Yes, you can purchase equipment as part of the Sov creation process, on a tab in the same menu you assign clothing and stuff.

However, it is probably a far better use of those points to put towards permanent stats for your sov, since you can just buy equipment and will outgrow it. Equipment purchased during Sov creation are wasted points.

Yes, as an Old Fart who played MOM ever since it came out, I also miss the very different races. Maybe they'll be added, shouldn't be too difficult. (Add-ons, here we come!)

I also like your idea of adding the magic power to the game - define how much of each one you have, instead of only turning each type on or off.

Lvl 3 treasure chests: do some more research into adventure - the number you see on the map has nothing to do with your 'normal' level.

Ciao,

Klaus

Thinking more about this.... since magic was "lost" in the cataclysm, maybe ALL the books of magic (except maybe light/dark or whatever they're called) should have to be researched like Summoning is now.  This would create a cost-benefit choice that actually requires some strategic thinking on the part of the player.  If this were added in, would the AI be able to handle it?  Could this be modded?

Regarding the Magic books the cost maybe should be increased,now its 3 points i think,maybe up it to 5?

So that u cant take all of them from the start.As said earlier it makes magic a bit OP  if all heroes  can have all schools from turn 1.

I don't believe Brad or anyone from Stardock ever said they were making Master of Magic II? I believe he said he had taken ELEMENTS from many of them an incorporated them into Elemental. So everything from Master of Magic isn't going to be in this game, nor Age of Wonders, nor HOMM and all the rest. I think he did a very good job incorporating them this much this far. He had to make limits somewheres for each game. People really should stop comparing what is left out from those previous games an accept what is IN the game from them. Play it as it is intended not what you wished it was.

I agree, the magic book costs should be higher. Researching/acquiring them shouldn't be as easy as it's now - I'm referring to that tech that gives Summoning, Restoration and some third school, and it's really easy to get. Imo tech/spellbook, and some if not all spellbooks should require a quest or goodie hut also. Atm spell books don't really exist in any practical sense, especially as the spells are all so similar, boring, and often really weak.

This is a totally off-topic question, but since you mentioned that you play GoG's version of MoM: Does it work in Windows 7, too?

One word - DOSBox if you would like to run MoM on W7

I second your thought OP.

Right now the tactical spells could be labeled as "Generic Damage Spell 1" and "Generic Damage Spell 2".

The lack of varied damage and defense types for magic and melee is pretty awful and should be high on the list of things to fix.

Yes, MoM from GOG works with Windows 7 - I have it. Although, it also runs fine with dosbox on Windows 7. And, I think that the GOG version launches MOM via Dosbox (I'm not 100% sure on this, I'll try it when I get home).

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They're working on it. We already had the generic damage spell for water replaced with the slightly more interesting ice spike, and hurl boulder now ignores the target's armour.

Weapon damage types are in there but they're simply not shown. Just like it's unclear how much of the defence represents difficulty to hit as opposed to armour protection.

I know the manual says they are in there but in game experiments seem to show that the game engine was never given this ability. Right now the combat calcs are just ATK vd Def in geneeric round terms

If the devs did put something in there for it it never shows up and they need to do a far better job of it than they have.

Either it isn't in or it is broken to the point that being there doesn't matter.