Sect of Flies from Armaggedon Counter?

[rafnias]

I was playing a game as the Amurites, something simple, warload, rnadomly generated Big-and-Small and ended up researching the Ashen Veil. I went on to discover infernal pact and became the infernals. Once I increased the armaggedon counter to about +80, I got the message about the final horseman coming in and the world changing. At this point I recieved around 300 sect of flies units scattered across the world, assuming each unit has about a 1 gold upkeep cost [I have no idea if that's right]. I was excited at first, but then realized I had to give everyone of them orders [mainly Fortify or Explore so I wouldn't have to mess with them anymore]. However, this slowed my game down quite a bit and made everything extremely cluttered. I was wondering if the Sect of Flies were supposed to appear in such great numbers? And if so, why not give them to the barbs so that a player playing Hyborem won't have to control them, since they're practically allied anyway.

Thanks

 

[SwordofStriker]

I believe map size has a lot to do with how many you get. What size map was it?

I like having the Sect of Flies that spawn under my control when I play the Infernals. They are an instant invasion force on every continent. I'd like to keep them and not give them to the barbs.

 

[Kael]

There is a 1 in 50 that each applicable tile will become a hellfire tile and spawn a sect of flies. An applicable tile is one that is a flatland, isn't water, doesnt have a bonus, doesnt have any units in it and isnt a city.

So to spawn 300 sect of flies there would need to be about 15,000 tiles that meet than description. That would definitly need to be a large map.

One thing you could do if you didn't want as many sect of lies is lower the helfire chance in the global defines from 200 to a lower number (driopping it to 100 will halves the amount of sect of flies, etc).

 

[rafnias]

ah, mk thanks :]
and yes, it was a large map.
i wouldn't have minded have them if there weren't so many ;p

 

[sylvain5477]

The problem may be linked to the influence of the number of civ on the number of SoF appearing (see the other post about it).

 

[Vehem]

The problem may be linked to the influence of the number of civ on the number of SoF appearing (see the other post about it).

Thanks Sylvain - forgot to link this post over to that one.

Other thread is here

Kael's tracked it down now - should be fixed next patch.

 

[sylvanllewelyn]

Dude, with that many sects of flies, you could simply group them together and take many cities, or simply declare war on your former allies, and pillage everyone back to the Age of Dragons. Getting manes for your cities ain't bad either. Seriously, what are you complaining about?