Burden of Time

Graeme Dice · #1 February 3rd, 2004, 04:59 AM

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Originally posted by moodgiesanta:
Considering how it, in a few turns, cripples the armies of all of your enemies, I think 70 gems is very cheap for what it does.

Cripples? Not really. It gives afflictions to a few of your units every turn, and can kill a few others.

PvK · #2 February 3rd, 2004, 05:04 AM

Yes, and dispel only costs 30 (though there is the guessing game on overpowering to consider). Moreover, in a game with more than two human players, casting BoT means they are attacking everyone else, and the others will be even more likely to gang up on Ermor than they already were.

PvK

Zapmeister · #3 February 3rd, 2004, 05:26 AM

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That would be wrong. #6 and #16 are essentially the same thing.

What I meant was, filling up the table either prevents the casting of further GEs or it doesn't (I'm not sure which).

If it does, then #6 can't work, while if it doesn't then #16 can't work.

I must be missing something ...

Graeme Dice · #4 February 3rd, 2004, 05:33 AM

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Originally posted by Zapmeister:
What I meant was, filling up the table either prevents the casting of further GEs or it doesn't (I'm not sure which).

It doesn't do either. When there are five global enchantments each new enchantment must overpower an existing enchantment in order to take effect. Thus filling up the list makes it harder for new enchantments to take effect, but also allows for new enchantments to push out old ones.

Zapmeister · #5 February 3rd, 2004, 05:52 AM

Aha. Got it.

Sleepy · #6 February 13th, 2004, 02:53 AM

Hi.
Has anyone ever had GE's NOT disappear when you kill the mage? Right now I'm playing a SP game, and three GE's put in place by C'tis are still active, ten turns after I eliminated them from the game. Two of these are Burden of Time and Foul Air, so you can guess how annoyed I am.
Oh, and the GE I put up disappeared promptly when the mage was killed. Of course.
I guess this is just a bug... just wondering if anyone else has experienced it.
I'm playing the seven-nation rumble scenario if that makes any difference.

cheers...

Norfleet · #7 February 13th, 2004, 03:00 AM

GEs go away if you kill the casting mage. However, in the case of C'tis, it's possible you eliminated them without killing the actual mage who cast the spell, and as a result, he was never really "killed", even though he faded away upon the elimination of the nation.

Of course, now he no longer exists, so you can't kill him. Or so goes my theory on the matter, anyway.