Starting a mod, need advice.
 

1) When selecting freespawn for a nation, can you pick randomly which ones you get? I'd like to get some Foul Spawn, but I don't want them to all be the same type. If I just use the name rather than the ID, will it pick randomly?

2) Can a magic site produce blood slaves?

3) Is it possible to make a magic weapon produce blood slaves on hit, similar to the Sickle whose Crop is Pain? How will that work in battle?

4) Finally, is it possible to make a battlefield spell to summon blood slaves?

Re: Starting a mod, need advice.
 

1) I don't understand how you're planning on getting these free spawn in the first place, let alone choosing what they are.

2) Yes.

3) No.

4) Good question. Yes you can make a battlefield summon of slaves, but I doubt they'd be usable as a magic resource like slaves generally are.

Re: Starting a mod, need advice.
 

1) I don't think that'll be possible

4) That sounds like an interesting idea, chances are they won't work as magical resources but you should test it out yourself and find out for sure.

Re: Starting a mod, need advice.
 

Regarding effects that weapons can produce on hit, you are limited to otehr weapons (whether already existing or new ones you've modded in). The #secondaryeffect and #secondaryeffectalways work as #secondaryeffect <effect nbr> where the effect is the id number of another weapon.

Re: Starting a mod, need advice.
 

You can't make a nation's dominions spawn free critters, but you can make a creature spawn units in various ways. I don't remember how it worked, exactly, but I think there are commands for:

- summoning units based on your dominion strength in the province, similar to Vampire Queen/vampires, Ghost King/ghosts etc

- automatically summoning few units of a spesific type every turn

- automatically summoning few units of a spesific type at the start of battle, at least if you use custom spells. It probably isn't possible to make cross-breeding a battle-spell.

- spending a turn to summon few creatures of a spesific type

Most of these can be combined with each other, but IIRC you can have only one of the three types of domsummon on the same unit.

These can be combined to summon 2-3 different types of creatures.

Re: Starting a mod, need advice.
 

Ah. That's what I meant. I wanted to make a Freak Master for my new nation who basically auto-casted Crossbreeding every turn. Looks like i'll just have to stick with Perfected Crossbreeding (300+ foul spawn!).

Re: Starting a mod, need advice.
 

you can also try to make a balanced mod http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Re: Starting a mod, need advice.
 

> You can't make a nation's dominions spawn free critters

That would be really cool if they could add that to the modding commands though.

Re: Starting a mod, need advice.
 

I agree http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

In addition to magic sites with recruitable independent units/commanders <3.

Re: Starting a mod, need advice.
 

Can't you? What about LA Ermor? Or is that tied to temples or something? I played a quick game as them and I had 3000 undead in my capital by turn 30, without any priests reanimating or similar. Plus, they were all of varying types.. or is that just an inherent ability of longdead that they vary?