theophilus
Mortal
posted 02 July 2003 11:01 PM EDT (US)
well everyone must have noticed how bad the priests' LOS is if theyve played eggy. it is extremely hard to scout well with eggy priests IMO because of their LOS. now im not saying anything needs to be changed, i just need a solution. for a whiel i was scouting with my pharaoh because 1) he has bigger LOS, 2) he can pick up relics on the way. i stopped doing this though when i realized i should use him to empower resources. does anyone know what i should do to scout better?
Phat Fox
Mortal
posted 02 July 2003 11:09 PM
EDT (US)
1 / 9
its hard i know. Thats why i dont like playing eggy. Thier scouting is the worst. But make oblisks lots of em. I always make tons of them.
lessthanjakeman9
Mortal
posted 02 July 2003 11:15 PM
EDT (US)
5 / 9
Well Set has great scouting. Isis has ok scouting the only problem is that he can only make 1 obelisk if he gets hunting dogs. Ra's scouting sucks. He cant make one obelisk if he gets hunting dogs. A solution to this would be to put your 5th or 6th vil (maybe earlier i havent actually tried this i just thought of it now) on gold to get the gold for obelisks. Another thing is that fishing ships can make obelisks. With ra i only start really scouting during the classical transition (i pump out another priest to scout). His scouting still sucks but I'd rather have 10% more gold than have a few obelisks up in archaic.
Ashenshugra
Mortal
posted 02 July 2003 11:22 PM
EDT (US)
6 / 9
I have used isis a lot and you need to set out obleisks. And to do so and to be able to get hunting dogs and not wait for temple gold you need to have a bo that puts 2-3 on gold early on. Like say vills 5,7 and 9. That way you can spam those things. It helps a great deal.
alric
Mortal
posted 03 July 2003 04:45 PM
EDT (US)
7 / 9
When they nerfed the priest empowerment for RA they should have given the RA priest the pharoah's LOS, or at least close to pharoah's LOS. Sometimes I let the priest initially empower the food while pharoah makes one trip around base to find other food sources, then pharoah takes over food empowering. With the priest's temporary 10% empowerment I don't think you'll fall to far behind in food.
Ashenshugra
Mortal
posted 03 July 2003 05:07 PM
EDT (US)
8 / 9
alric, I agree its best to do it (use pharoh to scout) asap cause when you only have 2-4 vills the % of empowering doesnt matter as much if you had 8 vills.