Searching Ruins

[Pillager]

Searching ruins in Warlords I-III was always a shot in the dark. You had no clue as to what was in there until your hero blindly wandered in. And once your Hero met up with something nasty, there was no option except to fight it to the death.

It would be nice if you had a chance to run away after meeting whatever monster was guarding the ruin. When you meet a monster, you could be given the choice to fight or flee. Perhaps a hero could only choose to flee if she had more remaining movement points than the speed of the guardian creature.

If you don't like that idea, there are tons of other ways to give the player some info.... rumors in nearby cities, clues upon entering ruins, giving scouts the ability to scout a ruin....

[Zajoman]

By the way, I've been wondering about this for... geez, it's been years, really. Can your hero actually die entering a ruin? It never happened to me in DLR. For me, entering a ruin was getting a reward, for granted.

[Moonknight]

By the way, I've been wondering about this for... geez, it's been years, really. Can your hero actually die entering a ruin? It never happened to me in DLR. For me, entering a ruin was getting a reward, for granted.

You can definitely die searching a ruin...and that's the way it should be (of course I never did in single player games b/c you could save the game, search, and if you died you just load the game back).

For big rewards there should be big risks, I'm fine with the Low, Medium, High dangers that are labeled in Beta3.

[Zajoman]

Yeah, man, I always expected some risk going in there, because why all the fuzz about a big monster lurking in the darkness then, but I simply always won. Always. So in time, I came to thinking that ruins were safe and the hype about monsters was just to add flavor. Well, so I'm gonna be quite picky now when sending my Roxana the Swift into those dungeons.

[Pillager]

Right now there is no risk. A ruin is just a cash payout. Eventually there will be guardians for ruins..and your hero will risk death.

I really like the 3 levels of ruins. It gives you some information about the risk level. So you might hesitate before using that level 1 valkyrie with a crow to search a level 3 ruin...unless you are greedy (like me).

[Zajoman]

So wait... I understand now that you can actually die in a DLR ruin. Can you in a Warbarons ruin?

[Moonknight]

So wait... I understand now that you can actually die in a DLR ruin. Can you in a Warbarons ruin?

Not yet...sounds like it'll be in Beta4.