Ruins and temples

[Yoza]

Hello,
I am very impressed by the work already done. Since I began to play I didn't noticed bugs, except some firefox freezes.
Now I wonder, do you plan to add temples, ruins, quests and objects soon ?
Indeed it is an important aspect of warlords2, which make heroes more important and outcome less predictable.
Thanks.
Simon

[SCIkick]

Ruins with items or special troops. But, the ruins have to be out of the way so as player has to make a hero spend a few turns getting there. Up in hills or in middle of forests, etc.

[SnotlinG]

Ruins and temples are currently planned for Beta4. Sorry

[KGB]

Is there a particular reason they are not going to be in Beta3?

I wasn't expecting full functionality (quests at temples, sages that reveal hidden maps/ruins) but having temples at least bless units and ruins at least give either gold/allies (items can wait for beta 4) adds a nice new dimension for Beta 3 in terms of strategies. Plus it gives a chance to evaluate how much balance temples/ruins make on the costs/strengths of units.

I know I'd be more than happy to wait another couple weeks to get basic temple/ruins into beta3 and I'm sure just about everyone else would too.

I do have one question on this. If temples/ruins aren't in beta3 and maps are created with the new editor when ruins/temples finally are added in will it require maps get re-done once again or will the new editor be good enough to simply edit maps in beta3 and add temples/ruins.

KGB

[SnotlinG]

Hello,
Just had a short discussion with piranha.
We will add a basic version of ruins and temples to be included in beta3. Not sure about how much functionality they will have, but most likely just a very basic one.
This might delay the beta3 launch slightly though

The idea definitely is that future updates to terrain etc should be compatible with the beta3-mapeditor.

[KGB]

Snotling,



KGB

[Yoza]

Great

When I played warlords2 for me the most fun feature was the quest because it adds a lot of random in the game (I remember when one was rewarded with objects like double move, fly, earn more money or allies like 4 dragons, archons).
The ruins are nice too.
Except to ask a quest, I think blessing armies in temples wast time in the game-play, players spend a lot of time in blessing instead of fighting.