Will somebody tell my mages that it's not a good idea to...

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Rookierookie

You know, I'd be happy with just being able to prevent certain spells from being casted unscripted. I cannot imagine ANY reason why someone would cast communion slave and then communion master on himself. In fact, I can't imagine why he'd cast these spells at all, since he's the only commander on the battlefield.

Remember that the spell AI has to be quite generic. What if somebody mods in an E1B1 spell that makes someone a Communion Slave AND gives him Blood Vengeance? You wouldn't want the AI to overlook that just because it has the Communion Slave effect.

-Max

[chrispedersen]

Reminds me of the old game where you built a robot and had to write pseudo code for the robot so it could fight in arenas.

The robot had to balance finding the enemy; moving; firing; repairing, scavaging resources.

Cool game.

[Illuminated One]

Yeah, considering the wide scope of the game it's pretty amazing that the AI mostly works anyway.

Though that problem could be solved quite simply by making the communion slave + bloodvengeance spell a bloodvengeance + communion slave spell.

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Wrana

That they shouldn't be cast if he's the only commander is true. As for the first part - it actually isn't all bad as this allows the mage in question to have the benefits of spells cast by other Communion Masters (and if it's Summon Earthpower or Power of the Spheres... quite nice, I'd say) and still channel some fatigue to Slaves.

Yes, but in that case why bother casting Communion Master at all? During any turn in which a Master draws upon his power, a Slave won't cast any spells.

Unless. Hmmm. Maybe you could make the very FIRST Communion Master also be a Communion Slave.

-Max

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Reminds me of the old game where you built a robot and had to write pseudo code for the robot so it could fight in arenas.

The robot had to balance finding the enemy; moving; firing; repairing, scavaging resources.

Cool game.

Bug Wars?

-Max

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by MaxWilson

Bug Wars?

-Max

LOL... I don't remember. I know I certainly spent a *lot* of time mumbling.. why doesn't it work!!!

But, here are some links:
http://www.iit.edu/~acm/robotwar/
http://grobots.sourceforge.net/

[Rookierookie]

While playing Marignon I was wondering why my Witch Hunters were losing battles right and left, so I watched a battle replay.

Oh my Baphomet. He blessed himself on the first turn, and on the second turn he casted Blink.

[esd29a]

Mages that are set to cast spells (or not given orders) will cast spells even if the only possible (path/range/research) spells are useless or even harmful in the current situation. Desperate to impress the mage-chicks I guess

[Wrana]

Originally Posted by MaxWilson

Yes, but in that case why bother casting Communion Master at all? During any turn in which a Master draws upon his power, a Slave won't cast any spells.

Unless. Hmmm. Maybe you could make the very FIRST Communion Master also be a Communion Slave.
-Max

Certainly. Also, in case the first Master drops from exhaustion and this Slave regains consciousness quicker, I think.

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by esd29a

Mages that are set to cast spells (or not given orders) will cast spells even if the only possible (path/range/research) spells are useless or even harmful in the current situation. Desperate to impress the mage-chicks I guess

Addendum: it's also useful to know that if mages are set to "Stay Behind Troops" instead of "Cast Spells" they will try to stay under 100 fatigue.

-Max