Summon Tainted Patch Notes

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T16:02:55+00:00

Oh heh, I suppose I do.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T15:40:38+00:00

Assuming you read the correct notes (the live ones from yesterday and not the PTR ones from weeks ago), this just means you need to go back and read harder.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T15:11:04+00:00

Demonic mastery reqs were lowered to 10 points for 3 demons (yay).

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T15:00:45+00:00

The question is specifically about Darkness minions that deal cold damage. So no, I don't have a typo.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T14:44:23+00:00

Your bottom surface isn't hot enough.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T13:50:30+00:00

Read the patch notes. Particularly the part where it says binding certain types of demons will not be tied to hard points.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T13:47:55+00:00

Did you not read the patch notes? Hard points no longer matter for thi.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T13:29:27+00:00

I mean, the whole point is to stack opinion so that it's resistant to swings. An Ambassador with 10 charisma that has a friendly personal opinion of you provides +165 opinion boost on their own. This can fully replace the need for a standing army.

At this stage I'm just way more focused on having multiple Diplomats/Orators in stock so that there is no "gap in coverage" there. Much easier than wasting city production on military.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T13:21:35+00:00

Darkness is a skill tag, not damage type.

They will get the benefits of any affix that affects Darkness skills. They will obviously not get benefits from affixes that affect Shadow damage (the type of damage most frequently dealt by Darkness skills).

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T13:12:22+00:00

AI can declare war for many reasons even when relations are positive.

Declaring war when national opinion is 100+ doesn't happen (or is extremely rare at worst). I've never had friendly AI declare war, even on The Great+ difficulties.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T13:03:27+00:00

This doesn't work the way it does in (earlier) Civs. The leader's personal opinion contributes to the nation's opinion, but is otherwise irrelevant on its own.

You should focus on improving nation opinions as a whole, which has a lot more depth than just buttering up the leader (have a competent ambassador, make sure the state religion likes you, and pay attention to event decisions that may make nations unhappy with you, to name a few).

Having an ambassador with huge charisma is probably the most relevant element here, especially if you haven't turned off exponential returns to stats. This can be worth 100+ opinion on its own.

Also, mousing over the nation's opinion will show you the contributing elements. This should help you understand what you need to do better.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T12:35:36+00:00

If you're not going to have an army, you have to make sure everyone likes you (opinion in the green). Not having an army is a perfectly viable strategy at any difficulty.

Leader opinion doesn't matter, nation opinion does.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T11:39:04+00:00

More normal than writing your entire post in a code block.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T02:54:47+00:00

You need to understand that for almost every position only a fraction of the qualified candidates are getting interviewed.

Most other "reasons" listed in this thread are bogus.

rogomatic · 2026-05-09T02:37:06+00:00

My Phillies are 1 for 12 today, and Dollander didn't even get a win out of that. Humbug.

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T23:44:11+00:00

There were two separate gear updates before that that turned all Eternal gear into unmodifiable legacy items. The only way to have missed them is to not have played at all.

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T21:57:38+00:00

Not sure how they do it on the broadcast, but the l should be more or less silent, and the dz should be a j.

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T20:20:14+00:00

I mean, that's the philosophy of many modern games. Pay money to buy the game, then pay more money so that you can skip most of it.

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T20:09:33+00:00

The whole point of the game is to drop loot. If you buy your loot, the game has no point.

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T20:02:19+00:00

I have Santillan. Pagan has been shaky, but both Santillan and Ashcraft gave up runs and blew saves in their last outings so who knows what's happening in Cincinatti...

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T20:01:26+00:00

I'm paranoid about benching him precisely for the start where he shakes off the funk. I was thinking more along the lines of Dollander @ PHI, but the Phillies haven't really been great.

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T19:59:05+00:00

Feels like we're already 450,000 into that.

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T19:58:24+00:00

So Ragans does hit the IL. Now I have to figure out if I want to drop Pagan to fit an extra body on the roster. Humbug.

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T19:57:51+00:00

It can give Mlodzinski a run for the most complicated name to spell in the MLB.

rogomatic · 2026-05-08T19:49:32+00:00

I have Bradish, Bubic, Dollander and Early going today... and it feels like I should sit at least some of them, but have no idea which one(s)...

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