Pretender's chassis calculator

[Strategiusz]

Very often I have an idea for magic paths and dominion strength, but then I must check what physical form is the best for that (leaves me the most points for scales) which is just a boring no-brain clicking. Is there any calculator for that?

Edit: link to the online bless calculator https://bsielski.github.io/pretenders/

[Gregstrom]

I think Dom3 had a calculator, but in Dom4 you just have to use intuition. There are a couple of heuristics you can follow though.

1. It's cheaper to use a Pretender with starting paths that match the paths you want. If you're going for a major bless, you can save a lot of points by going for a chassis with a starting path >1 in your chosen bless path(s).

2. For Dominion, pretenders at the top of the list have higher base Dom. This is most relevant when you want a high starting Dominion score (8+ I suppose).

[Strategiusz]

I made it, the link is in the first post. It need some front-end improvements but even now it has almost all features I wanted.

[Zonk]

Thanks for your tool, it's awesome and I'm sharing the link with as many fellow dominion players as possible :)

Only issue I have to report is the typo in 'Any natioin'. Otherwise it's great, I'm pleasantly surprised to see it even understands national discounts!

[Rope Man]

this should be pinned somewhere this is super helpful

[Strategiusz]

I made many UI changes and additional features. If you can find any bugs or things to improve please let me know. I can test it only on my laptop, I don't know how it works on phones.

I'm planning
- displaying scales effects
- adding some colors to scale values

[Morsigil]

Oh, wow. This is so cool! Strategiusz I cannot thank you enough for this! I'm always wishing I could play around with pretender design while at work! This should definitely be stickied along with the mod inspector.

[Waywinkle]

In some cases it suggests pretenders that are not available for that nation. For example MA Agartha it suggests that I can use "lord of the desert sun" but I can't select that in game.

Awesome tool by the way.

[Strategiusz]

Thank you, I fixed Agartha and many other nations that had wrong home realms too (Ulm, Marignon, LA Atlantis), plus some other minor bugs (some default pretenders and Father of the Sea could appear when they should not).

Originally posted by Zonk:

Bodhisattva of Mercy costs 260, not 250.

thanks, Bodhisattva of Mercy costs fixed.

[Zonk]

It's even more awesome than before :)

Very minor stat change report from 4.30 you didn't account for yet: Bodhisattva of Mercy costs 260, not 250.