Masquerades queries

[MaxWilson]

Meglobob said:
Yours sound better.

I actually liked your first ones.

-Max

[JimMorrison]

I was just goofing around.

Semantics is a funny science. Connotation of arbitrary terms is bound to vary from subject to subject. To me, Archmage means that he's above a Mage, and Master is the teacher, so above all others (unless they get all mystically touched and head to 5+ land ). Whereas to you, Archmage means he above all other mages, and the master is -just- a teacher (my guess). It's all relevant depending on perspective.


As far as the castles go, no there really isn't any resource transfer from land-sea or sea-land. And for a long time I felt I had observed most sea provinces to be high income as well, but now the more I play, I can't see any bonus modifier (income stays relative), so it seems to me that for some reason randomly generated maps tend towards higher pop in sea? For the most part, the MP maps I've been playing on lately, don't do aquatics any big favors on income. Though Glory for example seems to like to punish everyone equally on gold income.

[Aezeal]

I always considered arch-mages the pinnacle of mage-hood

[JimMorrison]

Well it is true, they are to be considered extremely powerful no matter how you slice it. To be terribly fair, I probably did what I was trying not to do, I ended up using 2 terms that are for most purposes interchangable. It's actually very hard, because so many people have used the terms in so many ways, to make an easily recognizable hierarchy. Realistically over time, these mystical titles can easily be broken down into 3 categories corresponding to Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master. Unfortunately, when you try to go to 4 ranks and above, you start to have to steal terms from those 3 categories, and shove them inbetween to fill the gaps.

For example, I was going to have the first 2 be Initiate and Novice/Novitiate. I was upset to find that the dictionary considers them to be synonyms.

[Chacal]

IMO you can add Novice before Apprentice. For me an Archimage is not necesseraly a more powerful mage than a Master' but one which has acquirred political power as the Guildmaster for example.

[Masquerade]

Makes me think of cadre mages and high mages from the malazan books which, incidentally, Dominions bares more than a passing resemblance to.

I kind of took a break from trying to be Atlantis and have switched to R'lyeh EA. I'm currently further and more successfully in to an SP game than previous games but I was wondering if I were to host my save on a free upload site somewhere if anyone would be kind enough to review how I'm doing, what I've done right/wrong and how I could have improved upon my current situation.

[JimMorrison]

You can actually post it as an attachment here, and odds are someone will grab it and peek. Dominions players are an inquisitive, and often compulsively helpful lot.