Mod: Mistica: A Magocratic Police State (LA) - v 0.2

[Stavis_L]

Originally Posted by Swan

-shouldn't the pillar be inanimate and mindless?

It's definitely not meant to be mindless; see the description of its will searing itself into your soul. Lifeless/inanimate is debatable. Note that the elemental royalty are neither mindless nor lifeless. Do you have a reason to suggest this other than for flavor reasons?

Originally Posted by Swan

-the golem king have casteldef -1; it means he have no bonus or a malus?

That's to reset the castle defense bonus obtained by copystatting the Maker of the Maze (to get the golem lord attribute.) I tried zero first, which didn't seem to work. Not sure if that leaves a net -1 malus, but in the grand scheme of things it will be negligible either way.

Originally Posted by Swan

-why with the master of occult you first created it coping Leo and then you #select it and change its stats? wasn't easier to do it in one step? especially seeing that first you give him noleader and then poorleader.

If you do it in one step, it doesn't overwrite the OKLEADER attribute from the copystatted unit (Leo.) This is actually a documented bug. Doing it in two steps seems to work.

Unfortunately, the heretic tag never made it in (it had been listed as a planned improvement in the changelog at one point), or I wouldn't bother with the copystatting.

Originally Posted by Swan

-nice sprite on the eye, it reminds me of the pokemon "unown"

Thanks, that was the first (and definitely quickest) sprite I did :-)

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Stavis_L

It's definitely not meant to be mindless; see the description of its will searing itself into your soul. Lifeless/inanimate is debatable. Note that the elemental royalty are neither mindless nor lifeless. Do you have a reason to suggest this other than for flavor reasons?

Is just that fire doesn't seem to "have a mind".
When something burn it just burn, you don't see a pattern in it; maybe with an example it's simpler to explain:
a river does not have a mind, when i drown it's not river decision.
the goddess of the river, who makes murder drown and righteous live, she has a mind.

[Stavis_L]

Originally Posted by Swan

Is just that fire doesn't seem to "have a mind".
When something burn it just burn, you don't see a pattern in it; maybe with an example it's simpler to explain:
a river does not have a mind, when i drown it's not river decision.
the goddess of the river, who makes murder drown and righteous live, she has a mind.

The pillar is more like the goddess of the river than the river (in my conception.) It's not just any old fire, it's the unique Pillar of Eternal Fire that's going to ignite and consume your soul. It doesn't take a humanoid form, but it does have its own (inscrutable) will, desires, and purpose.

Of course, you can feel free to add the appropriate tag for your own local copy as you see fit :-)