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Hello everyone.

This is going to come off as slightly weird, as I may or may not have introduced myself before in the past. I honestly can't remember! So regardless, it was such a long time ago that I feel its probably appropriate to do so once more.

I'm 21 from the UK, currently doing a little extra work to earn my place in Bolton University to study... what else? Games Design. Aside from which I've actually been in possession of my Dominions 3 copy for quite some time, though I shamefully admit I haven't yet really delved into its depth, mysteries and probable online spankings.

I've just been umm-ing and ah-ing my way through the tutorial now that the comforting and informative step by step turn text has let go of my hand. So after a good run, realising such important facts as: you can only cast rituals at Labs due to the stock of magic gems, I'm slowly gaining an understanding of how things are panning out.

Still curious about artifact creation and construction, though I'm sure the rather thick and imposing manual will shed some light on it.

Either way, its great to meet you all... And hopefully I can pluck up the courage to get my nether regions handed to me by one of you no doubt fine Pretenders out there.

Cheers! - Chrome

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Hi, I'm Drok'Slit, 18 year old in McAllen, Texas, US. I tried the demo for dominions 3 and almost instantly fell in love with the game. My hobbies include tabletop gaming, and RPGs. I play Warhammer 40,000 and I like to play World of Darkness. I hope on learning more from the Moding community here and have dreams to hopefully make a Warhammer Orc/Ork playable nation so I can have a Proper WAAAGH! in dominions. Hopefully you all will be hearing more from me in this forum.

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Hiya,
I am 32, French and working in Dublin. I love Dom3 and I am a new player. :)
Thanks for all the interesting posts on the board!
Marmaduke

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Welcome Drok'Slit and Marmaduke!! Nice to have you. Drok, you might want to talk to Sombre, he's been making Warhammer nations for Dom 3 for a while now, he could be really helpful.

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Also Aezeal has made an Ork nation for his Dominions 3000 mod. I haven't played it though.

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Wasn't Okin working on a warhammer orc mod? Haven't seen him post in a while though, so no telling where he is with that. You might be able to use some of the sprites he had to help you along. Just send him a pm or drop a line in his mod's thread if you're interested.

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Sorry to (just) hear about your leaving. You were magnificent in Noobs vs Vets I.

Hello and welcome melnorjr, Marmaduke, and everyone else.

Noobs vs. Vets III: Revolution

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Oh, I'm afraid to hear that.

Make sure to come back here and tell about it when you have something. :)

Ciao!

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Hello everyone. I am 56, married 30 years (this year!), a father of 3, and a very active gamer. IRL I am a criminal lawyer, which means that I defend liberty and freedom and work hard to prevent the government from over-reaching into our lives.

I've been gaming since 1978 when I bought my first Apple computer. I taught myself assembly language programming, wrote a hit software product (InfoWorld Product of the Year 1994) and founded a successful software company, which I later sold before retiring to play Magic: the Gathering on the Pro circuit with 2 of my kids for about 2-3 years.

I'm an MMO junkie and was in the early beta of UO, EverQuest, Asheron's Call, Anarchy Online, Dark Age of Camelot, and EverQuest II. My wife and I have also played WoW, Tabula Rasa, Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeon and Dragons Online, and are currently playing EVE Online. The whole family has played a number of LAN games together, including every genre imaginable from FPS to RTS to RPG to TBS) and we've had great fun gaming together.

I've always been a TBS junkie and still have my original copies of X-Com, MoM, and MoO. So Dom was a natural, although I have to admit I struggled with early iterations of the UI. At this point in my life our kids are all moved out and in college so I only play when my wife plays, so the two of us will only play multiplayer games. She's not into long complex games, she is more of an MMO player or a quick hack'n'slash, so I've never been able to interest her much in Dom or other TBS. So I don't get to come play Dom very often anymore. But every once in a while I come back and visit and have some fun.

So here I am. This time I thought I'd introduce myself when I saw this thread. Thanks for reading it, and thanks for providing a forum for letting us get to know each other!

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Hi Regnorvex, thanks for stopping by and letting us get to know you.

