B2 mage can't cast Life for a Life?

[duncanshriek]

*Bump*

[RantingMode]

Exactly my problem in ComfortZone.

There are those kitted Vanjarl raiders (15HP). Absolutely perfect targets for my 'Life for a Life' Skrattis in one on one battles, wouldn't there be something named 'AI'. Makes me pulling my last hairs out.

To state it clearly: I abhor AIs overriding any decision in which I had invested some precious time of my life, even if that decision would have been the worst ever. Much more so if AI makes an error instead of just doing what it has been ordered.

The problem with different tactics needed to be scripted for different situations can and should only be addressed through more flexibility in the scripting interface. Something that will unfortunately never happen in future versions.

[/RantingMode]

That means onward to new X4 shores for me after that game.

[Alpine Joe]

This problem also happens to me a lot with bloodletting, also with skratti.

[duncanshriek]

There's also this bug:

Just saw the first scripted Life for a Life actually firing, as very first spell in a battle with just one of those Jarls on the opposite side: _No_ damage!

[Baalz]

Duncanshriek you can check the debug log to see what's going on, might be luck or twist fate or something like that.

[duncanshriek]

Originally Posted by Baalz

Duncanshriek you can check the debug log to see what's going on, might be luck or twist fate or something like that.

Ah. That's an explanation I overlooked. That one had a Pendant of Luck. (Debug log would lie on the Llama server)

[thejeff]

If you turn debug on and watch the battle, you'll get a debug log. Dominions actually goes through all the calculations again locally.

[MaxWilson]

In frustrating situations like this, it's always worth replaying the battle and tossing in e.g. 20 Cyclops via Shift + 'U' just to make sure it's not a quirk of the random number generator or something.

The other thing that occurs to me is that maybe the AI didn't think the second blood slave was in range. I know that blood mages can use any slave within a certain radius (even if they "belong" to another mage), maybe it can go the other way. It seems unlikely but if this is what's going on maybe it wouldn't happen if you had more than 2 blood slaves with you. Imps only take 1 slave.

-Max

[Baalz]

Well, from my experience (awhile ago) it happened reliably over several battles with different available targets. Now I just play as if blood slaves can't be used to boost your level for casting which seems to be tied to this frustrating behavior whether true or not.

[MaxWilson]

Hmmm, that's an interesting possibility. I guess the manual does specifically say you can use *gems* to boost casting level.

-Max