Annoying death magic

[customer717]

Lots of death magic is really cool, but for the love of all that is unholy why must my mages spam what they spam?!?

I absolutely dread researching the raise blank skills (enchantment?). Sometimes I like them and I want to go for that, but other times I want to be able to use something else. I feel like it is a waste to research anything else once I have researched the raise spells as that is all the spell AI seems to want to cast.

How bout a shadow bolt or some terror Mr.AI? No? Okay keep spamming raise dead even though I have 400 skeletons already that are stuck against a wall and being destroyed by arrows and priests...sigh.

And decay. I HATE decay. Once I have that and a raise spell, forget it, thats ALL they will do. What makes it worse is I never see decay do anything other than make my mages useless. I keep checking the numbers on the guy they are spamming, but his protection and defense stay the same.

I know I can give specific spell commands, but it seems a bit iffy. Sometimes they do what I tell them, sometimes not. Even if they do, I will only get 5 spells I want, then they are back to raise/ decay mode. I wish I could tell them which spells NOT to use. I would like to erase decay from every spellbook save one mage per battle. Or be able to tell them not to raise as I already have enough troops and rather need more direct offensive casting.

Am I doing something wrong or is this just the way of things?

[Kryx]

I think we all agree that a commander-per-commander DON'T CAST/DO X would be nice. That seems like a temperate enough suggestion that I also would agree.

[Arryn]

This issue has had numerous debates over the past 2+ months ...

As a piece of friendly advice (to both of you), might I suggest that you do topic searches before creating new threads? It helps to avoid umpteen different threads asking the same questions and getting the same answers.

[Kryx]

Oh, sorry I do tend to start a lot of threads/answer ones with few answers.

[SurvivalistMerc]

I actually think it's useful to find folks start new topics on issues like this with their own words.

Because it lets the devs know that this is something for which there is a perceived need for change. And orders "don't do x" don't seem that difficult to implement to me from a programming perspective.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
I actually think it's useful to find folks start new topics on issues like this with their own words.

They can still use their own words in existing threads. And using existing threads avoids much confusion.