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[Micro102]

How many misc slots did your pretender have and where they all occupied by other items? If everything was filled or they had just the one then it's understandable what happened. If they had free slots then that should undoubtedly be reported as a bug.

There's no mod that lets you redo turns that have already happened. That behaviour is well beyond the capability of any modder. The turn files should be unencrypted and easy to swap in and out though. If you have a back-up somewhere or can manage to restore the old turn file through a utility then that's good. Otherwise you're kinda out of luck.

Yes the pretender slots were full, but why not just send it to the lab? Why not give a warning? Why not have the items of the deceased commander go into a lab when they are right next to a lab with plenty of our men next to it? Why not have the spell replace a non-essential item? Why not have the spell fail if it would remove a previous item?... So many things could be done to stop this.

And if it's a simple matter to back it up then i think it would be a simple matter to write a mod that makes a backup and sends it to the save folder under a different save name. Unfortunately I have no knowledge of coding.

[Kagus]

Well, it wouldn't really be a mod then; it'd be a third party utility for file management.  If we're gonna get pedantic about it...

And the game can't define what is an essential or non-essential item, there are far too many variables to consider that the game doesn't even really keep track of. But I agree, it's weird that researchers and other lab monkeys manage to catastrophically drop all their items in their death throes after passing away peacefully from old age.

[Zonk]

it's weird that researchers and other lab monkeys manage to catastrophically drop all their items in their death throes after passing away peacefully from old age.

When a mage dies from disease/old age, items are sent to the laboratory if there is one in the province.

[etgfrog]

Spoiler: Patch 5.20 (click to show/hide)

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General
Shadow for province names on map
Create New Map didn't work
No random sea players on land only maps
Error message for too many underwater players for chosen map
Delete Map disabled on workshop maps
Workshop maps are remembered for later upstarts without steam
Ladon can only be summoned once
Eyes of God helps disciples too
Workshop config file no longer requires an extra newline at the end
Limit number of open fonts (stability improvement for Windows)
added --nosteam to --help
Typos fixed

Modding
Polymorph now accepts montags
#worldincscale and similar didn't work for scale numbers higher than 3

[USEC_OFFICER]

Yes the pretender slots were full, but why not just send it to the lab? Why not give a warning? Why not have the items of the deceased commander go into a lab when they are right next to a lab with plenty of our men next to it? Why not have the spell replace a non-essential item? Why not have the spell fail if it would remove a previous item?... So many things could be done to stop this.

It's Dominions. At some point you just have to throw up your hands and accept that that is how the devs have made the game. Heck, in 3 _{and possibly beyond} people could send you a ton of trash items in a turn to fill up your magic item treasury. Any items you forged in the same turn would thus be lost to the aether because forging happened after trading and so you'd lack the space to put them anywhere. Edge cases and quirks abound in Dominions, past, present and probably future.

And if it's a simple matter to back it up then i think it would be a simple matter to write a mod that makes a backup and sends it to the save folder under a different save name. Unfortunately I have no knowledge of coding.

That would be a third-party utility, not a mod. You are correct that it would be relatively easy to make, since it just a bunch of file checking/copying. Bugger if I know if anything like that exists though.

[Shadowlord]

It'd be relatively simple to code an external save-backup utility which just monitors the save folder and backs up the saves when their timestamps change, provided Dominions is actually saving the save files.

(I do not have Dom5, mind you)

[Micro102]

When does snow show up in battles? Is it whenever there are cold scales? Random?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Unless I'm mistaken, it's whenever you cast the spell rain in a province with cold scales.

[Micro102]

O sorry I should have realized that wasn't specific enough. When I said snow I meant like the ground texture on the battlefield. Like what makes the ground and background white.

[Karlito]

Cold scales in the province, yes.

[Micro102]

That can't be it. I used woven winter and attacked that province. The ground was green, the province in 2 cold scale.

[etgfrog]

From my understanding, its a 33% chance per cold scale for snow to be on the ground.

[Micro102]

Can anyone think of a way to easily get vampires over rivers? Specifically a D4B4 vampire Queen. Capital spawned completely surrounded by water.

[Culise]

That's nasty luck.  I can't think of an easy way to do it; the only magical transportation ritual those paths give you, Stygian Paths, is Thaum 8 and would require a Skull Staff or some other Death booster, in addition to being a bit risky for the caster. 

[Micro102]

Yeah that's expensive. I'm thinking I'm just going to boots of the planes all my guys out. I have the worst lucky when trying to play LA Ulm. I don't know how many times I've quit because I immediately run into river spam or 20 heavy cavalry blocking every path.