Death by Dominion

[thejeff]

Look in the manual for the exact formulas.

Briefly, each temple (and the prophet and god) causes a temple check, based on your original dominion. If this is successful a point of dominion is generated, this can then either raise the local dominion or propagate outward until it either raises dominion in some province or fails to lower enemy dominion somewhere. There is a check based on the current dominion in each province.

Preaching only raises dominion in the province being preached in. This is useful for provinces under enemy dominion or to boost dominion so temple checks are more likely to propagate into enemy dominion. Preaching only works up to a max of Holy level or Holy*2 if there is a temple, and you'll get a message to that effect when you start preaching in a province with higher dominion. That message would make no sense if preaching spread dominion to other provinces.

Blood sacrifice generates one temple check per slave. It can be brutally effective since, with a Jade Knife, you can get 4-5 checks from each province, allowing dominion spread to be focused against an enemy.

[capnq]

Originally Posted by thejeff

Preaching only works up to a max of Holy level or Holy*2 if there is a temple, and you'll get a message to that effect when you start preaching in a province with higher dominion.

Holy+1, not *2, according to the manual.

Note that the Preach order doesn't clear after the province's dominion maxes out.

[Loren]

Originally Posted by capnq

Holy+1, not *2, according to the manual.

Note that the Preach order doesn't clear after the province's dominion maxes out.

You wouldn't want it to--the enemy might be pressing dominion on you

[thejeff]

Originally Posted by Loren

You wouldn't want it to--the enemy might be pressing dominion on you

Hard to say. I would want to be able to preach again, but it might be nice to have them preach one turn then go back to defend if dominion was above priest level(+1). It's easy to not notice for several that your priests are happily preaching away for no effect.

[Loren]

Originally Posted by thejeff

Hard to say. I would want to be able to preach again, but it might be nice to have them preach one turn then go back to defend if dominion was above priest level(+1). It's easy to not notice for several that your priests are happily preaching away for no effect.

Maybe there should be two orders--preach until max and continue preaching.

I'd like to see the developers spend some time reducing the micro-management needed.