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If somebody casts Burden of Time, and a unit cannot age (equipment/unique fountain of youth artifact), will BoT override this?
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Currently yes, after the next patch hits they won't age anymore.
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Feb 28, 2014 22:23
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Decrepus posted:You need to recruit Scouts from every province that can recruit them every single turn. Use repeat recruitment. If you are unlucky and don't get scout provinces just go AI. Scouts will give you a rough estimation of the enemy force in the province which will often be terribly off and cause you to die. A scout might report that there are some militia and archers and leave out the information about two powerful air mages backing them up. Years of RTS experience have ingrained "ALWAYS BE SCOUTING" into my psyche, and the second I figured out that Pangaea can recruit Harpies from any forest province they became my new favorite nation. Does anyone beat Pangaea when it comes to scouting ability? After like 20 turns I see all.
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Feb 28, 2014 22:34
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Pomp posted:Years of RTS experience have ingrained "ALWAYS BE SCOUTING" into my psyche, and the second I figured out that Pangaea can recruit Harpies from any forest province they became my new favorite nation. Does anyone beat Pangaea when it comes to scouting ability? After like 20 turns I see all. I have the opposite problem. My RTS experience has left me with the dumb habit of "scouting in force". Which essentially means not doing much scouting at all, instead using huge stacks of units as a combined scout/conquest force. This habit is annoyingly hard to break. It also doesn't help that I'm right now in a MP-game where I have no scouts and can recruit no scouts. (I only had one, lonely scout. But thanks to our gimmick map, there is no place I could recruit more like him, regardless of how many forts I build. And now this scout has been killed of in the deep sea. Stupid squid-people!  )
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Feb 28, 2014 22:39
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Pomp posted:Years of RTS experience have ingrained "ALWAYS BE SCOUTING" into my psyche, and the second I figured out that Pangaea can recruit Harpies from any forest province they became my new favorite nation. Does anyone beat Pangaea when it comes to scouting ability? After like 20 turns I see all. Ur can recruit scouts from any owned province. But both harpies and Ur scouts lack the Spy trait, so while you can see the general shape of things faster, you still want a few real scouts.
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Feb 28, 2014 22:40
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Decrepus posted:If you are unlucky and don't get scout provinces just go AI. Penguingo posted:I've only won a couple games, I might join in as Mictlan.
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Feb 28, 2014 22:57
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I'm willing to drop from the newbie game if I'm not enough of a newbie anymore.  I don't want to take a slot from someone who honestly does have less experience than me. I just can't seem to withdraw my application since I was the last one to sign up, so if the admin of the game wants to do that?
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Feb 28, 2014 23:20
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We could probably just start a second game, there seems to be enough interest. I haven't played a mp dom4 game yet but I'd be interested.
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Feb 28, 2014 23:23
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"I haven't won much" is pretty true for all Dom players since only one person (until disciples) can win. If you can handle communions, mage scripting, army scripting, expansion, research, scouting and economy to some degree, I'd say you are no longer a newb. That being said, since everyone is talking about how domkill nations suck, what about a game where the only nations allowed are domkill? (Asphodel, Lemuria, Ermor, LA Rlyeh) I wonder how that game would go. Call it "gently caress the 99%"
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I still gently caress up everything on that list other than economy (and I'm pretty sure that's only because I basically always go full scales)  I'm pretty sure the only reason I'm not dead in Newblood is the fact that everyone's pretty non-agressive. edit: Since the game's already up I'll upload my pretender and stuff, but if another newbie wants to switch out with me and play as MA Man, I'll be happy to let them sub in!
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Feb 28, 2014 23:42
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:We could probably just start a second game, there seems to be enough interest. If a new game starts I'd be pleased as peaches to get in on a newbie game. I've only ever done single player.
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Feb 28, 2014 23:43
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Donkringel posted:"I haven't won much" is pretty true for all Dom players since only one person (until disciples) can win. If you can handle communions, mage scripting, army scripting, expansion, research, scouting and economy to some degree, I'd say you are no longer a newb. That would be a great idea for the rear end in a top hat-factor alone. Also I call dibs on Lemuria.
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Pomp posted:Years of RTS experience have ingrained "ALWAYS BE SCOUTING" into my psyche, and the second I figured out that Pangaea can recruit Harpies from any forest province they became my new favorite nation. Does anyone beat Pangaea when it comes to scouting ability? After like 20 turns I see all. On UW Scout Chat - fortunately every single claimed underwater province is going to be forted eventually, so you can assume it's a total loving deathtrap. jBrereton fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Mar 1, 2014 |
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Rather than arguing about who is really newb enough it would be better if people hosting newb games just made some explicit condition like "You should have played under X mplayer games" or whatever Does anyone have a strategy suggestion for playing a blood-hunt nation without reaching deep into blood magic? I'm playing LA Bogarus in a mplayer game right now and I really like their magic diversity, but being able to summon sweet patrollers for 1 air gem means I'm still tempted to run a middling blood economy. Is getting level 1 blood magic for reinvigorations and then funneling the rest of my slaves into blood gear (like lifelong protection) worth the investment in blood hunting? Or am I an idiot and I should go deep into blood for its endgame stuff? edit: I'm also looking at imp familiars but +3 research seems really meh, and they have a horrormark chance.... TheresNoThyme fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Mar 1, 2014 |
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Mar 1, 2014 00:52
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TheresNoThyme posted:Does anyone have a strategy suggestion for playing a blood-hunt nation without reaching deep into blood magic? Bogarus can do blood with FFAs. Go for it. The chance of horrors appearing is tied to your magic scales IIRC, and there's no reason not to run Drain-3 as Bogarus. Imp Familiars are kinda pish, though, agreed, but you have access to every research booster.
