MP STACKERS, newbie game, (started) - Page 41

Gandalf Parker · #**401** August 28th, 2010, 08:16 PM

Allright. Ctis is AI.
I hope everyone was ready for that. Quite a buildup there, and now the dam breaks.

Jorus · #**402** August 29th, 2010, 08:53 AM

Uh-oh.

Go north, AI, go north.

Nauquan · #**403** August 29th, 2010, 09:36 PM

He-he - This will be interesting. I see a couple thousand troops near my southern border.

Jorus · #**404** August 30th, 2010, 06:40 AM

I guess I'm lucky then, I only see 400 new troops on my northern border. On the other hand, he has attacked several of my provinces during the magic pahase, and captured an internal one. Also has cast plagues and winter (not too much of a problem for us cold loving people) on several provinces.
A very anti-social AI.
BTW, what do these dire portents mean? I don't see any new globals? Or were they dispels?
And an idle question, according to the score graphs - he lost research. How do you do that?

Jorus · #**405** August 30th, 2010, 06:29 PM

Gandelf,

Is it possible to see my previous turn somehow? I have been devastated by the loss of units with costly/powerful/rare items (e.g. Rings of S/W). I thought they were present last turn, yet I don't see them (or reports of their demise) anywhere.
On top of all that, after spending almost two hours on my current move the computer crashed. All was lost.
This is very discouraging.
The lack of saved turns is a nuisance (and yes I know I could do it myself, but why then do we have computers??).

Gandalf Parker · #**406** August 30th, 2010, 11:43 PM

email me at gandalf on community.net and I can send you the games backups

Nauquan · #**407** August 31st, 2010, 11:28 AM

I took out Absyia's pretender who had at least one global up. I figure some of C'tis global casters died due casting spells and suffering horrors from the astral corruption before it was dispelled. I have been hit with a few rituals too - not sure where they are coming from.

Jorus · #**408** August 31st, 2010, 01:45 PM

Gandelf,

Thanks, OK I'll do that.

Nauquan,

Well the strange thing is that I got two "Dire Portent" messages announcing Global spells, but they don't show up on the Global list. And Astral Corruption disappeared.

I lost my Pretender 2 turns ago - although I cast Returning, he may not have had the astrals necessary (although he had access to many in the lab) - that should be automatic, but it was my fault. I'm not a micro-manager.

Now last turn I lost my secondary Pretender/champion who I am sure had astrals and was casting returning. I'm 99% sure he was there last turn, but now he is disappeared w/o a trace/report.

Anyhow, back to the move.

J

Gandalf Parker · #**409** August 31st, 2010, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nauquan

I took out Absyia's pretender who had at least one global up. I figure some of C'tis global casters died due casting spells and suffering horrors from the astral corruption before it was dispelled. I have been hit with a few rituals too - not sure where they are coming from.

All 3 of those things could cause globals to be announced but not appear.
The games coding is very linear. When someone casts a global, the message is created. If something else later in the turn sequence takes out that caster then the global might be removed but not the message IIRC.

EDITED:
http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Turn_resolution
Note that the casting of globals occurs on step 5, and the actual effects of globals is figured into the game on step 16

Jorus · #**410** September 1st, 2010, 11:49 AM

Ctis has started his move south by taking 2 out of the 3 provinces he attacked. No sign (yet!) of Tartarians. I wonder if there is a guide anywhere about successful strategies against an AI. What is he doing in the north?

Is there any cooperation we can do? I took two provinces from Ryleh, but his count remained the same - does that mean he is moving south also?

J