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     d.      Favor Items. [Evaluating]

           Items that should be prioritized to ballance

           General: Cloak of Night (free warpstone at lv1 seems way too good)

           Assassin: Staff of renewal: Its way too good, for any demigod.

           Common: Teleport Pedant: This one may be ballanced by an overall nerf to teleports in a offensive sence.

II.                  Citadel Upgrades

a.       Fortified Structures: I actually think the % of this has to be higher each level, Demigods grow several 100% in power during the game,  the towers grow a maximum 40% in hp.  right now this is something you only get  first level of so you get the initial regen, keep the regen upgrade the same but change the max hp to range from 20% to 100% at max rank.

b.      Building Firepower.  Reduced cost by 50% is good yes, Id want the same 20% to 100% increase in damage here as well though. An increase in range of 1.5 each level would be great if that's possible as well.

III.                In-game Balance

a.       Gaining 1k gold at each warrank sounds a bit much to me, Either make it more like 600 or make it depend on the level, like. 100g*WarLevel, so first level would give you 200, second 400 et.c.

b.      When a player teleports, their abilities should be disabled for 3 seconds. This is a good change I agree, but I think a better way to solve it would be to give an visual effect at the target 3 seconds before the user arrives, that would prevent tele-ambushing while still allowing you to tele back home for urgent defense.

c.       Torch Bearer

iii.  Increase the area of the ring of fire quite alot, perhaps make it grow by level, imo it should be something like 50% bigger, modify damage to keep it ballanced. If you could it would be nice to have TB's in fireform move 15% faster while in fire.

Just my immediate thoughts.

And in my opinion there is nothing wrong with that, giving such big amounts of gold so early game may inflate the value of the gold. With 1k each warrank, Warpstone will be something you get at lv3 again.

The change would definitely speed up the pace of the game, on good and bad. Go ahead and implement it, it can always be fine tuned it once we see it's effects.

and oh yeah

III.                In-game Balance

             Arena:Leviathan: The two +15hp regen flags in each base really ruins the gameplay, get rid of them.

On spawn rate: Slow makes it so there's often no reinforcements on the map at all on small maps. Fast builds up an incredible mass of units. Devastating against towers and single target attackers, but vulnerable to AoE effects.

I rather like the massive HP towers for high. I'd rather those reccomendations be added as additional options.

Also, if grunt damage game option gets in, tower damage game option as well.

Edit: Slows are kind of prevalent. Perhaps universal can't be slowed more than 60%?

Please do something about Sedna and Queen of Thorns heavy minion builds.  Both Yetis and Shamblers, in my experience, absolutely suck.  Add in extremely high mana cost for the summons (for Sedna and her yetis), it makes it even worse.

If you believe a balance doesn't need to be struck here, I'd encourage you to play Sedna and focus on her Yetis or QoT on her Shambler skills and see how you stack up during a game.

I know this idea is popular right now, and I've actually been a proponent in past builds because teleganking means that defense will always have an advantage.  Something you want to consider here though is that this will tip the balance way in favor of offense. 

I played a good game on Cataract earlier today where Wagnard and I kept trading portals with Terror and Iamkira.  They would come in and cap one of ours, lock it, and then get pushed out and then we would go do the same with one of theirs..They had early advantage with locking because Terror's QoT had some sweet brambleshield action, and late we had the advantage because Rook and UB could bring the damage, but it was the kind of give and take that makes a game memorable instead of routine...

There would be no later for us to comeback in if abilities locked after porting though, because QoT and Reg would have crucified us as soon as we popped in to defend a portal.  What you probably end up getting is teams of QoT and Oak early rushing portals with shields and holding them until gg, with no defense possible before the lock comes down, and no way to develop an alternative team build that successfully counters this. 

I agree teleport ganking is cheezy, but you can learn to avoid it, and I have a feeling the solution might be worse than the cure in this case..

Unfortunately I can't think of anything better right now but I'll keep thinking about it...

Why cooldown the abilities? 1.5 second stun on arrival plus/used on arrival animation (instead of just popping up) and it's solved. Enough to start running or prepare for battle.

