Temple Termagant
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Friday, 8th January 2016, 22:38
Extending the Piety System
I find that during runs my piety usage changes a lot and stays interesting, that is until I hit max piety with my despised god and reach a point where I am highly unlikely to drop below 5 stars. I propose an extension system that could provide a good risk versus reward that would entirely change your use of piety. Essentially this would be implementable as an additional capacity for piety, however there are specific differences that make this not the same as simply increasing max piety. First, max piety would stay the same however once it is reached you start gaining overflow piety, this overflow would be lost instantly the moment you drop below 6 star piety and would not count towards regular piety usage or abilities. If you can maintain 6 star and continue to gain piety while you are at max, then at a specific point in overflow (perhaps double max piety) you would gain some extension to the god's granted powers, that when used would typically empty the overflow.
The aim here would be to diversify late game god usage, gods like vehumet, makhleb, okawaru, and trog for me jump to mind as being particularly singular in late game usage. Idealy max overflow god powers would be hard to obtain and provide the challenge of staying high piety with the recompense of an ability that will tempt you to try. How exactly this would work is obviously not entirely thought through for this post, and as such where I've provided specifics it is to aid in describing the theme of the idea, rather than being exactly how I think it had to function. The only other general idea would be to make overflow powers for gods that are easy to keep at max piety weaker than other gods.
Examples of overflow power ideas:
Ashenzari:
Cheibriados:
Makhleb:
Okawaru:
Trog:
Vehumet:
I've no idea how to properly balance a change like this, so I'm sure that's a problem. Any thoughts?
The aim here would be to diversify late game god usage, gods like vehumet, makhleb, okawaru, and trog for me jump to mind as being particularly singular in late game usage. Idealy max overflow god powers would be hard to obtain and provide the challenge of staying high piety with the recompense of an ability that will tempt you to try. How exactly this would work is obviously not entirely thought through for this post, and as such where I've provided specifics it is to aid in describing the theme of the idea, rather than being exactly how I think it had to function. The only other general idea would be to make overflow powers for gods that are easy to keep at max piety weaker than other gods.
Examples of overflow power ideas:
Ashenzari:
- Temporarily boost a selected skill to max.
Cheibriados:
- Remove an enemy from time (make them totally vanish for 100 auts).
Makhleb:
- Swap current percentage of health with a target.
Okawaru:
- Reduce min attack delay by some fraction of an aut for a short time.
Trog:
- Trade some HP for random temporary bonuses such as resistances, damage, see invis, or stats.
- Set a group of magic users on fire.
Vehumet:
- Cast a keystone spell (regardless of memorization) without spending mana at the user's respective skill level(s).
I've no idea how to properly balance a change like this, so I'm sure that's a problem. Any thoughts?
