Chilung

I think this is probably the most balanced geneforge game as far as power of creations and it does encourage you to use different types of creations as the game progresses.

War Tralls are very useful if merely for the fact they possess the only non essence draining missile attack (and its purely physical damage which allows you to take on those pesky spikey, oozing, creatures with high resistences, and basically no one has noted this fact), most magical creations are probably more powerful in attack but run out of essence more quickly.

As much as I've loved the power of the high tier creations in previous games, they have been quite unbalanced, compare the top tiers of last games to the creations below them and there is a huge difference and considerably less use for them, where as in this one there are still advantages to bringing along slightly lower tier creatures to the end (taking on different resistences, backing up other creations, etc). I still like Ur-drakons even if they don't have the multi-attack anymore.

If I was forced to pick favourites, cryodraks (great return, and reasonably easy to get than other things), wingbolts (just devastating damage versus most creatures), Ur-drakons(individually nasty versus those things that the wing bolts can't damage, tougher and lower essence drain), eyebeasts (too much fun, and devastating versus large groups), yeah I like ranged attackers.

Its weird I can make some of the recipes (wands of death/jeweled wands/artifacts) but I can't make any of the rods or the wand of inferno, is it just a ver.1.0 bug or something?

Hostile effect resistence is basically for every 1% HER you gain +1% resistence in all resistences except stunning.

I don't know about protection from weapons, it just seemed to add to your armour (and I'm not certain it gave the other additional benefits of armour)

I still love the big red button in portal fortress...

*sigh* I was just getting excited, thought someone had actually found a use for the marsh worm fang

Just a thought, increase your luck.

Bangs head against wall.

That's one thing I do miss even if it was frustrating. Secret walls. It also means we lost farsight and that fantastic sound you made when you couldn't go through a wall. It would have been nice to keep move mountain at least.

is the marsh worm fang for?