It took two days to go back to the royal court to look at the files compiled by Elena. I returned to work and used my free time to continue printing cards.
I didn’t have enough time in Jinhong. I mainly did some work on settings and game rules. After I came back, I continued to work on game development standards and modes, and divided the work with Li Xiang and painted.
The expansion standards are mainly icons representing various rules in card games, as well as expanded gameplay.
For example, the shapes of icons such as the wings of flying units cannot be different between two units. The icons do not need to be filled with color. Features that can be shot separately after being stacked also need corresponding icons. The materials used by units should use icons x numbers or cancel icons, etc. wait.
After these icons are standardized, single cards produced by new units will no longer need to be accompanied by manuals. With the current papermaking and printing capabilities, it is impossible to provide manuals for all products in all walks of life. The saving is worth it.
The expanded gameplay currently only adds fortress attack and defense and endless war.
The fortress attack and defense is similar to the one temporarily made for the battalion commander, except that it is placed on a large chessboard. In addition, because of the presence of vision elements, the city wall can obtain a vision blocking effect on ground troops.
Endless War is a new gameplay. Up to several cities are allowed to be placed on the large chessboard. The initial ownership is determined by the dice rolled by all parties in the game. In the future, human troops may be added, and three parties can play at the same time. A larger chessboard may also be launched.
Two new related items have been added in the endless mode, population and productivity. The numerical system of these two items determines the game rhythm of the endless mode.
Take Wang Qi's kingdom power as an example. It has an initial population of 30. One population is almost equivalent to 10,000 people in reality. It may increase in the future, but it will not be included in the game.
For the convenience of calculation, the output of materials per round is consistent with the population.
If there is no initial city, 9 troops, that is, three battalions, are allowed to appear. At this time, there is a surplus of 21 supplies per round. If the game progresses smoothly, the supplies can be stocked off-site. Using a cardboard counting board, the maximum stockpile can be 999. , if all players participating in the game agree, it is also allowed to start with a certain amount of initial supplies.
Materials have several uses, including supplying supplies, recruiting military units, and increasing population, which are related to the previous logistics force. Neither of the latter two commands can be completed immediately.
Military units are more expensive, with a minimum consumption of 10 supplies, and training is completed in three rounds; increasing the population is more time-consuming, consuming 5 supplies, and takes ten rounds, but its value is not fixed. The number of rounds will change after the population base increases to a certain level. Reduced, the player does not need to talk nonsense, and a special comparison table will be left in the instruction manual.
The population is the player's health in endless mode. Once it is exhausted, it is over.
There are several ways to reduce enemy population.
The most basic reduction mode is killing, which involves cutting each other's soldiers and deducting population according to the soldier population comparison table. For example, in the Phoenix Kingdom, if one team of basic soldiers is killed, 0.1 population will be consumed, and 10 teams must be killed to reduce 1 population.
By the way, after returning home, Wang Qi made changes to his own soldiers. Now the basic soldiers are not sharp soldiers, but miscellaneous soldiers. Like the logistics soldiers, they have 2 offense and 2 defense. They have no relevant skills and can only use basic material collection. and share.
The population loss after the Blade Soldier dies is 0.2.
In short, it is not high, because of the initial surplus, unless all troops are recruited at the beginning, the population will increase by at least 1 in ten rounds, and it is difficult to really reduce the population by killing troops.
To really reduce the population, we still have to look at the two actions of "breaking the city" and "invading".
City destruction means that when a city on the map changes hands, the original owner will explode 2 people on the spot. There is also an additional penalty. The round count of the people already in the production queue will be increased by 10.
Invasion is an attack on the entrance line in endless mode. A hexagonal chessboard with a diagonal length of 15 squares, excluding the top corners. A player occupies six squares on one side. These six squares do not count. It starts here. An invasion is completed only when you go outside the map.
Invasion has a very strong effect on population elimination. When a single unit reaches the invasion line, it will directly remove the invading unit, and the opponent will deduct 1 population. In order to reduce complexity, there is no difference between high-level and low-level soldiers here, only the scale of invasion is different.
If multiple troops cross the invasion line in the same round, there will be a damage bonus. The second little devil will deduct 2 population, and the third will deduct 3. The upper limit is 5. If there are enough troops and sufficient mobility, it will be destroyed in one round. Able to outrun opponents.
For example, as a flying unit, the Little Devil has a single-round mobility of 2. When both "killing and occupying the field" and "units outside the field that have not completed training in the current round" are met at the same time, it can have a maximum of 6 (approach) + 7 ( Second row) + 2 (top corner) A total of 15 units are threaded, and 65 people can be killed in one round.
It is difficult to meet these conditions. If you just penetrate into three or four teams, it is not particularly difficult to do. Therefore, invasion is the real winner. As long as one or two large-scale invasions cut off the opponent's material production capacity, it will be Can establish victory.
