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Old June 19th, 2008, 06:53 PM
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I have had the same problem sometimes. But once I got a reveler on the 3rd try. It's one of the (many) things I hate about LA Pythium.
Yes. Mages who can do everything usually can do almost nothing.
My friend tested revelers a lot and I believe he concluded that there's less than 20 percent chance in fact. Blood revelers are very important for Pythium actually but unfortunately they can't be a core of strategy with such small chance of a blood pick.
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For me I got them with about the expected frequency.

I'd say the chances of this being a bug are pretty small, being as there's nothing unique about revellers.
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I just recruited 10 and 6 were either N2 or N1B1! Freaky.
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Sometimes I wonder about the quality of the pseudorandom number generator used by Dominions. I've noticed weird correlations occasionally--in my current game I have found no fewer than THREE Air sites producing mages (Mirror Lake, Inverted Tower, and one other) when I usually don't find any. It could just be observer bias, but:

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Blood revelers are very important for Pythium actually but unfortunately they can't be a core of strategy with such small chance of a blood pick.
Why do you say that they are very important? I found them to be nice but rather unimportant in the grand scheme of LA Pyth. Basically just gives you access to an endless stream of free assassins. Good, but nothing to write home about, given the weakness of assassins in general.
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Out of 100: 87 N1, 9 N2, 4 NB. It's fine.

Edit: It's not fine -- the unit says 20% chance.
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Blood revelers are very important for Pythium actually but unfortunately they can't be a core of strategy with such small chance of a blood pick.
Why do you say that they are very important? I found them to be nice but rather unimportant in the grand scheme of LA Pyth. Basically just gives you access to an endless stream of free assassins. Good, but nothing to write home about, given the weakness of assassins in general.
Revelers aren't even stealthy... what free assassins do you mean?
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He means the satyr assassins from the Orgy spell. Unfortunately, since each Reveler costs 30g over Serpent Cult's other N1 mages that's 600g for a point of blood and not, in my estimation, remotely worthwhile.
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