Why am I being fire elemental rushed?

[Monkeyfinger]

About 110 turns into the game, just after I discovered bronze working (allowing strength 5 units at best, not that I have had time to either connect bronze or build training yards yet) these guys come knocking:

And decimate my city.

Quick peak at the worldbuilder reveals that these guys are overrunning the Sheaim and messing them up even harder, but there's no obvious source. What gives?

 

[Falc]

Any chance you're running Xienwolf's Modular FfH modmod with the 'Dangerous Features'?

 

[Mitchifer]

Maybe one of the AIs settled on the Pyre of Sepharic, which releases a horde of angry fire elementals next to the new city.

I recently discovered this (the hard way), so I could be wrong.

 

[xienwolf]

Yeah it isn't me. Pretty sure that Modular FfH won't work since Kael added Python Callbacks, that means all the units I created should have bad XML formats. Plus I never used Fire Elementals (Pyre was Azers).

 

[Kael]

Yeah, someone razed the Pyre. Bhall is not happy.

 

[loki1232]

Yeah, someone razed the Pyre. Bhall is not happy.

What if i just build an improvement (farm) on the Pyre and remove it that way? Maybe we should not allow building improvements on unique features?

 

[xienwolf]

Instead of being able to Raze the Pyre, could you make it so you have to "Chop it down" and it requires the Elementalism Tech to do that? I know it means adding a worker action just for this one event... but it'd keep the AI from sending out Fire Elementals too early.

 

[Nikis-Knight]

Had this happen to me--Fire elementals wiped out the Sidar and gave a nice corner of the map to the barbs, allowing Acheron to spawn, and giving me quite a scare. It was great!

 

[Mesix]

Maybe the event itself could require a tech (like Elementalism) before it occurs.

 

[vivictius]

I think something needs to be tweeked a bit, in my current game the clan built a cottage on top of it, destroying it but not causing the fire elementals to appear.

 

[Moxxa]

I have started taking a different view towards this mod. I just expect stuff like this to happen now. I don't think it is supposed to balanced. Its just fun.

Sometimes you spawn next to some kind of evil wizard and he kills you right away. Sometimes a religious victory is won by the AI just as you are about to attack them. Sometimes fire elementals spawn and destroy you before you had a chance. Mercenaries are broken as hell. Its just the name of the game.