Dominion Spread

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by PhilD:

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Originally posted by ceremony:
I've put together a short primer on dominion and its spread and effects. All the mechanisms you ask about are there:

http://www.maladjustite.com/dominion.pdf

Awesome job. If the section on morale is done, I want it ASAP, because there are a lot of details in there that I'd like to know.

One point you might want to add: in the "i" window for a Province, you will see the name of any special dominion that applies there. It would be nice (devs: hint ) if you got the name of the nation responsible, too - not a big balance change, IMHO, but it would help sometimes.

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Hmm, that is not intentional. It will probably be removed

[diamondspider]

Originally posted by ceremony:

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Originally posted by diamondspider:
Actually, building temples and preaching are pretty much, indeed, going from door to door and represents the "abstract mechanism" that need not be violent.

Good point. However, the fact remains that unless you have stealthy priests, you're going to have to conquer provinces to be able to preach and build temples, since any provincial defense will likely be able to defend against a solitary priest. Anyway, it was kind of meant as a joke.

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Yeah, I appreciated your humor! It just got my mind chugging and I always like it when something I read does that.

And, yes, there are ways besides stealthy priests to deal with indies by they are very inefficient e.g. Miasma, using rituals that don't create units but damage things from afar, etc. So, it doesn't work too well. The priests would also have to be set on Retreat to stop them from fighting... It isn't very practical and fighting is, unfortunately, pretty much inevitable as you implied.

edit: actually, it seems you can set indies to zero! Hehehe... maybe it is possible after all

[ January 27, 2004, 08:57: Message edited by: diamondspider ]

[Pocus]

really good chapter, with some formulae difficult if not impossible to find without feedback from the devs!

* I once read somewhere that victory points provinces help spread the dominions, any infos on this?

* in which order temple spread and priest preaching is done, can be of importance.

* how can it be that a dominions spread can be observed more than one province away from a dominions source? Or is it that a province which is receiving a dominions increase have a chance to redirect this increase to yet another province?

[calmon]

http://www.maladjustite.com/dominion.pdf

Good document!

One more question: What does 'Restless Worshippers' do exactly? Help Text says that the dominion 'spread quickly into enemy territories'. Is there a greater chance that enemy dominion decrease? ...or is there a greater decrease for each temple check.

[ceremony]

Originally posted by Pocus:
* I once read somewhere that victory points provinces help spread the dominions, any infos on this?

"Posessing a province with a victory point in will cause that province to spread dominion like a temple."

-from a post by Johan Osterman

[Psitticine]

Comprehensive and well-written! Thank you!

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by ceremony:

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Originally posted by Pocus:
* I once read somewhere that victory points provinces help spread the dominions, any infos on this?

"Posessing a province with a victory point in will cause that province to spread dominion like a temple."

-from a post by Johan Osterman

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Actually, as VP's are intended to be of equal importance to everyone they count as a temple of a god whose dominion strength is 5 (but that matters little - you rarely have many).

[ January 27, 2004, 17:34: Message edited by: Kristoffer O ]