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I think this will not work that well. Not only would this result in people working together less because they want the other to be in a terrible state at the end of the game (no asking for quick money or sharing resources for any other reason), but there will also be grounds for unfair play (like using a card that enhance orc Immortals to disadvantage a human player) and the general unfairness of the initial horde going for one player. Not only would that player be at a huge disadvantage at the end, the others might not come to their aid and itâs not just a matter of holding the hordes off long enough.
This is of course the worst scenario assuming terrible people are playing with you, but I think that it may happen at times, or at least that people will suspect and accuse one another of it when it becomes part of the game. -
It does have merit, but it would be quite a lot more taxing and confusing. Right now thereâs just str mortals vs str immortals and the chance death is rolled for all units equally. If such a new system would be implemented, it would make things more difficult to do program-wise. Not having a blind justice in your army to prevent her dying seems more like a logical thing than adding this.
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Iâm actually counting on the terrible people that play. Even more so on devious minds who make it seem like theyâre helping but really have different goals. It introduces the interesting aspect of deception to the game. You wonât trust anyone completely and therefore the game will be harder. I love Blight, but itâs really easy to win as it is on multiplayer. You can almost always rely on the other players to pull through even if you arenât able to and you never have to worry about the sacrifices youâre making because you know it wonât matter once the game ends. Youâre thinking like, well, a player. A game mode where you can instead think like a Lord or King or Chief would spice things up. You actually have to preserve the lives of your people because the time will come when you need them for fighting those just as smart and strong as you. Youâll be thinking like a leader of Alundria, a war torn region filled with different races and factions all vying for control, temporarily united by the coming of the Blight but bound to return to previous schemes. Old habits die hard. Of course, this would be just a game mode, not all games, and I imagine only higher level players would take part.
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This is more catered to units like the Elven Prince and Princess or the Wizard, who often have to be with their armies in order to be effective. Blind Justice, High Elf, and a couple other relatively long range units are outliers. A lot of the time itâs impossible or inconvenient to not have an important hero with your army and itâs a little ridiculous when they die and everyone else survives, particularly if itâs a small battle that wasnât supposed to mean anything. In a real battle they wouldnât have the same level of risk as a common footsoldier. Heroes like Mighty General and Stout General notwithstanding because even in their depictions they are leading the charge, but they are already classified as âWarriorâ so it still works out.
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True, if itâs not all games then it would be a good addition for when people feel up to it.
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Might make things a bit too easy, but also as I said it would be a lot more complicated. I donât know how much, but from what Iâve understood all these Blight games are processed on a single adminâs computer so Iâm not sure if making their calculations more complicated and the games bigger is a great idea of them. Though I can be dead wrong about that computer thing, though.
I donât know anything about the single computer thing, but I donât think it would be much more complicated. All the damage would be calculated the same way, the units would just die in a certain order rather than just randomly. As for making it too easy, keep in mind it wouldnât affect all heroes, just ones that wouldnât take part in the initial fray if the battle were actually real. So the Desert Maiden, Vicious Sergeant, Mighty General, Stout General, etc. would all have the same risk as their soldiers, but the Elven Princess, Blind Justice, Wizard, and others like them would not. Itâs also worth noting that itâd be the same for the Undead Lords, which would eliminate the random luck that occasionally ends up killing an otherwise unkillable one when a small mortal force fights a much larger immortal one
Hey @RisenSlayer. Thanks for your notes and ideas! Sorry its taken me a couple of weeks to get back on the forums to read them!
One: An interesting fun fact, in the prototype for Blight we developed back in 2010, there was a game PVP mode where people could fight each other and and the zombies as well. We were trying to make a more traditional 4x strategy game, but with the large threat of the zombies that the players would have to co-operate to defeat. Think Game of Thrones with the White Walkers coming down from the north.
When we started this new version we decided we wanted to âall inâ on the co-op, so started designing powers and mechanics that might be unfair or unbalanced or just not fun if played in PVP.