I strongly recommend joining a multiplayer game or two from this forum, it should become very addictive very quickly

I imagine your professional skills came in very useful handling rules lawyers on the MtG circuit ;)

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Thanks for the warm welcome, Dragar, nice to know you. And yeah, don't get me started on MtG rules "lawyers" lol.

I'll take a look around and see if I can figure out how to get involved in a mp game or two. Problem is, once my wife comes downstairs she's going to want to go play Sacred II or EVE Online, so I may have to limit my mp Dom play to PBEM. How is that working these days?

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Most games advertised for are run on the llamaserver, which is a pbem server. There are certainly a good number of games running at all times. A few games are looking for players at the moment, if you're interested.

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PBEM works great, and by its nature you can choose when you play. One game is very tie undemanding, and if you want to get busy you just add more games.

It is a completely different game, the strategic complexity makes the AI hopeless and frustrating to play against. Good human opponents are tough - I've been playing for a year now without winning a game ;)

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Dominions is by its nature a PBEM game. Typical hosting interval is one turn per day in the early game, increased to 48 hours when it gets to the later game. Unless you join a blitz game where the hosting intervals is much, much smaller so that a large number of turns are played in quick succession.

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Hi all.

Love the game (played Dom2 as well).

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Awesome. You guys have me psyched to get a pbem going. Thanks for the encouragement and suggestion.

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Welcome welcome. Do remember to try some mods when you feel you've got a feel for dominions generally.

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Hello!
I put off purchasing Dom3 for some time due to its costs and the costs of shipping it here to Germany -- but I finally submitted! I have now "awakened"!
I have dominions 3 for about 2 weeks now and like it very much. I will soon post a huge, rambling thread here asking all of the questions that I have.
Perhaps we can see each other in-game one day -- I do not feel up to playing a PBEM yet, since I think I am not nearly good enough and do not understand the maximizing stuff you people write about in your threads. Maybe there are games for people who want a "Casual" game? Also perhaps a game where no body minds if a turn is not submitted every day? I have only played SP so far (argh!! the AI is so silly somethimes!) but see that in the later parts of the game, a turn can take hours to do -- so much to see and think of!!
Fun!
Hope to see you around soon, and thanks in advance for your patience with newbiness
- Jan

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Hi Jan

Newbie-friendly games start pretty regularly, keep an eye out in the multiplayer subforum. And please don't feel you need to play much more SP before you join an MP game. As long as you have th every basics go for it, you never learn as much as you do by MP games, and no matter how much SP you have under your belt you will still be surprised constantly against experienced human players. Just suck it up and dive in :)

1 turn per day is really not much time at all, and as games get later the hosting intervals normally go further. If you are unable to meet time for a specific turn the game admin will almost certainly postpone it for you - happens all the time, we all have our lives

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Just thought I would say hello, I'm new to this game and have yet to play a multiplayer game.

Just practicing with the single player game and there is a lot to learn.

Looking forward to seeing you on the battle field.

BSE

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Welcome!

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Hello forum

Anther DOM3 noobie gamer here :) . I’ve been playing the Demo version for a few day now, and this is exactly the type of game I enjoy most (4x turn based strategy). Guess I’m considered a hardcore wargamer, coming out of the strategy boardgame genre (ASL with VASL is my main game, though I play PC SP computer games more often these days). Love the old AH games, Third Reich was my first wargame (mid 70’s). I think either Civ(first version), Empire, or the old gold box DD (Pool of Radiance) .. can’t remember exactly now .. from the mid/late 80’s, was my first computer game. The most disappointing computer game I ever purchased was MOO3 (MOO2 probably being the most enjoyable PC game I ever purchased), the experience completely changed my PC game purchasing approach/mode :shock: .

I enjoy Railroad games too; they tend to focus on efficiency over unlimited expansion which is another dimension I like to see in PC games. I don’t particularly like FP shooters & RTSs with a couple of notable exceptions (Age of Mythology comes to mind: very good game with very good AI). I generally don’t buy games much anymore (lack of time on my part for one thing, and as to computer games in general: the AI seems to have been on the decline for years now in newer games these days IMO [which I see as a generalized quality decline], an emphasis on graphics over substance, and the ship-it-with-patches-bugs-and-all-mentality & fix it later :() ... anyway, I’m just saying if I shell out to buy something these days, you know it’s gotta be good!

