My God died.
 

I was going to win the game on the next turn. When my God was killed by Horrors. The other guy was declared the winner.

My God was down like -9399 hit points.

I was not able to resurect because why?

Was it too many negative hit points?

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odd

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What did the "lost the game" message tell you? It always tells the reason for the loss. Even if you were leading in provinces, you might've had low dominion. When your dominion dies, you aren't even a pretender god any more, and lose.

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I had almost every province and was besieging the last enemy castle. The gates were down and I decided wait a turn to bring up a extra army before taking it.

It may have said I had no lands to bring him back in. I know I went from having 37 out of 40 provinces (10 per god)to none in one turn. The last enemy had only one province and that was being besieged. Then bam God killed by horrors and other guy owns all provinces.

I was realy too angry to the message the way I should have. I knew I should take the castle that turn. I was scared of all the horror marks that God had.

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Do you still have the game directory? That sounds like a bug. Unless it was against a human, of course, and he had been building lots and lots of stealthy forces and your provinces had very weak defence or perhaps even no PD at all.

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No I erased it as a lost game.

It was agaist the computer. Just a small short game. I think it was the God Cyclops as I was using far strike because of his strength.

Dom was 4 or 5. PD was 11 in most provinces.

I have myself half convinced that it read that in the end he had no provinces to come back in.

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Did you build any temples? If your pretender was your sole source of dominion, his death would have triggered a total dominion loss...

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Not true. At first, you start with a temple. Second, you (should) have a prophet who spreads dominion, too. Third, dominion does not vanish into nothing on its own, it has to be pushed away by some others pretender dominion.

Instant dominion death seems rather unlikely in this case, unless he already had black candles all over his provinces ... .

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Random events can lower dominion and destroy temples. If your pretender has a dominion of 1, and is the sole source of dominion then your pretty much guaranteed to lose it if he dies (especially if the only dominion you have is the 1 candle in the province your pretender is in).
Besides which I've noticed the AI suffer instant dominion loss a couple of times when they lost their pretender. Not sure if this is a bug or not - it appears to occur with pretenders who have a low dominion score (or low dominion presence).

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Winner should only have been declared if
A) you have no way to pray your god back. No priests, no temples, no dominion for him to return to.

or

B) the other player gained enough victory points on that turn. Thats only if the game was created as a victory point game

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Not having priests or temples is not necessarily fatal. You can always appoint a prophet. You may have to wait, but that shouldn't end the game.

You could also get a military or victory point victory even with the god dead.

No dominion is, of course, fatal, whether the god is alive or not.

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This is either a bug or a fabrication. The death of your god means little else except the loss of a powerful unit and the temple checks he provides. This isn't Total Annihilation. The death of your god has little to no effect on the strength of the dominion in 37 provinces over one turn.

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I would have thought it would only happen if dominion was reduced to zero or you lost all of your provinces. After all, you can always build temples and recruit priests as long as you control at least one province.

Looking at the AI problem, I think it's similar to the implosion problem already reported with imprisoned/dormant pretenders. It looks as if the AI is taking a low dominion pretender and not increasing it beyond the initial dominion. It's then getting wiped out when someone lays siege to it's capital and slays it's pretender.

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Make that one province with recruitable priests and a temple in it.

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Actually you can almost always get a priest, either you have a prophet or you can recruit a commander and (possibly after a wait if your previous prophet just died) prophetise him.

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Now I feel stupid for not saving the game.

I had thought it was the massive negative hit points that did it at the time. He had 10 or 12 horror marks due to 2 battles right before it happened. His hit points were so massively negative I thought it was a computer glitch at first.

I jumped to the conclusion that he had been damaged past recall and did not read the end game message very well. I did not mind loosing him much. But I was mad because I would have won without him as he was pretty useless.

I think I had a prophet and I am not sure if I had more than the starting temple. I usualy build a couple for cheap extra priests. I just don't remember. It was one of my first games when I got the disk.

There were no province battles that round.

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Are you sure you lost?

Maybe you dominion killed your opponent?

If you just skimmed the message, having just seen your god die, could you have misread it?

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I think thejeff is right. It makes more sense here to assume you actually won. You wouldn't need to take his castle either, just his dominion.

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Now I realy feel like a idiot.

You might be right. It was late, I was tired and I was so disgusted I just quit. Then erased it the next day.

Having read these forums for the last few days I can understand what you are saying. I had never heard of winning by dominion at that time.

You reasoning makes total sense. It was the first game I had played to the end. I could see me making such a error.

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At least you can be happy you won.