Wish spell query.

[Wauthan]

I never really bothered with the Wish spell earlier, since astral got the gems with 101 uses. But Last night I managed to corner the AI in the endgame and decided to try it out.

Typed in the names of various pretenders (wyrm, cyclops, virtue etc.) and sure enough I soon had a small army of obedient supercombatants.
Typed in "artifact" and soon got a few random ones appearing on my pretender.

But after this the game was pretty boring and I just quit. I wondered if anyone else managed to find some useful, odd or plain funny ways to use this spell. Seems like a good place for the Illwinter crew to hide a few "eastereggs".

[cihset]

Wish is actually one of my favourite spells, I love to play around with it when I become too powerful.
Some more things to wish for.

Power - (make your wisher stronger, faster better etc)
Magic Power - (+1 in all magical paths, 10's maximum)
Magic Gems - (get 25 gems of all sorts, no blood slaves though)
Blood Slaves - (get 250 blood slaves)
Dominion - (ncrease your dominion)
Provinces - (Recieve some 'free' provinces)
A monster name - (Get any creature you'd want, say a nataraja and presto, you got it)

[General Tacticus]

Oh, finally a way to transform magic gems to blood slaves ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

In my Mictlan AAR, I have a big gem income and not much to spend it on, here is a solution... I "simply" have to research wish...

[Endoperez]

Originally posted by johan osterman:
Try death <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[void]

Originally posted by cihset:
Wish is actually one of my favourite spells, I love to play around with it when I become too powerful.
Some more things to wish for.

Power - (make your wisher stronger, faster better etc)
Magic Power - (+1 in all magical paths, 10's maximum)
Magic Gems - (get 25 gems of all sorts, no blood slaves though)
Blood Slaves - (get 250 blood slaves)
Dominion - (ncrease your dominion)
Provinces - (Recieve some 'free' provinces)
A monster name - (Get any creature you'd want, say a nataraja and presto, you got it) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">wish a "Blood slave"--no "S",god will tell you that you got "a blood slave".
No new slave in dungeon.
No new artifact("blood slave") in lab.
you can try it,it's funny http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Here is something more.

Army. You get a militia horde,300~500 AFAIK.
Artifact. You get the named artifact. you can get some hidden artifact this way, "Armor of Solaris" as an example.
"Artifact". You get a random one.
Armageddon. Try it yourself http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
Experience. some experiences.
Food. some nature artifact,endless bag of wine etc.
Gold. 3000G.
"Hero". You get a random hero...but...try it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
Population. More population.

Well, i hope that i can wish a "win",but god denied my request..so i wish a "peace",got denied again. *disapp

[ January 28, 2004, 12:56: Message edited by: void ]

[johan osterman]

Try death

[Bowlingballhead]

So does this mean that I can wish for a 'Doom Horror' or the 'King of the World'?

Isn't the latter Kurgi?

Not much more unspeakably deadly than those two.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Bowlingballhead:
So does this mean that I can wish for a 'Doom Horror' or the 'King of the World'?

Isn't the latter Kurgi?

Not much more unspeakably deadly than those two. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's true. I better mod in a "Greater Doom Horror", "Horror of Greater Doom Horrors", and "The Vastness-Doom Horror Hybrid" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

I should mention that CherryMod will contain an aquatic-only Abyssal Horror.

[ January 29, 2004, 23:18: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

[Bowlingballhead]

Originally posted by SaberCherry:
That's true. I better mod in a "Greater Doom Horror", "Horror of Greater Doom Horrors", and "The Vastness-Doom Horror Hybrid" <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">...words fail me.

[ January 29, 2004, 23:43: Message edited by: Bowlingballhead ]

[void]

wish a baslisk to assassint enemy...

[Raz 24]

Wish is the funniest and most impressive spell in the game! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Me want doom horror ME want Troll raider!

[NTJedi]

I'm playing a game right now where I found a MG Site which will give me a 20% discount on alteration spells.

Thus the spell 'wish' will be lots cheaper !

[Darryl]

Originally posted by johan osterman:
Try death <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">OMG!!! I saved the turn in my game where I finally researched "Wish" just to try some things out. Dug up this thread and started playing. (I'm gonna use "Armageddon" in my next game as Ermor. A 20% decrease of pop in ALL provinces? Yum!!)

But anyway I just wished for "Death"....classic!! The best part was the Last line though...

"...but what the...Rhea survived..."

I guess Zeus' mother was a bit too powerful to be sent back to Tartarus...

By the way, how do you get a dragon? I tried wishing for one and got a Great Sage. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ March 19, 2004, 18:13: Message edited by: Darryl ]

[SurvivalistMerc]

Darryl,

Are you sure the dragon didn't just arrive in its human form?

[Norfleet]

The dragon will spawn in its human form. You won't get it as a dragon until you Gift it, then order it to change shape back into a Dragon.

[geo981010]

What other things would be fun (and viable) to wish for? Wish is mainly a SP end game spell, so I can't see these being too unbalancing.

My #1:Why can't you wish to better your scales? If I type in "Lucky Dominion", it'd be neat if it bumped my Luck up a notch (up to the maximum).

Others:
"Curse (other nation name)" to cause another gods provinces to have their local scales change negatively (random -order, -luck, - growth, -production, etc). This wouldn't change the god scales just the provinces in his dominion scales, so it would reset after a couple of turns.

"TimeStop (province number)" to cause a province to become temporarily isolated by normal travel methods. No troops in, no troops out...

"Fog of War" to cause all your troops to gain global Glamour for one turn. Does not affect units in battle, but the enemy will have no idea of any of your troop positions sizes and placements for one turn as if you only had troops with Glamour (like Vanir). Perfect for launching a massive backstabbing offensive http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

"Omniscience" to give a one turn "Eyes of God" effect that hits every province as if it was in your dominion.

"Magic Sites" to give a one turn "Strands of Arcane Power" like effect (find sites in your dominion), and if the caster's current site does not already have the maximum number of sites, creates a known 4th level site there.

"Militia" to give all provinces in your dominion a 2d6 (open-ended) increase in province militia.

"Cure" to remove all curses, horror marks and afflictions for all units in the caster's province, and restore all units there to 2 times normal HP (as if a 10 dominion strength Gift of Health was cast).

[Darryl]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
The dragon will spawn in its human form. You won't get it as a dragon until you Gift it, then order it to change shape back into a Dragon. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That was it. Man, I keep forgetting that!