Victory Points?

onomastikon · #1 January 15th, 2004, 12:16 PM

Yes thanks.

But I am still confused by what the manual says: That owning particular Victory Points spreads dominion like a Temple or a Prophet.

johan osterman · #2 January 15th, 2004, 12:42 PM

Actually victory points in this context means, one of the victory conditions which you can select at start. You are allowed to specify the number of victory points on the map and the number of victory points required to win, and wether or not home provinces counts towards victory points. If you play on orania there are a few preset victory point locations. Posessing a province with a victory point in will cause that province to spread dominion like a temple.Victory points are represented by one ore more crowns on the map. Several crowns in a province means that possession of that province will give you the coreesponding number of victory points.

[ January 15, 2004, 10:53: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

DimmurWyrd · #3 January 15th, 2004, 04:43 PM

hmmm, while we are on the subject... what is a "standard victory" ?

JayThomas · #4 January 15th, 2004, 04:50 PM

I believe the standard victory is eliminating all other pretenders, or Last God standing

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DimmurWyrd · #5 January 15th, 2004, 07:12 PM

YAY! My kinda victory condition

Coffeedragon · #6 January 15th, 2004, 11:32 PM

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Originally posted by johan osterman:
You are allowed to specify the number of victory points on the map and the number of victory points required to win, and wether or not home provinces counts towards victory points.

Does the AI try to acquire/defend VPs?

I ask because if yes, this would be a great way to avoid having to eliminate remnant opposition when you are winning. If no, VP victory conditions should probably be avoided in SP.

johan osterman · #7 January 15th, 2004, 11:41 PM

AI doesn't grasp the importance of victory points. You can set victory to a fraction of the total number of provinces, which is probably a better idea to limit the length of SP games.