Keeping Helpful Enemy Dominion Alive...

Ironhawk · #1 June 21st, 2008, 05:41 PM

Yeah its not possible to ever benefit from positivie enemy scales - tho you can be harmed by negative enemy scales. So the best situation you can hope for is to have terrible scales of your own and have enemy dominion bring you to nuetral.

Endoperez · #2 June 21st, 2008, 05:58 PM

Interestingly enough, enemy Luck is considered Misfortune.

DonCorazon · #3 June 21st, 2008, 06:20 PM

I have Drain - 3 (want to see if I can make it work), they have Magic 3 - it is definitely helping me.

Endoperez · #4 June 21st, 2008, 06:31 PM

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DonCorazon said:
I have Drain - 3 (want to see if I can make it work), they have Magic 3 - it is definitely helping me.

Are you actually getting the research bonus from Magic in enemy dominion? As was said, it should only negate the research penalty of Drain.

Ballbarian · #5 June 21st, 2008, 06:44 PM

Negating the research penalty would be pretty helpful.

DonCorazon · #6 June 21st, 2008, 07:00 PM

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Endoperez said:

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DonCorazon said:
I have Drain - 3 (want to see if I can make it work), they have Magic 3 - it is definitely helping me.

Are you actually getting the research bonus from Magic in enemy dominion? As was said, it should only negate the research penalty of Drain.

Its negating the penalty as was said. I wasn't contesting that point - just wasn't clear on what Ironhawk had said when he said it was never possible to benefit but I see his point now - I am not getting the bonus - but as I said, it is definitely helpful not to suffer the penalty.

Endoperez · #7 June 21st, 2008, 07:30 PM

That's what I though. Good, no new, strange bugs on sight.

JimMorrison · #8 June 22nd, 2008, 05:15 AM

Ummmmm, is there anyone here who can corroborate what enemy dominion SHOULD do, and what it DOES do?

I can tell you with absolute certainty that I am being affected by enemy Magic scale (not Drain). It's easy to see on small maps where centers of dominion overlap in strange ways. Also, I am quite positive that Growth as well as Prod provide beneficial effects.

I would not be surprised if only the Luck is different, as it makes perfect sense theat their good luck is your misfortune, but the other scales just are what they are.

(Edit: I thought it important to add, that this is consistent behavior. It has happened to me for so long, I do not question its relevance in my games. Maybe it's because I still play a lot of SP as well, and so don't border on so many vaguely homogenized dominions.

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