Overall Spells

[Pandemonis]

It may sounds liek a newbish question, but is there any existing/planned overall spells ?

Im not talking of Rituals like Genesis, but somehow similar effects. I'm thinking of something similar to the Master of Magic Overall Spells where you can cast rains of fire, etc.

Maybe the blizzard effect from Age of Ice could be used to produce similar effects ? Building a spell will actually stop all production, cost maintenance, etc., and will maintain a spell of Blizzard rampaging through the lands, Rains of Fire, Earthquakes, etc.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

That would be an interseting concept. Perhaps each civ could have a unique one. civ. e.g. Lanun could make a blizzard- like unit which makes coast/ocean, Khazak could make a another blizzard- like unit that dramatically increases the chance of finding metals, and Elohim could make a unit which destroys Hell Terrain.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Why would any civ make Blizzard-like units? AoI Blizzards are definately not units. I don't see these working like units at all, they should be (relatively) passive effects, not entirely under the control of those who cast them.

I can see massive spells with results like those of AoI Blizzards (actually blizzards for the Illians) being the results repeatable civ-specific rituals. I don't see why building a spell should work any differently than building a repeatable ritual like the Elegy of the Sheaim, which could easily be the trigger for blizzards or similar events. I would probably be easier and more logical to make the smaller effects after the completion of a cheaper repeatable ritual (so that it must be repeated in order to maintain and heighten the effects) instead of making the effect continue only while building it.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

Blizzard like in the fact they move and effect a large area, and why make it a unit, to make it controllabel. This would make it easier for AI, as opposed to making there land tundra accidentally.