.. the game of mutual self-destruction ..

[Wendigo]

You mean Imprint Souls killed 95% pop? if it works like you said it must be bugged, I have had no time to check most of the new spells but this seems much more powerful than Black Death (which is higher research & much more fitting for population wasting).

I believe the devs said that AIs were more unlikely to pick negative scales the higher their lv, I do not consider this much of an issue in SP anyway.

That said, I like the idea of the world suffering after a global war, it would make no sense for it to end up richer & happier after such devastation, war is a grim affair.

It is also my experience that in Dom I MP players do not engage in province devastation until the very end game: you want the lands of your current opponent as untouched as possible to use vs the next one, only when it's down to the Last 2 nations/sides will the population be targeted.

Do not dismish the long term potential of a growth scale, a 25% pop increase in a minor province might not seem much, but 10,000 more citizens in your capitol is nice.

[ November 22, 2003, 10:06: Message edited by: Wendigo ]