Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

Magic Duel still kills you if the enemy mage has a single pick more Astral than you have.

Illithids not costing 75 gp is a good thing. How does Cold 3 differ from Heat 3 for R'lyeh? And at least in Dom I, Cold/Heat 3 cuts down your income of land provinces, and even if you don't need much resources, you will still need money.

I am sorry for any half-asses information, but i am just a very active lurker of Dom II progress...

Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

It never did, not even while bugged. Both mages add 1D6 to their astral skill. The bug made the initiator win always.

Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

Too...much...divine...energy...

And how does 3 Cold differ from 3 Heat for R'lyeh?

Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Because they're better water mages than fire mages?

Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's not very surprising. Because of its irrevocable effect you better had to ensure your own astral supremacy before starting to think about magic duel. Then, if you duelled an astral 3 mage with your astral 4 one you always won because of the bug. And therefore - the duel mechanics still being a mystery at the time - everyone assumed that more astral meant automatic victory. Because of that low astral mages avoided confrontations and in the rare occasions a duel actually happened, the initiator was always the higher skilled mage. One had to test specifically for this to discover the bug.

So (1) I think you're a bit rude, and (2) that should be an incentive for the devs to be more versatile on the inner mechanics of the game - in this case if we players had known about the 1D6, we players wouldn't have been long before suspecting something didn't work as expected in magic duel.

Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Because they're better water mages than fire mages?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Are there some mechanics i am unaware of? Like Water/Fire spells costing more fatigue in Heat/Cold Dominion?

As for MD, it has left deep, deep scars to Dominions.... Void Lord and Shedu being treated like lepers...

[ October 05, 2003, 18:02: Message edited by: Nerfix ]

Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Do yo mean it's fixed since some patch ? Everyone still consider the best Astral mage always win... What's the truth ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Point taken. I apologise if I offended you. I do however think that the cspigs dominions discussions sometimes have a tendency to become a bit dogmatic, and that it is advisable to take some of the conventional wisdom of the newsgroup with a pinch of salt, which the incident above serves to illustrate.

Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Do yo mean it's fixed since some patch ? Everyone still consider the best Astral mage always win... What's the truth ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The truth is that the best astral mage never won automatically, since 1.13 or 1.14 or something it works as intended 1d6+ astral skill, lowest sum dies, I don't recall what happens in ties. Before patch initiator always won.

Who is everyone?

Re: Cthulhu R\'lyeh Wgah\'nagl Fhtagn, Lä! Lä!
 

Ok, but i have a question about Pokectulh...err...Tentacle Boog...I mean, Void Monsters:
Do you summon them or do you get them from a magic site?