so did I see that right? buildings have no upkeep aka as long as you can afford to build a new one, there isn't any reason not to

@@maxmustermann-zx9yq yeah no upkeep to buildings. Upkeeps are divided into troops (either gold or mana), spells/enchantements (mana), and diplomacy (either gold or imperium ; maybe mana as well ?) I've watched everything that I could about the game ; but maybe I missed a couple things here and there. Cheers !

Come on ! Let them flow ! We need some gameplay to end the week end in a proper fashion :D

Hey PartyElite. Thanks for the stream yesterday ! By any chance, will you be able to release the VOD of the whole stream on KZfaq or Twitch ? I'd like to share it to some friends ; but I can't find it anywhere :( Cheers

Wonder too yes, yes.

Feudal Wolf riding Cat Lords! Will be my start

Quick-quick! Call-yell the GW lawyers. I smell-sense copyright shenanigans. But seriously,sounds like a cool empire!!

Same. It looks way more involved than heroes of might and magic when it comes to town management, diplomacy etc though. It'll take some getting used to. I still hold some hope we might get a descent heroes of might and magic sequel some day.

Yes, you can.

@@hailforge7038 Thanks. Good to know especially when your starting city doesn't always end up in the best of spots.

You can create toadlike faction with ratlike leader, so... 😉

YOU make them unique, you can create your entire rival roster as well as your own ruler and play the game as you like.

@@ombra711 Yes, but if all races play basically the same, the novelty will wear off quite quickly. And the traits just don't seem like they'll lead to any gameplay variance. "You can play as you like" only works if you have the tools to do anything differently, but as is I fail to see the options to do so, but maybe the races don't all feel the same. But again, from the videos it feels like there is lacking options to actually create variety, a problem that, as fun as planetfall was, that game also had, as I rarely felt any need to replay it like age of wonders 3 or other games of these genres.

@@redliquid6775 races only have 2 unique traits. Rest is cosmetic. Any race can be anything. It's the culture that define your race gameplay and units now. Then you upgrade your race depending on tomes you take. For example, taking the soul tome give you the ability to manage unique soul ressource. You earn it by killing units to launch specific spells or build armies of skeletons. And in late game you get to transform your race even further, permanently.

@@jacksheldon8566 Yeah, and as I said It looks like it'll be just like planetfall, a game which relatively quickly becomes stale due to a lack of gameplay mechanisms, especially early on, where all races feel samey, it gets a few DLCs which don't really make up for it and then gets abandoned.

@@redliquid6775 planetfall was just finished. After a few patch and the promised dlc they just moved on AOW4 development. I do not agree about planetfall. It had lots of interesting units/mods combo and faction were unique enough to not feel too samey.

I think it expands on the planetfall imperium idea allowing some multiverse/realms shenanigans especially with human Multiplayer

@@franzmann3744 Thank you for clarifying.

If it is close to older age of wonders you can either ignore many of the synergies and power through or you can go deep and complex

Oh yeah, based upon videos I saw, there's a wide variety of races you can used as your own faction to customize. Human, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Cats, Rats, Toads, Goblins. There's so many to choose from. I just hope the customization within those races are numerous as well.

I'd recommend watching the DEveloper stream on Diplomacy. While not much has changed, the whole system has been streamlined, polished and overall improved.

Learn to use it

@@franzmann3744 That doesn't make a mechanics nice.

Often we dislike mechanics we dont fully grasp

@@franzmann3744 Haven't yet tried the game, so I only know the idea of it. But I like to declare wars without justification, just looking at the world map what I would like to do next, where to expand. If the game punishes me doing that... I don't find that an attractive idea. I hope it won't be that bad. But that alone doesn't make me not to buy this. It is just one negative expectation.

@@Aurinkohirvi There will probably be skills or spells to offset the penalty for unjustified wars, especially for evil cultures. Also, picking fights is pretty easy. Settle near them, demand resources frequently, insult them. Before long they will declare a justified war on you!