
October 29th, 2003, 05:21 AM
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Re: New, trying to get into game-but i am failing
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Originally posted by tkobo:
Are there any tricks to increase my resource production so that i can field more troops ?
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A province can only use half of its full resource level without a fort, so the first thing I'd say is to make sure you have a fort in any province you wish to use as a production center. I usually only do so in special provinces, such as those that'll make an excellent "hardened point" for a border or that feature special troops I'd like to recruit in large numbers.
The main way to increase the resources available to forts is to make sure you've conquered all the provinces around your forts. Fortresses bring in a percentage (equal to their admin value) of the resources in friendly surrounding provinces, which is taken first from the unusable portion of those provinces' resources.
There's also a spell (one unfortunately not available in the demo) that can boost your resources. It's called Riches From Beneath, is a level 6 Enchantment spell, requires power 5+ Earth magic, and has a base cost of 70 Earth gems. It's a global ritual spell that boosts your resource level in each of your provinces based upon the strength of your Dominion in that provicnes.
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Originally posted by tkobo:
Also, what are the green drops in the battle view ? Poison ?
And if so,are they affecting the units they appear over ?
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Yep, poison, and they appear over the units as they take poison damage.
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Originally posted by tkobo:
Is there some way to know what the other effects are in the battle view ?
Like the flash of white light that appears on units ?
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There's no list, but most will tell you what they are if you keep an eye on the upper lefthand corner of the screen. That's where the announcements of who is casting what appear. The corrosponding graphics plays as the announcement of the spell casting appears.
As for the specific white light flahes you mentioned, do you mean the columns of light coming down from above? Like divine spotlights? That's the Banishment spell. I can't think offhand of another spell that uses a white flash, but there are probably several. My brain's a bit tuckered out right now.
After the spell-casting, you can right click on a unit (try hitting space to freeze the action if things are moving too fast to grab the unit) to see a statistics page for it. Lingering spell effects, poisoning, and so forth are shown on this page. (On a side note, you can also right-click on the stats shown on this page to see a breakdown of what is affecting them. Those breakdowns are available outside of combat as well, and are a handy way of finding the hard numbers on how your units are being affected by blessings, a friendly dominion, and so forth.)
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