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Alignment Compatibility Mod

In this mod, specializations have a much greater influence on the alignment of the leaders than any other decision. The AI players will always tend to keep the alignment which their specializations determine. It solves the problems of morale in their armies caused by the presence of units that are dedicated to good/evil/neutral.

From now on, there are two kinds of modifiers for the alignment :

- The "innate" modifiers : they come from good/evil spells associated with specializations, and are permanent.
- The "acquired" modifiers : they come from the other leader's choices in the course of the game and their influence withers away with time.


- All spells of the good/evil specializations (Creation, Destruction, Keeper of the Peace, Shadowborn - both Adept Master) add or subtract 200 to the alignment when they are casted for the first time. Their effects on the alignment are not cumulative, except for spells from different specializations.

Example : a leader with Shadowborn Master who casts the spell Embrace Darkness becomes Slightly Evil (-200). Even if he casts thereafter the spell Seed of Distrust, he will stay Slightly Evil (-200) since the two spells belong to the specialization Shadowborn Adept. However, if he casts the spell Rite of Malediction, he will become Evil (-400) because this spell belongs to the specialization Shadowborn Master.

- All other alignment modifiers are cumulative but temporary, and wither away at the rate of 4% a day until their disappearance.

Example : A leader with Grey Guard Master that razes two cities becomes Slightly Evil (-150 -150 = -300). This alignment has a bad influence on the morale of his units that have become dedicated to neutral because of the spell Scales of Fortune. But as he will regain 12 alignment points each turn (4% of 300 = 12), he will become neutral again after 9 turns (-300 +108 = -192) if nothing modifies his alignment by then.

- The influence of some events on the alignment has been reduced :

Elimination of a good leader : -200 instead of -400.
Elimination of an evil leader : +200 instead of +400.


- It’s much harder too become Pure Good/Evil if you don’t have any Good/Evil specialization. But if you have the right specializations, it can be very easy… for example, simply cast spells from Keeper of the Peace Adept, Creation Adept and Creation Master if they are your 3 specializations ; your base alignement is now +600 (Pure Good) and you win the Empire Quest. :P

- Remember that if spells add or subtract only 200 to the alignment, it means that without a stock of additional points, any decision that goes against your alignment can make it weaker, which will have an influence on the morale of your Empire... If you decide to play a good leader, deal with it and play accordingly !

- Of course, all modifications affect the AI players ; it was the initial goal of this mod. Now, even a bloodthirsty orc leader that does a good deed despite his specializations Destruction Master/Shadowborn Adept should not stay friendly for long...

- As far as the good/evil/neutral specializations, this mod is 100% compatible with the pre-made leaders. If you decide to create a custom leader that will be controlled by the AI, try to avoid the following combinations (if you don't, the AI players may risk having units with an alignment that is incompatible with the leader's alignment) :

Shadow Adept/Creation Master
Keeper of the Peace Adept/Destruction Master
Gray Guard/Creation
Gray Guard/Destruction

- Compatible with many other community mods (but please, note that good/evil spells/specializations from other mods will probably use the vanilla original alignment rules). Resources have been changed in the following files :

AOW_SPELLTEST.RPK (Specialization: Creation and Specialization: Destruction)
DIPLOMACY.RPK (Diplomacy Alignment Modifiers)
SKILLSHADOWBORN.RPK (Shadowborn Skills)
SKILLTORCHBEARER.RPK (Torchbearer Skills and Torchbearer Strategic)

- Support all languages.


1.1:

- Created 4 new resources for Creation/Destruction Spell Alignment Modifiers instead of editing Minor/Major Good/Evil ones, to improve compatibility with other mods.
- Compatible with games launched with 1.0.

1.2:

- Don't need Golden Realms or Eternal Lords expansions anymore.
- Compatible with games launched with 1.1.

Possible changes in next update :

- Possible remove of happiness bonus/malus that trigger when the alignment changes. Please give your opinion here or on the official forum.

Check here[aow.triumph.net] for more details.

Have fun !