Fortune tellers

GrudgeBringer · #1 February 3rd, 2009, 01:00 AM

Is there somewhere that lists Stats on misfortune that you can compare a fortune teller with?

What I am trying to get at is say you are playeing TC and have a Fortune teller mage with a 5 rating....How much will that offset misfortune 1 in the province it is in?

Do they stack so that if you have 2 it is a total of 10 or is it a one time per province bonus?

I know that AWE 0 is still powerful and that FEAR 15 is REAL powerful, but no where does it say that Misfortune 1 is equal to 10 bad luck and Misfortune 2 is 15 ect.

With that in mind is why I am asking what a fortune teller 5 offsets misfortune.

Geeeez, I hope this makes sense

JimMorrison · #2 February 3rd, 2009, 01:25 AM

Luck scale operates separately from Fortune Telling.

So what happens is, if you took Misfortune, you will still roll lots of bad events. If that bad event gets assigned to a province with Fortune Telling units in it, then you add the FT values together, to get the percentage change to negate the bad event that was going to happen. So if you had 1 unit with 5, then there is a 95% chance that the bad event happens anyways. It's additive, so 5 with 5 apiece would be 75% chance of the event still happening.

lch · #3 February 3rd, 2009, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by JimMorrison

Luck scale operates separately from Fortune Telling.

So what happens is, if you took Misfortune, you will still roll lots of bad events. If that bad event gets assigned to a province with Fortune Telling units in it, then you add the FT values together, to get the percentage change to negate the bad event that was going to happen. So if you had 1 unit with 5, then there is a 95% chance that the bad event happens anyways. It's additive, so 5 with 5 apiece would be 75% chance of the event still happening.

Well, yes, that's what everybody assumed is the mechanic of fortune tellers. I've had a look at that for finding out how Firebirds and other units like the Lady of Fortune worked and the code for random events during hosting looks like it works differently, to me. The only thing that fortune tellers do, it seems, is to redo rolling a random event if there wasn't found a valid one for the province they're in by 100 tries. What's worse, it seems that this check is wrong and that fortune tellers actually PREVENT the re-rolling of events instead of allowing it to happen. I might very well misunderstand this, though, too.

Lingchih · #4 February 3rd, 2009, 01:35 AM

Jim, you are so adept. I am humbled. Now make that avatar stop animating. I'ts making me twitch.

JimMorrison · #5 February 3rd, 2009, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Lingchih

Jim, you are so adept. I am humbled. Now make that avatar stop animating. I'ts making me twitch.

Ahhhh. That old avvie was starting to show its age anyways. I just found this one a day or two ago, enjoy!

Trumanator · #6 February 3rd, 2009, 02:53 AM

I think this one is just disturbing.

Lingchih · #7 February 3rd, 2009, 03:08 AM

Now I'm really freaked out.

Tifone · #8 February 3rd, 2009, 04:02 AM

I hereby vote for the previous one lol

rdonj · #9 February 3rd, 2009, 04:26 AM

It is a bit disturbing. And it used to be animated? Sounds like something an illithid would dream up. You're not an illithid, are you JM?

Endoperez · #10 February 3rd, 2009, 04:56 AM

I think his previous avatar was animated, and then he changed it into the disturbing one.