Okay so, this is another fantastic concept. Love it. Or I would do, if it actually worked as described.

Okay cool.  Let's see here. Fungle blooms on POI'S in owned and neutral regions... exploit tiles.... and other stuff. Cool! [Goes away, comes back and screams] No it doesnt!!

Can you please fix this bug and, in my mind, it is a bug: This trait DOES NOT exploit tiles in owned and neutral Territory. This is a problem because there are mechancis in the game that seem to be flagged to exploitation that Do Not work because of it.

Please go away and code this in instead of adding some invisible pseudo-exploitation mechanic. See here:

This is just stupid.

Blooms are not city tiles. Otherwise they'd actually say [Exploited]

They are also not [Exploited]

I want to see a break down that's actually a break down. A city tile is a city tile. I want to see what's produced by the city seperately from what's produced by all blooms.

TL;DR

Please include exploitation tag as it is done with city tiles.

Please make it clear what income is caused by Tender Blooms and what Income is caused by Actual city production.

and please make sure that other traits work with it, like for example: endless excavation: - (the inflluence doesn't work)

Other improvements should include: Better explanations. Not one of your strong points I know but at least try to make an effort instead of releasing descriptions that should act as alpha phase placeholders at best.

Fast travel should state: Requires 1 action point and all remaining movement points. Not: Requires 1 Action Point ( plus other costs where applicable )

Small things like that make a huge difference 

Other gripes:

Given that their questline is reliant on having Alchemists furnace, why the hell have you not included it? Especially over Search party or Topography? I get that it's important not to 'over-twink' presets but I think it's silly not to give them a starting tech that is essential to their questline is just flat a out, brain dead stupid decision. I still don't like it but I agree with JoJo. (That it should be a choice people have to make)

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

Hello,

sorry that I did not reply to your post sooner. I only got around to checking the modding section of the forum today.

You can already see the output of Fungal Blooms in your city UI:

I do admit that it may not be immediately obvious that you can find it there, as Fungal Blooms are indeed not full City Tiles. That they are not "Exploitations" in the sense it is usually used in game was a design choice, as otherwise Fungal Blooms would have become too strong with all Tile Output improvements, especially given that the Mykara Main Quest rewards a technology that gives you 4 times the FIDS yield on Fungal Blooms (be warned though that this does not show on the map FIDSI overlay).

I will talk to the team about the main output tooltip conflating actual city tiles and fungal blooms, as well as the Teleport tooltip.

That may have been the fear, but that is really not how it plays out. The Mykara are very weak from the beginning, and while other factions get stronger by getting more cities and getting better tile yields, the Mykara are basically left in the dust very early on because they just dont scale. Currently they are reliant on early warfare (while not being strong at it in particular) in order to get some symbiosis effects, and their only strong peaceful play is abusing either their faction governor or the Sisters of Mercy governer trait which lets them spam infinite blooms. The latter mechanic has its own set of problems, and it also limits their governor choice way too much.

Sure, when they somehow reach the lategame, they get a powerful tech. But that's just a bit too late if you play with competent opponents (or AIs...), and by that time, even that tech honestly is more of a catchup mechanic.

Making Tile-Improvements work on Blooms in their respective regions (captial city or overgrown cities)  would be a welcome buff that would also make things less confusing to understand. Trait based bonuses should also work on fungal blooms. This may be OP, but honestly, since we are talking about custom factions here, balance is out of the window anyway. Allowing players who use them to create fun synergies should be more important.

LeaderEnemyBoss wrote:

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

Hello,

sorry that I did not reply to your post sooner. I only got around to checking the modding section of the forum today.

You can already see the output of Fungal Blooms in your city UI:

I do admit that it may not be immediately obvious that you can find it there, as Fungal Blooms are indeed not full City Tiles. That they are not "Exploitations" in the sense it is usually used in game was a design choice, as otherwise Fungal Blooms would have become too strong with all Tile Output improvements, especially given that the Mykara Main Quest rewards a technology that gives you 4 times the FIDS yield on Fungal Blooms (be warned though that this does not show on the map FIDSI overlay).

I will talk to the team about the main output tooltip conflating actual city tiles and fungal blooms, as well as the Teleport tooltip.

That may have been the fear, but that is really not how it plays out. The Mykara are very weak from the beginning, and while other factions get stronger by getting more cities and getting better tile yields, the Mykara are basically left in the dust very early on because they just dont scale. Currently they are reliant on early warfare (while not being strong at it in particular) in order to get some symbiosis effects, and their only strong peaceful play is abusing either their faction governor or the Sisters of Mercy governer trait which lets them spam infinite blooms. The latter mechanic has its own set of problems, and it also limits their governor choice way too much.

Sure, when they somehow reach the lategame, they get a powerful tech. But that's just a bit too late if you play with competent opponents (or AIs...), and by that time, even that tech honestly is more of a catchup mechanic.

Making Tile-Improvements work on Blooms in their respective regions (captial city or overgrown cities)  would be a welcome buff that would also make things less confusing to understand. Trait based bonuses should also work on fungal blooms. This may be OP, but honestly, since we are talking about custom factions here, balance is out of the window anyway. Allowing players who use them to create fun synergies should be more important.

It could be argued that weak late game, strong late game is part of the risk/reward factor of single city races but I do think the mykara suffer from some serious balacing issues.

Perhaps another way to design them could be through politics? Make their blooms give extra bonuses to allies with an open border and vision or something then give them a more of nature / nurture based wincon.

Food for thought

Assimilation reward is very low yes.

I suggested specifics buffs for each assimilation here, and a force truce each time a faction is assimilated (to allow more pacific strategies with Mykara) :

Link.