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[Delta Foxtrot]

I meant what you took for your pretender scales. I've read about some (new) people taking lots of misfortune and death scales for "free" points. No need to answer that though, it's fun to find out what others have for pretenders as the game goes on.
But yeah, I've gotten that misfortune-3 event a few times in SP and it often cascades into someting relatively nasty before going away. It's particularly aggravating it you get it despite taking positive luck scales.

Just don't forget to expand while cleaning out your capital. Get some of that famous heavy infantry and bulldoze those indies.

[Bluerobin]

Oh god. Misfortune 3 is on my list of "never ever ever." I'm sure it's not actually that bad, but I've had some really bad events pop up that I never want again.

[Karlito]

Huh, the two Mictlan Priests I've recruited both have the (10% chance) second magic path.

Also, I'm not sure what drugs the dominion score graph is on, I've tripled the number of candles I started with!

Misfortune is bearable, but I couldn't ever imagine picking death scales unless I'm playing Ermor.

[Culise]

Oh god. Misfortune 3 is on my list of "never ever ever." I'm sure it's not actually that bad, but I've had some really bad events pop up that I never want again.

Misfortune 3 specifically also unlocks some really nasty events that won't trigger otherwise, most of which involve something big and bad attacking spontaneously.  That and Drain 3 (with its "kiss your gems goodbye" event) are probably two of the biggest scale-based traps that aren't immediately obvious from their effects, since they primarily unlock really nasty events.

[Bluerobin]

Oh, also my income isn't actually as high as the server charts would lead you to believe. I'm not even sure how it could get 621. That's more than my income, the amount I started the turn with, and even more than my income will be with full scales and no unrest. *shrug* I guess it's another case of "MAYBE use the charts for relative comparison, but definitely don't use them for concrete numbers."

[E. Albright]

I observed the same thing in round 401, specifically with respect to research. I knew exactly how much research I'd performed, and the server tables were wildly off. They may be acceptable for broad comparisons if they're consistently inaccurate, but they're definitely not precise.

[Delta Foxtrot]

I postponed the game by 24 hours to make sure no one stales due to update shenanigans.

If you got the game from desura, you can transfer it to steam by using the same code and get it updated that way. If you're one of those "no steam on my computer" folks, that's fine too.

Here's hoping desura gets the patch online soon.

[lijacote]

I postponed the game by 24 hours to make sure no one stales due to update shenanigans.

If you got the game from desura, you can transfer it to steam by using the same code and get it updated that way. If you're one of those "no steam on my computer" folks, that's fine too.

Here's hoping desura gets the patch online soon.

I believe you can simply copy and paste the Dominions folder and use it without the Steam app, so that should help with anyone not wanting to run Steam on their computer. Maybe.

[Culise]

I postponed the game by 24 hours to make sure no one stales due to update shenanigans.

If you got the game from desura, you can transfer it to steam by using the same code and get it updated that way. If you're one of those "no steam on my computer" folks, that's fine too.

Here's hoping desura gets the patch online soon.

Ah, thank you.  I won't be able to get to a computer that I can load Steam onto until an hour or two after the original deadline, so this helps me quite a bit.  ^_^

NOT-A-DOUBLE-POST-EDIT: New turn processes, my scouts reported back, and in the immortal words of Phoenix Wright, "Words cannot express how screwed I am."

[tompliss]

Wow, now getting a Death scale in my capital province, yay! ._.
God I hate this misfortune...

[Delta Foxtrot]

If it's any consolation, I've found that minor scale changes (+/-1) revert back to your normal scales fairly fast.
How bad is it to have misfortune 3 in your capital. I mean really how awful? Your units might get cursed but that only affects combat and your combat troops should be fighting. Even if not they're the most expendable curse fodder you could have. You could get one of those barbarian attacks but you have 25 PD so it's not likely to get through. I guess the worse is you could lose your lab (and thus gem income) or temple (and suffer longer under misfortune) + the cost of a new building.

I guess what I'm saying is "think positive"
Easy for me to say though, I'm not the one with Misfortune-3.

[tompliss]

Well, the good side is that the Misfortune went from -3 to -2 really wuickly (after one turn). But basically, I wasted at least a turn with it, becasue of the "unrest 30" event that came the turn afterwards (for which I got my whole military to patrol instead of conquering a province, and recruited units to handle it further, as I didn't think I would reduce teh whole 30 unrest that quickly). And it's likely part of the reason I have now the Death 1 (so an income malus and another thing I don't remember), and things like that.
I agree I didn't have a "oh no more temple" kind of even, and that it may not appear as brutal as a "oh, you get Sloth 3, looks like you won't produce much for a year", but ... yeah ...
Anyway, I will complain about every event that will happen from now on because of it ! :p

[Hugehead]

Would anyone like to buy some air gems? I have 12 and would be willing to sell them for 50 gold each.

[lijacote]

Would anyone like to buy some air gems? I have 12 and would be willing to sell them for 50 gold each.

Is this offer going to last long? I might be interested, later, if nobody else buys it - but this early on, I think I value getting a couple more voi spearmen than having gems sit in my pool.

[tompliss]

I'm still last in Income, Army size and Province number, but i'm not that far behind anymore, yay !
but no thanks for the Gems, still have some units to buy

An exchange might be interesting, nonetheless...