What determines whose Global spell sticks?

[Master Shake]

Was playing Online with a friend, and we both cast Gift of Health on the same turn.

Me: Nature Magic 5, 41 Gems used
Him Nature Magic 5, 51 Gems used

Despite using fewer gems, MY Gift of Health stuck, his never took affect. Does anyone know what determines which spell stays?

[Pocus]

chance & probabilities ...

[ceremony]

What are these probabilities specifically?

[SurvivalistMerc]

My understanding is that all casters cast their spells in random order.

I think that what mattered was who was randomly selected to cast their GoH first. Once a global spell is active, it must be dispelled before anyone else can have that spell under current rules.

He tried to cast GoH without dispelling your existing GoH. Automatic failure.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
He tried to cast GoH without dispelling your existing GoH. Automatic failure.

Are you absolutely sure that casting the same enchantment as an already-active one is an auto-failure? Reason I ask is because I have seen the AI replace GoH's of mine with its own without doing a Dispel first ...

[ February 23, 2004, 19:32: Message edited by: Arryn ]

[NTJedi]

Arryn is correct... casting a global spell can take-out another global spell.

I've seen cases where Burden of Time has killed another global spell yet Arcane Nexus(150gems) could not.

Unfortunately only the developers can provide us the details as for how this works.