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jBrereton posted:Uh not really a thing. At least get the ability to Ritual of the Five Gates so you can build some kind of demon force going to gently caress up your enemies and especially their scripting. Yea I'm sure I can get a robust blood economy rolling, my main concern is that I think their mages are good enough to do all kinds of stuff - thaum, enchantment and obviously evo all seem like solid schools to research heavily. Which means blood research probably won't make it to the sweet stuff before I'm eliminated due to some terrible newb mistake. Ritual of the five gates sounds like a good intermediary point, I'll test it out in SP and see how I like it.
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How do I go faster?
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amuayse posted:How do I go faster? Boots of Quickness? 
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He doesn't have a boot slot.
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Oh well, better throw 50 water gems at him.
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Kitfox88 posted:Boots of Quickness? Dimensional rod.
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Flavahbeast posted:too slow
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Hey, if you missed out on the other newbie game and are sad about that, you can join the new one I made. Details are in the PGS thread.
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I'm excited, I have no idea what I'm doing so I'm going to go balls to the wall with blood magic. I'm looking forward to actually figuring out what I'm doing in this thing, I can't wait to show off my EA R'lyeh pretender: Polyp'nomial
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In Grampa's Closet: Ashdod does not fear fire. Ashdod does not fear little arrows. Ashdod laughs at little fire arrows.  300 Pygmies vs 29 Double bless giants. I think if you took the sum of the damage dealt overall to the giants by the pygmies, it still wouldn't be enough to kill a single giant.
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Victor Vermis posted:In Grampa's Closet: On that day, humanity received a grim reminder Can we still hit up server hosts to host games on the pubbie service, or are we on our own for that?
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Pomp posted:On that day, humanity received a grim reminder Imagine an AoT mod! :P
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Pomp posted:On that day, humanity received a grim reminder For now I'm going to say that it depends for me. I don't mind hosting public games for goons right now but if it becomes too much of a pain in the rear end then I'm going to stop and only host all goon games. On a similar note, what is the biggest barrier for more people than just Tenjou to host right now? Is it a dedicated computer always on/connected to the net? Is it not knowing how? Is it people not trusting their home internet and wanting a server? I ask because a few people are currently speccing out/talking about an app to automate all facets of game hosting and give people a way to plug their servers into it so you could like get a small AWS instance, install dominions, run our executable and then use our site to do all the config/settings/admin/etc. We don't have a schedule or anything so please don't consider it a thing but we're all pretty into it and think it would be a fun project.
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amuayse posted:How do I go faster?
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murtidash posted:For now I'm going to say that it depends for me. I don't mind hosting public games for goons right now but if it becomes too much of a pain in the rear end then I'm going to stop and only host all goon games. It's the always connected part, for me. poo poo goes down all the time.
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Turin Turambar posted:Imagine an AoT mod! :P So Hinnom then?
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OK put in my registration for the goon game service. Is there a steam group too? Can't wait to be bad at this game with goons.
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murtidash posted:For now I'm going to say that it depends for me. I don't mind hosting public games for goons right now but if it becomes too much of a pain in the rear end then I'm going to stop and only host all goon games. Definitely the always-on connection for me since my ISP is terrible, but I think the convenience of providing an admin app that would handle hosting duties for people would be huge. I'm a programmer and I'm very confident I could host a dom game if I just sat down and RTFM, but I was still planning to use the public host posted in PGS for a small game with my coworkers. ToxicSlurpee posted:OK put in my registration for the goon game service. Is there a steam group too? Can't wait to be bad at this game with goons. Use IRC. I'm only two games in but so far it's a million times easier to find people and get messages back and forth.
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There are some Dominions players who will attack anyone who doesn't use IRC because it makes diplo too difficult. Use IRC!
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We have a bot in IRC that allows for asynchronous messaging, like this: .tell MrBims gently caress you So it is really really good to come on IRC even if its just like once a day, just so you can establish some kind of communication with other players without messing with the ingame system that can take up to two days just to get a response.
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I've heard a lot that the Ghost King is a preferred expansion chassis but he seems kind of fragile to me. I assume he's expected to be self-buffing. What spells would he want to have access to for the purposes of using him this way?
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MagnumOpus posted:I've heard a lot that the Ghost King is a preferred expansion chassis Like they're ethereal I guess, but Dom 2 -> Dom 9 is a bit expensive for a chassis which gets ganked pretty loving hard by anything with magic weapons, and a whole bunch of specific magic to combat the undead.
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MagnumOpus posted:I've heard a lot that the Ghost King is a preferred expansion chassis but he seems kind of fragile to me. I assume he's expected to be self-buffing. What spells would he want to have access to for the purposes of using him this way? He hasn't been since dom2 really. Dragons are the most popular expansion chassis these days. If you want to make the GK work, you'd probably want to craft him some armor and take dom9. Black steel or enchanted ring mail will work. Also probably worth bumping death up so you get fear 10. Even then, he's kinda fragile and you would have to pay close attention to dominion score as he should never ever go into hostile dom while expanding.
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MagnumOpus posted:I've heard a lot that the Ghost King is a preferred expansion chassis but he seems kind of fragile to me. I assume he's expected to be self-buffing. What spells would he want to have access to for the purposes of using him this way? Always go dragon always go AI.
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