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Old January 15th, 2010, 04:09 PM
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You could give the amethyst wizards some juicy national death battlesummoning spells (perhaps shade-like beings), which they could spam instead of undead summons? It's just a matter of making the spell seem better than animate dead in the eyes of the AI. (more effects, increased range?)
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That would certainly deal with the problem of summoning units that will just disintegrate. That spell could potentially be pretty powerful though so its implementation would have to be handled very carefully.
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That would certainly deal with the problem of summoning units that will just disintegrate. That spell could potentially be pretty powerful though so its implementation would have to be handled very carefully.
There's one trick that one could use to make the spell seem more useful in the eyes of the AI. Since raise dead gives 10 soulless, we need to top that with >10 things summoned per spell. Giving the spell improved range and precision values might allow us to make the spell summon less guys (needs testing).

Make the spell summon say 15 Fillerunits. Being size 1, they will fill up 3 squares. Then make the summon spell nextspell a AoE1 instaskill spell. This will kill all of the fillers we summoned. Then have the *real* summoning the effect by nextspelling the nextspell.

Elegant? No (the spell will show wrong effect number in its description)

Will it work? ..Probably
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