Progress Update - Spell Effects

This week, I wanted to give you an update on how spells have changed within Heart of Muriet.

The spell effect system in Heart of Muriet is similar to world enchantments/curses in Master of Magic:

It makes the wizard gameplay a lot more interesting!

Master of Magic Classic

While combat spells are important, permanent effects on buildings, provinces, players, or the entire map create more interesting strategic situations.

• Introduced new Spell Effect objects attachable to provinces, buildings, squads, players, or the entire map.

• Spell effects are created by spells as summon objects with temporary or permanent (upkeep) duration.

• Spell effects often create Auras at the target object. Auras can hold enchantments, curses, DoTs, raw damage or healing, change province attributes etc.

• Effects are primarily controlled via auras, with allowance for more complex exceptions.

• Effects can require resource upkeep like mana/power or other resources.

• Most effects degrade over time. They degrade/vanish fast when the upkeep is not paid.

• Self created effects can be cancelled anytime.

• Map/empire-wide effects and their time limits are visible on the main screen.

• Province-wide effects appear in the province UI, squad and building effects on their specific UIs.

• Dispel spells can cancel unwanted enemy spell effects from the the map, provinces, squads or buildings

• An overview of all active effects can be found at the empire UI. It allows to jump directly to the object where the effect is applied to.

• Full save/load support.

Here are a few examples of spell effects:

• Flower Bloom - Increases the beauty of the base significantly.

• Beacon of Hope - Increase the safety for the population and the morale for the troops.

Thanks for reading. <3

-Matthias