Luck Scale and Paths

[Starshine_Monarch]

Quickie question: The thought just popped into my head and I was wondering, does the Luck scale of a province affect the mages you recruit from there with less than 100% chance of a random? Or is it just a straight 10% or 20% or whatever all the time?

[Zeldor]

No effect on that.

[Starshine_Monarch]

Thanks. Just wanted to make sure.

[Gregstrom]

It'd be sort of nice if it did, though.

[Tifone]

Mmh. I think the "Magic" scale would be more appropriate, in case ;)

[Gregstrom]

There is that. :)

From the 'adding choices to the game' point of view, making more things affected by province luck scale would be nice. There appears to be a general tendency for players to take a Magic scale anyway, so why add further incentives?

On the other hand, Misfortune seems to be taken over Luck most of the time. If there was a Nethack-esque approach to luck, with most if not all random rolls (slightly) affected by your Luck scale, it might require more serious thought before people took Misf-2 with their pretender.

Of course, this is all pie-in-the-sky really. I think it'd take too much work to add that sort of feature to the game.

[Tifone]

Well, some of the most used mods in MP (Worthy Heroes, Throne of Heroes), make national heroes very worthy. It is a nice step towards making the Luck/Misf scale less of a no-brainer ;)

Also, some nations seem to benefit more from a Turm3/Luck3 approach than an Order3/Misf2 one. A handful of extra random gems are good to diversify, and the chance of up to 3000 gold in a turn can be nicer than a constant cash flow if you're not extremely troops-heavy (even if of course gold is always convenient, even just for more temples and labs :D )

PS there's no pie in the sky. Just a teapot :rolleyes: