what the heck are my Communion Slaves doing?

Vynd · #1 November 22nd, 2004, 04:12 PM

Nice job pulling all of that information together Zooko. Most of us (myself included) would have just asked "Hey, why did this happen?" rather than gathering together so much data to look at.

Zooko · #2 November 22nd, 2004, 05:13 PM

Thanks!

Oh wait -- no mage ever gained more than 4 fatigue back unless they were over 100. The most any gained back while < 100 was 4. The most gained back while >= 100 was 8.

So it sounds like you can get a bonus of up to 4 fatigue back when you are over 100.

Chazar · #3 November 22nd, 2004, 07:45 PM

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So it sounds like you can get a bonus of up to 4 fatigue back when you are over 100.

I dont want to be nitpicky, but on page 15 of the dom2 manual, section 6.2.8, reads: "At 100 points, a unit falls unconcious. Unconcious units recover..."

alexti · #4 November 22nd, 2004, 08:58 PM

To my knowledge, helping master to cast spell requires slave's attention in that round, so if you want your communion slaves to be active, script the master to cast some spells and then attack (or do anything else but casting). I still couldn't make communion slaves to advance though.

Zooko · #5 November 23rd, 2004, 11:24 PM

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so if you want your communion slaves to be active, script the master to cast some spells and then attack (or do anything else but casting). I still couldn't make communion slaves to advance though.

Err, what are the other options? "Stay behind troops"? I always figured if I told him to stay behind troops then he would cast spells anyway (as long as he was behind troops). Oh, does that mean *immediately* behind troops? As in -- follow troops around? That would be interesting..

alexti · #6 November 24th, 2004, 09:25 PM

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alexti said:
so if you want your communion slaves to be active, script the master to cast some spells and then attack (or do anything else but casting). I still couldn't make communion slaves to advance though.

Err, what are the other options? "Stay behind troops"? I always figured if I told him to stay behind troops then he would cast spells anyway (as long as he was behind troops). Oh, does that mean *immediately* behind troops? As in -- follow troops around? That would be interesting..

The obvious one is retreat. Another sort of option is to get killed, that in the case when you're bringing disposable weakling mage just to cast buffs. Stay behind troops will not work I think; the mage will still try to cast spells.

Zooko · #7 November 28th, 2004, 10:11 AM

More communion questions:

I have six mages. (I hope my enemies from the Argitoth MP game aren't reading this thread.)

I could make one be Communion Master and five Communion Slaves. This wouldn't give the master any more magic path boost than four Slaves, but it would spread the fatigue out a bit more.

Or I could make one be Master, four Slaves, and one neither.

Or I could make two Masters and four Slaves. Now if I did that, would each Master get a +1 boost and spread the fatigue among two Slaves each, or would each one get a +2 boost, and spread the fatigue among all four slaves?

Zooko · #8 December 5th, 2004, 08:12 AM

All this time I thought that "A communion with two communion slaves will grant all masters one extra level in all their paths" meant in all the slaves' paths, but now I'm beginning to realize that it means all the masters' paths. So a 1-Astral mage is just as good as a 1-Fire, 1-Water, 1-Air, 1-Earth, 1-Death, 1-Nature, 1-Blood, 1-Astral mage when serving as a communion slave ?