[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by LintMan:
Nice. I had been thinking of some things along the same line. One idea I had that might fit in with this (or work independently) is if each spell had some checkboxes or some "radio button" options to select the spell priority. So for every spell, you could select how often a spell should be used. ie:

• Never (Never ever cast this spell!)
• Once (Cast this spell once at most)
• Sometimes (Use spell occasionally)
• Frequently (Use spell frequently)

Hmmmm the more a person flags his spells the longer it would take the machine to figure out what spell would be cast. It also would feel like its moving too much toward full control of the battle rather than a gods giving general orders.

OK I will toss in my own variation. A 10 point priority system. If all spells have a rating of 5 then you get to set certain spells as higher or lower, but only a small set. You can set a spell at 6, or 7, or 8 but only one spell in each slot. You cant assign 6 to 3 different spells. That would be easier on the code, and would give a feel of "my pretender REALLY likes it when I cast this spell" (10) and "my pretender REALLY gets torqued when I cast this spell" (1)