story and prose?
7b) Regarding map design and gameplay?

8) What changes, if any, would you have made to the scenario?

9) Optional statistics:

9a) At which turn did you finish the scenario?
9b) What was the amount of gold left at the end of the scenario?
9c) What kind of veterans did survive the scenario?

[Mountain_King]

This is the feedback thread for The Cost Of Living.

The main thread on design, story, prose and any kind of general comment is over there.

Reviewing individual scenarios is most helpful, but reviewing the campaign as a whole is also fine.

The questions:

1) Which scenario are you reviewing?

2) What version of The Cost Of Living did you use?

3) What version of The Battle For Wesnoth did you use?

4) What difficulty level did you choose to play the campaign?

5) How clear did you find the mission objectives? (0-10)

6) How difficult did you find the scenario? (0-10)

6a) Were there any major challenges in meeting the mission objective?

1) I'm reviewing the whole campaign.

2) Not sure. It was one of the versions not too long after it came out. Finally got around to playing it the other day.

3) 1.8.5

4) I think it was easy.

5) The mission objectives were pretty clear most of the time.

6) The scenarios were pretty well balanced as were the maps, but I quit after my one hero got captured because I read the ending. (see below)

7) While the story line was quite well-written and even somewhat realistic,

BIG spoiler:

I am a fan of happy endings. So I did not like that all the main characters die in horrible ways, and that none of them change. You see, I am also NOT a fan of thieves being heroes of a story, unless they have some redeeming quality. Cavil never once thinks that he should stop his thieving ways, and instead goes on to wrack and ruin. There's not any signs that he wants to be "a good person" in the end, he's just selfish and greedy throughout the whole thing with little care for anyone else, until it's too late. He doesn't even really change for the worse, except for that slight revenge thing at the end.

Keep in mind that this IS feedback: I'm reviewing your campaign. I'm not saying you have to change it for me, but I am giving my opinion just so you know.

[Jerieth]

I enjoyed this campaign, however, I also have similar concerns regarding the story as Mountain King did. I think there should of been more opportunities to change the story or give the player more control over the characters.

[PeterPorty]

Totally against that, stories where the main character isn't always the guy in shining armor, and that doesn't end up happily living among royalty are GOOD. Well done mate. (I'd give you a full review, but I'm a wesnoth N00B.)