MoM: What your favorite Magic type

[moomin]

One of the sad developments in 1.31, indeed. Still the game is unplayable without and on the balance it's a minor thing.

[MattyBoy]

Things would get very interesting indeed if the AI did a better job with its heroes.

[Bosh]

Never played with the 1.31 version, but I always liked life magic with trolls the best not only is it nice an ironic but I just love my regenerating trolls so much that I have a hard time bringing myself to spend a lot of points on any kind of magic that will do anything besides make my beautiful trolls even more trollicious

[aaglo]

Has it ever accured to you, that propably the AI hero items cannot be seen?

Sometimes the AI hero seems to have extraordinary abilities...

[NeOmega]

Nah, cuz when you kill a hero you get it's stuff. Too bad it was one of the worst AI's ever, prolly the game was ahead of it's time, and the depth was well beyond the capabilities of an affordable AI.

[aaglo]

Hmmm... I've only played the latest version (was it 1.3 or 1.31), so I don't know about the AI behaviour in the earlier versions.

[Rex Little]

The challenge game is over. The end was anticlimactic; I had dozens of slingers, paladins and magicians streaming toward Sss'ra's castle, but a single airship got there ahead of them and finished him off. Since he had no magic points and I could throw around things like Call Chaos and Disintegrate, it was no contest.

[moomin]

MOM is pretty much too easy on any difficulty level if you go tower-hunting. Much too easy. A house rule I've had for years is that you can't go for the towers unless all the players other towns have already been taken over/eradicated - it makes it much more interesting, since the AI can use pretty nasty global spells against you.

[MattyBoy]

Rex, I expected the end to be anticlimactic with node mastery. The early game is where I struggle.

Moomin, that is a tough rule to set for yourself. I only get through because I go after the towers at every opportunity. Looks like my MoM playing needs some improving.

[NeOmega]

I always used to play the take all cities first rule. But, even then it sucked, because the AI rarely defends it's cities.

[Rex Little]

Node mastery didn't really have a whole lot to do with the game. It helped me pick up a couple of nodes earlier than I might have otherwise (particularly the sorcery nodes where I webbed the Sky Drakes), but all that really did was give me a huge mana surplus (over 5000 at the end).

[MariOne]

Well, it was a "surplus" because you didn't find (or bother to...) ways to put it to use and win faster...

[aaglo]

Try to pick node mastery and chaos/nature/sorcery mastery. From the mastered nodes you'll get tons of additional mana

[moomin]

Megamana games are somewhat boring though. Unless it's a SCC, of course.

BTW, can anybody confirm that 255 is the largest number of cities you can have? I seem to have run into that limit in a current game.

[MattyBoy]

Don't know the limit sorry, Moomin.
What do you mean by SCC, btw?