Casting Globals when 5 are up

vfb · #1 January 14th, 2009, 10:12 PM

Recently I had a discussion about the situation where there are 5 globals up, at least one of which is your own, and you cast a new global.

The question was whether the new global would randomly overwrite one of the existing globals with equal chances, or whether it would prefer to overwrite one of your own globals.

I have done some testing, and it looks like it just tries to replace any one of the five existing globals with equal chances, regardless of who cast it.

archaeolept · #2 January 14th, 2009, 10:37 PM

yeah, the manual and the devs have stated it as such. I found some post in the Dom II forums where "someone" claimed it targetted your own global first... dunno where I got that from.

I'll blame Zen

Loren · #3 January 15th, 2009, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by archaeolept

yeah, the manual and the devs have stated it as such. I found some post in the Dom II forums where "someone" claimed it targetted your own global first... dunno where I got that from.

I'll blame Zen

Playing against the AI I've never seen it take out one of the AI's globals, it always targets my own.

OmikronWarrior · #4 January 15th, 2009, 03:27 AM

I'm 80% sure I recall casting a global when I only had one of the five up, and somebody else's got replaced.

Zeldor · #5 January 15th, 2009, 07:26 AM

For me the real question always was what happens if there are 4 globals up and 1 free slot and 2 people cast globals. Will 2nd one try to replace one of random 5 or battle the other one cast that turn? It should be the first case, but I have never tested it.

Sombre · #6 January 15th, 2009, 07:28 AM

Doesn't this put a lot of value on the cheap as chips globals found in CBM? You can cast them as cheap, unreliable dispels.

JimMorrison · #7 January 15th, 2009, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Sombre

Doesn't this put a lot of value on the cheap as chips globals found in CBM? You can cast them as cheap, unreliable dispels.

Well, "cheap" in that they don't cost Pearls. But the mechanics of overwriting and dispelling are the same, just when overwriting you have no choice of which global to hit, and you are using different gem types.

Sombre · #8 January 15th, 2009, 07:36 AM

Oh so it doesn't overwrite unless you put more gems in than the one it tries to overwrite?

JimMorrison · #9 January 15th, 2009, 07:43 AM

Indeed, read your manual, shame on you.

mighty_scoop · #10 January 15th, 2009, 08:22 AM

so in summary it first choose one of the 5 globals at random and then overwrites it if you have used enogh gems, right ?