So for example, the the artillery can be fired as soon as its in rage and does its damage instantly. This is satisfying and fun in Co-OP but in A PVP game this would force players login and fire them as soon as they were in rage. It would be a race to see who could click the button the fastest after the moment tick.
Two: I agree with the wizards and things in combat. And I will admit I have separated out my wizards, or sent them out of a town I was defending just so there was no risk of them being killed.
Iâm not sure it should be based on the cards title, perhaps players could just be able to choose which characters should stay out of the combat some how.
Would it be possible to implement the following suggestions for a game admin?
- Have the day/time bar background be a different color when paused, or include the word âPausedâ, or some other indication other than the clock not ticking
- In the game admin options, have a button to âpause for X hoursâ in addition to the toggle pause
- Also in the game admin options, have a âPause every night for X hoursâ or âOnly run the game between these hoursâ that can be configured by the admin
Iâve only been playing for about a month and love it so far, so apologies in advance if stuff like this has been requested in this thread that I skimmed through. Thanks!
Iâve been playing with flamabeconcrete, and this game is awesome. Iâve been looking for an asychronous cooperative muiltiplayer game for my phone for⌠years. And this game is fantastic. I have no idea how I havenât heard about this game before, but youâre awesome for making it.
My suggestions:
-Static heralds that carry over from game to game!! I play with the same group of friends each game, and it would be great to just know who was who, instead of having to click on them!! Also I like my herald to look a certain way, it gets old to have to change it when a new game starts.
-Give an option for the admin to run the game at 1.X speed.
-Give me an option to have the chat that happens in the chat window send me push notices on my phone. Weâve created a whole separate chat room for our games, because we want to be able to tell each other important, timely stuff, and the game doesnât work for that (âdude! move your army, youâre going to die!â, etc.)
Thanks!
Sorry for taking 2 weeks to check out your posts. Its great to hear you guys have been enjoying the game!
Great suggestions!
Hope to see you guys in game some time!
Just some aesthetic suggestions.
Could we perhaps have some snow levels? It would be a nice difference from green and sand tiles.
Maybe moving through snow slows troops down and perhaps you start losing units due to frost if they arenât in villages or cities?
Just some ideas 
I hadnât thought of how annoying it would be racing other players to click first. I still think it would be nice to have that game mode as an option for more experienced players though. Itâd be tense, frustrating, and difficult, but that level of challenge would be a good change of pace for people who find the regular co-op modes a bit too easy.
Being able to choose which characters participated in combat would be cool, but I was thinking something more along the lines of just preventing certain cards from being killed first. Theyâd still be at risk of being killed, but only when the main army as well as other front line heroes are defeated.
Iâm no programmer or game developer so I donât know how complicated these things would be to implement or if they contrast too much with your goals for the game, but theyâre just some suggestions
Also, dude? Cool name you got there.
Well, At least in multi-player you can achieve that by just having the other units min 2 hours behind your main force. they dont get any buffs those units might provide, but that kinda makes sense if they dont participate in combat anyways. Iâd totally like the more intense scenarios though, Im a new player and I still won Moltenforge nightmare mode in first try⌠AND got the highscoreâŚ
On that note, I have heard that the highscore resets after 30 days or so, would be nice if you could at least keep 1. place, or maybe a top 10 or 5⌠that cant possibly be expensive server wise, or?
I think a longer timeout is probably called for, at least.
As for more intense scenarios, try some of the newer and smaller maps, like Guardians or Redwind Plateau. A lot of the single player maps were made quite a long time ago, and have gotten much easier as the game has changed. The newer ones were created with more or less the current capabilities for all the races, so theyâre much closer to where theyâre intended to be with respect to difficulty level.
Thanks 
Just a suggestion butâŚmaybe introduce named hero characters? Give the game some backstory, have it a lived in feel. Maybe some short stories?
Give them buffs and sebuffx fir certain race units.
Every fantasy world has heroes and villains. So to have some in Blight would be great. You could have an art and story contest and players can buy the heroes for some cash.
