wut can u wish for with wish?

[Wauthan]

Following information taken from Sunray's Virtual Library.


Wish : a few keywords are acceptable for the computer. All wishes can be repeated. This is a (probably incomplete) list:

* "Armageddon" : earthquakes and meteors kill 20% of the population and of the units in most provinces of the world.
* "Army" : gives you 300 militiamen.
* "Artifact" gives you a random unique artifact. This is pretty funny if that artifact exists, whoever has it gets a message that it disappears into a poof of smoke and your mage suddenly has it! If the item is cursed, the mage cannot remove it.
* "(Artifact)" : gives you the said artifact... including those which aren't listed in the magical item manual or in the forge lists : Vial of Frozen Tears (+1 D,W), Sun Sword/Shield/Armor/Helmet (of Solaris - mostly awe, berserk, and magic resistance), Hammer of the Cyclops (50% forge, 37 damage), Precious (attack and strength bonus), Greenstone Armor (prot 17), Robe of the Sorceress (+1 S,D,N,B and prot 15), Crown of Karafagus (+1D and 1 mummy/t), Admiral's Sword (curses those it touches).
* "Blood slaves" : you get 250.
* "Broth" : same as "food"
* "(Creature Name)" : you get the said creature. Like "hero", they lose all magic. However, if you can cast Gift of Reason, they still have secondary powers, so Arco Priestesses have heal, etc.
* "Death" : guess what happens to the mage...
* "Death Match" : a Death Match is scheduled next turn.
* "Defence" : same as "power"
* "Dominion" : your dominion increases slightly.
* "Experience" : the caster gets 1000 experience.
* "Fame" : same as "experience".
* "Food" : you get 2 Cauldrons of Broth and 5 Endless Bags of Wine.
* "Gems" : gives 25 of each gem type, including astral (that's 175 gems for the price of 100 astral), but no slaves.
* "Gold" : gives you 3000 gold pieces.
* "Hero" you get a random hero from any race. The hero shows up as a normal unit, but loses his magic skills since he is not a commander (if you cast gift of reason on him, he still has no spells available). You cannot ask for a specific hero however.
* "Magic power" : the caster gets +1 to all magic levels, up to 10.
* "No starve" : same as "food"
* "Population" : brings more pop (+20%) in a random province you control.
* "Power" : the caster gets +20 strength, +10 attack, +10 defence, +10 precision, and +50 hitpoints.
* "(Pretender name)" : you get that pretender, with default magic and abilities (Daughter of the Land gets gems, Moloch gets imp, Ghost King gets ghosts, etc).
* "Provinces" : a couple of provinces just convert to be yours.
* "Strength" : same as "power"
* "Supply" : same as "food"
* "Troops" : same as "army"
* "Weapons" : get a random weapon artifact.

[Molog]

You can wish for a "huge magical viz".

[Azhur]

The following ones also work:

- Anything
- Nothing

[Gandalf Parker]

Yep its still abit short. There are over 80 things that the wish can recognize if you ask for them.

Gandalf Parker

[ioticus]

Gandalf Parker said:
Yep its still abit short. There are over 80 things that the wish can recognize if you ask for them.

Gandalf Parker

Does that "80" refer to wish categories or does it include individual things like magic items?

[Endoperez]

80 does not include individual items, because there are many more magic items in the game than that, and Wish can get you any of them,.

[Huzurdaddi]

Gandalf Parker said:
Yep its still abit short. There are over 80 things that the wish can recognize if you ask for them.

Gandalf Parker

It looks like there are about 70 strings in the executable however it looks like many of them map to the same thing ex:

dough
copper
silver
riches
wealth
money
gold

fighting skill
combat skill
experience
fame ( not sure if this maps to the same thing )

commoners
peasants
populace
people

stop starv
wine
broth
supplies
supply
food

huge nation
large lands
provinces

etc.

[Gandalf Parker]

Huzurdaddi said:

It looks like there are about 70 strings in the executable

Heehee. I wondered if anyone would pick up on how to get the whole list. Thats what I did, a "strings" command. I hope that in Dom3 they encrypt their data. Even if they did a Rot13 on each bit of text before using it I dont think it would slow the game down much and would make it alot more fun not knowing stuff like this.

Gandalf Parker

[cryingdevil]

how do u do a strings command?

[Evil Dave]

Gandalf Parker said:
I hope that in Dom3 they encrypt their data. Even if they did a Rot13 on each bit of text before using it I dont think it would slow the game down much and would make it alot more fun not knowing stuff like this.

Gandalf Parker

I beg to differ on both points. Rot13 or the feeble method they used in the save files will fall very quickly to people who want to crack the game. Significant encryption raises the bar, but since the key(s) must be somewhere in the distribution, it will fall eventually... and even w/o the the keys built in, there are Other Ways of getting them.

As to making it more fun, well, not for me. I don't mind losing to a better player, but I strongly object to losing because I not only don't know the rules, but they're actively hidden from me.