Elves (2.0)
Alignment: Good
Bonuses @ Penalties
25% increased lumber decay rate
15% increased food decay rate
Buildings take 11 hours to build
5% Diamond production
5% Iron Ore production
5% Gold production
10% less population

Storyline
The elves, a once mighty race, have fallen into decay and despair. While much rumor has been heard about their race, they are actually very graceful, but fragile. Their time underground has changed them, and they are more brutish then ever. They are very unique in that they can communicate telepathically. This makes them very well connected, and reduces any unpleasant thoughts or actions by an amazing figure They have a great love of nature, learning secrets from the earth. One secret would be their great knowledge of how to use ores and gems, and are very adept at finding them. The abundance of gems has led to shocking discoveries into decay rates and massive constructions.


Unit Abilities
For each 50 Arch Mages you own, increase decay rate of lumber, food by 1%
Arch Mages gain 1 ATK if more then 5% of resources decayed last tick
Bladesmith produces 0.1 iron ore per hour
Foragers collect 2 food, 1 lumber, and 0.1 magic dust per hour
Newborns produce 0.1 diamonds as well as regular production

Spells
Magic Touch (ONE TIME): Increases targets decay by 30% while active
Unbreakable Tools (SELF) (ONE TIME): 5% higher production on buildings.

Buildings:
Stone House (Home) (Mountain
Wizard's Tower (Tower) (Highland): Arch Mages gain 0.5 ATK for each 10% built

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The Race Creator N0Ob guy.

Comments and help needed guys... i realise its rough and either OP'd or UP'd due to pricing and various math. but i don't know how to compare unit prices, and abilities. as for everything else (that too i suppose) i really need help here. i hope to get this race fine tuned, as my last 2 were rather dry

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The Race Creator N0Ob guy.

Elves already exist in the Elveron universe.

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The empty handed painter on your street..
is drawing crazy patterns in your sheets...
The sky, too, is falling over you...
and it's all over now, Baby Blue.

The race is insanely complex.

I dont really think this is a valid reason to not make another "elves" race.
It's honesty better to recycle themes than to have "tollspries".

ok fair enough.

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The empty handed painter on your street..
is drawing crazy patterns in your sheets...
The sky, too, is falling over you...
and it's all over now, Baby Blue.

yes, i had hoped to have them recycled.
as for fergy, yes, they are complex. there elves.
i tried to make them powerful but weak, but im no good at pricing.

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The Race Creator N0Ob guy.

Acceptable. It would be better to write the bonuses as:

• Each Elf eats 0.6 food/h instead of the normal 0.3 food/h
• -50% corruption (0.50 * base corruption, not base corruption -50%)

Nearly pointless. The ruler hero is nearly-always sent on attacks with the troops. If you insist on including it, I would suggest you add 1 ATK to each elf and make it so the troops lose 1 ATK if ruler hero is not sent. (does same thing... but this was makes it easier to calc them).

I hate things that modify defense. With that said, this would make elves very vulnerable to coven's race spell, make questing with elves risky, and by the way it is written, make dark elf gain .5 DP when ruler is injured.

Might be acceptable bonuses if these were the only unit bonuses the race had.

The templer unit has many things that modify it's ATK/DEF. This makes the race harder to calculate.

Crazy unbalanced. 11 OP would be atleast 200g per pt. It takes 20 units to summon a Chaotic Soul, this makes each unit effectively a worker that makes 110g an hr, plus their regular bonus... ignoring that, it would be better if it was: For every 10 wood elves, 5 dark elves OR 5 high elves summon 1 chaotic soul per hour. This give them some flexibility in deciding which units to train (note: My numbers are not balanced, in fact are much worse than yours).

Mage Guild / Archive: Are also crazy unbalanced. Even with only building 10% (which I doubt it's codeable to limit buildings to 10% built), on 2k land this means 200 buildings. 200 * .05 = +10 OP/DP for 20% land. . . and the bonus will grow bigger as the land size grows.

I could write several more long posts on whats wrong with the race. I suggest picking only 1-2 ideas and scraping everything else. Build the race around that idea.

