The Well of Misery

[tinkthank]

I just cast this for the first time, and am enjoying my healthy income of death gems, and also notice a small increase in my income (the score graph shows a boost on all incomes of all nations). I do not, however, understand what the affliction-assuaging part of the spell is doing / is supposed to do. "Diseases, old age, suffering and pains are all drained of some of their essence" -- am I supposed to get afflicitons healed, or what? Disease resistance? Resistance to Burden of Time? I dont really notice anything, but such things perhaps are just hard to notice -- anyone have any facts for me?
Thank you

[Norfleet]

That's just flavor and reflects the increased income, rather than any connection to battle afflictions. Although I guess said afflictions hurt less.

[tinkthank]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
That's just flavor and reflects the increased income, rather than any connection to battle afflictions. Although I guess said afflictions hurt less.

Oh.
"Hurt less" in the sense that cannot be captured by in-game functionality, right?
In other words: misleading flavor text?

[NTJedi]

Well of Misery also increases the income for all players on the map. So if your greatest enemy owns 50% of the map and 5 other players share the rest... it could do more harm then good for the large size maps.

[ June 21, 2004, 15:13: Message edited by: NTJedi ]

[LintMan]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
Well of Misery also increases the income for all players on the map. So if your greatest enemy owns 50% of the map and 5 other players share the rest... it could do more harm then good for the large size maps.

On the plus side, perhaps your enemies might be less tempted to dispel it, since they're benefitting as well?

Side questions: How many gems does this spell produce? - Is is map dependent or a fixed amount? Does anyone know exactly how much everyone's income is increased by?

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by LintMan:
Side questions: How many gems does this spell produce?

It generates 20 death gems per turn.

[UberPenguin]

Well, it generates twenty death gems on RICH settings, on normal world-economy it generates 15, on poor it generates 10. (I think...) I figured this out when I had 10 gems per-turn on poor setting as Ermor. I saved up all that time for a stupid income that doesn't really DO anything on poor.

[tinkthank]

I'm getting 20 on normal

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by UberPenguin:
Well, it generates twenty death gems on RICH settings, on normal world-economy it generates 15, on poor it generates 10.

It also generates 20 on normal. I don't think that _any_ of the gem producing spells depend on world richness, only the starting sites for the two Ermor themes and carrion woods.