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[Nerfix]

Wractale is gonna go ballistic when he gets "Noob Demo Guide v.4" this soon...


He says he will soon retire if i won't stop bombing him with new Version of noob demo guide every 12 hours...


Edit: The orders are like this:
Defend Castleefends the castle in the province if it has one

Patrol Province:Patrols the province, reducing unrest and defending the province itself, if the province has a castle. Reduces more unrest if the commander has troops under his command.

Search for Magic Sites:Tries to find sites of magic power in the province. Only mages and priests can find something

Preach the Techings of God:Tries to increase your Dominion in the province. Only for priests

Blood Hunt:Tries to find Blood Slaves. Increases unrest. Commanders with skill in blood will have better succes than those who have not

Construct Building:Builds either a laboratory, temple or a fortress in the province

Pillage:Kills population and gives you gold. Dependant on the amount of troops you have and you get more gold the more people you kill.

Research:The commander contributes his research points to the research pool

Cast Ritual Spell:Casts a ritual spell

Forge Magic Item:Forges a magic item. The item goes to the laboratory

Alchemy:Converts magic gems to money or diffrent magic gems

Empowerment:Makes commander more skilled in magic by sacrificing magic gems

Become Prophet:Makes the commander your prophet, making him permanently belssed and giving him bonuses to stats when inside a friendly Dominion. You can only have one prophet.

Blood Sacrifice:Sacrifies blood slaves in order to increase your Dominion

Assasinate:Attacks an enemy commander in the province. The assasin figths the commander and his possible bodyguards.

Instill Upspring:Tries to instill an upspring in the enemy province

[ October 29, 2003, 18:08: Message edited by: Nerfix ]

[st.patrik]

Great job Saber!

[Nerfix]

Originally posted by st.patrik:
Great job Saber!

Yeah, (s)he has saved me a lot of work!
Truly great work Saber!

[Endoperez]

Some corrections:

Being a prophet also increases your stats.
There is a bug with which you can make your god a prophet, this is not advised and, as said, is a bug.

Forge item - researching in Construction helps. Different magics allow different items. Level one item costs 5 gems, level 2 10, level 3 20 and level 4 40. The few items needing level 5 in a path take 80 gems, IIRC right.

A few hints about when it is appopriate to use a command (like empower) would be nice, because this is for those who don't know such things...
For empowerment, I would suggest against it unless it allows you to cast a very good ritual, item or spell, or lets you use otherwise useless gems for rituals/items.

Some hints about different magics when creating a pretender would be nice. Short descriptions, like:

Fire magic lets you cast many different damaging spells. It also has Fire shield that greatly improves the efficiency of your Super Combatant. Evocation lets you cast most fire battlefield spells. Conjuration allows you to summon fire elementals in battle, as well as summer lions through a ritual. First level of enchantment lets you cast the fire shield.

Okay, they are not that short, but give some idea about the different schools.
Oh, damn. *slaps head* You see short descriptions from the choose magics screen. Oh well.
It is good that they did that before us, though.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Endoperez:
Being a prophet also increases your stats.
There is a bug with which you can make your god a prophet, this is not advised and, as said, is a bug.

Ssshh!!! Not worth the bother, though, IMO. He is not sacred or blessed, so doesn't get the cool bless bonuses.

I figured out how to get 2 prophets, though... make you god a prophet... kill him... wait... make a new prophet... call back your god (he's still a prophet)

But, yes, as Endoperez said, this is a bug and will be fixed soon - the god is not supposed to become his own prophet, except for maybe the Wyrm which has 2 heads, 2 brains, and I would assume 2 identities...

[Saber Cherry]

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[ November 26, 2003, 03:10: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

[Saber Cherry]

If anyone knows the full effects of dominion, and can post them here, I'd be grateful! For example, "increases pretender HP by dominion*10%, strength by dominion/2," and etc, and "raises friendly morale by 1", and "gives a 1% income bonus per level", "decreases unrest by X" or whatever it does. I'd like to know ALL of them, because dominion is pretty central to the game, and it is a common question. The ones above are mostly made up. Things like Conscription, vampires appearing for the vampire pretender, and so forth would be nice too. The rate of scale change for dominion levels would also be helpful.

Also, if anyone can read through the "scales" section of the guide and verify/correct all the information, or add stuff that was missed, it would be greatly appreciated! Specific luck-scale effects and verification of the exact numbers for each scale would be nice.

-Cherry