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Old August 20th, 2010, 03:57 PM

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Default Re: Pretender design for Yomi

I have 2 main problems with your build:
1. heat2 gives you a huge income penalty(10%), a lot more than what growth1 gives you(3%) and even more than what each order level gives you(7%) so by taking order3heat3(as well as sloth3growth1) you're destroying most of what you would have gained from the order3. on most maps you'd be much better off with Heat0Death1 than with Heat2Growth1, on large and huge maps this will change a bit as Death becomes increasingly unattractive.
2. by going drain3 you're destroying any hopes for long term research goals. your pretender can't research forever, and those 33 RPs won't be very much once you finish year1. eventually you'll need to rely on national mages for research, and drain3 totally kills that. drain2(only -1 RP) is acceptable on same nations, with strong research mages and possibly a rainbow pretender, but drain3(-2 RP) is too big a hit for most nations(barring LA Man that ignores drain and perhaps EA Arco that ignores drain on their philosophers, Bogarus with their awesome research mages would be a stretch already).
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