Mictlan dominion spread: Did I get it right?

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
There is also some mechanism that is not yet understood that causes the dominion spread that occurs in the early game before any individual province is maximized.

My theory on this is that the dominion strength may also be limited by the turn number, so that early in the game, this "maxes out" and forces it to spread, which drastically reduces the possibility of a player being dominion-killed instantly by one of the random "false prophet" or "faith is falling" events.

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No, there is no turn limit on the spread, but the current mechanichs fortunately makes spreading easy in the beginning, especially if you have a weak dominion, thus reducing the chances of dominion-death for gods with weak dominion.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Stormbinder:
Yeah, but strenght 10 temple means that that it is already 10 in the province in temple, by definition.

No, a strength 10 temple means that the current dominion power of the god is equal to 10. The strength of the temple doesn't depend on the current provincial dominion level.

Therefore the spread will happen automatically, unless countered by enemy check.

The dominion is guaranteed to spread in this case, but only because both the temple check was successful, and the provincial dominion was maximized.

Therefore "automatic increase" can not be the same as full temple strngth check, again by definition.

No, it can't, but then the automatic increase is a more recent addition to the guide that wasn't there the Last time I read it.

[ July 20, 2004, 23:51: Message edited by: Graeme Dice ]