Global not going in effect????

[Master Shake]

In a long MP game. Had Gift of Health up. Had is replaced by other globals, to the point where the game eventually had 6 globals up. Several have been dispeled, and only 3 Globals remain.

I tried to cast Gift of Health again, but got a message that it was overpowered by existing spells. No other player got GoH up that turn. Why did my spell not go up??

[Norfleet]

This happens a lot, and is just one of those weird, unexplained mysteries of how globals work. I suspect this is some form of developer sadism at work. However, nobody so far has yet come up with a consistent explanation of why these sorts of behaviors occur even when the global board is not full at the beginning of the turn and remains non-full and unchanged in content at the beginning of the next turn, so spells being put up and dispelled doesn't appear to be the answer.

[ June 14, 2004, 22:46: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[Master Shake]

Is it possible that once there are 6 Globals up, that henceforth all new globals must overcome an existing one, even when the total drops below 6?

Is your experience that I will get the same message everytime I try to cast it?

[Ighalli]

I think that globals that leave from casters dying stop taking effect, but somewhere in the code they are skipped over and remain in the global slot. It seems like you have to overcome the globals that have been cast by dead people, but I haven't tested it extensively.

[Master Shake]

I think that globals that leave from casters dying stop taking effect, but somewhere in the code they are skipped over and remain in the global slot. It seems like you have to overcome the globals that have been cast by dead people, but I haven't tested it extensively.

That may be possible, but probably not only for casters dying. I recast GoH using a large amount of extra gems, and it went into effect. It did not replace any of the existing globals. So it seems it had to replace a global, but not an existing one, which makes your theory of replacing a "gone" global reasonable. However, none of the past globals that are now gone went away because of caster dying - instead they were dispeled.

[Ighalli]

It must be a bug. If it's intentional, there should be some sort of way to tell if there really is a global slot that's free or if they've all been taken at some point and must be overpowered.