30 hours on it, my thoughts
It's a very fun game, i really enjoy it, each fight is so stressful and enjoyable, like it
So, i've made a first game with permanent death. Progression is to hard. i've played 6 seasons and made it from league 7 to league 5. I'had the chance to recruit a terminator at auction, so he litterally carry the team ( league 7 to 5 ). After that i put him as coach and it was the beginning of the nightmare. My team without him was a bunch of bisounours.
You have to know that every gladiator has to reach 100 STR, 100 END, 100 AGI, 95 VIT, by training or combat. So it take time, but you can boost with a coach. But your coach has to be 100 x 3 stats + 95 vit because if your coach, as an exemple has 50 STR, you can only boost another gladiator to 50 STR, then STR will evolve naturally, but can't being boosted anymore, caped by coach stats. So ideally your coach has to reach the max stats, and develop specifics stats with time or natural born stat that can be transmitted to others.
That's why i put my Maxiumus Decimus as coach, and also because i was afraid that he might die and it was the end of the game. Each death mean new recuit and need to much time train stats at decent level.
Realize that you start League 7, permanent death is really to hard.
So i've made a new game with ajusting permanent death with injured gladiator.
Exactly like the previous game, i had an OP gladiator at auction in the 2 firsts seaons, and i've made to jump from league 7 to league 5. Then i build a team on purpose to have 100 STR, 100 END, 100 AGI, 65 VIT for all of them. But at my 4th season on league 5, i started to chain lose ( previous seaons where mid win, mid lose, finished middle ranking each time ) and i start to look at other teams. All their gladiator had reach some 450 / 600 of FAM.
What is FAM ? Each time your gladiator win a match, he gain some points of FAM wich represent his reputation. And in this game, money is earnned like this :
Each Match ad a win prize and a lose prize. In League 5, it's 300 for a win, 200 for a lose BUT yuo have to add to this the FAM of your gladiatoirs wich make completely explose your earning.
For example, my best FAM glad, who is with me for 8 seasons now, has reach a total of 298 FAM, wich mean if he's on the team, you had 298 + 300 if win or 298 + 200 if lost.
At this point, win or lose mean nothing, everything depend on the glad FAM to earn money
And now, each team i fight has their glad at 400 / 600 FAM while my champ have 298, game is ripped.
Some advices,
Developp your Ludus camp training at max to increase from 1 to 5 week progression to 1 to 25.
Developp the scout on your Ludus. Each develeppement will give you more chance to have a strong gladiator.
How to choose your glad ? Don't look at STR, END, etc because all this will be maximized with time, you have to look at HP et DMG. These are the naturally stats of their talents.
For example, i've developp my scouting around... 5 times maybe, and now i have at auction some guys with 700 HP and 80 DMG while the usual proposition is a 400 HP 55 DMG.
But with this, you start from nothing because you yave to train him to max stats and AND the worst... He have no FAM, so no money before looooong time
Actually the game is fun, but i don't know how you can reach League 1 without playing 4000 hours. Progression is really to long
Hope my english will be understandable, from baguette, croissant with love
