"Old Age" system in Dom3 - need some info

[dirtywick]

I can tell you a few things, I've been playing EA Arco today and they have plenty of old guys.

The chance of getting afflictions is pretty random. You could have a commander get one the turn after you hire it, or it could last 20 turns or longer with nothing. They get knocked off pretty often though and need to be replaced frequently. It always happens at the beginning of a turn, you won't get an old age affliction after a battle, for instance.

I haven't noticed much of a difference with healing yet either.

If you look at the status screen for a unit, there's two numbers for age. Like 30(50). I think the 30 is their current age and the () number is the age when they get the old age icon and the potential for afflictions increases. I think that adding nature magic or growth scales increases that number, but I don't know how it relates exactly to units that start with old age, but it appears to slow down the affliction rate. I'm going to have to experiment with that a bit and figure it out, I'll get back to you on that.