Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Tested a bit more. Even 15% innate bonus on a mage is enough. This means Taimai elders and LA Ulm Black priests can also make free items if they have luck to find construction bonus site. Sounds evil.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Well, in practice generally 1 gem with no hammer is better than no gems with a hammer by the point of the game you're putting up forge of the ancients, etc.

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The point isn't so much that you can get free items, but that it's possible to exceed the 80% cost reduction cap, which I had previously thought was a hard limit. As I mentioned, with the same set of bonuses they forge 40-gem items for 6.

I suspect that the key is pushing the bonus to 80% before the site bonus is factored in, and then the site bonus ends up pushing it beyond 80% reduction (and truncating, so items costing fractional gems are free).

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

I've never heard of an "80% cost reduction cap" (except in GURPS) before. The algorithm is pretty simple: if there's Forge of the Ancients up, halve cost and round down. Then apply your forge bonus and round down again. And yes, you can forge cheap items for free with a large enough bonus, although in practice it's probably better to forge an expensive item for really cheap.

-Max

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Now you can see that fighting in void has its penalties:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/Zeldor/void.jpg

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Interesting.. how did you get that.. I don't think R. suffers that.

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but void beings don't get it I guess?

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Battle for guy Lost in time and space.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Fire Plate (at least in CBM) adds 2 to morale but never mentions that in its description.

I certainly didn't. Sorry if it's been mentioned already.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

The R'lyeh Visitor hero can fly from one water province to another. Even when sea of ice is up.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

morale +2 for fireplate is in the manual

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But not in the item description. I only ever checked the manual for magic item descriptions early, now I vaguely remember and use the game when they show up.

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Cold resistance does NOT negate the encumbrance penalty of coldblooded creatures in cold climate, only the extreme cold penalty (+2 enc).

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If you make a prophet out of a Warlord(EA at least) He gets a new graphic as well as superior weapons. Goes from 2 axes to 2 battleaxes

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thats interesting, i knew that the graphic often changes, but i did not know that their actual gear ever changed.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Every time the graphic changes, the unit type has changed. There is a list somewhere. Search for the term "prophet form".

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

its quite an old post, i wonder wether there is a list of these "undocumented", rarely known shortcuts (for instance the shift+u on the battle screen and such).

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

[quote=Edi;691943][quote=Frozen Lama;691854]It's probably on the Board somewhere, but it's sadly not in the Dom3Wiki, atleast under that term.

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Good News:
I got a province with two sites that reduced magic costs in the same category (50% Conjuration, and 20% Conjuration)

Bad News:
They don't stack. Only got the 50% reduction

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

AoE made a nice thread about the prophet-form-changes a couple years ago:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=40553

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Apparently, there is something similar for non-cold-blooded creature : I made a SP game with Caelum and a Virtue recently and she was still suffering from higher encumbrance after I put a ring of CR on her (although it was not listed in the encumbrance field anymore). I can't remember if base encumbrance was still one, but melee and spellcasting encumbrance were 3 without any other gear or any affliction.