Newbies Beware...

Lord Hammer · #1 December 23rd, 2003, 10:14 PM

I have become quite good at kicking butt since the day of release but Last night i really messed up! I thought i'd share this with you guys as i had invested 100+ turns and two days and nights playing

. I had my pretender god and prophet close to the front lines in their newly built accomodations

. Some nasty armies attacked a nearby province in my dominion and i saw there was their god and prophet in that army so i attacked it with my HUGE army consisting of MY god and prophet figuring i'd finish them off

Well, i chased them two provinces outside of my dominion and slaughtered them...BUT...i left my army there and ended my turn. Boom, i lost the game: my god had no dominion left it said even though i was alive

I guess you need to have a god or prophet in YOUR dominion at ALL times..clumsy me! Damn, I love this game

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aldin · #2 December 23rd, 2003, 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by Lord Hammer:
I guess you need to have a god or prophet in YOUR dominion at ALL times.

I think you only have to maintain your dominion - that doesn't REQUIRE having a pretender or prophet there, but I imagine it makes it easier. Were you playing a low dominion pretender without many temples?

~Aldin

Lord Hammer · #3 December 23rd, 2003, 10:29 PM

No, i was Ashen Empire, dominion 9 with about 7 or 8 temples

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Gandalf Parker · #4 December 23rd, 2003, 10:32 PM

Some are more susceptable than others. But yes you have to keep an eye on that. The thing about newbies is that they tend to check their pretender early on and are thrilled to see the boost in things like HP from their dominion. But they think that if it drops it will drop to what their base amount. They dont realize that entering someone elses dominion will pile the minuses on you.

aldin · #5 December 23rd, 2003, 10:34 PM

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Originally posted by Lord Hammer:
No, i was Ashen Empire, dominion 9 with about 7 or 8 temples .

So the turn before you lost, you had a bunch of tal white candles in your provinces? Weird!

~Aldin

Lord Hammer · #6 December 23rd, 2003, 10:36 PM

My Pretender was very powerful and full of Earth 8/construction artifacts, he was a killing machine...Earth 5 Death 9. How did i lose my dominion so quickly?, that is what i'm curious about

Thanks for any help!

Lord Hammer · #7 December 23rd, 2003, 10:39 PM

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Originally posted by aldin:

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Originally posted by Lord Hammer:
No, i was Ashen Empire, dominion 9 with about 7 or 8 temples .

So the turn before you lost, you had a bunch of tal white candles in your provinces? Weird!

~Aldin

Yes, a few provinces on the outskirts were shrinking but the middle ones were fine

It might have been one turn or two, i'm not sure, but i was outside my dominion for two turns max...still very alive!

ywl · #8 December 23rd, 2003, 11:08 PM

No. You don't need to have your God or prophet inside your dominion. You just need to have some dominion influence somewhere on the map.

Your case is unusual as it's not easy to kill the dominion of a player (especially human) unless he's down to a few provinces.

Lord Hammer · #9 December 23rd, 2003, 11:34 PM

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Originally posted by ywl:
No. You don't need to have your God or prophet inside your dominion. You just need to have some dominion influence somewhere on the map.

Your case is unusual as it's not easy to kill the dominion of a player (especially human) unless he's down to a few provinces.

I owned half the map...go figure

aldin · #10 December 23rd, 2003, 11:48 PM

It certainly is mystifying. I wonder if purgatory could have this kind of effect?

~Aldin