"Old Age" system in Dom3 - need some info - Page 5

Maltrease · #41 October 17th, 2006, 12:11 PM

Last week I was doing some test with fever fetishes on immortal units. It looked like the diseased immortal units would die (when at 1hp) and then come back. If they were still diseased they would come back at 1hp and die again the next turn. Eventually they would lose the disease affliction and be restored at full hp.

Corwin · #42 October 17th, 2006, 12:14 PM

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Yep, no more recruiting piles of sages in some far away province and forgetting about them. I think everyone who found a library did that as soon as they found it, so it's kind of nice in that regard. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinions.

I disagree. Based upon my experience aging is not as bad as not to recruit sages, (unless you took a Death scale perhaps). I still recruit them as much as I can, it is worth it even with old age.

Corwin · #43 October 17th, 2006, 12:19 PM

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Maltrease said:
Last week I was doing some test with fever fetishes on immortal units. It looked like the diseased immortal units would die (when at 1hp) and then come back. If they were still diseased they would come back at 1hp and die again the next turn. Eventually they would lose the disease affliction and be restored at full hp.

Cool. Cleaning through death and rebirth. I like it.

dirtywick · #44 October 17th, 2006, 12:22 PM

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dirtywick said:
Yep, no more recruiting piles of sages in some far away province and forgetting about them. I think everyone who found a library did that as soon as they found it, so it's kind of nice in that regard. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinions.

I disagree. Based upon my experience aging is not as bad as not to recruit sages, (unless you took a Death scale perhaps). I still recruit them as much as I can, it is worth it even with old age.

Oh, I'm not saying don't use them. I'm saying you can't just set them to research and forget that they exist, you have to check on them once in a while and possibly recruit more when they start keeling over.

thejeff · #45 October 17th, 2006, 12:33 PM

Oh, you stop recruiting sages?

And the diseased immortals sound like they have the same behavior as in Dom2. Doesn't really make sense for an immortal to accumulate penalties and afflictions from aging, though. (Unless it's the immortality as a curse theme, which doesn't really seem to fit the backstories of any of Dom3s immortals.)

Morkilus · #46 October 17th, 2006, 12:36 PM

This is the Aging Question and Answer thread about the mechanics. The Whining about Aging thread is here.

dirtywick · #47 October 17th, 2006, 12:48 PM

I sometimes skip recruiting them depending on how broke I am, sure.

Taqwus · #48 October 17th, 2006, 02:20 PM

Two of the T'ien C'hi immortals, at least, have rather high lifespans compared their starting ages.

The healer, for instance, has an Old Age threshold of 2000 years, IIRC, and might be younger than 1000 -- unless being caught by Decay after Decay, they're unlikely to age out. The swordsman has at least a couple hundred years to go, IIRC.

The one TC immortal with Old Age is the Master of the Iron Crutch, who's also somewhat less useful due to his lousy mobility (the other two can fly) and his leprosy and cursing auras.

(Hm. That's Early Era. It would be interesting if they had older starting ages in the Late Era, if they're the same heroes that is.)

Action · #49 October 19th, 2006, 05:15 PM

Did we ever find out one way or the other if the heal commnad (Arco priestess, mother of serpents) works on age caused afflictions?

Nerfix · #50 October 19th, 2006, 05:17 PM

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Did we ever find out one way or the other if the heal commnad (Arco priestess, mother of serpents) works on age caused afflictions?

Yes we did and the answer is "no".