MAJOR UPDATE
Version 1.1 (Thanks Fergy, i tried to scrap some stuff)

Race Bonuses and Penalties
Start with 0 SuperHeroes added

Start with 0 Bloodborn added

15% Higher Rezone costs added

5% Higher Build costs added

Wood Elf DEF changed to 3
Wood Elf Cost changed to 500l 50r
Wood Elf produces 0.1 lumber but no food

High Elf ATK changed to 2
High Elf DEF changed to 1
High Elf Cost changed to 500l 50g
High Elf produces 0.1 magic dust but no diamonds
High Elf ability changed to "High Elf ATK is increased by 1 when there is 1 Bloodborn to match it"

Chaotic Soul changed to Bloodborn
Bloodborn ATK changed to 10
Bloodborn is now trainable.
Bloodborn Cost added. 400m 20dm


Dark Elf ATK and DEF changed to 0
Dark Elf Cost changed to 200l 10dm
Dark Elf produces 0.1 iron ore but no gold
Bloodborn do not require food

Summoned Entity changed to SuperHero
SuperHero DEF changed to 50
SuperHero ability "trained from common here level ups" removed
SuperHero eats 1 Food per hour
SuperHero Cost changed to 5000l 1000dm 5000r
SuperHeroes are trained from 1 Templar and 1 Wood Elf each

Templar ATK changed to 0
Templar DEF changed to 7
Templar Cost changed to 1000l 30m 20fd
Templar produce 0.1 Diamonds per hour
Templar ability removed "gain 1 def if there are 2 childborn to match it"
Templar ability removed "gain 1 atk if there is 1 bloodborn to match it"

Childborn changed to Newborn
Newborn cost changed to 25fd 75g

Spells Added!
Natural Growth: All units produce 0.1 Food per hour in addition to 5% higher production rate on units.

Blood Oath: 5% of Bloodborns killed on the next successful attack are automatically retrained into SuperHeroes

Buildings Updated and Changed
Greenhouse production changed to 120 Food

Mage Guild changed to Soul Chamber
Soul Chamber changed to "Increases the ATK of High Elves and Bloodborn by 1 for each 15% building (2 max) (Houses 5 citizens) (Forest)

Archive changed to Armory
Armory changed to "Increases the DEF of Templar, Wood Elf and High Elf by 1 for each 15% building (2 max) (Houses 5 citizens) (Forest)

Oak Tree changed to "Produces 50 lumber and 10 Magic Dust/h per building. (Forest)

Birch Tree added: Produces 50 lumber and 10 Gold/h per building (Forest)

Dogwood Tree added: Produces 50 lumber and 10 Iron Ore/h per building
(Forest)

Ash Tree added: Produces 50 lumber and 10 Diamonds/h per building (Forest)

Grove changed to Treehouse (Home)

Elves Cannot Build:
Added Tower
Added Gold Mine
Added Iron Mine
Added Diamond Mine

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The Race Creator N0Ob guy.

1. Quote the previous post
2. Delete the quote tags
3. Select all
4. Copy
5. Edit your 1st post
6. Delete the unreadable swill
7. Paste
8. Submit

Btw, your race is insanely unbalanced and hard to understand. Keep removing ideas.

There is definitely a lot going on. =P

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The Age of Despair :: Round 2 :: 1 El Norte
The Age of Wisdom :: Round 4 :: 1 SmoochyWoochyPoochy
The Age of Wisdom :: Round 6 :: 1 Goblin Rings
The Age of Achievements :: Round 1 :: 1 Hufflepuff's Cup

Edited, i will try to keep scraping, but i am unsure of what to remove now, except for the ATK boost buildings.

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The Race Creator N0Ob guy.

Update
Version 1.2

Race Bonuses
15% Higher Rezone removed

Units
Bloodborn ATK changed to 9

Unit Abilities
High Elf ability "gain 1 ATK when paired with a bloodborn" removed
Bloodborn ability "lose 4 ATK when paired with High Elf" removed

SuperHero ability "eat 1 Food" removed
SuperHero now trained from peasants

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The Race Creator N0Ob guy.

Your Elves are so fat! Why do they eat so much?

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The Age of Despair :: Round 2 :: 1 El Norte
The Age of Wisdom :: Round 4 :: 1 SmoochyWoochyPoochy
The Age of Wisdom :: Round 6 :: 1 Goblin Rings
The Age of Achievements :: Round 1 :: 1 Hufflepuff's Cup