Coinforge

[Devourer of Worlds]

Opinions please.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong but this thing seems to be doing nothing for me.
Have any of you had luck with if?
Thanks

[Cougarific]

Meh.

Some people love it - I think there are usually better uses for that much floor space.

[Grey Star, The Rival Defender]

Use extra damage upgrade.

Surround with damage traps. Scorchers, archers, pounders, etc.

Something with orcs but I forget.

Profit.

[Lamps]

Fairly usless. They work well if one of the orc entry points has a long run to the rift, throw down a coinforge and some wall traps and leave that space unmanned, you will generate some extra coin.

[Robodemon]

Depends on the stage, but most of you are ignoring the exponential nature of the coinforge. Fully upgraded, enemies give 50 to 100% more money and take around 20% more damage while standing on them. Plus, they basically cost nothing.

Building a killzone or two around a coinforge can easily lead to you having more money than you know what to do with.

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by Robodemon:

Building a killzone or two around a coinforge...

OMD2's best feature is that there is no *one right way* to do anything, so I'm not disagreeing with anyone who likes to use it.

Just to point out that building "around a coinforge" is what I don't like about it. I like to build a killbox - "box" as in floor, wall and ceiling traps all working together to kill much orc.

Doing that with a Coinforge requires very specific parameters in terms of finding areas that will support that big thing *and* have walls contributing to the damage *and* a ceiling contributing to the damage (Robodemon started out with "Depends on the stage" - very true).

If you have a Coinforge layout that works on a specific map - go kick some orc butt! But with a limited number of slots on my Toolbar, I find the Coinforge just limits your floor-trap-flexibility a bit.

[Robodemon]

Which is fair enough, really! I just disagreed with the people discounting entirely, because caveats aside there ARE quite the benefits to using it. But as you've said, to each their own.

[Wyatan]

Decoys, Scorchers, Guardians, Boom Barrels... all combine pretty well with a Coinforge setup, even without suitable walls or ceilings.
There was a time the Coinforge was considered a staple element of Endless runs.

Too bad it doesn't yield a combo point. Without it, it's useless for high scoring. I suppose Robot considered it would have been "OP" (although its size limiting the killbox locations seems pretty balanced to me). Or it's simply a bug that was never fixed. The Grinder provided no combo point at first (fixed), neither did the Dwarven Missile Launcher (was never fixed).

[Robodemon]

People care about score in this game? That's news to me.

[Wyatan]

Yeah, there was a small but active community about that aspect of the game.

Kinda culminated when I broke Passages:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x199t8n_omd2-warmage-passages-61-5m_videogames

Which led d2dota and Kholdy to pass the 1 billion mark, legit:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a3b6r_1b-passages-coop-endless_videogames

That community's now dead indeed, although Kholdy's been posting new record and impressive scores recently.

[Robodemon]

Huh, interesting stuff. Not my cup of tea, but I see the appeal. Thanks for the links.