Trading commanders, exploit or not?

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Jarkko

I just ran twenty times (on twenty consequtive turns, so not a save game) a test with an Ulmish Cyclops (E9) scripted Earthquake&cast spells with 20 earth gems in his inventory. Ulm also had in the province 250 warriors and 20 PD. I attacked that with a single Pan (plus a random number of maenads, between 0 and 20) who had equipped a Snake Ring, Bear Claw Talisman, Stinger and Thorn Spear, scripted with Summon Earthpower Retreat.

The Cyclop didn't once cast Earthquake in those twenty tests.

Now if you see WMD spells cast often in similar situations and I haven't, and didn't see even once in this test (with CBM 1.6 btw), then either of us has encountered a weird fluke. I wonder if others have time to run similar tests to check which one of us two has encountered the fluke.

I'm willing to bet that if you look at the log you will see a malus for gem cost.

Basicly, the ai rates the success of various spells, and then downgrades the effectivess of the spell for the gem cost. Oh, and excessive fatigue too.