design LA Ermor (AI)

[Gandalf Parker]

Brainstorming is good. We can actually do most of that.

We can give it any magic we want, and what abilities they dont have can often be faked by giving them equipment right at the start (stealth cloak, ring of water breathing)

Extra units or sites that can generate ghouls can help insure them being available for castle guards

Home castle can be changed, or additional castles given nearby or at chokepoints on the map

[TirAsleen]

dark citadel is probably better with AI LA Ermor, like it was the case in previous dom versions.

for magic: max astral and max death in any case.

problem with item abilities is, once that pretender is dead the item is lost for the AI.

"eater of the dead" sounds fun as pretender....i did not expierement enough with that one how much hp can he max have without dominion? and what if he goes independent after a while?

[Gandalf Parker]

Even if he breaks out on his own, by then he is huge so it should still be a fun time.

Death and equipment could be a factor. What about Blood Fountain. There are 4 miscellaneous slots. If you could pick ANY misc equip to give right at the start, even uniques or things only seen on event monsters, what would it be?

[TirAsleen]

a blood fountain with a lof of hp added perhaps?

[Gandalf Parker]

Hmm I dont think I can add hp in a map command. I can add alot of experience. And of course a super high dominion would add alot of hp

[Taqwus]

Blood's a little moot unless you stack its land with blood-income sites. Pop loss + utter lack of early blood mages (neither Dusk Elders nor Spectators get it, IIRC)= no blood income to speak of. The Lord of Corruption spawns blood slaves, but he's only one guy and doesn't spawn THAT many.

If you wanted to ensure that a mobile pretender was unlikely to kill itself easily, the Armor of Virtue would help.

Sphinx with high Death, high Astral, full slots to avoid curse/horror mark (a Skull Mentor, a Ring of Sorcery, maybe a Spell Focus, can't remember if it gets a fourth or even a third slot).

Accompany with Bowl of the Lost for free Banes if we're being cruel.

[Gandalf Parker]

I will keep Bowl of the Lost in mind for later when sites comes up (the #knownfeatures command). Good call on that one.
LA Ermor only starts with one national site that gives 15 death gems. Probably not worth replacing that but it does give 3 more slots for sites. Isnt there one that gives blood slaves? It might be national and Im not sure if national sites can be re-given

Come on Taqwus. If you could give LA-E anything as a pretender what would it be? It doesnt have to be new. It can be any player-use Ermor build.

[TirAsleen]

i saw lord of hell spawning blood slaves too.

and dusk elders have a chance to get blood magic. but i saw it only 1 time in most games where i massed dusk elders they had only astral, water, earth, fire and air other than death. nature never maybe? and hardly ever blood

blood fountain can fit just for the fear effect and themewise. it should get auomatically blood slaves and have max blood, death and astral.

sphinx just has 1 misc slot if i remember correctly...