Some magic site questions
 

I just found a site in a SP game that gives an Enchantment bonus. Am I right that what this means is that if I am standing in the province when I cast a global enchantment, I still have to pay the normal cost, but the bonus is tacked on in the form of "extra gems," making it more difficult to dispel?

Also, I've recently spotted an Inkpot End with a Spy. I've heard these are bad, so I haven't actually taken the province yet. Can anyone tell me what it does? I know there's a list of magic sites out there but its an Excel file which I unfortunately can't use.

Re: Some magic site questions
 

Inkpots spread disease and adds to unrest by 5 every turn. I have no idea what enchantment/conjuration bonuses give, or the math behind it. I'm guessing that you spend less gems when you cast one of those spells from a bonus province, but I don't know what the number means.

Re: Some magic site questions
 

Inkpot end spreads disease (at random, not to every unit in the prov) and causes 5 unrest/turn.

It's just RNG sadism. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

Especially annoying when it appears at a choke point. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Maybe there should be a "shuffle magic sites in province" high level alteration for SP perfectionists?

Magic school bonus sites reduce the number of gems you need to cast spells. There may be cases where the program checks for the normal number first as a requirement, before debiting you the reduced amount.

I'm not sure that you get a bonus for extra gems spent beyond that of saving some portion of the base cost. Excellent question.

It probably should act as you describe, but I don't know that it does.

Rabe the EPA/FEMA reject.

[ May 09, 2004, 18:29: Message edited by: rabelais ]

Re: Some magic site questions
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Happened to me when playing (solo) on the "Land of Io" map. Started in a position with only one neighbour, and in that province, found Inkpot End.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">you can download a free .xls file viewer from microsoft.

However, Last night my machine was responding very poorly, so I checked event viewer and the free MS xls viewer was consuming 98% of my cpu usage...

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Re: Some magic site questions
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">you can download a free .xls file viewer from microsoft.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Really? For linux? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Really? For linux? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I was surprised I didnt have one on my machine. I thought Linux had an eulator/converter for everything.

I did find modules for allowing Perl to read/write xls but then you would have to know perl

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Use OpenOffice 1.1.1. Converts Excel2000 files just fine, at least if they're simple tables.

(Have tested with the Win32 Version only, though.)