[Bug/Gameplay] Sovereign's shrinking mana pool

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I've played a few different sovereigns so far, and they all seem to lose mana for no apparent reason, ending up with 0 mana for the rest of the game. For example, in my most recent game,  the sovereign started out with 14/14 mana, that dropped to 11/11 within 1 or 2 turns, then several turns later it was 5/5, then I stopped playing. I had not cast a single spell. In an earlier, longer-lasting game, the sovereign stayed at 7 maximum mana for much of the game and I was able to cast a few spells, but eventually I was no longer able to cast spells and I found that his maximum mana had dropped to 0, where it remained the rest of the game.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Did you use some essence to build cities or in a quest ? Essence is not only used to revive land, but also is your max mana cap.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

That must be part of it, I went into a saved game a leveled a sovereign with 0 max mana, and that did indeed raise his mana cap to the amount of essence I gave him. That doesn't seem like the full story, though, since when my various sovereigns did have mana greater than 0, it was usually not the same amount as their essence. In my example above, when my sovereign had 11/11 mana, he only had 10 essence.

 

Edit: Upon further investigation, I see that max mana must be essence multiplied by something from one of the sovereign's stats.


Where would I find more information about things like this? I looked through the wiki, but it seems to not have been updated in a few builds.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Edit: Upon further investigation, I see that max mana must be essence multiplied by something from one of the sovereign's stats.
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Intelligence or Wisdom: One is for the mana pool, the other one for the mana regeneration

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

If you need information on something, don't forget to mouse over the icon. You can now see the calculation of stats.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

We do need to be more forthcoming about what it really means to use essence. Right now it's all done through those crummy message boxes, whereas I'd like to see something more informative when essence is required (what spells I'd lose, my new max MP, etc.) 

But yeah, this is as designed.