Anyone else here trying to keep two terrain types?

[citizenalex]

I like to categorize my playing as style as the builder/collector. Getting all 30+ resssources and maintaining it is my supreme goal. Aside from waging a sanctify orgy to keep key areas from contamination, I was wondering...

If you are evil with OO and you take over Hyborian lands when the AC is at 25 or lower, will the hell terrain "cleanse" itself as when a good civ captures it? Is there no way, wide-scale AC manipulation included, to keep the delicate balance?

If Neutral players are to be redesigned, it would be nice to have them pine for this sort of thing...

 

[Blackmantle]

It will cleanse. Its only black/white in spread / reduction of hell (save liberal use of sanctify on your behalf if its spreads) but ! its not instantaneous counter 0 to 100 and vice-versa will last quite some time.
Also you need to be evil and AC 40+ to have hell spread to your lands. AV-civs have it spread regardless of AC and it spreads at 25+ (or 20+?) to unclaimed lands if im not mistaken... (70 or 75 for neutral, never for good civs)


Try lots of Tier 3 arcane-casters with wonder (Spell from Chaos 3-promotion) in their repertoire (on of the random results beeing a 3/3 area around the caster turning to hell terrain including changing the resources i belive...) if the AC is not high enough. The Hell they set is Counter 100 and will take a while to turn back. Might! be easier to do than large-scale sanctifying. (Not sure if you really want any single resource.)

But! another way whould be to have an evil trading partner (vassal or decent relations) at AC 40-75 and spread hell via wonder to him (or just near his border if inside whould cause war... it will spread to him just the same. ) and then trade for those few hell-resources from them. Then you won't need to utilize micro every so much turns... (he / she will need to have those resources twice though if they are not your vassals. And mind the possibility of them declaring war on you demanding resources if they are...)

 

[avalonnn]

If you capture Dis _and_ it is in a good location, the hell counter there will also be near 100. The only Hell terrain resource that I like, if I'm good, is the Sheut stone.

 

[heisenberg]

you forgot the nightmare-- +1 to attack/def and some boni on hell terrain iirc