Really annoying spell scripting issue - Bug?

Networkingguru · #1 November 22nd, 2007, 10:57 PM

Playing MA man, I script my crone to case some specific spells (Wind Guide, Air Sheild, Howl, Song of Healing, Song of Bravery) and then have her "Stay behind army". I made sure she had all the proper gems in sufficient quantity. I send her and the army in. We win, I watch the battle, and....

THE FIRST SPELL SHE CASTS IS TOUCH OF MADNESS...

...ON MY LONGBOWMEN!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh......Make it stop....please....

Sigh..

Anyhow, so I ran a search, came up with nothing, so I thought I would ask: Is this a bug? Does scripting actually work ALL of the time? I've generally had a good expereice with scripting, but this just blows my mind.

Thanks in advance.

Slobby · #2 November 22nd, 2007, 11:00 PM

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...b=5&o=&fpart=1

Sombre · #3 November 22nd, 2007, 11:06 PM

The AI loves to cast touch of madness. It would rather spend the day casting touch of madness than go to an amusement park and go on all the rides for free, it loves it THAT MUCH.

Networkingguru · #4 November 22nd, 2007, 11:20 PM

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Sombre said:
The AI loves to cast touch of madness. It would rather spend the day casting touch of madness than go to an amusement park and go on all the rides for free, it loves it THAT MUCH.

That really, really sucks. I would just about rather mod it completely out of the game than have her cast it on my longbowmen. Really painful to watch your great archers run ahead of the main army to jump on a sword...

I saw that the LoS bug was on the shortlist, any chance of this one getting on it as well?

I also saw a thread on a request to make spells selectable/desectable via checkboxes or some such. Don't want to rock any boats, but is that likely to ever happen? Sure would be nice for stuff like this.

Loren · #5 November 23rd, 2007, 12:06 AM

Did someone goof and cast touch of madness on the developers? I can't think of any other reason for this behavior!

vfb · #6 November 23rd, 2007, 02:18 AM

If the opposing army is not considered strong enough, spells that use gems will get scored down. If you've got Wind Guide as spell 1, and it gets scored down, your choices for spells 2 to 5 are not considered. It will just use the highest scoring spell that it found when it computed the spellscores for your caster in round 1. Most unfortunately for your archers, that was "Touch of Madness".

Beorne · #7 November 23rd, 2007, 05:19 AM

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Networkingguru said:
I also saw a thread on a request to make spells selectable/desectable via checkboxes or some such. Don't want to rock any boats, but is that likely to ever happen? Sure would be nice for stuff like this.

A thread asking black list or checkboxes on spells is appearing every one or two months from at least three years. No big hopes on that.

Hadrian_II · #8 November 23rd, 2007, 05:39 AM

As long the crone casts touch of madness just on the archers and not on herself you are quite lucky.