Thursday, 12th September 2019, 10:35 by Sprucery
If I would make a Trog/magic/javelins analogy, it would be something like this:
If Trog would be a god who hated ranged damage and the lore would be that Trog bans magic because magic can be used to inflict damage at range
then it would be logical to claim that also javelins should be banned.
Regarding portals, yes, that's what I wrote earlier, there are two views to PoG: 1) it functions almost like a delayed controlled blink, 2) it uses portals. Blinking and teleporting are currently prohibited from Formicids, portals are not. In my opinion, the current situation (you can't blink or teleport but can controlled-blink) is worse than the other case would be (PoG gateways won't teleport you, but other portals work normally).
And again, yes, I do think the gameplay would be more interesting for formicids, if they could not use PoG to get out of trouble. This would push them more into using their unique shafting ability, for example.
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