I ordered the full version of Dom a couple of days ago, and I just checked the tracking #, I should be getting it today, feels like Xmas as a kid, can’t wait ! :D I do have a couple of noobie questions based on the demo version that I plan on posting in the main section below later on. :eek:

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Welcome aboard, I'm also a newbie, so we may see each other in a newbie game or two in the future. :)

Plenty of information here and playing the game will help you learn a heap. People have told me that there is a rather big difference between SP and MP, so there are certain tactics which need to be altered between game styles.

I'm still waiting for my shipment to arrive as well.

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Welcome! Be sure to read the sticky threads posted at the top of the forum. The FAQ and the various links from the strategy index are probably of the greatest interest, though some information has been obsoleted by patches (e.g. automatic site searching mechanics have been altered from what most references say they are).

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Relatively recent convert back to the strategy fold here, picked up dom3 after hearing about it on three moves ahead. Finished the demo four times while waiting for the full game to arrive, have been playing for two weeks now, trying out factions and trying to get to grips with the unqiue arc of a dom 3 game before I start jumping into MP, which I'm very much looking forward to.

I hope to see all around soon, even if it is in the process of getting annihilated...

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Welcome! :)

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Hi,

I'm a 43 year old software developer in Los Angeles.

I've played Dominions 2 and 3 quite a bit, but never multiplayer. I spent quite a bit of time travelling during the last two years, and played Dominions 3 in some interesting places -- Mongolia, China, Russia, Tanzania, Namibia, Bolivia, and Peru, for example. It was an ideal game for me; I had plenty of time and it would run on my ultralight laptop.

I'm looking forward to playing multiplayer at some point but I'm a bit intimidated by the regulars here! I'd like to get in a newbie game.

Ken

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Welcome kenmtraveller! :)

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Hallo there everyone! I've had the game for a couple months but just now getting around to investing a lot of time in it, and I thought I'd go ahead and join the forum :)

I'm a long-time lover of strategy games, and I've gotta say; Dominions 3 is a game that I've been searching a long time for. Many thanks to the amazing developers for putting pretty much everything I could ever want in a turn-based strategy game into one awesome package.

Anywho, I'm not very good yet, but I would like to get into multiplayer games. Best way to get better, I'd bet ;)

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It is. Welcome to the forum! :)

The FAQ is a good place to start, as is the strategy index. The latter will help you accelerate the 'getting better' process.

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Yeah, I'd looked through a lot of the strategies and FAQs before I joined, and I've gotten a good grasp of how everything works. Now it's really just a matter of putting it all together and throwing it against a wall of human players to see what sticks, you know? ;)

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I'm a 24 year old Producer in Southern Mississippi.

It's pretty hard to game in a place thats so driven towards hunting, fishin, and big trucks :P

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Welcome!
I got my first tattoo from a guy named Buzzard in Columbus Mississippi. I believe he was running for Sheriff at the time. That's more mid eastern MS, but it's in the neighborhood. :)

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Greetings,
My name is InfoStorm and I have been a member of Gamer's Anonymous for thirty years. I have been game free for (looks at watch) two and a half hours, needing to work to support my gaming habit. :D

I'm a wanna-be game designer who's need to support a family keeps one from following a dream, so I hope to have fun making some mods for Dom3.

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Hello, I am Thane, I am 29 and live in Kansas. I work at a state hospital for the mentally ill. I have been playing this game since it's release, but have never tried MP, or modding, and just signed up for the boards. I have been a long time lurker.....

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Welcome, welcome to all the newly registered users.

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Hrm, I guess I've been floating around here for a few months (never saw this thread, d'oh!). I'm <beeep!>, 27 and working/studying in Palo Alto, California, getting "Piled-Higher-and-Deeper" in Economics while working part time for a boutique fund in the area.

Long time gamer who's worked in the game industry for a few years then decided to keep it a hobby (makes it more fun this way)... now I dabble in grabbing online data, quantifying them, throwing that into matrices, and optimizing the whole shebang to derive something moderately useful. I'll spare you the dreadfully exciting details. :)

Strategy games... mmm, have dabbled mainly in computer games since Civ/MoO/MoM/Rot3K era, with a bit of the Panzer General-series thrown in. Tabletop experience limited mainly to a splash of Warhammer and D&D minis (and whatever's offered at local Cons).