Instead of cooldown just make them invincible but can't attack for how ever long u want them to not be able to use stuns.

I want to correct something frogboy said.

I Really think each gold mine is currently giving 2gold a sec (at every update of the cas counter)

Go on prison map. (you have 2 mine at start) you will see your gold go up 4$ each time. So it mean 2gold per mine.

Correct me if im wrong here....

And for a balance change, I suggest you look at how much the ICE TB deepfreeze. I think its too usefull for its price.

It can do interrupt, higher colddown on spell, slow us down and do big shatter damage.

I vote remove the interrupt on it.  (just my opinion on it... take it or leave it)

First of all Gold mines each give 2 per second not 6 in normal mode. Which is fine the way it is atm

 Now lets do a little bit of maths here lets say you have 3 Gold mines for a team with 3 players and the gold mines give 8 gold per sec for every player. 3 x 8 = 24 gold per sec for every player.

Now lets see how much money everyone would have earned solely because of his gold mines in 10 minutes. 600 * 24 + 1000 (starting money) = 15.400 Gold for every player after only 10 minutes. Then you will have to add the money you get from kills and from farming reinforcements. Now frogboy proposes 1000 gold for every war rank for each player of the relevant team as well. After 10 minutes you are war rank 3 - 5 I think. which would give you additional 3000 - 5000 gold

Lets assume together with the other money sources you will have 25.000 gold after 10 minutes, with war rank 5 and some kills it would be no problem. I didn’t even count currency upgrades in at the moment

You could afford an artefact and 4 other expensive items then. Which in my eyes is insane. 10 minutes are Early to mid game in Demigod the way things are right now. With the changes frogboy proposes everyone would have an high-end equipment and probably very good Citadel upgrades as well. Also Killing other demigods fades into the background because its not really that much money compared with what you can get with the help of mines.

Your new idea also creates a problem with capture locks. A cap lock lasts for 45 seconds and only costs 250 Gold.
With 8 Gold per sec the advantage of your team by locking a gold mine would be 45 * 2 * 8 * x
2 = 1 Mine more for you 1 Mine less for your opponent
x = number of players in the team

For example you have a 3 player team again: 90 * 2 * 8 * 3 = 2160

An advantage of 4320 Gold you achieved with the capture lock.
That would mean you had to increase the costs of the Lock to at least 1000 Gold or something in that vicinity, which would make it completely useless when you want to lock something else than a Gold Flag.

All in all, the whole game would only circulate around capturing and defending gold mines. Which in my opinion is bad.

OK so after a bit of discussion I'm thinking the best solution, rather than totally altering game balance with teleport debuffs, would simply be to have a telltale when someone is teleporting to a location that starts when they begin the cast (or if that is too much 3 seconds from arrival).  That way the offensive player sees the port coming and can escape the gank or set up ambush if necessary, but doesn't have huge advantage

Also this does pretty much the same thing as quoted for alot less programming, no?

OK so after a bit of discussion I'm thinking the best solution, rather than totally altering game balance with teleport debuffs, would simply be to have a telltale when someone is teleporting to a location that starts when they begin the cast (or if that is too much 3 seconds from arrival).  That way the offensive player sees the port coming and can escape the gank or set up ambush if necessary, but doesn't have huge advantage

I said that before, but nobody listened ¬¬

better than spending 1 point to potentially  make the game even less fun - flag capturing and locking will be no fun for the defenders with that change, you should leave it as it is for now and implement a better change like a warp in animation later.

Even portalling in a flag at the mid of the map becomes a big risk when you have everything disabled for 3 seconds as teleport has a 3 seconds cast time and in that 3 seconds an enemy could be at that location and fuck you up.

With all honest respect but you write so much stuff which would make the game worse than it is now or at least which would risk to totally screw up the balance that I am not convinced in your expertise when it comes to gameplay changes in Demigod. It also doesn't increase my confidence that you want changes on things which are currently not the way you describe them - and this isn't the first post where you got a few game mechanics wrong.

(I am playing the gamereplays.org tournament currently, so I don't have much time right now but I will dissect many of your proposed changes later - some are okay though.)