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Peter Ebbesen said:
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Cainehill said:
Shouldn't the magic scale of a province affect mage's research, regardless of whether it's friendly dominion, hostile, or neutral?
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[The manual] states that positive scales from non-friendly dominion are not counted for: Order, Productivity, Fortune, Magic. That is, for all except growth and temperature.
Now, whether it should ideally be is a good question. I like it the way it is now, as it does not allow you to capitalise on somebody else's good scales, while forcing you to deal with their bad ones if you have low dominion. It is one of the many things encouraging you to have a strong dominion.
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Well, except for strategies like Gandalf's low dominion, horrible scales stealth plan - taking Drain-3 for instance, and building an isolated sage-center in someone else's dominion.
Also, things like Magic affect everyone in battles (lower/higher magic resistance and spell casting fatigue), so it doesn't seem to make sense that Magic wouldn't have a blanket effect.
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sense that you wouldn't get the benefit of someone else's Order or Productivity or Luck scales - the people's loyalty and diligence is pre-disposed to that Pretender, and luck for them isn't luck for you. (Note however that you _can_ actually reap major benefits from someone else's Order scale in your territory, as I never would have gotten a fortified city from my Chaos-3 scales, but got one from Abysia's Order-Aura when taking them over.)
But either Magic is strong in an area, or it isn't - it affects both sides the same in combat, and it should likewise have an affect on research and whatnot regardless as well. (In the case that made me ask, it's _my_ magic scale anyway, it's just that someone else's dominion has pushed dominion to neutral in the province. Guess I have to exterminate them.
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