How much do devils reduce your dominion?
 

I have never gone for blood magic because someone said devils reduce your dominion. How does this exactly work? How much of a reduction are we talking about?

Re: How much do devils reduce your dominion?
 

I am unaware of any dominion reducing effects of "devils".

Go ahead and summon away. Devils are great.

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One of the demon lords does, but he is the only one, and he reduces all dominions in the province, not just yours, so it's useful to supress enemy dominions as well.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No wonder seriously religous folks find games like Dominions disturbing.
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Cheers

Keir

[ December 05, 2003, 01:32: Message edited by: Keir Maxwell ]

Re: How much do devils reduce your dominion?
 

I don't want to start an offtopic religion thread, but I'll venture to comment with the generalization that religious people seem to have more trouble separating fiction from reality than most folks.

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>No wonder seriously religous folks find games like Dominions disturbing.


I sacrificed two slaves to Illwinter but the game still cost me full price. What did I do wrong? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, there was one of those funny people in the strategy games forum who, I think, decided not to buy the game because it might have blood sacrifices. Whereas if it was just people chopping each other's limbs off with bloody axes (rather than ceremonial daggers) it would have been fine http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Careful your blanket statements don't snag the devs (particularly Kristoffer, I imagine). Dominions was spawned into reality using them as a conduit... and if you locked them in a cell, shone a light in their eyes, and asked tough questions in quick succession, like this... "Tell me whether the following are real or imaginary: Wolf. Bear. Lion. Summer Lion. Wraith. Composite Bow. Vision's Foe. Scale Mail. Ice Armor. Vine. Ogre. Vine Ogre."

...I'm not convinced they'd get too many right=)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Doesnt the description say they have to be virgins? You telling me that you found 2 virgins willing to be sacrificed and you gave them to Illwinter?

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>You telling me that you found 2 virgins willing to be sacrificed and ...

They have to be willing... dang! That's a tall order.

I'll have to go back to less evil pursuits... like summoning creatures through my void gate. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hey, I'm quite aware that this is dangerous ground...

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I suspect your problem was only using 2 virgin sacrifices. As you may note, Illwinter requires 120 sacrifices. Try doing the full 120 virgin sacrifice and then tell us if it works. You might need help sacrificing 120 people though...just remember, blood sacrifice can be fun for the whole family! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: How much do devils reduce your dominion?
 

Problem with the U.S. is you probably don't have 120 Virgins in the entire place. At least virgin girls. ;P

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The Illwinter ritual costs 120 blood slaves. Two is just not enough. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

* Edit: hmm, I should read the whole thread before posting. *

[ December 05, 2003, 15:49: Message edited by: Kristoffer O ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm just catching up on back Posts. Don't mind me...

I probably qualify as 'seriously religious', being an evangelical protestant, and I find few things about Dominions 'disturbing' in an 'I'm not going to let my child play this' context (not to mention the fact he's only eighteen months old). It's an amalgamation of mythological-style characters and cultural prostheses. Of course it's gonna have devils and blood sacrifices. The most disturbing thing to me is the entire 'pretender' concept, but since it's based on an entirely mythical setting (and an extremely good gaming engine to boot) it doesn't provoke my religious fervor. That sort of moral quandary comes more from things like paint-by-numbers Holocausts or somesuch nonsense. It's like saying that Lord of the Rings promotes the occult, or something.

Just two cents. Ignore as desired.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm just catching up on back Posts. Don't mind me...

or somesuch nonsense. It's like saying that Lord of the Rings promotes the occult, or something.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Oh no, in the LotR newsGroups its that it promotes racism which is the Casian Barbecue (way too flamed to even be funny anymore)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Now I realize humor when I see it, but come on... first you'll need to qualify virginity, as in when do you become a virgin, cuz if you're born one, your insinuation is well, sicker than usual http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

If you only apply virginity to the age where you become fertile (or a woman or whatever...) then you're probably right... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I live in Las Vegas. Virginity is like a Multi-million Jackpot. You hear about it, see it advertised and you know that someone has to win it sometime out there. But you don't like the odds.

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Re: How much do devils reduce your dominion?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">So that's it! No wonder you Posts are weird: You're a Starspawn priest (with random pick in Blood Magic). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif The otherworldy intelligence(?) not mixing with us non-tentacled beings of this miserable rock and all that... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif Then again, you might just be very stupid and brave (and feebleminded in just a few seasons).

Void Gate really gets to you. But you might get a nice pet on your kitchen table - that Thing with Many Eyes, to stare away non-wanted guests. I know I'd like that.

- Humer
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