Strange Dominions 1 bug

Endoperez · #1 February 14th, 2004, 05:10 PM

I discovered a bug in Dominions 1, or then a very wonderful feature.
In short: I killed Orokestes the Hero of Arcoschepale and a devil named Orokestes (with magics and magic items the now-dead Orokestes the Eunuch had while alive) appeared in my fortress (with no special message).

I had just given the Soul Contract that should give out devils every turn, but this is something new! Orokestes was killed by some wolves, so it's not a special attack of a cross-bred or anything, and although he had Ritual of Returning on I haven't researched enough for Charm or Helbind Heart. Also, the sneaking army of druid and his vinemen were found on Arcoschepale, where they had apparently been hiding in there for few turns. I had seen the message few turns ago.

What would this have been like in a MP-game!

I got all the magics I didn�t have in one big whoop!

I'm eager to see what happens if I ever manage to kill that Manticore Vanheim has in the game: 4 Earth, 5 Astral, 2 Air, and Last time I saw him he cast Immortality and atleast one of the two Astral protections... I attacked Arco because I didn't understand that the monster was the pretender of Vanheim, and had TELEPORTED into my area! I love this game, even if I will abandon it just as quickly as I can get my hands on DomII.

Gandalf Parker · #2 February 14th, 2004, 06:28 PM

Are you the guy still shopping thru the nightly run of Dominions 1 maps? Im thinking of turning that night-job off since the automatic runs for Dom2 is starting to creep up on my systems CPU use.

Endoperez · #3 February 14th, 2004, 06:52 PM

No, I don't think I have tried more than few of those ever. Now that you reminded me about them, do you still have that "Poke in the Eye" -style madness map in there? That is osmething I would like to try...

Gandalf Parker · #4 February 14th, 2004, 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by Endoperez:
No, I don't think I have tried more than few of those ever. Now that you reminded me about them, do you still have that "Poke in the Eye" -style madness map in there? That is osmething I would like to try...

Sure. http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion/
I dont remember all of them but I think that BigFun, BlindLuck, FastStart, GoAround are all for Dom1

Endoperez · #5 February 14th, 2004, 07:08 PM

Got them. Thanks!

PvK · #6 February 14th, 2004, 08:03 PM

That bug (?) is a rather cool idea for a spell. If you cast the spell and then kill a foe on the same turn, he gets resurrected on your side. Actually, now that I think of my arsenal in one of my Dominions II games, there is an item that does this, though as a local undead rather than as a demon at home.

Well, and with the current limits on undead, I'm not sure that you end up with a heroes magic or items - you may just get a soulless or something.

PvK

[ February 14, 2004, 18:04: Message edited by: PvK ]