Edi's Dom2 DB Update - New Stuff

[Edi]

Update! Update! Get your update here!

Well, people, it's time for another DB update. There is a new DB file: Magic sites.

I have, with the help of Kaljamaha and with gracious assistance from IW, substantially reworked the old magic site DB made by Sunray. The new Site DB has the same format as the old one, just a bit rearranged, tightened and cleaned up, and there is new information.

The Magic site DB features

• rechecked gem income, gold and resource income and unrest values (these were in many cases significantly off since there had been no rechecking since DomPPP)
• rechecked site recruitables (there have been changes since DomPPP
• rechecked magic site levels (again, many were outright incorrect) and types (a few had been classified to wrong path)
• more accurate info on site specialties (e.g. chances of getting diseased at Inkpot End or being bLasted by holy fire at a Pool of Sanctity), and the addition of missing site specialty info (there were a lot of sites that had no specialty info listed when they had e.g. magic bonuses or scale effects)
• info on which sites are unique and rarity information for all sites
• location information, i.e. which terrain the sites can be found in (which also explains why some sites are very, very rare while others are less so)
• pruning of obsolete entries (e.g. Moss Tower has been removed, the previously unique site The Cypress Forest has been changed from nature to air and made non-unique)
• completely new entries. Ever seen a Moon Mages Circle? Did you know that each metal order had three different types of towers? I certainly didn't...
• a table (quality and accuracy not 100% guaranteed) of how many different sites can be found in what terrain and breakdown by rarity.

As to how all of this esoteric information was gleaned, Illwinter was kind enough to give me the actual source code snippet that has the site definitions, so you guys have one more reason to profoundly thank them.

The Site DB is attached to this post, the rar file contains both MS Excel and Open Office Versions. It is also available for download at Arryn's web site.

The followup post will contain an updated Unit DB (there were several entries which had some information incorrect, and there is additional info on e.g. the gold upkeep costs of several ritual summons like sea trolls and free levies like Mictlan slaves and thralls. The Magic site recruitables list also has several new entries that were discovered in the course of the Magic Site DB project.

And the third post will have the Weapons & Armor DB attached so that everyone who desires can have all three DBs (collectively the Dom2 DB) in both Excel and Open Office format. Feedback will be much appreciated.

Edi