I have never won a sp game...

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shovah said:
just won my first sp game doom horror prophet with 9 everything bless then wished for power on itself ( 9 everything bless came from wishing for magic power with my pretender alot )

?? The bless effects are fixed at the start of the game, so wishing for magic power on your pretender shouldn't make any difference. Can you post a screenie of your prophet with 9-eveything bless?

I really don't understand how people's games can go on for so long that they cast loads of wishes and empowerment and stuff. My longest game ever (on Orania map) is 86 turns. That's enough to get one or two schools to level 9 (on Normal research) - maybe 3 if you ignore the others. I have never yet cast Wish in any game, simply because Alteration 9 is so low on my list of priorities (Blood 6, Conj 7 or 9, Alt 6, Const 8, Ench 5 etc.).

I do agree that mopping up the last couple of dozen AI provinces is tedious when I control 90% of the map, but I don't really like any of the other victory conditions. You can control 5 of 8 capitals (or even 7 of 8) and still not be in a winning position. Ditto with VP provinces (really hate those). I guess I could go for a "80% of provinces" VC.

Anyway, I've read a lot of stuff in recent threads about how crap SP is, and I love it. I love MP too, of course, nothing gets the adrenaline going quite like it, but I think SP is fine. Ok so the AI is not perfect, but it's still challenging enough. I don't build castles (because I know the AI cannot) but otherwise I play exactly as I would in MP. It's good practice.

CC