Does the AI cheat at call god?

Wish · #1 January 30th, 2007, 11:17 PM

i have wondered myself, sometimes, but certain nations do have a lot of priest mages... if their research base is made of priests then it is quite possible that they have enough holy power to pull him back in a single turn

Wish · #2 January 30th, 2007, 11:20 PM

on a related note, I was woopin up some nifelhiem in the mega game I am playing, and I controlled their capitol - on what I can only assume was the cut off for imprisoned pretenders get let free, the crone I had killed off a few turns prior came back with the message:

? So-and-So has broken free!

or something like that.

do killed pretenders get a free come-back on that month when imprisoned pretenders normally get released?

(the other pretender, a great mother, I offed couldn't even be called back, on account of me sending her to the inferno - to be baked. she should come back as a statue

)

Velusion · #3 January 30th, 2007, 11:22 PM

From my understanding you need 40 holy points worth of priests. If it was late game with a nation that has level 3 priests I could see it happening...

Loren · #4 January 31st, 2007, 10:37 PM

I've had it happen more than once. Twice I've had it happen repeatedly in the same game.

Gandalf Parker · #5 February 1st, 2007, 12:24 AM

The only time I ever had it happen was when it was a pretender with that "phoenix in fire" icon. That says it will return right away if the pretender dies within its own domain.

Wish · #6 February 1st, 2007, 03:02 AM

i was waiting to see if it happened with the C'Tis pretender in the mega game I am running -- what with him slain and the only provinces they had left where two besieged castles.

no dice, I think it just happens under the right circumstances.

Tiziano · #7 February 2nd, 2007, 12:27 PM

He could have the "Elixir of life" with him. A construction level 6 miscellaneous item.

Kalin · #8 February 2nd, 2007, 01:24 PM

Elixir of life resurrects you DURING the battle. It's kind of like Phoenix Pyre without the fatique.

As for the Call God thing, I definitely have noticed certain times, where it felt like the AI was cheating, because I had to kill his pretender so many times that the "You killed our god!" message was getting really annoying. I distinctly remember one time fighting a Son of Fenrir with 9 earth, only to have him end up with no magic after a while (ramming into my PD), and thought that was rather funny. Other times though, it takes them forever to recall their god, and I have to wonder whether they even know how to... so, no... I don't think they cheat... it's probably just a wierd quirk somewhere.