A plea

Pirateiam · #1 July 8th, 2004, 07:37 PM

I completely agree. This can be so aggrevating. In a MP game I am playing I cannot for the life of me get my 4th level Priests to cast Smite. Which would be nice versus the devils I am facing. I am wondering what the sense of purchasing them at the moment. This needs to be fixed.

Demosthenes · #2 July 8th, 2004, 07:47 PM

Perhaps that is because Smite requires 5 Holy.

Norfleet · #3 July 8th, 2004, 07:53 PM

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Originally posted by Master Shake:

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This behavior is either a bug, or an intentionally obnoxious feature designed to antagonize the user.

I think someone needs to up their anti-paranoia medication.

It would be paranoia if this wasn't a known behavior from programmers in general, and Illwinter specifically. It's been reported that they *HAVE*, in fact, deliberately retained features that were unpopular specifically to annoy people. Remember: programmers are sadists.

Demosthenes · #4 July 8th, 2004, 08:13 PM

Being paranoid might save your a** in a rice paddie but I don't think its rational to carry that philosophy over into all social interaction. If you think that people are out to get you then you'll find ones who are. No one is out to get me, I'm quite sure.

Back on topic: I agree that the AI should either be forced to cast its script, or it should understand the difference between partial and total immunity.

DeathDaemon · #5 July 8th, 2004, 08:37 PM

I was unaware of the inability to bring a partial resistance to 100% via combat magic. Does this not work on both area effect and entire battlefield spells?

This definately makes me choose only 0 or 100% resistance trooped nations as any 50% resistance troops are unable to adapt to opponent strategies.

HJ · #6 July 8th, 2004, 08:42 PM

I am very much in favor of the idea to be able to exclude spells from being cast. Although this wouldn't directly solve the issue with not casting the right resist, it could be made into a potential workaround. Besides, having an ability to disable the spells would be awsome on its own (something like a checklist next to the spell list when giving orders, with all spells checked initially and then being able to uncheck the ones that you don;t want your mages to cast). Hopefully some day this will be possible.

Pirateiam · #7 July 8th, 2004, 08:54 PM

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Originally posted by Demosthenes:
Perhaps that is because Smite requires 5 Holy.

I guess I was not clear with my statement - I meant Smite Demon - level 3 not the level 5 Smite sorry.