Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Tested a bit more. Even 15% innate bonus on a mage is enough. This means Taimai elders and LA Ulm Black priests can also make free items if they have luck to find construction bonus site. Sounds evil.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Well, in practice generally 1 gem with no hammer is better than no gems with a hammer by the point of the game you're putting up forge of the ancients, etc.

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The point isn't so much that you can get free items, but that it's possible to exceed the 80% cost reduction cap, which I had previously thought was a hard limit. As I mentioned, with the same set of bonuses they forge 40-gem items for 6.

I suspect that the key is pushing the bonus to 80% before the site bonus is factored in, and then the site bonus ends up pushing it beyond 80% reduction (and truncating, so items costing fractional gems are free).

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

I've never heard of an "80% cost reduction cap" (except in GURPS) before. The algorithm is pretty simple: if there's Forge of the Ancients up, halve cost and round down. Then apply your forge bonus and round down again. And yes, you can forge cheap items for free with a large enough bonus, although in practice it's probably better to forge an expensive item for really cheap.

-Max

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Now you can see that fighting in void has its penalties:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/Zeldor/void.jpg

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Interesting.. how did you get that.. I don't think R. suffers that.

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but void beings don't get it I guess?

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Battle for guy Lost in time and space.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

Fire Plate (at least in CBM) adds 2 to morale but never mentions that in its description.

I certainly didn't. Sorry if it's been mentioned already.

Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)
 

The R'lyeh Visitor hero can fly from one water province to another. Even when sea of ice is up.