Short, but somewhat preoccupying questions

Azhur · #1 November 16th, 2006, 11:10 AM

1.) When I wish for Doom Horror, why do I get it as a commander, rather as a unit, like all the other wished creatures?

2.) My prophet died 40 turns ago and I can't still make a new one. Why?

3.) Alt + Tab = when I come back to the game, the interface has turned rather "buggy" (same with Dom2). Anyone else has the same issue?

4.) With what spell do I call Seraph?

5.) Why is High seraph worse than Seraph?

Endoperez · #2 November 16th, 2006, 01:28 PM

1) Commander

2) A bug, if he's really dead. If he just e.g. "Vanished between space and time" or something, and later reappeared somewhere (probably insane), he'd still be alive even though you might've thought that he is dead already.

3) Known bug. Alt-Enter twice works as a workaround IIRC. Myself, I play Dom3 in windowed mode, but maximized.

4) With a Marignon/Pythium national spell Heavenly Choir. The manual lists the spell as giving other commanders as well, but currently the other angels appear as units instead.

5) High Seraph of Caelum is better than a Seraph of Caelum. The six-winged, angelic being that is also named Seraph is more powerful than most mortals, immortals, humanoids, monsters or summoned creatures. Seraphs of Caelum (latin for "sky") were named Seraphs long before Seraph as a six-winged angel existed in Dominions, but the root of the name is probably in the angelic being who commands great magical powers.

NTJedi · #3 November 16th, 2006, 02:54 PM

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Azhur said:
3.) Alt + Tab = when I come back to the game, the interface has turned rather "buggy" (same with Dom2). Anyone else has the same issue?

CTRL + TAB also works

Taqwus · #4 November 16th, 2006, 03:24 PM

One should be careful wishing for doom horrors. They're horrors, after all...

Azhur · #5 November 16th, 2006, 04:03 PM

Going back to the first question: I wished for Seraph (Ma/Py national one) and it came out as a unit (normally commander), whereas Doom Horror didn't.

PS. Thanks for that historical trivia concerning Seraphs.

dirtywick · #6 November 16th, 2006, 04:22 PM

On the Alt-Tab thing, I play in Window mode and it never does that. There's really not much difference in this game between Windowed and Full-screen.

UninspiredName · #7 November 16th, 2006, 07:30 PM

The one time I tried wishing for Hunter of Heroes with my pretender, I got the Eater of Gods. It killed me, and I had no Horror Mark beforehand. It could've just been coincidence, but somehow I don't think so.

Epaminondas · #8 November 17th, 2006, 01:23 AM

You can "wish" for a Seraph?!!!

So can you wish for basically any creature in the game? What about pretender titans?

UninspiredName · #9 November 17th, 2006, 01:28 AM

I tried wishing for a VQ, and it worked. It had the usual 'No commander' clause, and it's unclear if it would retain various commander-centric abilities (I plan on testing it out next time I can wish for a Lady of Springs) if Gift of Reason was cast, but it worked nonetheless.

Taqwus · #10 November 17th, 2006, 02:01 AM

You can wish for one of any monster type which has a unique name. I haven't fiddled with seeing if there's any way to get a monster by unit number.

This includes pretender types, national heroes, et al. If you wished for a Patriarch, you'd get a unit of the same type as Father Bart (assuming no other Patriarch unit exists -- haven't played around with ambiguity, either), except that he'd be a unit and you'd have to Gift of Reason him to get his magic. If you wished for a Lord of the Night, well, you'd get a new Lord of the Night.

It's not perfect. If you wished for death, you might not die.