Pretender Immunity

The solution to that is to take an Immovable pretender that will never face combat more than likely unless you are facing tremendous defeat, or you take an immortal pretender.

I don't think "Feeling Down" because your Pretender died, is a valid excuse to make your pretenders invulnerable to a game mechanic.

[Zapmeister]

While I mentioned "feeling down", I didn't mean to imply it was the main reason for my view. I'm trying to say that losing the pretender is a big deal, enough to create an unbalancing problem in the game IMHO if certain pretender designs are much more vulnerable than others.

Yes, you can stay at home, for-going what used to be the main reason for mid-range astral magic (teleported attacks). Perhaps the changes to Gateway signal that this is what the devs intend.

If a pretender design is much more vulnerable; then perhaps as a player you need to compensate for that in some fashion. I don't believe that Illwinter intended for *Every* possible type of pretender to be equal in terms of survivability. Otherwise they are trying to combat player stupidity.

"Players use their Frost Father to attack provinces solo, with no picks in any sphere or spells researched; there has to be a way we can implement a way for them to do this otherwise it might hurt the pretender design."

[Johan K]

All pretender design are not intended to be equally vulenrable, just like Zen pointed out. Taking 2 astral picks is great for slaughtering independents early or to find astral sites which are useful for all nations. So it's only fair that there are some drawbacks too.

The pretender gods will not get any special spell resistances (they already have 18+ MR) so you should see enslave/charm as the single necessary exception not as a precedent for more exceptions to the spell rules.

[ November 26, 2003, 14:36: Message edited by: Johan K ]