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sorry man I am pretty stupid,can not find it...
can u pas the link or some thing like that...

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Ragnars Wolves from good 'ol' Kansas (NO Northern Iowa comments for at least 6 months please).

Have not played SP and was advised to just jump in, read the forums, and take my first few beatings like everyone else. Soooooo, I guess....let the beatings begin!!!:p

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Welcome from a fellow Kansan. :)

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You may have found it by now, but the Dom3 (3.24) patch can be found on this page:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwint...DOM3_page.html

Edi's DB is here:
http://koti.welho.com/ehalttun/dom3/

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Personally I would not have made the suggestion to "jump in". Many find SP enjoyable. And in any case Id have recommended experimenting with each nation first. They each have pros and cons. Some are strongly offensive, or defensive, or research, or stealth, or basically the standard barbarian horde style of play, and more. Finding the one that best fits your playing style might make those "beatings" less horrible.

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there are no pro's to ea-agartha.

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25-year old Male from Wichita, KS, USA. My friend got me into Dominions III around Christmas, and I've been playing a few single-players since. Now he, a few other friends, and I are trying some Multiplayer. I can't believe how there are apparently two learning curves...once you get decent at SP, you have to make another learning jump to be decent at MP.

Unfortunately, I don't really garner any joy out of the SP experience anymore (but my interest in that area was waning anyway). I enjoy the intrigue and the thrill far too much of MP.

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Greets, 28 YO male from Hong Kong looking for gir... :doh: Got into dominion a few weeks back from recommendations in Octopusoverlord forum. I'm enjoying this a lot and hope to foray into MP games soon, after I try every single team out and jot down some personal notes for each of them.

I enjoy how unique some of the teams are (LA R'yeth!) and hope to pick up more on the game mechanics before I hop in a MP game.

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So yeah, i wandered in here and stole your cheese because my cheese smells bad.

Oh look. Mods.

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Hi all,
this is my first message in this forum and I'd like introduce myself.

I'm computer engineer. I'm 37 years old and I'm from Barcelona ( Spain). I knew about Dominions two months ago in a spanish wargame forum. Currently I'm playing a couple of Dominions Multiplayers games with others spanish players. But I hope I play another MP games in this forum. :fight:

I've been playing videogames since 9 years old in 8 bit computers. These last years I was mainly played strategy turn-based games (Combat Mission, Civilization,...). I don't like play RTS (Real Time Strategy) games.

Finally I'd like to tell you that I love this game! :D

Wal

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Hi there...my name is Dennis, and I have a serious woody for this game.

I have spent the last three days reading EVERYTHING about this game, from the dom3 wiki.

2106 units, over 700 spells, and all 68 different nation types across the three era's.

I have a solid understanding of most of this game, especially after reading a 38-page thread on an AAR. Nothing like reading other people's thoughts as they play the game.

Someone stop me...I have purchased three games already this month, and there are at LEAST three more that are coming out soon.

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Okay, Starcraft II...but what others? I reccomend just throw yourself deeply into Dominions and see if you can convince yourself to not buy those other games, because...hey...you won't play them anyway. Not with Dominions. :p

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Hi. This is a cool game. I came here because it's easy to find from buying the game. I hope it's fun to hang out here.

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Well, I went and did it.

I opted to purchase through Amazon.com, where the missus had some coupons available.

I also elected for the 5-9 day delivery, to get that loverly 296 page manual.

I am very much a numbers guy...the folks at work have a nickname for me, "Rainman." I like it, and have fun with it.

I can only imagine what 100 pages of tables of 296 pages of data looks like. It will take me a LONG time to chew through this.

The demo is a blast, and I have started six games in the single player mode, and got my *** handed to me six times, getting better, and trying new things each time.

It is all a learning process, and clearly, I have a ways to go.

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I live in Oregon USA and am 50 years old. I remember the good old days when I played games on my commadore 64 and amiga. I love strategy games and stuff like that. If you want to know more just ask me.

Poet1960

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Hello everybody.I am new on here and i just wanted to say Hi to all of you,members of this community..

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Hello All:

I have been playing Elemental War of magic. many people on the site rave about Dominions 3, so i ordered it. Steep learning curve. But fun.

I'm 50's divorced, retired woman in New York (USA). Been playing games since the days of Avalon Hill. Won the Kingmaker contest at a national convention when I was in college. Loved (SPI) Simulations Publications games, as well as the original Chainmail and D&D. Yes, I had a first edition. Anybody remember "flying buffalo?" Switched to PC games then married life and raising children /career took over. Now I'm retired, divorced, and having fun. Ballroom, country dancing. Games: started back with the Witcher, Oblivion. Was a play tester for the English translation of Nehrim. Been playing Elemental: War of Magic. Today, I download-ed the trial copy of Dominions 3 - working through the tutorial while I wait for the CD to arrive.

