Does anybody know?

FrankTrollman · #1 March 15th, 2005, 08:05 PM

BTW, when a unit is "killed" by Burden of Time, it suffers exactly 999 points of damage. With a prophet of a golem cult, for example, it is possible to exceed 999 hit points. Does anybody know whether it reports the character as "dead" if they suffer 999 damage and live from a Burden of Time?

(I figured this one out when Burden of Time killed one of my Hall of Famers).

-Frank

The_Tauren13 · #2 March 16th, 2005, 03:03 AM

Im willing to bet a units health cannot and will not exceed 999. It will probably just arbitrarily limit, as do gems.

Endoperez · #3 March 16th, 2005, 05:54 PM

What about Golem Cult Sphinx Pretender in high positive dominion? I seem to remember that I had a Sphinx once with over 1000 hp, but I'm not sure.

Are you sure that wasn't 9999 damage?

FrankTrollman · #4 March 16th, 2005, 07:41 PM

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Endoperez asks:
Are you sure that wasn't 9999 damage?

Positive. My dead Sea King has -972 hit points, and he had 27. So the Burden o Time inflicted 999 hit points. I suspect other death effects do the same thing. Certainly, the Ethereal Crossbow actually claims to inflict 999 points of damage on some screens.

As to a Sphinx, in a Golem Cult it gains 100 hit points per point of Dominion before it even gets any XP. So at dominon 10 it's going to have 1500 hit points at the start of the game.

-Frank

Taqwus · #5 March 16th, 2005, 11:49 PM

Couldn't it just be a symbolic damage assessed after the unit fails its rolls? After all, it has some purpose -- 999 damage should give a massive chance of an affliction on anything non-regenerating, for instance, and this matters for both HoF (mummies) and immortals.

johan osterman · #6 March 17th, 2005, 09:09 AM

It is 999 in damage. And sphinxes in home dominion can survive soul slay, burden of time etc. It has been this way since dom1.

FrankTrollman · #7 March 22nd, 2005, 04:16 AM

OK, Manifestation. It claims a 50% return rate when the caster sends it out. I know that it can attack your own stuff in the province (and thus it differs sharply from Earth Attack), but how does it actually work?

Is it a 50% chance per leader of being "suitable" each turn? (that would make your chances of having it attack an enemy leader in a big army near 100%) Is it a 50% chance of any leader being "sitable", followed by a random draw as to which leader it is?

Give me a bone here...

-Frank