"Old Age" system in Dom3 - need some info

Maltrease · #1 October 14th, 2006, 10:43 AM

I like the idea of an old mage learning additional magic. A lot of nations descriptions have the old mage with lots of magic and then a young mage (who is on the same career path as the old mage) with less magic. So it would make sense to me that the mages could learn new magic over time.

Maybe each year they are around a mage gets some kind of "credit" that could be used to discount empowering in certain paths? I'm sure balance with this could get real tricky... but it could make the age mechanic more enjoyable (gaining power) instead of simply trying to stave off death and uselessness.

Endoperez · #2 October 14th, 2006, 11:02 AM

It's more like that the old mages have ALREADY learn new magic. If, say, Ulm had gotten a E3F2 strange-random Ancient Smith with old age 72(46), there'd be no problem. It'd be called an interesting way to balance a more powerful mage. However, because we have learned to expect good mages that don't have a chance of dying into afflictions, old age is seen as a bore.

Maltrease · #3 October 14th, 2006, 11:41 AM

But a young mage that has been around as long as the difference in ages (between young and old version) still has the low magic.

Ermor Old Faith
Compare an Augur (F1 S1) age 37 (48)
to Augur Elder (F2 S1 D2 R1) age 60 (46)

Shouldn't the skills of the Augur advance toward the Augur Elder as he gains in age? If so why would the advancement stop once he is as old as the "Augur Elder"?

Agrajag · #4 October 14th, 2006, 11:56 AM

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Maltrease said:
Shouldn't the skills of the Augur advance toward the Augur Elder as he gains in age? If so why would the advancement stop once he is as old as the "Augur Elder"?

Maybe because he stops his guided training in order to join the army?

Corwin · #5 October 14th, 2006, 03:03 PM

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Agrajag said:

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Maltrease said:
Shouldn't the skills of the Augur advance toward the Augur Elder as he gains in age? If so why would the advancement stop once he is as old as the "Augur Elder"?

Maybe because he stops his guided training in order to join the army?

Battlefield is the best teacher the battle mage can get soldier!

Now shut up and give me 80 pushups, you no-good green-bellyed eggheaded big-mouthed augur weakling scum!

Nerfix · #6 October 14th, 2006, 03:06 PM

Speaking of Augurs, are these the dreaded Mages of Eldergate?

user5124 · #7 October 16th, 2006, 09:23 PM

Hello.

I've registered to say that the only thing that keeps me from buying Dominions 3 is the aging feature.

I'm going to continue with Dominions 2 until it can be disabled with patch/mod/hack. I think it's good that it's available, but wish very much it was optional!

Arralen · #8 October 17th, 2006, 02:57 AM

Sry, you can't simply turn it off, its part of the balancing ...