Q & A

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Ok, thanks guys.  I figured it out, (I hadn't gone over 2 chunks to the actual wind shelter site) having some really blond moments today.  Obvious sign of the mondays x_x...

King

[x4000]

The Deep - is current "look" of the place there to stay?

That blurring shader that gets left out and bugs when alt+tabbed is annoying.

Sort of -- there needs to be more tuning.  And for the bug on alt-tabbing, that's a known bug in mantis we just haven't had a chance to fix it yet.

[BobTheJanitor]

Hah, after all my moping about traps, I run into a guardian stone in a new settlement today that tells me to beware of trapped switches. Thanks! Where were you yesterday, guardian stone?

[x4000]

[Commiesalami]

Is there anyway to determine if an overlord has any lieutenants left?

And on a completely unrelated note: Is there anyway to lure a lieutenant out of an overlords room?

[Hyfrydle]

Q:When trying to access the higher spellgems is this based on civilisation level or region level? Is the below correct?

Civ level 1-5 Spell gem level 1
Civ level 6 - 10 Spell gem level 2
Civ level 11 - 15 Spell gem level 3

Does this increase every 5 levels?

[zebramatt]

I think it's based on the difference between your civ level and the region level.

[Ceerox]

Q:When trying to access the higher spellgems is this based on civilisation level or region level? Is the below correct?

Civ level 1-5 Spell gem level 1
Civ level 6 - 10 Spell gem level 2
Civ level 11 - 15 Spell gem level 3

Does this increase every 5 levels?

The lvl of the area the vein is in is what matters.

Ranks go up by one every 5 lvls with the rank 1 gem only being available until vein lvl 4, however.

So it's as follows:
vein in area lvl 1-4:     gem lvl 1
vein in area lvl 5-9:     gem lvl 2
vein in area lvl 10-14: gem lvl 3
...

What you shouldn't forget is that the lvl of the vein isn't necessarily the lvl of the tile on the world map (with
"highest" underground areas always being 1 lvl above the lvl of the world map tile).

[Hyfrydle]

So the level of the vein will actually be higher than the region but this gives a good rule of thumb to finding higher level gems. Which becomes more important as the civ level increases and higher level targets start appearing.

[keith.lamothe]

Tier = (Level / 5) + 1.

In general, for raw gem veins, what the game considers a "modern" spellgem for you, etc.

[Hyfrydle]

So at level 15 the gem tier equals 4 and are these gems found in the level 15 regions? Sorry for all the questions but for some reason I'm finding it hard getting my head around how this works.

[keith.lamothe]

So at level 15 the gem tier equals 4 and are these gems found in the level 15 regions?

Presumably, it might actually be level 16 before you see tier 4 (that is, ((level-1)/5)+1.

Sorry for all the questions but for some reason I'm finding it hard getting my head around how this works.

No problem.  Basically every 5 levels you'll start seeing a higher tier of stuff.

[Terraziel]

Your civ level doesn't matter, all that matters is the chunk level as shown in the orange bar

[x4000]

So at level 15 the gem tier equals 4 and are these gems found in the level 15 regions?

Presumably, it might actually be level 16 before you see tier 4 (that is, ((level-1)/5)+1.

Actually, since it's the CHUNK level, not the region level, that matters, you probably would start seeing them there.  Seeing as the topmost caves of a level 15 region would be level 16.

[BobTheJanitor]

Q: Why do I see monsters (usually skelebots I think) healing randomly? Especially obvious on the giant 'bot bosses. Their feet flash green and their HP goes up slowly. Does this mean anything? Is there some way to stop this? At first I assumed this was related to areas where a windstorm was ongoing, since that makes monsters stronger, but I've noticed it happens in areas under the protection of a wind shelter as well.