MR penetration

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by magnate:
Quick question: does the Spell Focus work with the Ethereal Crossbow? (& do any of the other -MR items, like the rings of sorc/wiz?)

The penetration items only affect spells, not items.

[Endoperez]

Originally posted by magnate:
Bigger question: what shall I play next? I've just finished an SP game as Ulm: big map, 10 AIs, SC pretender, lots of forging. Made loads of mistakes, did things in the wrong order etc. Really like Ulm and would kind of like to do it again and do better ... but there are still about a dozen races I've not tried yet! Do you guys play a few races repeatedly, or try them all?

Know thy enemy! I think you should try all nations, maybe only for one game and even then only briefly, but atleast a little. After that you know what to expect from them and also know what nations suit your playing style. Also, after you see AI killing your Ulmish elite armies with couple of Salamanders and want to try how effective they can be you halready have grasped the basics, and see that Salamanders are useable but very expensive.

[ August 07, 2004, 19:54: Message edited by: Endoperez ]

[Agrajag]

MY advice would be playing without SCs
I don't know... I guess playing a strategy game would usualy mean planning and massing armies for me, not researching a bit, summoning a bit, forging a bit and destroy the world with one unit :\
Maybe its just me who thinks the strategy games are more about armies than about a single superunit crushing everything, that belongs in RPG games IMO...

[Endoperez]

Originally posted by Agrajag:
MY advice would be playing without SCs
I don't know... I guess playing a strategy game would usualy mean planning and massing armies for me, not researching a bit, summoning a bit, forging a bit and destroy the world with one unit :\
Maybe its just me who thinks the strategy games are more about armies than about a single superunit crushing everything, that belongs in RPG games IMO...

More to "rpg" games where the R stands fow Rogue and its descendants. Adom, Nethack, Diablo... In that scale it is hard to find it elsewhere. And I, too, prefer to play with conventional armies (with mages) but sometimes launch a combatant to see how it will do. I play single-player only, and in the Dom:PPP multiplayer game I played in I harassed the other player with SCs. They did not attack his armies, but his gem-producing provinces, the provinces all around his citadel, sometimes his castles, and even caused his nice sacred army being blinded and burned to cinders as his Ark and Forbidden Light -powered Master Enslave didn't hurt my Ice Devil...

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Agrajag:
Maybe its just me who thinks the strategy games are more about armies than about a single superunit crushing everything, that belongs in RPG games IMO...

It's you. Your conception of "strategy" gaming appears limited to the real-time genre's twitchfest of zerg-style warfare. No subtlety whatsoever. One of the beautiful things about Dom 2 is that you can take the superhero route, or the high-magic route, or the zerg route, or the stealth route, or custom combos of any them.

BTW, RPGs do not invariably depend on a superunit. There are, believe it or not, some RPGs that actually support and encourage the concept of Groups, cooperation, and specialist characters.

Think outside the box ...

[magnate]

Quick question: does the Spell Focus work with the Ethereal Crossbow? (& do any of the other -MR items, like the rings of sorc/wiz?)

Bigger question: what shall I play next? I've just finished an SP game as Ulm: big map, 10 AIs, SC pretender, lots of forging. Made loads of mistakes, did things in the wrong order etc. Really like Ulm and would kind of like to do it again and do better ... but there are still about a dozen races I've not tried yet! Do you guys play a few races repeatedly, or try them all?

CC

[Boron]

i try to try all short and play a couple which i like often
i have always about 5 favourite races but this is not static but changes from time to time
i liked ermor + pan cw a lot e.g. in the beginning but now i replace them by mictlan and jotunheim niefelheim e.g.

ulm is cool forging is awesome

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Agrajag:
I don't know... I guess playing a strategy game would usualy mean planning and massing armies for me, not researching a bit, summoning a bit, forging a bit and destroy the world with one unit :\
Maybe its just me who thinks the strategy games are more about armies than about a single superunit crushing everything, that belongs in RPG games IMO...

Dude, this is Dominions II. An epic war of gods and heroes of myth and legend. An entire game mechanic, the Hall of Fame, exists to promote and perpetuate this kind of thinking and behavior. "Superheroes", being the bread and butter of ancient myth, are as the bread and butter of Dom2.