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Old January 22nd, 2004, 06:07 PM

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Default Re: Dominions II Bug Thread

Perhaps not exactly a "bug", per se, but very annoying none the less:

My Pretender was killed, so I set all my priests to "call God". Apparently, an enemy AI had an assassin in one of my provinces, and ordered him to "kill commander" on that turn. Well, on that particular turn is when my Pretender happened to reappear (it just so happens he reappeared in the province with the enemy assassin), so when I Hosted, even though I was "Godless" when I pressed the button, I got the message the my Pretender was the victim of an assassination!

ie: The game AI "processed" my turn, NOT simultaneously, but FIRST (bringing back my God), and THEN gave the assassinate command to the enemy AI.

When an assassin is given an order to assassinate (or anyone is given an order that might follow this rule), the order should "link" to the current commander, as in Medieval: Total War game. ie: "John Smith" is my commander in province X. The enemy assassin is given the order to "assassinate commander". The game should now link him to "Kill John Smith". If I move my commander to a different province on that turn, the assassin should either take no action (missed opportunity), or follow him to whatever province he went to (if possible).

But the real problem is not HOW it's done (as in above paragraph), but the fact that MY orders executed first (bring back God), and THEN the computer AI made its move. It's SUPPOSED to be simultaneous. If that particular province had been empty of my troops (the province my pretender appeared in), the assassin wouldn't have even been able to receive that type of order. Follow what I'm saying?

Let's say your assassin is in an enemy province that contains a few archers and a Druid commander and you think, "OK, my assassin can handle taking out a Druid", so you give him the order to assassinate. BUT, on that same turn, an enemy AI moves their Pretender-God into that same province. The way the game is currently set up, the assassin tries to kill the highest-ranking individual in that province, AFTER all moves are made. So now he'll try to kill the enemy pretender, when that's clearly NOT the order you gave him. See?
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