Iâve been thinking about the Trolls recently, specifically the Troglodyteâs unfulfilled promise of GIANT GOBLIN-EATING MACHINE ever since he was nerfed to no longer auto-kill an entire stack (clearly necessary, in fairness). The issue I tend to have is that itâs so hard to catch up to Goblins in the first place, and heâs got to spend at least a couple days growing before he reaches self-sufficiency. With the speed of Goblins, thatâs just really tough to do in practice.
However: What if he gained his devouring bonus from melee combat as well as his ranged attack? That would let him gain strength in an army at first, and then effectively strike out on his own once heâs big enough. Obviously gaining strength for every Goblin his army kills is too much, and Iâm not sure how the nitty-gritty of combat works behind the scenes, but based on the way Valour gets split up, I suspect itâs possible to identify which enemies were killed by which units. So it seems like the Troglodyte could gain strength for every Goblin he kills, in melee or at range, which I think would let him see more play.
Hey all.
I have been playing this game for a while now, and I have to admit this game is a little hard to begin playing for new players.
Of course, for those people who are put off by long games, there is no way, but for others we can do some things to retain them.
To make this game a bit approachable for new people, I have some ideas, which I would love to see implemented. They are:
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ACCESS TO FORUM: There should be a way to introduce the new player to this universe in a slow paced easy to understand way. I know that there is a tutorial, and the player is directed there, but they should also be directed here. Maybe at the end of the tutorial, have them create an IHG account, or at least have a link to here there.
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FORCED TUTORIAL: Also, for those who have absolutely no idea what this game is, they should be directed in a step by step way throughout the tutorial. Select this, train a unit, end the turn, train another unit, use the wizard, end turn and so on.
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EASY MULTIPLAYER: Have some easy to play Easy 2-3-4 multiplayer maps that are literally just impossible to lose (on the lines of the first tutorial) if the player checks in at least 1 or 2 times a day. The player should be easily able to win without any cards, to boost his confidence. Of course, the enemy will be the dwarves.
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SOME RESTRUCTURING: First of all, I think the whole game needs some restructuring. Remove the premium level lock. Everyone should be able to play a campaign. Make it cost 4 hero coin to play, and a reward of 5(Normal), 6(Hard) and 7(Nightmare). Keep 1 level among all the campaigns free to play, reward 1(Normal), 2(Hard) and 3(Nightmare) Hero Coin. So that people will really have to put in efforts if they want to do a campaign, or they can just buy a membership.
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Have a linear story line, so that the campaign doesn't feel like a mash up of levels, and the player feels he is playing towards some goal. Make each a bit harder than the previous, and introduce different races and zombies.
- Easy (cost 1 Hero Coin, reward 1 Hero Coin),
- Normal(cost 1 Hero Coin, reward 1 x player + Slayer and Saviour Hero Coin) and
- Hard(cost 1 Hero Coin, reward 1.5 x player round up + Slayer and Saviour Hero Coin)
Keep the Hosting a game premium, with all options of course. Free to start, and 1 x player(Normal), 2 x player(Hard) and 3 x player(Nightmare) Hero Coin reward.
Make three types of multiplayer,
- MAP EDITER: This is a definite must for this game. I know the maps are very good, but give the player a bit more freedom in choosing the type of maps they would like to play! Make it cost 10 Hero Coins to create a map, and save it permanently. The player can play them on any difficulty. There should be no rewards.
Thanks for the suggestions @JaiSh123.
Although Iâm not working on the game right now, I would one day like to do some more work to Blight again one day.
Your suggestions are great, I think the game could be much easier to get into.
There are some major issues with this game:
- The default deck is a liability in this game. In all games, players are forced to include a fixed set of cards, and some or all of these cards are not useful. While I understand this can be helpful for new players that do not have a sufficient card collection, this hurts veteran players from customizing their own build. When an experienced player builds a deck properly, we want to use ideal card ratio, and minimize ineffective cards from showing up. In the last volcanic dust game I played, none of the default goblin cards added significant value to my strategy. If I could, I would replace every single card in that default deck with something else that did add more value - like charming rogue, or spider penon. 4 rodent riders basically have no value in my strategy, and I only deployed them because I rather keep my valor. 4x foolhardy big wig seems excessive, and only works if I was building an army focused solely on goblin archers or melee combat. 4x mad pirates had some value, but their abilities were useless in the volcanic dust plays I was making. After all, killing civilians is bad for high scores.
