More priests/mages for 2nd PD commanders

[Ealb]

Based on a survey of all the nations' PD when I had some free time, the second commander should probably pretty frequently be a priest or T1-T2 mage.

Reference: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT6p0I5KOj3upbYIfXa4FIgvzgHDyMPkwCSzN798wqD7SoT6pD4tlpxsY5lbrYi7sABk1Js7vhAmCHj/pubhtml#

I'm also suspicious that NG could generally use to make more priest-mages, particularly low-tier ones (sometimes in addition to any other low-tier mages the nation has) and/or ones where the magic paths and priest paths are T1+T2 or T2+T1. IIRC, you commented on something similar a while back.

[elmokki]

Currently mage-priests are strictly such that you get allocated 1, 2 or 3 mage-priest levels and then you start going down from tier 3, ie you get H3 on tier 3, H2 on tier 2, H1 on tier 1 or the same with -1 or -2 to all tiers.

What I did talk about was to give:

• Flatter distribution, ie something like H1 on all
• Possibly separate priests with very low magic

If you're saying that the main mages should be able to get something like H1 on tier 1, H2 on tier 2 and no holy on tier 3, that sounds like something the base game doesn't do but that might be interesting rarely.

[elmokki]

Currently the program generates mages of one "mage order" so having main mages not be priests if lower ones are is, while plausible, not something I think should be as common as if there was a clear separation like many vanilla nations have.

The separation, however, is a thing I am a bit unsure how to exactly implement. In theory it's easy and it'd be funny to have, for example, Atlantian and Abysian mages of all tiers rather than one on tier 3 and other on lower tiers.

[Ealb]

The main thing that PD survey impressed on me was that something ridiculous like 50% of nations had mage-priests in their PD. I had no idea they were that common in nations, let alone in PD.