magic dueled by the comp...

Cheezeninja · #1 April 27th, 2004, 09:43 AM

ahhh i see. Well it seems that theurg acolyte was pretty heroic after all, oh well, live and learn. Im currently trying to extract my just and righteous revenge but they are resisting admirably with living statues.

Norfleet · #2 April 27th, 2004, 09:49 AM

You also subjected a low-level astral mage to the vagaries of Pythium. That's kind of a no-no, as Pythium has fairly expendable astral mages out the wazoo, and with communicants backing even their lowest level mages, magic duel leans strongly in their favor. Your pretender, having just been demoted another astral rank, does not belong anywhere near there, or he WILL die again, that much is a certainty.

Just because it's a slightly unlikely event doesn't mean it won't happen: As any veteran RPGer can tell you, something that happens a even mere 5% of the time is going to happen with absolute certainty sooner or later.

Yossar · #3 April 27th, 2004, 11:42 AM

I didn't think the computer even knew how to use magic duel.

Stormbinder · #4 April 27th, 2004, 08:05 PM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
You also subjected a low-level astral mage to the vagaries of Pythium. That's kind of a no-no, as Pythium has fairly expendable astral mages out the wazoo, and with communicants backing even their lowest level mages..,

Hmmm, I've heard several times that communion/shabat does not affect magic duel. Are you sure about that Norfleet?

Graeme Dice · #5 April 27th, 2004, 08:17 PM

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Originally posted by Stormbinder:
Hmmm, I've heard several times that communion/shabat does not affect magic duel.

I'm pretty sure that that's a rumour dating back to the time when the caster always won the duel.

Cheezeninja · #6 April 28th, 2004, 12:18 AM

yeah, he's being kept far away from that area right now. I've unfortunately been dragged into a 3 front war so im trying to hold out for conj 9 and GoR'ed Tarrasques. On that note, whats the best way to equip a Tarrasque if he's GoR'd ... or should i just leave him a peon?

another question, i've noticed that some of the titans from tartarian gate arent commanders but are feebleminded, now if i was to GoR them and THEN heal the feeblemind, do you think they would have magical skill? Every titan that i've gotten as a commander has ended up having magical skills after i got rid of feeblemind.

[edit] man these living statues are a pain when your main strat is nether bolts... i've got an army of 2 ether gates worth of ether warriors that cut them down like butter... but they seem to beat my jotunheim national troops pretty easily.

oh, and btw norfleet i like your total annihilation commander bot, i scanned a bunch of Posts without ever actually LOOKING at your avatar until recently.

[ April 27, 2004, 23:27: Message edited by: Cheezeninja ]

Graeme Dice · #7 April 28th, 2004, 01:01 AM

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Originally posted by Cheezeninja:
another question, i've noticed that some of the titans from tartarian gate arent commanders but are feebleminded, now if i was to GoR them and THEN heal the feeblemind, do you think they would have magical skill? Every titan that i've gotten as a commander has ended up having magical skills after i got rid of feeblemind.

I didn't think that you could heal them anymore, but if you can, then that's exactly what would happen.