In last weekâs tournament, I considered the entire default deck a liability to my strategy. It was such a liability that I had to spend valor getting rid of the cards. This seems kind of unfair that players have to be penalized at the start of any game to either deploy cards they do not like, or spend valor to get rid of them.
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**Tournament rankings ** seem a bit unfair. If 2 players get the same high score in tournament (tying for first place), only one player gets ranked 1 and the other gets rank 2. I am not too sure how the system decides, but it does not seem fair. This happened to me a long time ago, and when you achieve the max score and tie with another player, you can lose rank 1 rewards. I almost got stuck with a rank 2 reward for tying a score for last weekâs tournament, until I got lucky and almost scored perfectly in the tourney.
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The elf card Beserker is too weak and could use a buff. The closest comparison with elf beserker is the goblin : rogue lord
Beserker: Cost 150 gold, Might = 120+5 per elven magic used.
Rogue lord: Cost 200 gold, Might = 120 + 40 per rogue deployed. Rogue lord activates its own ability when deployed, so it instantly start with 160 might.
Rogue lord is 50 gold more expensive, buts its ability is 8x more potent than than the beserker. Also, the requirements for beserker to activate its ability is more difficult.
To activate an elven ability, you have to have friendly elven units already deployed or you begin deployment and wait 6hr before deploying more elven cards. Beacon of life and other beserkers cannot trigger the forest rage ability. Elven abilities involving mana have a cooldown of 10 hrs - 21 hrs.
In comparison to rogue lord, the only requirement is that you deploy friendly rogue related cards after rogue lord has been summoned. If an active pro goblin player does this in multiplayer, you could ideally get many rogue cards deployed every 6 hours because this is the shortest cooldown for deploying heroes. The pro player would obviously go through their deck quite rapidly, recycle cards and redeploy cards, and could wind up with rogue lords over 1500 might - 4000+ might.
Rogue lord serves as a decent mid to end game unit overall, and can easily become the strongest melee card. The rogue lord can become the powerful beast, especially when played by pro players.
Elven beserker is weak early game, and might become somewhat stronger mid to end game. But even if you had 200 elven abilities activated, you can only get 1120 might melee card, whereas 100 friendly rogue deployments gives rogue lord a potential 4120 might score. In my experience, scoring 4000+ might rogues is possible.
My recommendation: Buff elven beserker ability to 50 -60 might per elven magic ability activated. That way, the elven beserker and rogue lord can actually compete in terms of usefulness.
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Allow players to queue up commands in multiplayer. It would be nice if the player could setup a list of commands, so that we can sleep and not have to wake up at odd hours to trigger a strategy.
Example: Walk 2 leagues, claim the city, and continue forward march to another area. Or another example is, after cooldown, activate the ability right away or in a few hours on x target.
This game can be very punishing when critical spots are taken by inactive players and only a few players know how to mitigate those damages after the inactive player is kicked in 2 days. Giving us this multi command system can help mitigate burden on active players. -
The classes Warrior, Shaman, merchants, hunter, royalty do not have any combat values in this game. I guess it adds value to the lore of the game. But technically speaking, only classes like archer, rogues, mages could potentially add value to card combos. It would be nice if some heroes added extra value if these classes are in their army.
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Troglodyte could use a buff - it is only effective against a goblin target. the role of this card is very limited as a result, and lacks the versatility of a rune dancer. Maybe troglodyte should be able to target any unit of any race.
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Marsh warden and storm friar are very hard to use in multiplayer effectively. It is very easy to severely damage friendly units with their abilities, and marsh warden is super slow at moving into proper positioning. If these cards did not harm friendly units, I think they would see more effective use in multiplayer games. Some card diversity in strategies would be nice but players are less likely to use different strategies if they are not great.
Regards,
a basement troll