Wandering Indy Commander

NTJedi · #1 July 30th, 2008, 05:40 PM

I think just wearing the boots can cause any unit to be pulled into the void astral planes, at which point the commander/mage will eventually be released somewhere on the map.

What was the province number where the indy commander appeared?

Psientist · #2 July 30th, 2008, 05:51 PM

From my Antilarium map (an unreleased version I'm still debugging/ balancing), started in province 51, showed up in province 182. Why, trying to determine if it was random? I think it is a fun quirk I'm going to take advantage of.

Aezeal · #3 July 30th, 2008, 06:05 PM

I think it's hard to take advantage from it

Foodstamp · #4 July 30th, 2008, 06:36 PM

Really awesome discovery. GJ

Aezeal · #5 July 30th, 2008, 06:38 PM

you could just set them randomly on maps for fun... or let about 100 seraphs with the boots start somewhere and see what happens

Psientist · #6 July 30th, 2008, 06:53 PM

Aezeal, that was more my thought - I wasn't really planning anything strategic, just adding an element of randomness to a mapmod. It could certainly add a "theme" to a mod by sprinkling random commander-heroes about where they can't be predicted!

Gandalf Parker · #7 July 30th, 2008, 09:47 PM

THANK YOU.

Yes some sort of a flavorfull SC could be given the boots. After the standard wearing time then the curse would kick in causing him to become a player-created timed events. Rather like the Bogus group showing up.

Kindof like what I do by giving Eater of the Gods to an AI nation.

NTJedi · #8 July 31st, 2008, 10:19 PM

Quote:

Psientist said:
From my Antilarium map (an unreleased version I'm still debugging/ balancing), started in province 51, showed up in province 182. Why, trying to determine if it was random? I think it is a fun quirk I'm going to take advantage of.

Last three games I've been noticing when a commander, mage or SC returns from the astral void gate it always lands in one specific province.

So you might want to further test this scenario.