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[Smiling Spectre]

Originally Posted by Borodin

I suspect you don't mean this to sound either so dismissive or so certain.

Yes, I can be too sure of this "never", and I am sorry for that. Most of time - yes.

I've been playing MoM since it first came out (I reviewed it at the time), and I've certainly had allies break pacts with me. Happens all the time. As soon as you become powerful enough to be perceived as a threat, even the friendliest AI players will turn on you. This bit of AI was developed by Sid Meier, and it turns up again in Alpha Centauri (which was not, contrary to belief, authored by Meier, but used much of his AI code). You can just watch the impression you make on AI-driven players slowly drift down as you become very big--and it's not too long before pacts are broken for stated reasons that make no sense at all.

Oh, well, I begin to play MoM around 1999 and played it two-three years. On Impossible, because other options are too easy. And usually I made pacts with every single wizard. And usually they never broke it, except for Spell of the Mastery. But well, it actually could be not 1.31, but 1.2 (I doubt it though). Well, I'll test it and write results here.

Originally Posted by Nivm

_I have noticed no difference in the tax money paid when the populace was divided into farmers and workers, and completely to farmers.

I seen it. Well, I can test, of course. I'll say then.

_I forgot nothing with the planar towers; when you plan a road on suitable ground, then shift planes*, the road will be built regardless, even over water.

Ah. Then you are right, I think. In you initial statement you speaked about Towers exactly, so I intervene. Sorry.

_On the subject of army strength effecting treasure, I haven't noticed any difference when varying the amount of four heroes, a shaman, and two longbowmen troops.

Then I could be wrong here. I know that I receiving bigger rewards later in game, and I know that it was smaller (but stronger) armies later on, so I can made wrong conclusion about that.

But I am fairly sure about "divided treasures" issue, because every time when I kills enormous armies in 2-3 approaches, I receives fairly pathetic reward. Well, I can test it too.

P.S. Sorry for seemingly over-confident issue. My active English still far from perfect.