Fortune Tellers

[Endoperez]

Originally Posted by konming

Bad events are NOT checked against each fortune teller. In fact, they are checked against the sum of all fortune tellers in a province. If you have ten fortune teller 10 mages in a province, they will block 100% of all bad events, instead of 65% if the events are checked against individual fortune tellers.

I just tested this myself, and you are right. Thanks for finding this out. It makes fortune tellers much more useful than I thought they were.

[Epaminondas]

Originally Posted by Endoperez

I just tested this myself, and you are right. Thanks for finding this out. It makes fortune tellers much more useful than I thought they were.

Yeah, it makes those fortune tellers devastatingly good, and makes going deeply into the negative luck scale an option.

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by konming

Bad events are NOT checked against each fortune teller. In fact, they are checked against the sum of all fortune tellers in a province. If you have ten fortune teller 10 mages in a province, they will block 100% of all bad events, instead of 65% if the events are checked against individual fortune tellers.

I tried to suggest the same thing in other threads.
I think this same principle occurs in many different areas.

For example, if you mod 4 25% chances - the game will sum it to 1 100%.

That being said, I'm playing ashdod in stasis, and I took either a Mis2 or Mis3 scale. I believe 2, as I still wanted to get national heros.

I have built fortune tellers on all castles... and have had maybe 2-3 bad events in the entire game.

That being said, its isn't a viable strategy, even with magic 3. The fortune tellers simply cost too much (at least for ashdod) and tie up build slots to keep your magi research competitive.

[Kristoffer O]

You might be right. I've never known how it works, and when I have asked JK he has just shrugged and said that he didn't know if it was one way or the other, but that it probably was one check for each

[Dedas]

This is excellent news for me. Time to rethink some of my pretender designs...

[Kristoffer O]

Sounds quite powerful.

Makes misfortune attractive. Good you can't have that many fortune tellers early on when it matters the most

[Dedas]

Originally Posted by Kristoffer O

Sounds quite powerful.

Makes misfortune attractive. Good you can't have that many fortune tellers early on when it matters the most

Yes, that is good too... very, eh, good.

[Tifone]

Wow, a powerful ability indeed if that stacks =)

I think a oracle with some fortunetelling would open a new possibility of getting high misfortune without fearing too much the dreadful bad events at the start

[VedalkenBear]

Well, I know I use Fortunetellers _with_ Luck scales, to easily and completely avoid any chance of a bad event. (I really hate the bad events.)

Also, Cassandra would have, if anything, 'negative' Fortunetelling. Remember, she was cursed with perfect foresight, but no one would believe her.

Taking Misfortune is a wonderful RP exercise with, say, BF Ulm and their Malediction.

[chrispedersen]

ahh, but being a god (even a pretender) you'd be smarter right?