Old Age Request

[Ewierl]

Chris_Byler said:There's lots of afflictions that should be more common than *immediately fatal* diseases (and that's not even counting the possibility of new age-only afflictions, like arthritis, gout, or palsy). Maybe we need a new severity level of "chronic disease" that doesn't kill you quickly, but has a smaller-than-fatal-disease chance of causing additional afflictions?

Don't forget the timescale here. It may seem like a rapid death for us who process a turn every 20 minutes in SP, but when a mage gets cancer, he's still going to live another 8-10 months minimum before he actually dies.

[Falkor]

Could someone explain what's the effect of growth/death scale on old-aged mages?
Do they come younger/older by recruitment? Or is the chance of getting affliction lower/higher?

[Sombre]

I don't have a problem with how fatal disease is, like the poster of this thread I just don't like the fact that old age almost always seems to cause disease. I don't know how true this is but it /seems/ like your 800 year old uber hag or necromancer turns 801, gets the old age tag and is dead by 802.

[vfb]

I nearly always take at least growth 1, and it seems I get an affliction in late winter in about 1 in 10 D0 mages. Of those, maybe 1/4 is disease. Am I just lucky? What kind of disease rates are you getting?

Here's a question: does it matter how old the mages are, in respect to getting afflicted in winter? If maxage is 50, are you more likely to get afflicted if you are 75 rather than 51?
If that's the case, it could just be the types of old mages I've been recruiting.