"Old Age" system in Dom3 - need some info

[Agrajag]

Archonsod said:
subject, does Regeneration affect aging at all?
It would seem logical to me that a mage with regeneration would have a longer lifespan and much less chance of injury than one without...

I'd actually expect Regeneration to severely decrease lifespan, the whole idea of regeneration is natural healing, and to heal that fast, that mage would need uber-fast metabolism, which is a sure-fire recipe for dying of old-age at 20.

[Archonsod]

Thing is, a fast metabolism tends to kill you through wear and tear on the cardio-vascular system. Since you do have a quicker cellular healing rater, your more likely to die suddenly than suffer afflictions from aging.
Mind you, in the world of dominions it doesn't have to be a fast metabolism providing the healing. Maybe the wizard has fell into a healing spring, or discovered the fabled philosopher's stone. He could have had some kind of magical skin graft or blood transfusion from a naturally regenerating creature. It could even be due to the favour of his God

[Wick]

I just checked it out and each point of nature magic adds half of your baseOld to your Old. A elegant way to test this is to pick a pretender with nature and look at it on the next screen (that lists magic, dominion, awaking...).

Each point of Fire subtracts 5 from Old if Old => 200 and subtracts 2 if Old = 50. The only test case I found 50>x>200 was the Golden Naga (334) whose f2 gave her 69. I didn't check the <50 case.

[dirtywick]

I played a game with Growth 2 and a game with Growth 0, and the growth scales make a really noticeable difference Old Age afflictions. I don't know what the math behind it all is, but it's a pretty big help.

[RoyalOak]

Not so sure about growth. Recently played MA Abysia, and at first late winter turn 6 of my 8 eligible units for old age get diseased, altough I've taken growth 2.

I for one like to see the age system toned down a bit : I've quit playing abysia for the moment, as they have really big aging problems.

[Belcarl]

If the chance for getting the dreaded "disease" affliction was tuned down, I wouldn't mind the new Age system. As it is now, I'm struggling to keep my precious old human mages alive with a lot of nations.

Maybe an option to turn the Aging system to easy, standard or severe before starting a game would be a nice feature.

[Agrajag]

Abysia has easy access to Boots of Youth, and can forge blood boosters so that all of its old warlock can cast rejuvinate on themselves (by forging a few boosters and passing them around), so the only ones that are in some trouble are the Anathemat(sp?) Dragons.
This would make you invest quite a bit in blood, but I think its worth it.

[dirtywick]

RoyalOak said:
Not so sure about growth. Recently played MA Abysia, and at first late winter turn 6 of my 8 eligible units for old age get diseased, altough I've taken growth 2.

I for one like to see the age system toned down a bit : I've quit playing abysia for the moment, as they have really big aging problems.

Wow, that's bad luck.

[Resok]

I've been playing Early Age Abysia in SP and have only had one of my Warlocks suffer from old-age caused Disease over the course of 60-odd turns. I slapped a ring of regen on him and am working up to Const 6 atm (after focusing on Evocation first for battle magic) to try to help rectify his situation. In the meantime he's still just as functional sitting in my labs as he was before so I'm not too worried.

I don't really see much of an issue with the Age system... I think alot of the bad experiences people have been getting have been flat out bad luck. As far as things in the multi-player venue, it's one of the many balancing factors between various nations. Almost everyone is affected by old age so it's just another part of the overarching system of afflictions and other issues that are either ignored or overcome through invested effort.



Resok