Halls Hopper
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Joined: Sunday, 25th March 2012, 21:55
Serving more that one god at the time
The idea is to allow the character to serve more than one god at the time (two of them? three?). Some game mechanics should be changed for sure.
Here`s the idea:
1. A lot of mechanics should be changed, so it would be a sort of an alternative game (something like the inception?), so points for this game should not be counted along with the regular games - however, it could be counted if it has its own tourney.
2. To balance the advantages, the game should be significantly harder (some in-game formulas should be changed).
3. A player might not serve "good" god along with the "evil" one, so the possible ways are: good-good, evil-evil, neutral-neutral, good-neutral and evil-neutral. Good god with evil one are excluding and cannot be served at one time.
4. Xom is the exception, and, because he doesn`t use regular piety, cannot be served along with the others.
5. A player might take advantage of the god`s powers, but then - to balance the advantages - all the faith restrictions should be summed, or even sharpened (the more gods you serve atthe time, the more restrictions you`ve got; if it still does not suffice to balance the advantages, the restrictions should be sharpened).
6. Piety rises slower, because the general piety gained from all sources is divided by (two? three?) gods equally; ex. sacrifising a corpse when serving a Makhleb (which appreciates sacrifising them) along with Cheirbriados (which doesn`t) gives 50% piety for Makhleb and 50% for Cheir. Dividing a piety is the only way to have equal piety for the gods (if it`s not divided, there should be more ****** lines in the game interface).
7. Piety increasing from Amulet of Faith is also equally divided by gods.
8. Eventual religion renounce should be punished heavier then it`s now (ex. a penance happens two or three times often until the abandoned god is mollified). This is to prevent easily "gods-shiftings", according to the actual branch (the only exception are the "good" gods, which can be easily shifted).
These are just my loose thoughts; it might be a good improvement or might not.
(sorry for my english)