[Arryn]

Originally posted by Targa:
You're still confusing the newb in me. How is dominion a scale of 1-10? You stated at the start of your AAR: "With the remaining points we have, I increase Dominion as much as I can (to 5)." How is a 5 a 10?

Now I understand your confusion. In the first few Posts I am doing pretender design. The default starting Dominion level for this pretender was 3. I spent points to raise it to 5. I am sure you are aware that base Dominion can go up to 10, either during god creation by spending design points, or later via temples. The minimum is, of course, 1. Any less and you'd be extinct before you started, so the game won't let you go down to zero (or less). During the creation process, you cannot even drop below the starting level for the type of pretender you chose. That is, drop from say 3 down to 2 to get more points.

Unless you're equating 1-10 with 10%-100% (like "how would you rate this on a scale of 1-10"). Or, if you're talking about 10 being MAX dominion, then I just missed the part where you built enough temples to raise your dominion from 5 to 10.

Later on, once the game actually started (Turns 1+), I refer to province dominion in terms of %, so that a level of 1 is equal to 10%. It's poetic license on my part to thematically justify dominion in terms of how much of the populace has been converted over to worshipping my god. It presumes that a level of 10, the max, would be 100% of the population. I hope that clears things up for you (and anyone else).

Keep up the great work!

Thanks!

And my apologies to Condors for hijacking *his* AAR thread with explanations about mine.