Utility: Dominion Spread Utility: Questions

[Micah]

Originally Posted by vfb

No dom lucky event in turn 2? You mean more candles that should have been possible in a single province? Or more candles total around your cap?

If you had a lucky event in a province you didn't own but you had dominion in, you could get a dominion increase without the message. Just like barbarians popping up in to join an indy army when you've got misfortune.

More in total. And I'm pretty sure I didn't have any events, I can check later.

I base my assertion that preaching comes before temple spread on a few observations. One of the most notable ones was getting dom-killed in Rand Redux despite having a pile of bakemono shaman preaching on my sieged cap temple, which had a few candles of mine in it to start. My opponent didn't have significant amounts of priests there, but he did have prophet and pretender...I preach to my max of 3 dom and then his 4 checks knock out my remaining candles, otherwise his checks would have knocked me down to 0 or -1 but my 8-10 preachers should have easily been able to get that back to a positive amount...I'm assuming dom-death isn't checked until the end of the turn since that's when the message arrives, as opposed to mid-phase, though I guess that could throw things off.

[vfb]

Here's a few things I just tested:

- You can preach to above your max dominion, if your priest level is higher than your max dominion. I created a H4 priest in a test game with just a Dom-2 god. I've had 9 white candles on my province.

- Then, in a temple province with two white candles, I had 20 H1s preach. The dominion only went up to 3. I expected 4 ... but it looks like multiple low-level priests do not raise dominion above the maximum for that priest type. I though perhaps it would do a check for each, and then add up the points.

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by vfb

- Then, in a temple province with two white candles, I had 20 H1s preach. The dominion only went up to 3. I expected 4 ... but it looks like multiple low-level priests do not raise dominion above the maximum for that priest type. I though perhaps it would do a check for each, and then add up the points.

Well that's unexpected. I had seen it go higher before, but I suppose in each case, it must have been slop-over from other temples. That's good to know.