How much do devils reduce your dominion?

Joonie73 · #1 December 5th, 2003, 01:12 AM

I have never gone for blood magic because someone said devils reduce your dominion. How does this exactly work? How much of a reduction are we talking about?

apoger · #2 December 5th, 2003, 01:23 AM

I am unaware of any dominion reducing effects of "devils".

Go ahead and summon away. Devils are great.

HJ · #3 December 5th, 2003, 01:36 AM

One of the demon lords does, but he is the only one, and he reduces all dominions in the province, not just yours, so it's useful to supress enemy dominions as well.

Keir Maxwell · #4 December 5th, 2003, 03:31 AM

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Originally posted by apoger:

Go ahead and summon away. Devils are great.

No wonder seriously religous folks find games like Dominions disturbing.

Cheers

Keir

[ December 05, 2003, 01:32: Message edited by: Keir Maxwell ]

Zapmeister · #5 December 5th, 2003, 03:53 AM

I don't want to start an offtopic religion thread, but I'll venture to comment with the generalization that religious people seem to have more trouble separating fiction from reality than most folks.

apoger · #6 December 5th, 2003, 04:02 AM

>No wonder seriously religous folks find games like Dominions disturbing.

I sacrificed two slaves to Illwinter but the game still cost me full price. What did I do wrong?

Saber Cherry · #7 December 5th, 2003, 04:36 AM

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Originally posted by Keir Maxwell:
No wonder seriously religous folks find games like Dominions disturbing.

Yeah, there was one of those funny people in the strategy games forum who, I think, decided not to buy the game because it might have blood sacrifices. Whereas if it was just people chopping each other's limbs off with bloody axes (rather than ceremonial daggers) it would have been fine

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Originally posted by Zappy-chan:
religious people seem to have more trouble separating fiction from reality than most folks.

Careful your blanket statements don't snag the devs (particularly Kristoffer, I imagine). Dominions was spawned into reality using them as a conduit... and if you locked them in a cell, shone a light in their eyes, and asked tough questions in quick succession, like this... "Tell me whether the following are real or imaginary: Wolf. Bear. Lion. Summer Lion. Wraith. Composite Bow. Vision's Foe. Scale Mail. Ice Armor. Vine. Ogre. Vine Ogre."

...I'm not convinced they'd get too many right=)

Gandalf Parker · #8 December 5th, 2003, 04:41 AM

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Originally posted by apoger:
>No wonder seriously religous folks find games like Dominions disturbing.

I sacrificed two slaves to Illwinter but the game still cost me full price. What did I do wrong?

Doesnt the description say they have to be virgins? You telling me that you found 2 virgins willing to be sacrificed and you gave them to Illwinter?

apoger · #9 December 5th, 2003, 04:55 AM

>You telling me that you found 2 virgins willing to be sacrificed and ...

They have to be willing... dang! That's a tall order.

I'll have to go back to less evil pursuits... like summoning creatures through my void gate.

Zapmeister · #10 December 5th, 2003, 05:30 AM

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Careful your blanket statements don't snag the devs

Hey, I'm quite aware that this is dangerous ground...