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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As long as it was stealthy... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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The Farm of Onion. "Fragrant, Sweet, Delicious and...atishooooooo!"
Level: Air 2

Entering the site gives the commander and all his followers a 50% chance heal they disease.
15% his troops will plagued by "Fright" -- Morale-4.(oh,not a battle fright...we may call it 'onion fright' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif )
This site also provides 50 food supplies.

[ January 14, 2004, 06:56: Message edited by: void ]

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New Magic Site:
Library of Elemental Magic
"Enter to Study Magic"
Level: Fire 3 (Ideally, L-3 in any elemental path)

Any mage may enter. Every turn studying gives a slight chance of raising the mage's level in each elemental path, equal to 2.5/(empowerment cost). So, for example, a 0-Earth 1-Air 2-Fire 3-Water mage studying would have (each turn) a 5% chance of boosting Earth by 1, 8.3% for Air, 5.6% chance for Fire, and 4.2% for Water, and gain roughly .23 magic skill per turn. A theoretical level 4,4,4,4 mage would advance at a much slower .13/turn, or about 7.5 turns per advance (he'd have much better things to do).


New Magic Site:
Library of Sorcery
"Enter to Study Magic"
Level: Death 3 (Ideally, L-3 in any elemental path)

Any mage may enter. Every turn studying gives a slight chance of raising the mage's level in each sorcery path, equal to 2.5/(empowerment cost). So, for example, a 0-Astral 1-Nature 2-Death 3-Blood mage studying would have (each turn) a 5% chance of boosting Astral by 1, 8.3% for Nature, 5.6% chance for Death, and 4.2% for Blood, and gain roughly .23 magic skill per turn. A theoretical level 4,4,4,4 mage would advance at a much slower .13/turn, or about 7.5 turns per advance (he'd have much better things to do).


New Magic Site:
Great Library
Level: Astral 0

Provides a free lab.
Decreases unrest by 5.

Mages flock to the great library to peruse the unique tomes. Any mage researching in this province gets a +3 research bonus, independant of the drain scale. However, not all ancient secrets are meant to be learned, and there is a slight risk (8%) of becoming horror-marked while studying... Also, mages like their peace and quiet, and have been known to turn local agitators into frogs, which reduces unrest somewhat.

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Saber...have you got these magic sites already done up? If so, where can i get them?

Thanks

Chris

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Sorry, no site modding yet http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

This thread is just a compilation of what I plan to add when it is possible. However:

1) Some of it will never be possible unless the stuff is explicitly supported in the game code, at which point it really wouldn't be a 3rd party mod anymore.
2) Illwinter is more than welcome to snag anything in this thread and add it (or support for it) to Dominions II http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

-Cherry

P.S. More alterations:

Satyrs get 2 natural protection.

Celestial Warriors changed from AAS to AWS.

Full Scale Mail gets +1 def (to -2). It's REALLY bad otherwise.
TC Full Leather Armor units get Full Linen Armor. Stats:
name=Full_Leather_Armor aprot=6 def=-1 enc=1 res=3
name=Full_Linen_Armor aprot=6 enc=1 res=4 new=1

Vanheim Fay Boar made sacred. Does anyone actually use them? There's no reason they should demand so much gold=)

Lorica Segmentata increased from 10 resources to 11 resources.

Ctis Falchioneer given ambidextrous 3, not 2.

Thoughts:
Should Ulm be given +1 strength?
Should Ulm Sappers get +1 HP?

[ January 16, 2004, 20:14: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Three paths not possible.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Three paths not possible. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Awww=( Maybe I should give Celestial Masters 2 randoms... or a random and an elemental random... and reduce water by 1. I'm not really sure why they have water anyway.

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The Celestial Masters are based upon the taoistic T'ien Shih (celestial masters), leaders of the taoistic cult during certain times. An important concept in taoism is wu wei (inaction/not doing).

Water being yielding and changing is the closest representation of wu wei I could come up with.

Also water, according to Lao Tzu, is 'of all things most yielding and can overwhelm [rock] which is of all things most hard' (43)

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Uhm, why not just change the 2 Air Req to 2 Water? As that is the closest representation you could find, and the Astral is "Celestial"?

Or maybe change it to "Holy 3" ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif This would limit it *Only* to CM's, no pretenders or anything could summon the Soldiers.

Just a few thoughts.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I doubt holy can be a requirement...
Anyway- I think I'll change it to 1 air, 1 astral. I would go 1 air, 2 water, but I think that would force water gems to be used when casting.

Additional change:

Vanheim: All Vanheim troops get 25% cold resistance. They should have learned how to dress warmly, and evolved higher metabolisms, and so forth...

Atlantis:
Additional unit, "Shark Warrior".
Base: Atlantian, Weapon: Sharktooth Mace, Equipment: Sharkskin Armor, Turtle Shell Shield

Sharktooth Mace: A mace carved from the jawbone of a large shark, retaining the rows of razor-sharp teeth.
dam=5 att=1 res=3 (no poison damage)

Sharkskin Hauberk: A hauberk made from the rough hide of a large shark.
aprot=5 enc=1 res=3

Machaka: Added "Machaka Raider".
Base unit: Machakan Raider (Same stats as a Machakan, except: stealthy, 13 base AP, 11 morale, 11 gold)
Equipment: Spear, Shortbow, Hide Shield

Added "Raiding Party Leader"
Base Unit: Same as Machaka Raider, but 25 gold, 10 leadership, and +1 att, def, mrl, and stealthy 5.
Equipment: Same as Raider.

Details:

C:\Projects\Java\Dominions>java Unit at.shark.warrior mac.raider mac.raiding.par
ty.leader

New Unit:
AT Shark Warrior (Base creature: Atlantian)

HP: 12 Str: 11
Prot: 9 Att: 10
Mrl: 10 Def: 11
Mrst: 10 Prec: 8
Enc: 5 AP: 8

Weapons: Sharktooth Mace
Items: Sharkskin Hauberk, Turtle Shell Shield

Gold: 10 Res: 7

*********************************

New Unit:
MAC Raider (Base creature: MAC Raider)

HP: 10 Str: 10
Prot: 2 Att: 10
Mrl: 11 Def: 12
Mrst: 10 Prec: 10
Enc: 3 AP: 12

Stealthy 0

Weapons: Spear, Short Bow
Items: Hide Shield

Gold: 11 Res: 5

*********************************

New Unit:
MAC Raiding Party Leader (Base creature: MAC Raiding Party Leader)

HP: 10 Str: 10
Prot: 2 Att: 11
Mrl: 12 Def: 13
Mrst: 10 Prec: 10
Enc: 3 AP: 12

Stealthy 5

Weapons: Spear, Short Bow
Items: Hide Shield

Gold: 25 Res: 5

*********************************

C:\Projects\Java\Dominions>java Weapon Sharktooth.mace

Weapon 'Sharktooth Mace'
dam=5, hits=1, att=1, length=1, hands=1, res=3
new=1


C:\Projects\Java\Dominions>java Item sharkskin.cuirass sharkskin.hauberk full.sh
arkskin.armor

Item 'Sharkskin Cuirass'
aprot=4, res=2
new=1

Item 'Sharkskin Hauberk'
aprot=5, enc=1, res=3
new=1

Item 'Full Sharkskin Armor'
aprot=7, def=-1, enc=2, res=5
new=1

P.S.

Unarmored satyrs: Need to be cheaper. I'll adjust all satyr costs - maybe 7 gold minimum. Harpies may need cheapening too, but probably not.

[ January 18, 2004, 17:58: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]