Two questions on preaching

[onomastikon]

Thank you. That the success rate of a preach is dependent on the Dominion set and is affected by number of temples I hear for the first time, and is interesting indeed. This goes towards "what good Dominion setting" is for.

So the success of a preaching is not dependent on skill / power of priest, also interesting. Thanks.

[johan osterman]

Temples and prophets raise dominion the way Tacticus explained. Priests do not. Priests raise in some other way whose mechanisms I do not remember exactly, it is something like x+(priest lvl)y%. Where I do not recall the values of x and y. A high lvl priest also gains a chance of an additional raise, IIRC. Priests cannot however raise the dominion above their priest lvl.

Why should one be able to sneak search for sites? From a game mechanis perspective there certainly is little or no reason, since the sites one finds only benefit the owner. And argued from some sort of realism perspective either is as viable as the other, as there is no definitive authority on how mages go about searching for magic sites, as far as we know they might need to pound on enormous bells or light huge bonfires. It would also be odd if the owner of the province suddenly recieved a site he had not searched for from a searcher he did not know was there. The alternative would be to implement another layer of ownership on sites, but this is a lot of work for little or no benefit, complete with a whole new range of possible bugs and problems. Sneaky preach on the other hand can be useful when used against other players, and if you want an in game justification assume that they are preaching at secret meetings and handing out religous pamphlets and spray painting the religious slogans of their faith on enemy church walls.

Edit: Changed the * to a + in the formula.

[ January 18, 2004, 12:26: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

[onomastikon]

Grr ok ... darn, I sort of *liked* the way Gen Tacticus explained it and felt I could deal with that. Anyone know how it works / how do you know Gen Tact isnt right?

I didnt realize sneaky searches would be hard to implement; wouldnt it be kind of easy for you to know "found site in XYZ" but the current owner wouldnt get that message and no one would get the gems?

[General Tacticus]

Oh, I'm sure he's right : he's one of the developpers of the game

And he looks grumpy!

[onomastikon]

J ostermann, you are / were on the dev team? wow ok thanks. So how can one go about figuring out how preaching works, or just sort of "ungefähr" how it works (um... "sort of" how it works, without the exact numbbers, but maybe just saying what factors x and y stand for?)

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by onomastikon:
J ostermann, you are / were on the dev team? wow ok thanks. So how can one go about figuring out how preaching works, or just sort of "ungefähr" how it works (um... "sort of" how it works, without the exact numbbers, but maybe just saying what factors x and y stand for?)

Well, kind of, most of the actual work is done by Kristoofer or Johan K. I do a little stuff occassionally though.

X is a value, 10 20 or 30 I think, y is a value, 20 or 30 IIRC.