Coupla questions on FfH 2 .23

[hong]

First, awesome mod. Takes me back to Master of Magic, and you can't get higher praise than that.

1. Is there a way to create new mana sources? (Not building a node, but the mana itself.) I could swear I saw a spell or ability that lets you make a new raw source, but I can't find it now.

2. After you raze a mana node, is the mana supposed to retain its type? Eg after I raze a death node, the only option I get is to rebuild it. I can't build any other type of node: air, enchantment, fire, what-have-you.

Thanks!

 

[Chip56]

1)
The ritual "rithes of oghma"

2)
Yes, the only way to get it back to raw mana is change of ownership of the tile.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

1. There are buildings that provide mana resources (e.g., all the holy shrines, tower of necromancy), and there is a ritual that creates new raw mana all over the world (rights of Ogama), but I don't think there is a spell that creates mana. One spell (resurrection) destroys a life mana resource (or is it only the node?)


2.It is supposed to retain its type so that a player won't exploit one node to let all its arcane units learn all spells. It reverts back to raw mana when a civ's boarders recede or expand over it (I forget which one. also, the nodes are destroyed), so other players aren't penalized for a poor mana choice made by someone else. In the BtS beta, I often find it useful to build a fort on a mana resource right after finishing a node, destroying the node but still giving you the mana, plus a better ability to defend it.

 

[GeeJo]

I seem to remember that killing the Horsemen causes a mana node to pop where they fell (at least some of them some of the time, anyway)

 

[hong]

Thanks, people!

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Killing 1 of the 4 horseman creates a mana resource (not node) of different type depending on which one, but I forget which one creates which. Also, it doesn't work if they were already on a resource (and possibly if already on an improvement). I don't think this is in the BtS beta yet, but I don't know for sure.

 

[Sarisin]

Killing 1 of the 4 horseman creates a mana resource (not node) of different type depending on which one, but I forget which one creates which. Also, it doesn't work if they were already on a resource (and possibly if already on an improvement). I don't think this is in the BtS beta yet, but I don't know for sure.

Yes, if you kill the first one, Stephanos, you get a Spirit node. However, I happened to kill him once on a different node that already had Water, I think it was. It destroyed that and gave me a Spirit node.

As mentioned I think the other horsemen (some anyway) also yield nodes when they get killed.