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Kristoffer O

September 4th, 2008 11:22 AM

Re: Fortune Tellers

You might be right. I've never known how it works, and when I have asked JK he has just shrugged and said that he didn't know if it was one way or the other, but that it probably was one check for each :)

Endoperez

September 4th, 2008 11:38 AM

Re: Fortune Tellers

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Originally Posted by konming (Post 636336)

Bad events are NOT checked against each fortune teller. In fact, they are checked against the sum of all fortune tellers in a province. If you have ten fortune teller 10 mages in a province, they will block 100% of all bad events, instead of 65% if the events are checked against individual fortune tellers.

I just tested this myself, and you are right. Thanks for finding this out. It makes fortune tellers much more useful than I thought they were.

Epaminondas

September 4th, 2008 04:58 PM

Re: Fortune Tellers

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Originally Posted by Endoperez (Post 636344)

Quote:

Originally Posted by konming (Post 636336)

I just tested this myself, and you are right. Thanks for finding this out. It makes fortune tellers much more useful than I thought they were.

Yeah, it makes those fortune tellers devastatingly good, and makes going deeply into the negative luck scale an option.

Dedas

September 5th, 2008 03:06 AM

Re: Fortune Tellers

This is excellent news for me. Time to rethink some of my pretender designs... :)

Kristoffer O

September 5th, 2008 09:34 AM

Re: Fortune Tellers

Sounds quite powerful.

Makes misfortune attractive. Good you can't have that many fortune tellers early on when it matters the most :)

Dedas

September 5th, 2008 09:52 AM

Re: Fortune Tellers

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Originally Posted by Kristoffer O (Post 636523)

Sounds quite powerful.

Makes misfortune attractive. Good you can't have that many fortune tellers early on when it matters the most :)

Yes, that is good too... very, eh, good. :)

Tifone

September 5th, 2008 12:47 PM

Re: Fortune Tellers

Wow, a powerful ability indeed if that stacks =)

I think a oracle with some fortunetelling would open a new possibility of getting high misfortune without fearing too much the dreadful bad events at the start ;)

chrispedersen

September 5th, 2008 06:22 PM

Re: Fortune Tellers

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Originally Posted by konming (Post 636336)

I tried to suggest the same thing in other threads.
I think this same principle occurs in many different areas.

For example, if you mod 4 25% chances - the game will sum it to 1 100%.

That being said, I'm playing ashdod in stasis, and I took either a Mis2 or Mis3 scale. I believe 2, as I still wanted to get national heros.

I have built fortune tellers on all castles... and have had maybe 2-3 bad events in the entire game.

That being said, its isn't a viable strategy, even with magic 3. The fortune tellers simply cost too much (at least for ashdod) and tie up build slots to keep your magi research competitive.

VedalkenBear

September 6th, 2008 02:31 PM

Re: Fortune Tellers

Well, I know I use Fortunetellers _with_ Luck scales, to easily and completely avoid any chance of a bad event. (I really hate the bad events.)

Also, Cassandra would have, if anything, 'negative' Fortunetelling. Remember, she was cursed with perfect foresight, but no one would believe her.

Taking Misfortune is a wonderful RP exercise with, say, BF Ulm and their Malediction.

chrispedersen

September 7th, 2008 11:16 AM

Re: Fortune Tellers

ahh, but being a god (even a pretender) you'd be smarter right?

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