Mod idea and a request

[Panpiper]

SlipperyJim said:
Another question: Is there a modding command which will cause a critter to reduce dominion?

If such a command does exist, I do not know of it. That is not to say it doesn't. I am just confessing my ignorance because we seem to be online at the same time. Er... ;-)

[SlipperyJim]

Panpiper said:

If such a command does exist, I do not know of it. That is not to say it doesn't. I am just confessing my ignorance because we seem to be online at the same time. Er... ;-)

I wonder what #spreaddom -1 would do? It's worth a shot, right?

[Panpiper]

SlipperyJim said:
I wonder what #spreaddom -1 would do? It's worth a shot, right?

Definitely worth a shot. That's exactly the sort of trick that 'might' work. You might find however that if that is on a 'troop', it might be way too effective. Try it, but if it works, I expect you'll want it just on certain commanders.

[Burnsaber]

It also might be very possible that #spreaddom doesn't work for troops, many, many commands don't work on troops (auto-summons for example) althought they "could" do so.
Why not take the easy way and make all recruitable dwarf commanders heretics?

Spell-modding isn't that tough exactly, as long as you don't try to create something "new". Just stick to making summoning, combat evocations and buff spells if you want to retain your sanity.

[DrPraetorious]

EDIT: D'oh! No, the juggernaut is not a commander and it spreads dominion. So spreaddom does work for troops. Never tried a negative number. Negative spreaddom on a troop would instantly reduce the dominion in a province to 0 if you had a reasonable number of troops, however.

If you copy the stats off of one of the Pythium heretics, you'll get their dominion cancellation, which is somewhat milder, but still quite severe to put on a non-commander.

What do you want your custom spells to *do*? If it's just summoning, that's quite straightforward.

[SlipperyJim]

I only want the dwarven commanders (specifically the smiths) to reduce dominion. Once I get the trick down, I might expand it to other commanders ... but I doubt I'd have regular troops do it! I agree that such a thing could get extreme in a hurry, especially on recruitable troops.

(Yes, Juggernauts spread dominion ... but they're a very high-end summon.)

I suppose I could copystat the Pythium heretic, but then I'd lose the darkvision that I got by copystatting the "vanilla" dwarven smith. Hmmm ... decisions, decisions.

On the subject of spells: My main goal is to create a bunch of nation-specific summons, which seems like it should be pretty easy. However, I was also thinking about some battlefield spells. For example, I'd like to mod a "crystal healing" spell, an upgraded version of Blade Wind, and a "Crystal Soldiers" troop buff.

I think I might be able to puzzle out some of these on my own. Let me give it a shot, and I'll let you know if I can't get anywhere.

Since y'all are in such a helpful mood, let me fire off another question: How could I mod a site to allow free scrying? I know there's already a site that does it, so it should be possible. But is it moddable? It would be very cool to have the Crystal College serve as a scrying site....

[DrPraetorious]

It is not currently moddable.

You could take one of the (non-unique) existing scry sites, and put it in their capital, if you wished.