Vix: Looking for 1.9 Betatesters for Version 0.3

[artisticdude]

Are the enslavers of the Saurians the Drakes by any chance? If not, what are they?

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Drakes. I kinda like the idea that the saurians didn't join the drakes willingly, and this could be the start of the free saurians.

[Captain_Wrathbow]

it's the first Saurian-based one I've come across

starting to drift off-topic:

Try Hulavuta's "Fossil: The Great Journey".

[Hulavuta]

Lol.

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In my campaign, they join together for non-slavery reasons and are on an equal basis. However, this is easy to explain, so don't change it on my behalf. But lol, am I the only one who thinks the Saurians should help the Drakes out of choice? lol

more offtopicness:

Let's not advertise my campaign in someone else's development topic.

[artisticdude]

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I don't know why, but I've always considered more a slave/master relationship... I'm not even really sure where or how I got that idea.

[Hulavuta]

Spoiler:

Maybe because the drakes are big and strong and the Saurians are small and frail.

[Captain_Wrathbow]

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Why are you guys using spoilers?

[artisticdude]

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Because we don't want to spoil the story for people.

[Hulavuta]

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People can't resist clicking the spoilers though.

[artisticdude]

(spoiler break!) If they do, then they spoil it for themselves. People can do what they want, but I'm just trying to protect those who don't want to know the story until the next version comes out.

[artisticdude]

Last night I brainstormed about how I could prevent Vix from becoming another 'typical' campaign. Obviously by creating non-linear scenarios and objectives, which has been my aim so far. So with pencil, paper, and a Heroscape manual (don't quite know yet how that got in there ), I set to work forulating ideas for non-linear scenarios. Some of them wouldn't be appropriate for the campaign for storyline reasons, and some are just modifications of each other, but some might actually be original.

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Hold Your Breath:A scenario with poisonous gas that rises from the water. Every 2 turns the poisonous gas rises a level, so first it covers the water, then the swamp, then the flat land, then the trees. Hills, castles, and of course villages, are always safe from the gas no matter what level. Any unit that gets caught in the gas is poisoned.

Healing Waters: There are a number of springs of healing water scatted across the map. Drinking from a spring restores the unit to full HP, but dries up the spring.

Temperamental Allies: A scenario with three sides; the player, the enemy, and a third side that randomly allies with either the player or the enemy each turn.

Violent Storm: A heavy storm is raging over the battlefield, randomly causing one of several amounts of damage or possibly none at all to every unit on the battlefield each turn.

Funny Farmer: An important character on the player's side has gone insane, and the enemy leader has the (amulet, potion, whatever) that will cure the character of his madness. But in the meantime, the mad unit attacks both friends and allies indiscriminately. You lose if the mad unit is killed or if your own leader is killed, and you win if you kill the enemy leader and take the curing thing.

Earthquake: there is an earthquake going on during the scenario, and massive chasms constantly open and close across the map. Any unit unfortunate enough to be on a hex that becomes a chasm is instantly killed, unless it's a flying unit.

Constructing a Road: Your objective is to build a road through the swamp so that the main army can cross through the marshes. You must defend the workers from the attackers until the road is completed. If x workers out of y die, you are unable to continue building the road and lose. Alternatibly you could be able to recruit for a few turns at the beginning of the scenario, and you can chose how many workers and how many guards you want to have. You must always have at least x number of workers however, since that is the minimum number needed to build the road in time.

[hagabaka]

I just started the campaign today with the newest version on 1.8 server. Is it intended that Saurian Guards advance into Saurian Flankers? Flankers are originally Ambusher's advancement, so you have two units merging into one at level 3. Also the Guards' attacks (10-2 melee, 3-3 range poison) are nothing like Flankers' (8-4 melee, 7-2 range). I have found no post talking about this, so I'm wondering if it's a new bug.

[Hulavuta]

I doubt it's a bug, but it's probably a mistake.

[artisticdude]

I just started the campaign today with the newest version on 1.8 server. Is it intended that Saurian Guards advance into Saurian Flankers? Flankers are originally Ambusher's advancement, so you have two units merging into one at level 3. Also the Guards' attacks (10-2 melee, 3-3 range poison) are nothing like Flankers' (8-4 melee, 7-2 range). I have found no post talking about this, so I'm wondering if it's a new bug.

I ripped the units and their .cfg files from another campaign, so I can't really say. But I'll look into it (this is one of my many projects this summer).

I think I've had this campaign on hiatus long enough anyway... time to get things moving again.

[Hulavuta]

How many scenarios are done?

[wesfreak]

Some feedback:
You should make the orcs/humans activate the haunted patch if they step on it while chasing you.
You should be more specific in the second scenario. Say how much meat to get, and how to end the scenario, for example. When I got one tusker head into each ship I couldn't do anything else: I couldn't get any more meat or people on the ship, so the ships were provisioned, but the scenario didn't end.

Is there any stragic point to trapdoors? they don't let you do anything useful.