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spirokeat
July 22nd, 2004, 09:51 PM
But ! how bloody annoying is it when your mages cast spells that are tottally inapropriate...

I was just enjoying an opening game as Mictlan, had a nice army of mages and my water mage cast breath of winter, killing my prophet, a hero and the 2 pyromancers that I had with them as artillary.

Bah, you should be able to tell a mage not to cast certain spells. Or at least have a routine in the AI to not wipe out friendly forces.

Spiro
The_Tauren13
July 22nd, 2004, 10:13 PM
heh, that reminds me of when i n00bishly had a non fire resistant guy kill himself summoning fire elementals. course, that was my fault, not the commander's ai
KroolDeath
July 22nd, 2004, 10:32 PM
Will friendly troops in the vicinity catch on fire from summoned fire elementals, assuming they are not fire resistance.

Krool
Arryn
July 23rd, 2004, 02:06 AM
Originally posted by KroolDeath:
Will friendly troops in the vicinity catch on fire from summoned fire elementals, assuming they are not fire resistance.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes, they will. Friendly troops, including the caster itself, can also be killed by poorly-planned spells. You will all too frequently see the AI become victim to such things. It'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
Darryl
July 23rd, 2004, 05:00 AM
Originally posted by spirokeat:

I was just enjoying an opening game as Mictlan, had a nice army of mages and my water mage cast breath of winter, killing my prophet, a hero and the 2 pyromancers that I had with them as artillary.

Bah, you should be able to tell a mage not to cast certain spells. Or at least have a routine in the AI to not wipe out friendly forces.

Spiro <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I feel your pain. Believe me. I now don't even put mages that can cast the spell into battle with other troops, further increasing my general disdain for water (clams I know and quickness, but not much else)

According to Johan in this thread (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=74;t=001827#000006) the AI is working correctly. It's supposed to cast breath of winter if no troops are nearby. I don't quite understand the explanation when it completely ignores friendly troops, but in that thread it doesn't seem like Illwinter considers it to be "broken".

Darryl