Esoteric Roman v. Greek Ranting (was Philosophers)

[Ironhawk]

Has anyone else noticed that Philosophers are not effected by Drain scale? I was playing around with some game settings and just happened to pick EA Arco. Recruited some philosophers and noticed that they had a full 5rp even in the drain-3 dominion of my cap. Moved one out to a province where I had 0-drain and he still had 5rp.

[Rytek]

They are affected by drain. You must of had sloth in the province which gives bonus that was off setting your drain.

[Ironhawk]

Uhhh... what? Sloth has no effect on magic scale. Unless there is some wierd bug I have never heard of.

I'm quite certain that Philosophers were immune to Drain. All my other mages had 1-3rps because they were losing it all to drain. But my Philosophers had their regular 5rp. I have a feeling it has to do with the fact that Philosophers have RP but no magic paths. Perhaps you must have a magic path in order for Drain to effect you?

[BigDisAwesome]

Yeah Philosophers get the sloth bonus added to their RP. So if you take sloth 3 and magic 3, they have a RP of 10. Not bad for 50 gold.

[atul]

Philosophers get one additional RP per sloth scale. For example, magic-3 sloth-2 philosophers have whopping 9 RPs. Which is a lot for 50 gp unit. Don't know what (if anything) you could pull off with them, but there's gotta be something weird.

Edit: Ninja'ed by awesomeness. Could be worse.

[thejeff]

It is a peculiarity of Philosophers that they get a research bonus in a sloth dominion.

I guess if they don't have to work, they've got more time to loll around on couches eating grapes and having insights into the nature of the universe.

[Meglobob]

Read the nation description for EA Arco. I think they have a unit that gets a bonus from sloth and ignores the effects of drain scale.

[Nix]

thejeff said:
It is a peculiarity of Philosophers that they get a research bonus in a sloth dominion.

I guess if they don't have to work, they've got more time to loll around on couches eating grapes and having insights into the nature of the universe.

You call Blade Wind "insights into the nature of the universe"?

[thejeff]

Of course not, Blade Wind is merely a mildly interesting side effect of a more fundamental aspect of the nature of Earth that happened to get mentioned to a more practical Mystic.
Hardly worth wasting your time thinking about. You'll progress much faster if you stop being distracted by all these flashy effects.

[Ironhawk]

Well well! Learn something new every day. I'm surprised that my philosopher still had 5rp when I moved him out into other provinces, but of course I wasnt even bothered to look at sloth scales. Wierd!