Forge Bonuses

Endoperez · #1 December 20th, 2003, 07:48 PM

I remember fondly the time I could cast Wish in Dominions 1 for the first time... I wished for Dwarven Smith, empowered and gave him items until he could cast Wish himself, Wished for Magic few times and got Hammer of the Cyclops. I had Forge of the Ancients active, too... Robes of Invulnerability for only 1 earth gem...

BTW, I cheated in that game. I started with 15 provinces, few commanders in every one of them and all had the Djinn Lamp. I got about 20 Djinns, and wondered why they had such a low levels of magics...
My pretender was a Dagon with level 19 in every path, and my Prophet had holy-20... Have you ever seen an unholy-19 priest reanimate? You should, you really should. And think about Orb Lightning...

[ December 20, 2003, 17:48: Message edited by: Endoperez ]

PvK · #2 December 21st, 2003, 02:19 AM

How do you get an unholy-19 priest? By modding the map?

PvK

Endoperez · #3 December 22nd, 2003, 02:22 AM

By modding the map. Just like anything else... It took some time after that until I could think level 3 mage good again.

Pocus · #4 December 21st, 2003, 08:43 PM

if you ever programmed in basic or anything else, then you can script. Something like

#commander "Archdevil"
#mag_fire 20

is rather straightforward I think.

Taqwus · #5 December 31st, 2003, 08:39 PM

Hm. Has anybody tried a Nataraja with *two* different forge-bonus weapons (e.g. Hammer of the Forge Lord, Hammer of the Cyclops)? You need at least three arms to try, since there's only one one-handed forge-bonus weapon AFAICT...
It'd be pretty wacky if those 50% forge bonuses stacked, although admittedly you need a Wish or the correct independent to get a Hammer of the Cyclops.

PvK · #6 January 1st, 2004, 01:19 AM

I haven't tried that, but my guess is it would work, because practically every other combination I have seen work with forge bonuses - sites, Ulmish forgers, items, and global enchantments.

PvK

Taqwus · #7 January 1st, 2004, 09:58 PM

Tried a Nataraja w/ Hammer of the Forge Lord + Hammer of the Cyclops Last night, empowered the fellow in some fire and astral. No other forge bonuses active.
20-gem items seemed to cost 4, 5-gem items cost 1, didn't try other levels. It's not free, but it does stack in some odd way (80% off at those two levels, at least; better than multiplicative bonus of 75% off let alone single bonus of 50%).