Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

I couldn't find a topic on that, but there must be one!

One to gather all that small things. Strange, hidden or way too obvious to know. The ones that you find by accident in some small thread on or irc.

So write here them all. I guess small things from manual that get missed should be included too. Just small things though.

Examples:
- Elixir of Life works on Lifeless beings
- mages with only random picks can be built without a lab
- trampling does not give you gems from Sickle Whose Crop is Pain [someone could acutally test what can give them]
- Domes stack
- immobile units cannot use Teleport etc

I am sure that someone has much better examples http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Undead units can catch diseases http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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But don't get penalties from them! Which made them primary candidates for Fever Fetish in Dominions 2. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif However, this was fixed so now undead with FF produce much less gems.

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Changing a mod will retroactively alter ongoing games to match the new settings since it is only an overlay on the game engine, not an actual alteration of the engine.

The various movement bugs.

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If you make a Jotun Herse, Demonbred, Lizard King or Dwarf smith into a prophet, they get a special graphic.

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Click a unit, then click 'S', and you will see all your starving units.

Great for pulling out hungry, low morale guys and sending them to get fed.

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Really? Wow! Too bad I never play those nations...but that's so cool!

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* Mindless beings can receive the feebleminded affliction.
?(wouldn't that be an upgrade)?

* You cannot find blood sites within water provinces, supposedly because the water washes away the blood... ... yet you can find fire sites.
water and fire seem more likely to cancel each other than water and blood

* The game has a commander and unit limitation which are easily encountered on maps of 1000 or more provinces.

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Oracle can. I think that only totally immobile units like Sphinx cannot.

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Right, teleport works, Gateway doesn't. Have to check Astral Travel. Giving Flying items to immobiles gives them mapmove 1 but they still cannot move. Treelords on flying carpets would look nice though.

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Yep. the monolith can as well for sure and I think the statue can. IIRC Only the spinx cannot teleport.

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Longer weapons reduce damage taken from fire shield.
Transformation can turn you into a flying monkey or a big chimera.

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The MA Athemate Dragons also have a prophet special graphic, it is pretty sweet too.

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Helheim death mages gain the reanimate ability if you bring them back from the dead.

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Do you mean the reanimate ability every undead priest gets(all helheim mages except the dwarf are priests after all) or some kind of Helheim special feature(which would be super cool)?

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

All undead and demon priests reanimate. This used to and might still include Demonbred, but that's considered a bug because it doesn't fit the theme of the nation.

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Do you know the best use of the most wonderful holy artifact called "the challice"?

Ironically the death casted undead tartarians drink from it all the time to get rid of all the nasty afflictions!

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Demonbred are no longer demons and demonbred prophets no longer reanimate.

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"Demonbred are no longer demons."

Time for a Demon Maury Povich DNA test show.

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Yeah! How many percent demon one has to be to be labelled demon?

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50%

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Demons are part spirit, part body, while humans are part spirit, part body, part soul. We assume abysians have a soul like humans. We also assume that the soul is singular and impossible to divide.

If we call the spirit 'sd' or 'sh', the body 'bd' or 'bh' and the soul 'S' we would get:

Demon:
sd+sd+bd+bd

Human:
sh+sh+bh+bh+S

Demonbred:
sd+sh+bd+bh+S

Thus a demonbred is 40% demon, and not demon enough to get the demonic tag.

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If you make an anathemant dragon(MA Abysian lvl 3 priest, I think they are called that) into a prophet, he gets a cool hat.

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In that case, Vengeance of the Dead needs a little fixin'. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Lol!

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Aww there goes my "brilliant" explaination of VotD. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Did you know...

that you can remove neighbor connections in the map editor via ctrl+click?
that you can freely scroll the map with the mouse by holding the middle mouse button?
that freshwater provinces give higher income?

Why did I quote from so many JK posts? Why indeed...

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

I can assure you (tested again tonight) that oni demon priests cannot reanimate. The Dai Oni are the only units that can.

e will let you select experienced units.

Lanka's markata scouts are +50!!! stealth. You aren't EVER finding them. Give them bane venom charms.. and the turn they're going to die attack an enemy capitol.

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Atlantian infantry with coral armour easily kill principes.

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You should notice that the Demon priests of Yomi do not have the actual "Demon" tag. So they are human priests who worship demons, not demons themselves. But prophetize a devil commander from Horde from Hell (the devil + 25 imps spell) and he'll reanimate just fine because he is a demon (like the Dai Oni)

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For any single casting of Tartarian Gate, the Tartarian has:

-A 60% chance of possessing SOME Earth magic

-A 31% chance of possessing SOME Death magic
-A 31% chance of possessing SOME Air magic

-A 17% chance of possessing SOME Fire magic
-A 17% chance of possessing SOME Water magic
-A 17% chance of possessing SOME Astral magic
-A 17% chance of possessing SOME Nature magic
-A 17% chance of possessing SOME Blood magic

So, Tartarians are primarily Earth, Death, and Air mages.

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There are four Demon Lords:

Belial (Stealthy, Causes unrest, can corrupt enemy commanders)
Belphegor (Attracts freespawn and blood slaves, Heretic 5)
Buer
Pazuzu (Spreads Disease)

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

You can gain information on your opponents' Pretenders form their titles: number of titles +4 equals their Dominion, and title themselves point at their magic schools and Dominion effects - at least, 3 pints in Order/Turmoil are always reflected, as well as high elemental magic...

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Sure, I know that. But the original post said Oni demon priests can reanimate. They cant.

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I was very surprised to read this and found out that it wasn't true, too. Higher dominion has a higher chance to get titles and to get titles that sound more awesome, but it's not as straight-forward as that.

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Ich: I always thought that you got one title per 2 points of Dominion, rounded down. Also, the titles do seem to reflect the paths the Pretender has. I think, though, that depending on the paths (and levels in those paths) that you take, you don't get all of the titles you are privileged to.

Just one example: a Dominion 10 magic-less Wyrm may not get 5 titles.

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Titles are quite random, I don't think there is any direct link. You can somehow tell something about magic picks, mainly death magic.

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I was thinking it was Dom/2 rounded up, too, but that again is not always right. And comparing with base dominion of the pretender god didn't give any conclusive results as well. Unless I am getting mixed results from the pretender files I have because some of them come from games with CBM enabled.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

It varies a bit, but basically it is dom/2.

Titles are tied to paths (or combination of paths), dominion strength, scales and nations.

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About nations, I didn't see. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
BTW, does "Patron of Warriors" mean something?

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Two lifelong protections on one commander will summon double the devils.

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Imps.

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imps...

No, devils! Seriously! it will summon 0 x 2 devils!

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Soul contract summons devils. Lifelong protection summons imps in combat.

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When you choose your opponents in game creation, 'shift+H' makes all nations human-controlled, 'n' adds in a new nation.

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My God, didn't knew that, thank you Endo. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Same here. This will help tremendously when setting up games by hand, for example games which require mods to be present.

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Yeah. Bring more, people! I will try to find some time [and motivation http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif] to assemble all that wisdom in one post.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

There should be a sticky with all the undocumented key shortcuts...

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They should be in the FAQ perhaps?