"Philosophical" questions, What is a cheesy method? Bug or feature? Options

[Vuki]

I created this topic to discuss the "philosophical" aspect of the game. We can discuss here questions like:

- is a modification really needed or not?
- is something cheesy or cheeting or just a clever trick?
- game balance
- is an actual gap a bug or a feature?
- and so on ...

This topic will be maybe a bit too theoretical but I do not think it is a problem. We need such a place - as the discussions from the last 2-3 weeks prove it.

This post has been edited by Vuki: Aug 11 2008, 08:34 PM

[Shadan]

I dont't think Time Stop+melee is a cheat, so I agree with Zarathustra. I have never used this in IA anyway for several reasons:
1. I have only F/I in my 4.2 run, and he got TS too late. Single class mages cannot attack efficiently and I didn't plyed multi or dual class mages in my v5 runs.
2. When I had TS with good melee character, most important enemies were immune to TS so it was pointless to use it against them.

I don't think as a cheat, but I agree with this change since it is good for classbalance imho. F>M and F/M become less powerful. However with this change maybe you should delete TS immunity from more enemies. I tried TS several times and I found too many enemies were immune to TS in v5, so I stopped to try and use it. It would be welcome if I could use TS with my mages more times effeciently, IF I cast spells only during the TS.