Oh yeah I'm a total closet gamer so uhm, shhhhhh don't tell any of my friends I'm here!

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Hee hee I'm sort of a closet gamer too! Woo

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Hi all and greetings!

I've been observing this forum for years and it is only now that I decided to formally join since I just LOVE Dom3 and I have been playing it for years (including dom1 and dom2)!

Anyways the reason I joined now is that because I'd like to write a fanfiction series for Dominions however I haven't seen any subforums dedicated for fanfiction so I'd like to ask, is it ok to write dominion fanfics here or is this forum totally dedicated for guides? :D

Again thanks and good day!

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Hello everybody

I'm new to Dominions 3, and I didn't play the other two either. I actually tried to play the demo a year or so ago, but wasn't ready to commit the necessary time to learn the basics of the game, just for the sake of a demo. After listening to the Flash of Steel podcast, though, I finally caved and bought it, and I'm not disappointed.

This is one of the most interesting games I've played for a long, long time, and I'm still only in my first game. Hopefully, someone here will be able to answer the inevitable questions that the manual/wiki don't answer. :)

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Hello fellow 'Dominators', or should I say 'Dominioners'... :confused: :D

Anyway here I am, 28 years of age, coming from the Netherlands, Europe. Same as Flop above me, I tried the demo several times before in the last couple of years and eventhough it kept me coming back to check it out I somehow never really had the time, or wanted to commit the time to learn the game properly.

Still, like I said, the game attracts me and finally I have decided to order it.

So I am waiting for my delivery with only the demo to play with for now, but I am sure that will do for your first game anyway! :angel

I would like to get involved into multiplayer games and one idea I've been playing around with is to setup a game where commited players will also commit to keeping a blog of their progression. This can be in fanfiction form, or just summing up their plans and the status of those plans per turn.
After the game has finished, or maybe even at a pre determined spot during the game, all blogs, AARs and whatnot are posted in a dedicated thread so that people can read exactly how the others were faring during specific points in the game.
Just for laughs and of course, to learn!

No matter how good or bad my ideas are. First I need to learn the game and -even more important- get it delivered. :D

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Ysk! Heheh, looks like you came on over from Star Chamber, n'est ce pas? Nice to see you here sir! I'd like to play a game of SC with you again when you get the chance

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Hey! You're correct! How have you been? It's been a while since I've shown my face over at SC, but that's another gem of a game I really like to sink more time into. :) If only I had the time to do it all!...

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Personally I like Dom Minions.

Gandalf Parker

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Greetings. I'm new around here. Just found out Dominions, played the demo, lurked around a bit and decided to order the game. First game in a long time to interest me enough to buy it. Hopefully it will arrive soon and I'll be able to join some sort of newbie-friendly MP game, because from the looks of it MP seems to be way more interesting. Meanwhile, I'm devouring the wiki and different guides so that I don't get slaughtered immediately when I'll finally be able to play.

Unimportant details: male, 24, Poland, if anyone cares :P.

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An easy way to get into MP is to fill in for a player that has to drop a game. ANY player is appreciated more than having to turn that nation over to the stupid AI. And if you lose, you have a ready excuse since it wasnt your choice of nation or your god-build. Low expectations on your play, kudos if you win, ready excuse if you lose. Its all good any way it goes. :)

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If a random newbie is likely better than the AI it must mean it's not too good ;). So if I can't do wrong by being a substitute, it might be a good training. Thanks for the tip.

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Actually the AI is very good compared to most games. But hey, some of us have been playing this game for years. We have the AI so well figured out that even a bad human player can be a good change. In fact, a great one. An action that we totally didnt expect because no experienced player would ever do that can be a deadly surprise. :evil:

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I beg to disagree. The only time the AI is ever dangerous is at the very beginning. Presumably, if you're subbing its past that stage, at which point it is one of the worst AIs in gaming.

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Eh, it can be pretty hard to beat the AI as a new player, just because they build such large numbers of units. It just that in dominions, once you know how it's very easy to kill large numbers of units. I wouldn't say that any random newbie is going to do better than the AI, but they'll at least attack the correct player, and yeah, you just might learn something from playing.