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[Endoperez]

Some corrections:

Being a prophet also increases your stats.
There is a bug with which you can make your god a prophet, this is not advised and, as said, is a bug.

Forge item - researching in Construction helps. Different magics allow different items. Level one item costs 5 gems, level 2 10, level 3 20 and level 4 40. The few items needing level 5 in a path take 80 gems, IIRC right.

A few hints about when it is appopriate to use a command (like empower) would be nice, because this is for those who don't know such things...
For empowerment, I would suggest against it unless it allows you to cast a very good ritual, item or spell, or lets you use otherwise useless gems for rituals/items.

Some hints about different magics when creating a pretender would be nice. Short descriptions, like:

Fire magic lets you cast many different damaging spells. It also has Fire shield that greatly improves the efficiency of your Super Combatant. Evocation lets you cast most fire battlefield spells. Conjuration allows you to summon fire elementals in battle, as well as summer lions through a ritual. First level of enchantment lets you cast the fire shield.

Okay, they are not that short, but give some idea about the different schools.
Oh, damn. *slaps head* You see short descriptions from the choose magics screen. Oh well.
It is good that they did that before us, though.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Endoperez:
Being a prophet also increases your stats.
There is a bug with which you can make your god a prophet, this is not advised and, as said, is a bug.

Ssshh!!! Not worth the bother, though, IMO. He is not sacred or blessed, so doesn't get the cool bless bonuses.

I figured out how to get 2 prophets, though... make you god a prophet... kill him... wait... make a new prophet... call back your god (he's still a prophet)

But, yes, as Endoperez said, this is a bug and will be fixed soon - the god is not supposed to become his own prophet, except for maybe the Wyrm which has 2 heads, 2 brains, and I would assume 2 identities...

[Saber Cherry]

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[ November 26, 2003, 03:10: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

[Saber Cherry]

If anyone knows the full effects of dominion, and can post them here, I'd be grateful! For example, "increases pretender HP by dominion*10%, strength by dominion/2," and etc, and "raises friendly morale by 1", and "gives a 1% income bonus per level", "decreases unrest by X" or whatever it does. I'd like to know ALL of them, because dominion is pretty central to the game, and it is a common question. The ones above are mostly made up. Things like Conscription, vampires appearing for the vampire pretender, and so forth would be nice too. The rate of scale change for dominion levels would also be helpful.

Also, if anyone can read through the "scales" section of the guide and verify/correct all the information, or add stuff that was missed, it would be greatly appreciated! Specific luck-scale effects and verification of the exact numbers for each scale would be nice.

-Cherry

[Saber Cherry]

Please? Discriminating players really want to know these things!

Cherrypie!

All scales have 3 steps in either direction from the basic balanced state. Following is a brief list of the different Dominion effects per scale step. In addition to these effects, the scales affect what kind of random events can happen in a provinces.

Order Increases income by 7%. 10% fewer random events. You do not get any income bonus from an orderly Dominion belonging to another Pretender God.
Turmoil Decreases income by 7%. 10% more random events.
Productivity Increases resource production by 10% and income by 2%. You do not get any from a productive Dominion belognging to another Pretender God.
Sloth Decreases resources production by 10% and income by 2%.
Heat Decreases tax revenue by 5%. Decreases supplies by 10%.**
Cold Decreases tax revenue by 5%. Decreases supplies by 10%.**
Growth Increases population by 0.2% per month. Increases supplies by 20% and income by 2%.
Death Decreases population by 0.2% per month. Decreases supplies by 20% and income by 2%.
Fortune 10% greater chance of a random event being good. You do not benefit from a lucky Domain belonging to another Pretender God.
Misfortune 10% greater chance of a random event being bad.
Magic More difficult to resist magic (-0.5 MR). +1 Research point for all mages in the province. YHou do not get any research bonus from a magical Dominion of another Pretender God
Drain Easier to resist magic (+0.5 MR). =1 Research point for all mages in the province.

** This scale is what is applied outside of the "Racial Preference" of a race. Thus an Abysian whose Racial Preference of Heat 3, would lose 5% Tax, -10% Supplies in Heat 2, and an additional -5% Tax, -10% Supplies at Heat 1, and so on.

Page 5-6 of Dominions 2 Manual

Edit: Added the Portion about Racial Preference to Temperature.

[ November 24, 2003, 02:17: Message edited by: Zen ]

[Gandalf Parker]

Since multiplayer games are beginning to kick up....
OK I dug up some of the info from Dom1 on how to create an icon JUST for doing a turn in a game. this makes it easy for me to click on it to snag my turn file. This is for games that are done on a tcp server (someones machine up all the time to receive requests). If you already have an icon for Dominions2 on your desktop then right-click that and choose "create shortcut" to get another icon. Right click that one and select "Properties". Find the line that is calling dom.exe add this to it.

"dom.exe" -wif --tcpclient --ipadr (ip_address) --port (port)

Where the content in the braces () is to be replaced with the correct numbers for the server of your game. If there are quotes after dom.exe be sure to add the switches OUTSIDE of those quotes.

There are alot of other switches that can be added to do speed up or slow down the game for just that one icon listed in the command_line_switches file (its a text file in the doc directory of dominions). Such as, in the example above I also have -w to pla yin a window, -i to skip the intro, and -f to skip the fade-in/fade-out effects. This way you can set your daily-turn game to be ugly but fast with no music if you wanted, and still leave the other icon playing Dominions2 in all its glory.

You can create one for games done by email or by ftp but it would be different for each program people use.