Note that a) the maiming is not permanent, since you can let them become minions and drain other captives, and b) you only need to have them in there during the day they give birth, so the damage can be relatively minimal.
I rewrote room descriptions a bit sometime. The current text is "Childbirth is always safe."
Well, to get a lot of food fast, I just raid the capital's gates and that doesn't raise poverty too much and since right now it's pretty low, and even if it goes to the 30s, sleeping 40 days in a row will keep that down.
Isn't raiding just the gates about 150 satiety for 5 poverty? A town is comparable, and also gives loot and possibly maidens. If you go on and raid the market as well, then it's ~160-180 satiety, 5 poverty and a girl, or ~200-250 satiety and 8 poverty. Market is ~200, 8 poverty and loot, ~250+ and 6 poverty, or ~200, 5 poverty and a girl. I don't think any of this is all that much better than just kicking over another town, poverty-wise.
That means you can't really raid all that much in succession. 3-4 raids will put you into the thirties, even if big A and heightened alert level didn't mess things up.
Really? The one with templar support and lots of hangers-on? I just tried with a similar dragon, and it was no contest in the Angel's favour, even with a ritual and boar meat. Although I've disabled parrying for larger dragons, enemies have additional partial resistances now, and I didn't really capitalise on the Angel's weaknesses.
It's a straight multiplier to damage. Look one page back, WanderingRenegade had it mostly right.
Well, I usually go to the rich quarter and that gets me ~375 sat for 6 devastation the first time and the subsequent times, since there are catapults, it's ~425 sat for 6 devastation. So yeah the additional guards really are worth the time. All this for 2 stamina, which is really good. To be fair the dragon does take quite the beating and so that does cost a bunch of gold to either get healed or sat to heal naturally.
Oops sorry about making you repeat yourself.
No, I meant, he's able to take out the angel by himself while his minions take care of the opposing party's minions.
I think I made it like that because ATKM gets scaled with secondary elements, damage modifiers and other such things. Maybe the whole mechanic was integer-based at that particular moment as well. Anyway, it kinda works, and there's some mild realism in there, too. What if the dragon had a cough while breathing acid, but managed to claw his opponent in the eye, etc.
Were you parrying a lot? And were you resistant to magic/fire? Because my ATK44/ATKM20/HP550 dragon was getting trashed by the WIP enemies, being outdamaged at least 2:1 by the Angel alone. I doubt he could've taken the later rounds without at least high-level drake-tier minions.
I take it you're not getting the option to pick between a girl, jeweler's stash or raw materials from a burning store? I just fixed that...
Sorry, it's been a while so I can't remember how exactly the fight went down. I do remember that I had a red head and rainbow head. and I had, I think 2 humonculi and 2 drakes.
No, I don't. You say you fixed it, is there a way to gain access to the update? I'd love to try it and, honestly, at high mobilization, it's hell to find maidens to sacrifice since I find so many patrols. maybe giving the option to run away before the fight begins would be nice.I take it you're not getting the option to pick between a girl, jeweler's stash or raw materials from a burning store? I just fixed that...
Can you try again? Or give me the evolution list and minion stats for the party that did it?
Well, try the attached files. No guarantee there won't be new bugs, though.
Hakim? Or just kill the patrols, I think it's 1/2 stamina and the chance goes down afterwards. That's also where poverty is actually useful. Auto-sacrifice is too untested to get an early release.
It would also be cheating. The patrols surprise you, so if you need to escape, you have to pay a price. If the patrols are relatively weak, the price is smaller.
Sorry, I don't have the save file, from that time. so My guess, at this point is as good as yours.
Hakim is a good idea, he's not useful for so long I forgot about him. killing the patrol is the thing that loses so much time. Poverty is kinda counter-productive seeing as the point is to keep mobilization high to keep fear low. But Hakim is a good idea, guess I'll have to time my sleep better. or hope the dragon doesn't oversleep.
Thanks. Talking of bugs, see attached. It happens semi consistently when I inspect catapults in combat.
Can you give me details on your current party and how well it does in the city, then? I'd like to see how different the new balance without parrying is.
Why is Hakim not useful? He stocks elves and nobles, who are not particularly common, and allows you to take your pick of the common girls.
It's a balancing act. Having mobilization so high that you can't hunt for girls without constant interruptions is probably worse than spending time to find a few extra sacrifices.
Yours is oversleeping a lot? Why, are you taking a lot of short naps?
Yeah, that's a bug alright.
Use the attachment to eliminate it for new games and console 'encounter_database['catapult']['modifiers']=[]' to fix ongoing ones.
.Probably faster to see my save, honestly. And it's doing really well. The black heads are excellent vs most enemies since acid is an uncommon resistance, please don't change that, and sound isn't all that great in most cases, but I thing the 2 important enemies that resist acid, namely ifrits and the archmage, have 25% and 50% sound resistance respectively. Oh and the physical resist is a good bonus in a lot of cases.
He's costly enough that in the earlier game it's just worth getting the girls by yourself. and all girls are useful when you're not too big since you can always just kill them to reset your anger.
I suppose. I'll try
Not really, but it's always a concern.
The hotfix, if it's like the last one, would be really nice to already have the folder tree in it. since there's a bunch of the same file names in the game. I had to use deductive reasoning to make it work last time.Yeah, that's a bug alright.
No problem. Have fun!
