Dominion Spread? Manual p. 94

[chrispedersen]

But its *wrong*

Dominion does not spill over when its "full". It spreads continuously. 70+% of the time, it will *not* be expressed in the territory that generated the temple check.

For example:
If there is a world of three provinces. In the following example, A & B are temple provinces with dom 1;"-" is a province with neutral dominion.

A-B

Presume 10 initial dominion - so you are generating 2 temple checks.

27% of the time a will receive a dominion increase - same with b.
However, the most likely dominion result after 1 turn would be:

121.

This is not at all what Capn's explanation says, which predicts a 202 result.

[Edi]

Originally Posted by Zeldor

Everyone knows stories about teleporting dominion... even into far far away provinces.

That was the scale bug that was finally defeated in patch 3.13 or 3.14. It was caused by a corrupted geotable, which messed up neighbor relations and many other things and also allowed Dominion to jump clear across the map.

It should not happen anymore, or not as frequently as it used to, because Dominion increases may jump over provinces in some cases.

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

But its *wrong*

Dominion does not spill over when its "full". It spreads continuously. 70+% of the time, it will *not* be expressed in the territory that generated the temple check.

For example:
If there is a world of three provinces. In the following example, A & B are temple provinces with dom 1;"-" is a province with neutral dominion.

A-B

Presume 10 initial dominion - so you are generating 2 temple checks.

27% of the time a will receive a dominion increase - same with b.
However, the most likely dominion result after 1 turn would be:

121.

This is not at all what Capn's explanation says, which predicts a 202 result.

Well yeah, that's evident if you've played even 5 turns of dom3. Your dominion spreads out wide before it really starts to become deep, let alone the maxmimum depth. But I still like his analogy for n00blets.

[Gregstrom]

And as a niggling little footnote, I suspect the most likely dominion result in the example given would be 112 or 211, depending on which of A or B generated spread first.