Hero/Ally Offers and Gold

[KGB]

I have a question about hero + ally offers and how it relates to your gold.

I'm just finishing up a game where my opponent had at one point for several turns 6-9K in gold. He was hoarding it looking for specific allies (Dragons I assume) and in large quantities (hoping for 5 but I think Beta3 is limited to 3 which I agree with).

What he was getting each turn was a hero offer + 3 allies that was basically equal to his entire gold supply. For example on one turn he complained the offer was a Hero + 3 Devils for 7000 in gold. That same turn I got a hero offer + 2 Devil for only 2500 in gold. Surely 1 more Devil doesn't cost 4500 more gold

Over the next couple turns as his gold went up, he kept getting offers that cost more and more gold for 3 allies (sometimes crappy ones like 3 Wizards for 8000).

So it seems there is some kind of bug where the hero offer is set to consume like 85-99% of your gold regardless of how much you have instead of capping it at a max value depending on ally quality.

KGB

[Moonknight]

I have occurred the same problem...you never can get a hero with only 1 ally for cheap when you have more than 6000 gold...which stinks!

[piranha]

Yes this is true. I will change this a bit for the next beta.

[KGB]

Cool.

Each ally type should have a gold range associated with it.

For example:

A Wizard (cheapest) might be 100-300. So each Wizard would cost somewhere between 100-300 gold and thus 3 Wizards would cost between 200-600 gold.
A Dragon (costliest) might be 800-1000 gold. So each Dragon would cost somewhere between 800-1000 gold and 3 Dragons would cost between 2400-3000 gold.

Note that the hero cost itself is added to the ally cost to generate the final offer.

Incidentally, because Wizards are only 2 turn units and don't have any special bonus I could see allowing up to 5 Wizards allies to come with a hero where all other allies are restricted to a maximum of 3.

KGB

[Moonknight]

This same logic should be carried over to "Mercenaries" if they are ever added as well.