LA r'lyeh - Dual Prophets

Soyweiser · #1 May 6th, 2009, 07:26 PM

After a sort hiatus I started playing around with dom3 for a little while.

I just had a strange occurrence. I was playing LA R'lyeh, and one of my insane commanders chose the become prophet command. So now I have two prophets.

I guess this is a bug. Anybody had this before?

thejeff · #2 May 6th, 2009, 07:30 PM

Yeah, it happens. You can get more.

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Soyweiser · #3 May 6th, 2009, 07:31 PM

damn, but I don't want my dominion to spread to fast

. I need gold.

Jazzepi · #4 May 6th, 2009, 07:39 PM

Your dominion doesn't spread from the extra prophets like you would expect. Only your "real" prophet adds extra temple checks.

Jazzepi

Micah · #5 May 6th, 2009, 07:40 PM

Oh, yeah, they got hit by the overnerf bat pretty hard with the gold thing. If you don't want your dom spreading just get them killed, shouldn't be TOO hard.

Micah · #6 May 6th, 2009, 07:40 PM

Really Jazzepi? First I've heard that, who did the tests?

ano · #7 May 6th, 2009, 07:58 PM

I did. False prophets don't generate temple checks and it is quite good now with R'lyeh killer dominion. But I didn't like it when my tests clearly showed it a year ago

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Those prophets are just H3 priests, nothing more. Just like prophets of EA/LA Mictlan.

chrispedersen · #8 May 6th, 2009, 08:35 PM

I'm not sure you should say "just" H3 priests.

There are many nice tricks I like about LA-R. Summon up black servents. Leave them sitting in dominion. They go crazy, and make themselves prophets.

Now they can reanimate.

Not to mention they make great smiters. And while they don't spread dominion as a prophet - they can be used to preach and spread dominion... almost half the time.

And the same trick can be used for almost anything...... Trolls are another good choice, because once they become the prophet their upkeep is halved.....

Finally, you can combine this with reasonable blesses to kit out thugs. Personally I like N4-9F4W4 but a W9N4 can also be useful. Most of R.'s freespawns sacreds are *slow*.

Soyweiser · #9 May 6th, 2009, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by chrispedersen

And the same trick can be used for almost anything...... Trolls are another good choice, because once they become the prophet their upkeep is halved.....

I thought prophets had no upkeep at all.

chrispedersen · #10 May 6th, 2009, 09:51 PM

True, they don't. But I've never been sufficiently interested in the math to determine if they count as true prophets for no upkeep or just sacred half upkeep. So I said half upkeep to make it on the safe side!