If "Demon World Attack and Defense - Battle Edition" is to be sold to the private sector, it is natural to consider the fairness of both or multiple parties in the game, and not to allow the demons to be too outrageous. This is also solved through numerical rules.
The demon clan in endless mode only has an initial population of 30, but because the little devil is too good, the demon clan will have a certain advantage in recruiting low-level soldiers. In addition, the population increase rate of the demon clan must be based on the population increase of the Phoenix Dynasty. The table decreases by 2 turns, which means that the population will increase in just 8 turns initially. As a price, the demon tribe’s population production capacity is low. An initial population of 30 can only produce 15 materials. Therefore, in the early stage, the Phoenix Kingdom actually has a slight advantage. However, the chessboard is too big and ordinary units only have one square of movement ability. By the time the opponent has passed, the opponent has already Defenses deployed.
It seems that the soldier death penalty in the population reduction rules is a bit unnecessary. In fact, this kind of farming game can easily turn into a stalemate. After the game, the entire map will be full of high-level soldiers fighting each other. At this time, the population penalty is not small. The dominant side accumulates advantages on the scene to a certain extent, and can take down three or even four of the opponent's population in one round.
The addition of the endless war mode is not to make people suddenly too idle, but to allow furniture factories and companies related to the project to have more stable income.
The demand for troops in endless mode will be very large, and one deck simply cannot meet the later needs.
The board with 15 diagonal squares totals 169 squares, and the total number of cards on both sides, excluding first-level soldiers, is only 70. In this situation, units will die every round, even less.
This is the time to show the power of krypton gold. If you can get half a board of Kingdom Scouts or high-level demons, it can significantly change the way the game is played.
Therefore, the endless mode can significantly increase the trading and collection attributes of a single card, which will help manufacturers make gold-framed versions, collectors' editions, and commemorative editions of single cards in the future.
The painting part is actually quite annoying.
A card must be handy, and people with the size of the blade must also be taken into account. Even if it is smaller, it is larger than a business card, so the hexagonal chessboard will become very large.
I also considered whether to switch to chess pieces, but in the end I chose cards.
Cards can directly write icons such as offensive and defensive attributes, flying unit superimposition bonuses, etc. on the card surface. This form is more conducive to lowering the learning threshold than chess pieces.
In the form of cards, players who focus on one camp do not need to remember too much knowledge about the enemy. As long as they can read the numbers and icons, they can play smoothly. If you switch to chess pieces, you're done. You have to memorize the enemy's image and values, or listen to the opponent's random remarks. If you want to recite enemy information in a board game of this complexity, it is almost impossible to add a third party, and there is only a very small amount of hard core. Players can accept it.
So I still use cards, but the price is that the board will take up a lot of space. Including seats for both sides of the battle, off-field counting cards, etc., at least a relatively wide double bed is needed to barely accommodate two people playing. If there are three people, there will be a small living room.
However, being big also has its advantages. The scene will be clearer, and counting cards, materials, etc. will not appear obtrusive inside or outside the field.
The material concept is actually very suitable for making bucky balls (metal ball magnets), which can be placed directly on the chessboard in piles and are not easy to lose. Counting cards and small non-magnetic metal squares are almost meaningless.
During the card drawing stage, Li Xiang was responsible for drawing the units on his own side, and Wang Qi was responsible for drawing the card for the demons.
Many demons that are still in an unknown state will appear in "Demon World Attack and Defense - Battle Edition". Some of the line drawings can be found from history books, but these line drawings are very outrageous. The same monster in the two books, Looks completely different.
For example, the "enchantress" Wang Qi read from two books, one is similar to a human, with multiple tails and horns on the head, while the other's body is covered with what seems to be chitin particles, and there are attachments on its back. limb.
He needs to select more reliable images from the book, and then do "artistic processing"... that is, the final image has little to do with the reference materials.
There are a few Kingdom cards that Wang Qi also needs to make, which are Li Xiang's cards.
Compared with the version used by the battalion commander, the values have shrunk a lot. Li wanted to add bears, and it only had 8 attack and 8 defense. The single cards for Li Xiang and Bai Xiaojiao will not be released for the time being. This is the only unit. The two of them can print out the single cards at home and use them themselves.
The low value is mainly due to military secrecy, but also for balance.
The top card of the Demon Tribe is slightly higher, with 10 attack and 10 defense. It has no name and is called the Anonymous Demon Tribe 010.
There are quite a lot of demons named "Anonymous". There are only five demons with names in total, namely the little devil, Goma, enchantress, ice demon and vampire. Among them, vampires can be found in the exile, and they are afraid of being confused by other hybrids. They are very low-key. They have been separated from the demon world for a long time. It is difficult to say whether they can still be called demons.
Li wanted to spend more time, but Wang Qi had less time but had to do the main work. The two of them struggled for a month before they came up with a complete set of pictures and asked Natasha to contact the manufacturer.
By the way, royalties are required for this project and should be paid directly to the palace!
Although patent law is not implemented at all.
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