Dominion Spreading effects

Huzurdaddi · #1 February 6th, 2005, 01:07 PM

Thanks a lot for confirming that Kristoffer. If Ceremony is listening maybe he'll update the bible!

Zooko · #2 February 6th, 2005, 01:56 PM

If you have 20 temples with starting dominion 10, then every turn you will get 20 successful temple checks. (I currently think that this means you will get 20 increases *somewhere*, although I could be wrong about that.)

If you have 40 temples with starting dominion 5, then every turn you will get 40 coin flips, and for every "heads" you get one successful temple check. So it will be much more random. Not only could you get lucky or unlucky and get greater or less than 20 successful checks per turn, but also consider that temples exist at different spots on the map -- for example, if there is one particular temple that needs to spread some dominion for you that one temple could easily go for turn after turn after turn without getting a successful temple check.

Zooko · #3 February 6th, 2005, 01:56 PM

I wish I had known this before I started my current multiplayer game in which spreading my dominion is (was) central to my strategy. My strategy started with dominion 4 and with building temples as fast as I possibly could. Now that it is turn 16 and I own 6 temples, this strategy isn't looking so good. :-(

By the way, this means that the "Temple Information Screen" is buggy. When I had 4 temples it said my temple spreading value was 16, and when I went up to 5 temples it changed to 25. This is consistent with the "dominion doc", which says that each temple gets 10% times current max, if each integer value of the "temple spreading value" thingie represents a 10% chance somewhere. (Which, by the way, is a peculiar and perhaps misleading way to aggregate probabilities...). However, it is inconsistent with what has been revealed in this thread. My actual temple spreading value must have been 5*4=20, not 5*5=25, when I got my fifth temple.

johan osterman · #4 February 6th, 2005, 07:59 PM

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Zooko said:
I wish I had known this before I started my current multiplayer game in which spreading my dominion is (was) central to my strategy.
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I don't know if this is any consolation, but this was not known by anybody until yesterday. Including Kristoffer.

Huzurdaddi · #5 February 6th, 2005, 08:35 PM

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johan osterman said:

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Zooko said:
I wish I had known this before I started my current multiplayer game in which spreading my dominion is (was) central to my strategy.
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I don't know if this is any consolation, but this was not known by anybody until yesterday. Including Kristoffer.

YAY ME!

Well it was a lucky guess.

Arralen · #6 February 7th, 2005, 09:24 AM

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johan osterman said:
I don't know if this is any consolation, but this was not known by anybody until yesterday. Including Kristoffer.

Sometimes I wonder who actually coded the game ...

Ygorl · #7 February 7th, 2005, 01:02 PM

It's actually all done in Flash. Essentially no coding at all.

Kristoffer O · #8 February 7th, 2005, 02:02 PM

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Arralen said:

Sometimes I wonder who actually coded the game ...

JK - and he is notoriously quick at forgetting stuff that doesn't bother him.

Zooko · #9 February 10th, 2005, 05:24 AM

So when I get a successful temple check, is the resulting dominion increase guaranteed to occur in *some* province, even if it is several provinces away from the original temple? Dominion is observed to spread further than just provinces adjacent to temples, so it must be able to do so sometimes. In my game where I took only 4 dominion starting strength my dominion has spread far and wide in independent lands. Perhaps the low maximum level made it spread wider.