Many of you write about school, etc. I am very happy my graduate school days are behind me.

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Hey all. I've been poking around with CBM 1.6 in SP and was thinking of trying to get back into MP.


Downloaded Edi's most recent database, but the nation data (units, paths, what you get for PD, heros + available pretenders etc) that used to come in a nice readable form seems to be missing.

Am I thinking of a different database? The one in color?


Also I tried playing with the endgame diversity Mod, but wasn't sure how to avoid the dummy nation for randomized SP. Is there a version without it, or is it easy to rip out that part from the mod?

Is the underwater improvement mod part of 1.6, or just 1.7? I'm avoiding 1.7 for now as I'm not very excited about no hammers, but the underwater mod seems great.

Is this still the primary board for MP, or are there 3rd party ones now? I notice Llamaserver is still going strong.

Thanks for all replies. Nice to see the game is still vigorous.

Rabe

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Welcome to the community all.

That said I ought to introduce myself at this point as well. My handle is AreaOfEffect but some of you have called me AoE or Area. My portrait has been the bane of many eyeballs.

I joined the community in March of 2008, but like most others, I was playing for a goodly number of months beforehand. I concluded that single player wasn't giving me the full enjoyment that this game is capable of and started joining in multi-player. I was right.

After several games I started to compose guides to the nations I enjoyed the most. I became very prolific. I was once accused of being in a race against Baalz, but I'm sure no one will match his hard work.

Last January I fell out of touch with everyone here. I was in the midst of setting up a huge multi-player match of one-on-one duals. I also had a very strong position in a late-age game. I left many people hanging and I apologize for that. Your a good community and you deserve an explanation.

Truth is that I moved to a new city, was thrust into a new financial situation, lacked connection to the internet, and my life became busy. Its not a good explanation, but its all I can offer.

I may not have energy to try and set up a game like that again on the scale I imagined. I do however want to play again in a casual manner. I hope there are no hard feelings.

My name is Andrew and I live in the great state of New York in the United States. I like strawberry-short cake and pickles.

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Happy to hear you're still alive AoE :) Since I'm probably not the only one who wondered where you went, and if you were ok.

And Real Life always has the nasty habit of creeping up on you and interfering in the lives and habits of peoples internet alter-ego, so I wouldn't worry about any problems it might have caused.

Plus it's always good to see an old face returning :)

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Welcome to all the new people! Nice to see you here! :D

If you haven't already, do check out the sticky threads, especially the FAQ and the Strategy index, lots of good stuff there.

The one in color and easily readable form was never mine, it was Sunray's. That one hasn't been updated since forever and then some, IIRC. If you want a particular unit in easily readable form, consult the Dom3 wiki. It should have what you're looking for.

Mine has always been very barebones in terms of visual presentation, since I was having trouble enough cramming all the data in there.

For the other questions, they are perhaps best asked in the CBM discussion thread.

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hello,

I had a look at this game about a year ago, liked it but couldn't deal with the micromanagement.

since then I've started playing some pbem, for which my tolerance for micro is much higher. recently remembered dominions and thought I'd have a look. been ghosting on this forum for a week or two.

seems like this game is the king of PBeM. well organised, 100+ regulars, in-depth strategy, can be played off a stick drive. so I've joined up.

so far I seem to have already provided the final impulse needed to branch the main mod :S:S.

----------------------------------------------

slightly controversial name was originally taking the piss out of the culture and economy of Scotland. also spend a lot of time in Africa, so thought it would suet.

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Hey all

Excited to have finally decided to buy dominions! :D The download option has convinced me. I'm enjoying myself safely in SP, but I might try MP in the future. The PBEM concept is very attractive, since it requires little schedule attuning.

As a real noob to the community I spend the day looking where people hang out. I found that the three largest communities are this one (shrapnelgames), the dom3mods forum and the thread at something awful. Did I miss any?

Also, I'm considering using mods once I get familiar with the basics. The most interesting mods I found were CBM1.71(with EDM and WH 1.9), HolyWar0.9, UWGIM0.94 and OnlyAwesomeSites1.3. I understood that mods might conflict with each other. How would I go about implementing these mods together, or isn't that possible?

I realize the community is somewhat on the quiet side, but I'm happy it still gets its fair share of attention.

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If by quiet you mean "not chatty" then yes. But Im not sure any other Dom3 forums amounts to more.
Yes, you probably pinned the top 3.

As for mixing those mods I think you will need to wait for an answer. A couple are too new, and only on some forums. Im not sure if anyone has tried all of those together yet. But if YOU do then please let us know. :) And of course feel free to start an MP game with that mix.

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I didn't mean to imply that this community was quieter than the others. Indeed, just that the whole community isn't that "chatty" as you so eloquently put it.
I must say the lack of combined mods or something like that is surprising. Of course there is the things of people having different tastes and want different elements to their (MP) games. However, it does explain why I read mod-nations are little used in MP games.

