Another vampire question

[Madhatter4]

Im currently in the early stages of playing my first game as Calabim. The only other civs on my starting continent now lay in ashes however I have a quick question. Once I have vampires what exactly does feeding on a city population do? Does it just replenish the vampires health OR does it give some form of permanent bonus?

 

[Monkeyfinger]

It gives them experience. The amount of experience gained is 3 less than whatever the city's population was when you clicked the Feast button.

Feasting kills a population point and gives the city the same kind of temporary unhappiness as slavery.

 

[Madhatter4]

^^^Thanks for the speedy response

 

[xienwolf]

I haven't played Calabim much myself, are you certain that it is 3 less than population pre-feeding? I had thought I remembered it being 2 less.

 

[Monkeyfinger]

You used to be right but it got nerfed in some patch, AFAIK.

 

[Miloe]

its still a lot of exp if you have several 20+ farming cities.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

The python code gives city population -2 xp, but this code is applied after the xml portion of the code already reduced the city's population.by 1.
Thus it is 3 less than pre feeding xp, even if glancing at the code might make it appear otherwise.

Hmmm...I'm thinking my modmod may instead give (city pop)/2 population, although I;m not sure if I should round up or down; it seemed odd that in my last version you could feed on cities until they were razed, but below size 3 it made the vamp lose xp.

 

[xienwolf]

Left a bad taste in their mouth?

 

[Demus]

too much effort to find the remaining blood-bags

 

[Madhatter4]

Can a werewolf gain the vampire promotion and vice versa?

 

[xienwolf]

Werewolf is a Racial Promotion, so shouldn't stack with Elf, Orc, Dwarf.


Vampire is NOT a Racial Promotion, so stacks with everything (like Combat 1).


So a Werewolf can indeed gain Vampirism. The reverse is only not true because the only way to get Werewolf is to be born a werewolf. Thus any unit which already exists (and thus has Vampire) cannot gain it.

 

[Demus]

one of the best vampire units in the game is the baron ;-). I'd still think a vampire baron would have to create vampiric werewolves though... since they're pretty much created the same way (injure, not kill). Might be tough to add though .

any more questions about vampires?

 

[Mewtarthio]

one of the best vampire units in the game is the baron ;-). I'd still think a vampire baron would have to create vampiric werewolves though... since they're pretty much created the same way (injure, not kill). Might be tough to add though .

Erebusian vampires are different from traditional vampires. They aren't undead, they only need to feed once every few months, and they don't spread themselves by converting their victims. They actually have to undertake a ritual, described in Alexis's 'pedia entry, in which they consume another's soul (their first meal) in exchange for immortality.