Re: Legends

From: pmf@astro.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers)

Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1994 09:29:22 +0000

In article 0N641C97@almac.co.uk, simon.nicholson@almac.co.uk (Simon Nicholson) writes:
>2. I took a city in a recent battle and one of my characters had a poison
>II weapon. All of the opposing characters that took wounds were poisoned.
>The battle report showed that he actually fought three out of eight of
>the enemy characters. Seven were poisoned.
>-

Thats nice to know, I think my Assassin will be making some more use of the
Poison II potions.  Oh and does anybody know what happens to a character
who `Activates ' a Poision potion?

>3. Black Death ... doesn't appear to spread into forces with no population,
>or perhaps it just has a much reduced chance. Characters in guilds which
>are in cities with the plague never seem to catch it. Parties in ruins which
>have the plague do not spread it to other parties in the ruins. I've talked
>to several players who've noticed the same thing. Anyone else know different ?
>-

Hmm it seems that the plague is not as catching as its reputation would suggest.

>4. Characters can become lost in the gamesystem. The most common way I've
>found occurs when transfering into guilds. The character report states that
>the character is in the guild, but the character list in the guild doesn't.
>The upshot of this is that production does not occur for that character
>....
>no mana recovery, wounds do not get worse ( or better ) and of course no
>chance of morphing. This is extremely common in COA 8, not noticed it yet
>in NIC.
>-

We (Elves in ROI III) had a problem with people transfering into a guild
in Qualis and ending up 25 provinces away on an island in someone elses
force.

>5. Transfering directly into guilds from outside the city doesn't always
>work. In one case, transfering one of my characters into a guild I owned
>in a city I owned failed. He wasn't masked and the entry condition in both
>cases were that only members of the Dragonlord faction may enter. After
>trying it twice, I gave up and transfered into the city and then into the
>guild. This worked. Some people I've talked to, say that this works so
>perhaps its been fixed now.
>-
>6. How many of you out there have are getting the new turn sheet format ? The
>one that only lists items in use once even if you have two of them. Well, a
>friend of mine has two druid's orbs in COA-8 and he was getting rather a lot
>of mana recovery from them. After the change to the new turn sheet format
>he only got the mana recovery from one of them ... coincidence or have
>Midnight been playing with the item attributes again ?
>-

I had the new format for a while and everythin seemed OK, this turn I get my
sheet back with the old format and it looks like both my Perceval Priests
have lost the DEF bonus from their symbols, each symbol gives 5DF and they
have gone down about 8DF. So I would say, bring back the new form.... apart
from the fact that on the new style on it takes me twice as long to find the
number of manna points I have left.

>7. Did you know you can attempt to steal items which don't exist ? I tried to
>steal #1236 from a force ... I wrote it down as #1276, my character failed to
>steal "unused" but got a thief increase anyway ! The chance of stealing this
>non-existant item was seven-hells by the way.
>-

I know that you can spy on forces which are out of Spy range, and instead
of getting back "Force too far away" you get the usual message about nearly
being captured and having to hide in a warehouse.  (I've had this with failing
to spy on parties and mobile legions - I didn't realise that your 30
possession slots were actually a warehouse that you carried around with you.)

You can also steal a lot more than you can carry, last turn a thief of
mine left a town with about 5000 crowns and 60 (yes 60) Orcish Assault Bows
(Damage 4 200%AF etc. etc. weigh 2 each).  He's now carrying about 160
weight and has sighting value 130ish..... But Dean can top this story...

>And some questions ...

Sorry, can't help with any of these.

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References

Legends
simon.nicholson@almac.co.uk (Simon Nicholson)
Tue, 31 May 1994 17:15:00 +0000

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Legends
simon.nicholson@almac.co.uk (Simon Nicholson)
Tue, 31 May 1994 17:15:00 +0000