SP Mental attack questions

[Saxon]

Small problem, perhaps you can help. The message says something like “Saxon was killed by a mental attack.” It is a big map and I don’t know where Saxon was. Any way to link to the location? I do have a few astral mages, but as EA Ulm, they are all in one location associated with a (formerly) independent province In this game, I have a fair number of mages on the road and a couple of research centers, so I can not assume they are hitting my capital. Or should I just protect the research centers?

This is like searches. It tells you that you found a gem site, but you can only click on the commander, who is sitting in a lab somewhere. I don’t know a way to go straight to the province in question.

[lch]

That's why you should keep old savegames.

Assuming that you named your pretender "Saxon", you should know where he was before being mind hunted...

[Edratman]

lch said:
That's why you should keep old savegames.

Assuming that you named your pretender "Saxon", you should know where he was before being mind hunted...

How do you keep old save games? All I have ever found was he automatic saves which only show current turn. I've tried copying save files and renaming them without success.

[Sandman]

Dome spells should help against mind-hunters as well.

[MaxWilson]

Saxon said:
This is like searches. It tells you that you found a gem site, but you can only click on the commander, who is sitting in a lab somewhere. I don’t know a way to go straight to the province in question.

I can't help with the Mind Duel attack, but as far as searches go, it does give you the province. Rather than searching manually through the list of provinces, you can jump directly to it if you use the "#" hot-key, as long as you know what the province number is. I put it on the wish-list to include province number as well as name in messages, but until then you can use this little program I wrote to generate a reverse directory for provinces from the map file. Here is the reverse directory for Glory of the Gods (multiplayer).

Unfortunately you have to print out the list or alt-tab out of Dominions, but I hope that helps.

-Max

[lch]

You have a funny middle name, Max

[MaxWilson]

lch said:
You have a funny middle name, Max

Yeah, well, it's my mother's maiden name. Nobody is quite sure how it's supposed to be pronounced because although her father was Filipino, his lineage wasn't. (Filipinos think it's a funny name, too.)

-Max

[MaxWilson]

If you actually want to replay the old turn, you need to save all the files in the directory (including the fthrland file, which saves the state of the world as opposed to just the piece of it player X is aware of). But as long as you do that, restoring an old game is perfectly simple--just copy the files back.

-Max

[lch]

MaxWilson said:

Nobody is quite sure how it's supposed to be pronounced because although her father was Filipino, his lineage wasn't. (Filipinos think it's a funny name, too.)

Go with what Google suggests: "Maximilian Damnation Wilson"

[MaxWilson]

Okay, Ich, at this point making fun of other people's names begins to be offensive.

-Max