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confused by spell

Hi Seravy,

I have no idea what happened, but in my current impossible game, someone cast a spell overland on my doomstack. First, I'm not sure how they could see it - there are no units anywhere near it. I thought maybe earth lore? but the wizard i think cast it only has sorcery and life. I checked for invisible units, and there are none (its also on Myrror, and until that turn he never had any units on Myrror; and the one stack he now has (via Astral Gate) is on the opposite side of the plane. No globals (that wizard has Just Cause, Aura of Majesty, and Aether Binding). Second, the spell itself caused a graphic of 5 little cylinders of white with blue trim to move up and down on the stack (one on each corner, one in the middle). (I don't have detect magic yet, although the 3 remaining AI are using disjunction on anything they can anyway.)

Now the part that actually made me post: Each of the 8 Hammerhands in my stack have Eldritch Weapon, Focus Magic, Holy Armor, and Holy Weapon cast on them. After this spell was cast, 5 of them still had the same spells; 1 had only Focus Magic, and 1 has only Focus Magic, Holy Armor, and Holy Weapon (so I thought at first that it was some kind of dispel - but I thought AI couldn't use dispels overland?)

But the 8th now has the following spells cast on him, most of which I do not know: Eldritch Weapon and Immolation; True Sight, Lionheart, Bless, Planar Travel, Holy Weapon; Animated; Flight, Spell Lock, Resist Magic, Magic Immunity, Windwalking, Invisibility; and Iron Skin, Regenerate, Resist Elements, Elemental Armor, Water Walking.

So he lost Holy Armor and Focus Magic, but he got.. well.. a lot of other stuff. The invisibility is what caught my eye, and the wind walking is what really got me going whaaaaaat; and then I looked at the list of spells, and now I've paused my game because this is extremely strange.

I'm not 100% sure as to what wizard cast the spell, but my guess is Jafar, with 7 Sorcery Books, 5 Life Books, Warlord and Alchemy; he is an Aggressive Theurgist, and is the only AI actually at war with me (this was actually the first turn after he declared war on me.)
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(August 28th, 2016, 23:05)Nelphine Wrote: First, I'm not sure how they could see it
The AI only has a scouting system for cities. They see everything else.

Quote:Second, the spell itself caused a graphic of 5 little cylinders of white
That's Disenchant Area or Dispelling Wave, in this case the latter.

Quote:But the 8th now has the following spells cast on him, most of which I do not know: Eldritch Weapon and Immolation; True Sight, Lionheart, Bless, Planar Travel, Holy Weapon; Animated; Flight, Spell Lock, Resist Magic, Magic Immunity, Windwalking, Invisibility; and Iron Skin, Regenerate, Resist Elements, Elemental Armor, Water Walking.
Sounds like a bug in dispelling. I'll check if I can find any.

Edit : yes, it's a bug. A big one. I'm surprised it wasn't crashing.
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Almost feels like an overflow on a dispel, but he's still missing at least one spell I don't know (flame blade) in addition to the 2 I cast.

Actually I forgot, they all started with endurance. Most of the stack is still speed 3, including that unit, but it doesn't have endurance, does wind walking grant minimum speed of 3?

Wasn't there a thread about AI not being able to use dispelling wave? Wasn't that part of the discussion on.. Great undummoning I think?
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Oh in case it matters the hamnerhands also have ohilicon, or whatever the new ore is called (and until I started putting focus magic on them, I had no idea why there even was a new ore. Seemed silly! Now I'm like whaaaat!)

And they were stacked with a pathfinding hero. (The hero had no buffs, but got lots of things from items, including Lionheart and a few others.)
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I already fixed the bug, will be in the next release.
It was a simply thing, had a pop cx where I meant to have a push cx instead. Basically a typo. One that causes the entire data stack to break.

The AI is able to use Dispelling Wave now. They weren't able to back then.
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Awesome thanks!

Any idea if the messed data will add instability to my game? Should I start over, or can I keep going?
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(August 29th, 2016, 11:23)Nelphine Wrote: Awesome thanks!

Any idea if the messed data will add instability to my game? Should I start over, or can I keep going?
I have no idea. If it hasn't crashed yet, it might be stable. It's not like starting over helps unless the bug is fixed, the AI will cast the spell again...and I will need at least 2-3 days before I can release..there are massive upgrades which have to be tested for stability.
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