question about modifying age

[Ragnarok-X]

i want a spell that decreases the age of unit, but not a ritual one, but a buff to permanently modify army units instead of commanders-only.
I went ahead and tried this

#newspell
#copyspell "Rejuvenate"
#name "Rejuvenating Winds"
#description "By drawing in the astral winds, the mage can shroud a few fellow warriors with a small regeneration effect in addition to make them younger by 4 years."
#school 1
#researchlevel 2
#path 0 4
#pathlevel 0 1
#fatiguecost 60
#effect 101
#aoe 3005
#precision 2
#range 5015
#damage -4
#end


snce effect 101 is age according to the spell db. However, the mage doesnt cast the spell.
The damage -4 value is taking from rejuvenate where the actual age-decrease is measured in negative damage.

[Burnsaber]

Tested it a while ago. Effect number 101 does nothing even if you trick the AI into casting the spell.

[Ragnarok-X]

ok, one more broken value.
thanks.

[NTJedi]

I would say copy the spell/effect which causes units to age on the battlefield(decay?) and then try reversing the results.

[Sombre]

Is it really helpful to give modding advice when you have no idea what you're talking about?

[Ragnarok-X]

Well, trying to reverse-engineer decay effects wont really work, thats true.
When i figured that effect 101 doesnt work, i thought about one more way. I copied the rejuvenate-spell (blood) and tried to make it a battlefield spell instead of being a ritual and added AoE and stuff. Unfortunlly, it was still listed as a ritual buff.

You know, altering age would be a really cool effect. For one, you could fix up yoru Triarus (MA Arco vets) but whats more important you could create a spell that would considerable buff the troops it hits in exchange for some old-age effects or you could create some kind of artillery that inflicts enemy tropps with considerable old age, i.e. AoE nerf.

man so many great ideas, shame.

[Sombre]

You can make troops older by making use of the decay spell.

Just can't make them younger on the battlefield.