Esoteric Roman v. Greek Ranting (was Philosophers)
 

Has anyone else noticed that Philosophers are not effected by Drain scale? I was playing around with some game settings and just happened to pick EA Arco. Recruited some philosophers and noticed that they had a full 5rp even in the drain-3 dominion of my cap. Moved one out to a province where I had 0-drain and he still had 5rp.

Re: Philosophers + Drain
 

They are affected by drain. You must of had sloth in the province which gives bonus that was off setting your drain.

Re: Philosophers + Drain
 

Uhhh... what? Sloth has no effect on magic scale. Unless there is some wierd bug I have never heard of.

I'm quite certain that Philosophers were immune to Drain. All my other mages had 1-3rps because they were losing it all to drain. But my Philosophers had their regular 5rp. I have a feeling it has to do with the fact that Philosophers have RP but no magic paths. Perhaps you must have a magic path in order for Drain to effect you?

Re: Philosophers + Drain
 

Yeah Philosophers get the sloth bonus added to their RP. So if you take sloth 3 and magic 3, they have a RP of 10. Not bad for 50 gold.

Re: Philosophers + Drain
 

Philosophers get one additional RP per sloth scale. For example, magic-3 sloth-2 philosophers have whopping 9 RPs. Which is a lot for 50 gp unit. Don't know what (if anything) you could pull off with them, but there's gotta be something weird.

Edit: Ninja'ed by awesomeness. Could be worse.

Re: Philosophers + Drain
 

It is a peculiarity of Philosophers that they get a research bonus in a sloth dominion.

I guess if they don't have to work, they've got more time to loll around on couches eating grapes and having insights into the nature of the universe.

Re: Philosophers + Drain
 

Read the nation description for EA Arco. I think they have a unit that gets a bonus from sloth and ignores the effects of drain scale.

Re: Philosophers + Drain
 

You call Blade Wind "insights into the nature of the universe"? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Re: Philosophers + Drain
 

Of course not, Blade Wind is merely a mildly interesting side effect of a more fundamental aspect of the nature of Earth that happened to get mentioned to a more practical Mystic.
Hardly worth wasting your time thinking about. You'll progress much faster if you stop being distracted by all these flashy effects.

Re: Philosophers + Drain
 

Well well! Learn something new every day. I'm surprised that my philosopher still had 5rp when I moved him out into other provinces, but of course I wasnt even bothered to look at sloth scales. Wierd!