Pythium revelers

[Coldshard]

So I checked around and havent seen any reports of a bug with these guys... but in a couple of test games I have created nearly a hundred of them and 'none' of them have picked up the 20% chance of nature or blood..

I know it is technically possible to get this many without having the chance pop up, but I am well into the "vanishingly small" section of probabilities here

Has anyone had any luck getting the extra magic paths out of these guys?

[ano]

Yes they get the extra levels but it seems to be VERY rare. I also think that the probability is less than 20%

[Meglobob]

Perhaps report this as a bug?

[sector24]

I have had the same problem sometimes. But once I got a reveler on the 3rd try. It's one of the (many) things I hate about LA Pythium.

[Ironhawk]

I played a fair amount of LA Pyth before the last patch and I got revelers with blood about as often as I expected. I think the 5th in one game an the 10th in another.

[Lingchih]

You have a 10% chance of getting one with blood. Took me about 10-15 tries in my last game to get one with blood. You will get one eventually though.

Of course, at that point, you will have a dozen or more of the worst kind of heretic running around your country. I was unimpressed with them. They can make a jade knife, but LA Pyth is not a blood sac nation. They can also cast Orgy, to get a very poor seducer.

[ano]

sector24 said:
I have had the same problem sometimes. But once I got a reveler on the 3rd try. It's one of the (many) things I hate about LA Pythium.

Yes. Mages who can do everything usually can do almost nothing.
My friend tested revelers a lot and I believe he concluded that there's less than 20 percent chance in fact. Blood revelers are very important for Pythium actually but unfortunately they can't be a core of strategy with such small chance of a blood pick.

[llamabeast]

For me I got them with about the expected frequency.

I'd say the chances of this being a bug are pretty small, being as there's nothing unique about revellers.

[Ironhawk]

ano said:
Blood revelers are very important for Pythium actually but unfortunately they can't be a core of strategy with such small chance of a blood pick.

Why do you say that they are very important? I found them to be nice but rather unimportant in the grand scheme of LA Pyth. Basically just gives you access to an endless stream of free assassins. Good, but nothing to write home about, given the weakness of assassins in general.

[PvK]

They can work out very well, with actual luck. I got two N1B1's hiring fewer than ten revelers, and seduced someone who had several paths at levels I lacked.