Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)

[lch]

Originally Posted by capnq

Are you sure about that? Normally, when you assign a stack of units, any excess beyond the commander's capacity simply isn't assigned. Two of those Myrmidons shouldn't have moved from the garrison or commander where they were when you selected them.

As probably somebody else already wrote here before, you can give an item with a leader bonus to a commander and give more units to him than his unmodified limit is, then take the item back and he should keep the units.

[Edi]

Regarding the research thing, seems like the mechanic is working as intended. All mages have a research value of 3 as base, + 1 per each magic path they have. Any intrinsic research penalty or bonus is applied after that and then the scale modifier from magic/drain and other external modifiers (research items etc).

This lead to a situation where the only units that can have negative research in drain dominion even theoretically are the ones who have a research penalty to begin with (Machaka Witch Doctor etc), and even that seems to be limited to a minimum of one if I understood it correctly.

Of course, if the negative research is taken into account so that it has to be negated fully before items are applied, that seems consistent too.

[lch]

Yes, as said before, it seems that the mechanic is being applied correctly during hosting, but if I understood the original post correctly then the unit's info screen is showing it in a wrong way.

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by lch

Yes, as said before, it seems that the mechanic is being applied correctly during hosting, but if I understood the original post correctly then the unit's info screen is showing it in a wrong way.

Yep, as a mage always adds at least 1 rp. The info screen will always show at least 1 rp. Even when the actual rp including modifiers is negative. Currently you cannot see if this is the case on the info screen.

I never thought it was a bug. Just an interesting feature.

[archaeolept]

It looks like forging is done either in order of unit ID, or reverse order of unit ID, randomly decided on each turn. So your lowest ID forger either is the first of your mages to forge, or the last, and you'll either beat that other guy trying to forge the boots of the planes, or you won't

good solution, Johan

[lch]

... or if you're really desperate for an artifact, you'll forge it twice with both your highest- and lowest-ID mage that can do so.

[MaxWilson]

...losing an eye to an Eye Shield does not count as damage for purposes of breaking Mirror Image?

-Max

[Kristoffer O]

Originally Posted by MaxWilson

...losing an eye to an Eye Shield does not count as damage for purposes of breaking Mirror Image?

-Max

Of course not. It's just an eye popping out of its socket No real harm done!

[lch]

Ah, I'd expected KO to do better than that. You could argue that a mirror image only goes down when you manage to strike an actual hit at an enemy, then you'd know which of the ones is not an illusion. The Eye Shield works passively (I assume that the vengeful spirit in it is invisible), all those mirror images are attacking the wearer and then stumble back with an eye gouged out simultaneously. No way telling the real one this way.

[Tifone]

Well, you could see which one's eye actually falls to the ground and gets squashed under someone's foot.

Bleah