i never exploit the idols, and theres no rules against playing your general like an assassin, thats not a expoit its a strat, theres alot of arguing on the generals and assassins being to much alike, but in retrospec i dont see anything that they can do to stop people playing there generals like assassins. simply because no player has to play the demigod how someone thinks they should.

I never do the idol exploit.  I've alternated between playing Oak as an assassin and using his minions -- both seem about equally effective in the games I've played.  It's worked out pretty well for me so far, but I might just have gotten lucky. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

EDIT: Frogboy, as I understand it (haven't tried this myself) idol minions don't disappear when the idol is sold and they're only capped per idol level.  So since you get most of the gold back when you sell, you can work your way up or down the idol chains getting 2 minions for each level of idol, for a total of up to 2 * 3 * 4 = 24 minions (limited by how much gold you have to burn, of course).  I'm told it's especially effective with priests, since the different levels heal at different rates.

You pretty much got it down exactly Possibly. And no, I don't see a reason to use this exploit so I don't use it on my generals. It should be fixed regardless, but how effective it really is is up in the air.

You've replied to a topic before that describes it perfectly.  There are a significant number of people, myself included, who do not consider it an exploit.  But basically the limit on minion summons is for each subtype.  As an example, you can summon two monks, sell the monk idol, buy the bishop idol, summon two bishops, sell the bishop idol, do the same thing with the other two priest types, and get 8 healers.  You can do the same thing with archers and minotaurs so you can get 24 minions instead of 6.  The downside is each minion you lose permanently costs you gold because you resold the idol that summoned it.  The whole set is a 3360 gold investment.

Here's another thread on this with more details:

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/346761

its an exploit

it gives a huge unfair advantage to generals

Yes, sinking 3k gold into an army that you can't resummon is a huge unfair advantage.  If you're playing against this, you have to target the minions.  It costs them gold for every minion you kill.  Take out the army or the player, and they'll be way behind you in equipment.  If you can't do AoE, do single damage.  It's not rocket science.

I don't use the exploit, and I play my General like an Assassin, one of the ways they were meant to be played.

I love to see Idolators come down the lanes when I'm playing Regs.

That's what Shrapnel Mines thrown behind the Generals are for.  Gods above and below, it's worth it to cost them 2,500 gold or so.  It's a beautiful sight.   [e digicons]:')[/e]

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whether or not its an exploit or intended behavior is something for Gas Powered to decide, not us. 

i expect any player right now to fully utilize the current behavior for idol summons. if its in the game its fair play in my opinion. 

whether or not it OUGHT TO be in the game is something we can debate (and i'm sure we will). 

my personal opinion is that its not overpowered at all, generals already pay for their minion abilities with worse stats. minions are slightly too weak right now in my opinion so this idol resummoning thing helps out a little bit in giving you a small bit of extra mileage whenever you go to the store. its a net loss of money to do it continously though so you can almost think of it as being a strange variation on a consumable item. 

Its an exploit thats easy to beat if you play smart but no one usually sees it coming. Even without it I still play erebus as an assasin and I always did. Actually... Ive lost more games using the exploit then I did playing erebus as a general assasin.

EDIT: I dont condone it but ladders are getting reset and I dont gain anything out of it. So I am having fun with it while its there and hoping it will get patched.

Umm what does "meant to be played" mean? i always thought they emphasized how much you could customize the demigods however you wanted to... does that mean if we want to make a powerhouse general that wasnt how it was supposed to work?

lol i was semi serious. i mean whenever i watched any vids about the game the thing they always pointed out was how much you can "customize" your demi god. But i see a lot of people saying you shouldnt be able to use your demi god how you want and they should be more limited to being a minion master... i think i would be a lil dissipointed if they took that option away from me =\ sometimes im a total minon commanding general... other times i just wanna go out there and truely feel like i am the power house that leads the little bit of back up that i summon.

I've seen the AI summon multiple minions of different levels.

How can you call it an exploit when the AI does it?