My God died.

Forrest · #1 October 20th, 2006, 05:38 PM

I was going to win the game on the next turn. When my God was killed by Horrors. The other guy was declared the winner.

My God was down like -9399 hit points.

I was not able to resurect because why?

Was it too many negative hit points?

Manuk · #2 October 20th, 2006, 05:39 PM

Endoperez · #3 October 20th, 2006, 05:47 PM

What did the "lost the game" message tell you? It always tells the reason for the loss. Even if you were leading in provinces, you might've had low dominion. When your dominion dies, you aren't even a pretender god any more, and lose.

Forrest · #4 October 20th, 2006, 06:09 PM

I had almost every province and was besieging the last enemy castle. The gates were down and I decided wait a turn to bring up a extra army before taking it.

It may have said I had no lands to bring him back in. I know I went from having 37 out of 40 provinces (10 per god)to none in one turn. The last enemy had only one province and that was being besieged. Then bam God killed by horrors and other guy owns all provinces.

I was realy too angry to the message the way I should have. I knew I should take the castle that turn. I was scared of all the horror marks that God had.

Endoperez · #5 October 20th, 2006, 06:12 PM

Do you still have the game directory? That sounds like a bug. Unless it was against a human, of course, and he had been building lots and lots of stealthy forces and your provinces had very weak defence or perhaps even no PD at all.

Forrest · #6 October 20th, 2006, 08:01 PM

No I erased it as a lost game.

It was agaist the computer. Just a small short game. I think it was the God Cyclops as I was using far strike because of his strength.

Dom was 4 or 5. PD was 11 in most provinces.

I have myself half convinced that it read that in the end he had no provinces to come back in.

Archonsod · #7 October 21st, 2006, 07:46 AM

Did you build any temples? If your pretender was your sole source of dominion, his death would have triggered a total dominion loss...

Arralen · #8 October 21st, 2006, 07:52 AM

Not true. At first, you start with a temple. Second, you (should) have a prophet who spreads dominion, too. Third, dominion does not vanish into nothing on its own, it has to be pushed away by some others pretender dominion.

Instant dominion death seems rather unlikely in this case, unless he already had black candles all over his provinces ... .

Archonsod · #9 October 21st, 2006, 08:16 AM

Random events can lower dominion and destroy temples. If your pretender has a dominion of 1, and is the sole source of dominion then your pretty much guaranteed to lose it if he dies (especially if the only dominion you have is the 1 candle in the province your pretender is in).
Besides which I've noticed the AI suffer instant dominion loss a couple of times when they lost their pretender. Not sure if this is a bug or not - it appears to occur with pretenders who have a low dominion score (or low dominion presence).

Gandalf Parker · #10 October 21st, 2006, 11:38 AM

Winner should only have been declared if
A) you have no way to pray your god back. No priests, no temples, no dominion for him to return to.

or

B) the other player gained enough victory points on that turn. Thats only if the game was created as a victory point game