Another quick on on astral Corruption...

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by vfb

The "going from drain 2 to magic 3 plus dominion sculpting" is the thing I don't understand.

You are going to magic-3 scales only in the province that has the dome, right?

Either:

1) you are researching while the dome is up, your mages inside get eaten.

or

2) you wait until the dome is down, but your dominion scales kill the magic-3, if you have positive dominion

or

3) you wait until the dome is down, but you don't benefit from the magic-3, because you don't have dominion


Is there some alternative that I'm just not seeing?

Yes. With one candle of dominion your chances of having a scale flip are small. Several nations can easily get one candle of dominion, mictlan, lapythium, ea arco. I've lasted 22 turns at a go without losing one scale.

Even if lose dominion in the province, you still lose your penalty (in this case) of -2 drain.

Finally (and this is a tiny bonus)... many events seem to key off scale not dominion.