The following changes have been made to acquiring DO through using Animation and Transcendental Necromancy:

1) Duration of the "safety margin" for casting spells from the same spellbook without additional DO increased from 5 minutes to 60 minutes.
2) DO hit for using an Animation or Transcendental spell increased by about an order of magnitude.

Too Long; Didn't Maths - Your maximum possible DO/Time (many spells in 60 minutes) has gone down, your minimum possible (one spell in 60 minutes) has gone way up.

Polite comments are welcome. This will continue to be tweaked as necessary.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

Very interesting, sounds reasonable to me. I will test this as soon as it gets pushed to Plat.

Question, spells like BLB still generate DO per cast? Has the amount they generate changed as well?

Elusive
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur

In retrospect I don't like the whole radical increase in baseline casting cost.

More news in a little bit as I test another solution.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

Are there any changes to the way DO drains? By my estimate this change will triple the usable lifespan of DO spells which is great, but once you hit that threshold you're still looking at 5 RL days IN GAME to reduce DO back to sub-spell prep change levels...

- Kart / Rhoat

>>Are there any changes to the way DO drains?

Nope.

>>Also, while youre digging around in there any chance you can roll out some kind of Necromometer?

I'll give it some thought. I know how I want it to work but it'd be a tad more complex than everything else I'm doing tonight.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

>>I'll give it some thought. I know how I want it to work but it'd be a tad more complex than everything else I'm doing tonight.

Thanks - nobody cares in test obviously, but when I start rolling with a zombie 24/7 its going to make a big difference.

Are USOL or VS on the list of DO causing spells does anybody know?

- Kart / Rhoat

>> Are USOL or VS on the list of DO causing spells does anybody know?

Pretty sure Armifer said a couple pages back that nothing has changed regarding DO spells except for BLB. So I'd say if it's not BLB, Transcendental spell book, or animation spellbook, it doesn't cause DO.

<<perform attune or something like that... that would check how we are impacting the world around us. could need a dead body or not.>>

Love this idea.

I played around with Vivisection the first day or so on test, I have since forgotten about trying anything further because, well, its rather forgettable. Hopefully it can get looked at, and tweaked around a bit maybe.