Life total effect on speed of attacks

[skary]

I know I read somewhere that the speed with which attacks occur on cities varies with your life total.

Does anyone have a link to whoever said that or know if there are breakpoints for the life totals and what effect they have?

Thanks.

[Aswan jaguar]

I know I read somewhere that the speed with which attacks occur on cities varies with your life total.

I don't know about that but in top difficulty level (I only play that so I don't know about the rest) I have noticed that the time between attacks to cities becomes less and less as the number of cities taken by the wizards increases.

[Korath]

Unmodified Shandalar bases the siege rate only on the difficulty level chosen at the start of the game, and how long the game's lasted. The logic looks like:

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if (!(monstertimer & 0x1F) && player_heading)
  {
    if (food)
      --food;
    if (!Scards[WORLDMAGIC_FRUIT_OF_SUSTENANCE].worldmagic_city && terrain_1 == TERRAIN_FOREST)
      food += 2;
    ++siege_timer;
    ++quest_and_restocking_timer;
    if (!(siege_timer & 0x3F))
      {
        begin_siege();
        siege_timer += clamp(siege_timer / 256 + opponent_skill, 0, 16);
      }
    if ((siege_timer & 0x3F) == 24)
      {
        besieged_city_is_conquered();
        siege_timer += clamp(siege_timer / 64 + 2 * opponent_skill, 0, 32);
      }
    map_needs_redraw = 1;
    if (siege_timer >= 8)
      unused_591214 = 1;
  }

I know I read somewhere that the speed with which attacks occur on cities varies with your life total.

I'd be very interested to learn where you read this. None of the public versions of modified Shandalar change the siege rate. Later ones do, in fact, have an option to base it on your life.

[skary]

I'd be very interested to learn where you read this. None of the public versions of modified Shandalar change the siege rate. Later ones do, in fact, have an option to base it on your life.

Ok, so I probably read the about the options in some version and got mixed up, thanks!