The New Hinnom Nation

[Lingchih]

I've seen it mentioned to take misfortune and just use your fortune tellers to balance it out.

That's fine, but then you won't get the heroes, and these heroes are something special. They are basically gods themselves. The first hero I received was easily more powerful than my SC Pretender.

[chrispedersen]

Yes, you will. I have taken misfortune 3, and still manage to get the heros in most of the games before turn 30.

[Lingchih]

Hmm, that's odd. Base chance of a hero is 3%, minus 1 point per point of misfortune = 0% chance. I guess the figures I have seen are wrong.

[sum1lost]

Or chris could be confusing misfortune, since I almost never get more than 1 or two heros by then unless I specifically take a high luck

[Lingchih]

Or, even more interestingly, the fortune tellers could increase the chance of getting a hero. Now that would be intriguing.

[K]

Invading a high luck neighbor is just like having high luck.

[thejeff]

Is it? For getting heroes?

For most things, invading a high luck neighbor should be like having no luck, until your dominion takes over, but I'd always assumed the hero chance was calculated at your capital since that's where he appears.