Yeah, yours is one badass dragon. I tried him with two 150%-stat Homunculi and two 150% Drakes against an alert Archmage-defended capital, and I would have still lost in the end without the new Witch ritual giving me another 400 HP. After the Archmage teleported out, the dragon had less than 100 of his original HP left (plus the additional 400), and everyone else was dead. Parrying is apparently quite OP.
I think acid resistance is a bit more common now, but lots of resistances are. Acid immunity is largely the same.
Indeed. More enemies have that as well, now.
But Hakim gives you a bunch of them for nearly no stamina cost, and every girl takes at least 1 stamina which could be spent in other ways. You could always sell your milk for a quick buck and more 'cows'.
Exercising your mental muscles is always good.
I have too many different directories of DDM as it is, it's much easier and less confusing to just throw together the modified files rather than create and prune another directory.
Some notes on what I saw in the save:
- That's a lot of time that dragon's been around... Are you sleeping a lot, or just dedicated?
- Your treasury is full of stuff. It will be useful in the future when the dragon gets sad when his bed is empty, but I don't know what it gives right now.
- Not that much money, either. What have you been spending it on?
- Holy cow! That's a lot of milk you've got there...
- You've got many different traps and guard posts, which is not terribly useful ATM. Traps should be focused on one type to catch thieves better.
- Very few sparks for such an advanced dragon with lots of altars.
- And only three maidens! None of whom is unique. What did you do with your one unique captive and who was it, anyway?
- You're not evolving. Is it because of food, fear or something else?
- You've got a cloud castle spotted, but are still living in the midget dungeons. Do you just like it better there, or what?
- That's a lot of Basilisks.
- Lizardman village isn't fully stocked with minions yet?! Didn't you have food problems at some point?
- How is your 'ran away' counter only 11 when you said you kept your infamy down as low as you could for several years?!
- Hmm, hard battles seem to be impossible to come by when they can still be won.
- No Phoenixes yet...
Oh, no! The acid as a good offensive element is so fun, though. And, I would suggest, well balanced since few enemies deal acid damage. So the only thing those 4 heads, practically speaking, give me is effective armor piercing. If acid resistance were more prevalent I would have grabbed better heads.
Well, that's to be expected, physical attack is the most basic. So the least, overall, effective.
I suppose, but 30g for a nun and 50g for a noble is expensive. So while, yes, technically the act of going to pick up your maiden is free, stamina-wise, the act of gathering the required money is certainly not.But Hakim gives you a bunch of them for nearly no stamina cost, and every girl takes at least 1 stamina which could be spent in other ways. You could always sell your milk for a quick buck and more 'cows'.
Up to a point, in some cases, there are 4 different files with the same name. so the only hint is that the file is about the same size, but that seems like a lot of guesswork. maybe just add a readme to say which file to switch.Exercising your mental muscles is always good.
I was mainly curious as to how you've avoided the demonpocalypse while having so little money and maidens, and especially without running away all the time. Apparently by abusing the town tribute bug and sacrificing/killing instead of milking/breeding the women.
Well, I can't really fault you for the latter.You've got a lot of just plain treasure, too. About 1800 gold worth, in fact. Although now that I think of it, most of it was on the cheap side. You're not raiding the jeweler or noble castles much, I guess? I've since made it so that you can store several of the same 'place' in memory, so you can have a bank of castles to raid if you wish.
Why only one? You do have the ability to build more farms. And milk gets better with more pregnancies.
I recall using fire breath a lot when I was smaller, and also making regular trips to the jeweler. I also tend to have a lair overflowing with cages and maidens, so sacrifices were always in abundance. But I've never got to playing one of the huge+ sizes and their bigger sacrifice requirements.
That's very draconic.
A lot of people are kinda attached to the special girls. Hmm, how did you miss Marianne? Or did you just pay her off?The cloud castle is much bigger (size 60), totally escape-proof for all but the two flying maiden types, and just cool to live in. Size is the biggest bonus here, since max stamina is a hard cap for expansion. Although I guess if you're not concerned about having dozens of cages, farms and breeding pits, it's not such a big deal.
Yeah, but you could, you know, just sell the eggs or give the scalies to Mom. You've got a whole horde of them underfoot.
Kobolds come from those Burghesses you sacrifice and eat all the time.
Nuns, too. And not all lizardmen spawn from nobles. Elves, oni, beastkin, the fire and ice girls... Anyone you can rape without killing them outright can be thrown into a breeding pit and it's pure profit after that. Even 3-4 kobolds give you quite a bit of food once the discount is maxed.Yeah, I'll be fixing that.
Your pride screen says 'hard battles won: 0'.
Meaning you never fought something that overpowered you 2-1 or worse.Darkwood is the only place to get demon girls. There are also occasional firelings, rare attack mastery and HP training events on top of what the trainer gives you. And once you get monster lairs unlocked, there are some more unique fights against them.
I think acid is still the rarest element to be resisted, so that niche isn't going away.
Crafting? Collecting treasure together with maidens (villages, lair locations, plus noble maidens from carriages and yachts give some nice trinkets). Raiding the royal palace is probably the best for that.
All the lizardman types suck when you have more advanced minions available. But leafzards do magic damage, so are always of some use, and are much more available than Ravagers. And can be sent to the tribe. You also get the super-lizardmen who are probably the third best offensive minion in the game, except against mages and the like.
There are? Discard the .rpyc files, these are compiled versions. Of the other two, one is in the 'game/tl' folder, which is the translation. So new files almost always go into 'game/_script' or 'game/_story'. If I have something bigger than just 1-3 files, I'll make a proper patch.