I was considering reading up enough on modding in order to combine this set of mods. Part of the problem is that a few things have been very recently updated. One is the patch, which apparently updated the spell list limits, and I don't know what else. The other is the update of CBM, and other mods are often only compatible with CBM1.6. Finally, I don't know the limits of modding in Dom3 and in which areas mods might start biting each other.

In order to gain enough modding knowledge I guess I ought to read up on the documentation provided with Dom3. Anything else crucial?

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Actually, there are some combination mods. For example, sombre put together a combo of CBM 1.6 and most of the warhammer mods. And a number of people, myself included, have made combination mods over the years to play with various groups of mods put together. A lot of those are out of date though, and they tend to be put together on a per game basis. There's currently no combination mod with cbm 1.7 that I'm aware of and it's considered at present by many to be a beta version for the next version of CBM, so it's unlikely it will get any "official" combination made for it.

Combining mods isn't *that* hard though. It's just making sure that there are no number conflicts between the mods, which is mostly the case already with the warhammer mods, if not most others. But generally sombre and burnsaber try to make their mods compatible with one another's. Otherwise, there will almost certainly be conflicts. And CBM is much too big of a beast to count on not having conflicts with other mods. There are tools to make combining mods a lot easier, though, and it's pretty much common practice these days to use pyg's mod combining script to do the combinations. It's not quite 100% perfect yet, but every time it's used he works on it a bit more and it gets smarter.

You might actually be surprised at the number of games with mod nations in them there have been. The only thing is they've never quite been accepted by the community at large as balanced, so they mostly end up in specialty games. There have been a few that have included them regardless, though.

I feel like I'm rambling so I'll stop here! Oh, and welcome to the forums :P

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Thanks. :D And I liked the rambling. Gives quite a bit more insight what's going on.

I did find the mod combining script, I think. But I saw the thread title ending in .py and anything in python scares me (out of ignorance). I'll check it out though, if it's such a big help.

I thought CBM1.71 was supposed to be "final version", I saw that mentioned at least once. There should still another update coming by QM?

Personally, I always preferred more content to more balance, but I generally don't play games (in general, not per se dom3) in multiplayer. It's easy to balance things if you can houserule yourself in silly ways.

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Personally I can't use python at all, but there are plenty of helpful people out there and I'm sure that it wouldn't be too hard to get someone to help you set up a mod for a game :) It is better if you can do it yourself though, of course.

There's a lot of discussion ongoing about CBM 1.7 right now. Basically it made a lot of big changes and people are concerned that overall balance may have taken a hit for the worse due to it. And they've been talking about revisions on IRC, so I would say a CBM 1.8 is reasonably likely to appear within the next few months.

I give myself a lot of house rules, too when playing against the AI. And even when I do MP games, come to think of it. Maybe not the best idea, but it makes things more fun for me.

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Hello all, figured I'd stop in and introduce myself.

A friend of mine gave me Dominions 3 as an early Christmas present a couple of weeks ago, and I've been playing it off and on ever since. It's taken me awhile to actually get into it, largely because I didn't read through the manual first I suppose, but after reading a few AARs and getting a better feel for the game itself I've really come to enjoy the it.

I'm excited to get into the community and try out the multiplayer, and I look forward to having a blast with this.

Greetings, gentlemen.

Tried the demo, and now waiting for my order to arrive. In the meantime, designing a few nations and preparing a map of Genertela (RQ) full with magic sites. Almost play SP all games, so no hurry to try MP, if ever.

Hardly can wait to a first game with Ashen Ermor and make the world a rotten wasteland. Always loved the walking dead.

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Heh. Only a few nations, no ambition there :)

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Hello.

I'm spanish and I have meet Dominions thanks to a AAR in a strategy forum. I recieved the game two months ago and I'm now starting to get into the MP stuff.

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Hi everyone, new here, got the game about 2 weeks before Christmas. I've played games all my life and I have to say this is THE game I've always been looking for. The depth is just astounding and I'm really hooked.

Looking forward to eventually mixing it up with some of you in MP but I'm still learning the ropes in SP and still have a ton to learn I can see. But I wanted to express my appreciation for the creators of the game and the people around here who keep the community going strong. Thanks for the fun.

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I'm in about the same position as Starry Vere; recently got the game and still playing in single player, though I think I'll be ready (ready enough, at least), the next time a newbie game opens up. I have an odd fondness for Tir na N'og, probably born out of reading the Mabinogion and other regional legends.

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Welcome all!

To anyone who may be interested in joining a multiplayer game for new players, there is one just signing up in the other forum, here:

http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/...?showtopic=297

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Hello guys!

I'm a 32 years old brazilian man.
My favorite nation is Jomon and I would like to learn modding, specially Nation Edition or Creation.


Can anyone give me a starting point?
I have read the pd manual only...

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Hey everyone

I'm not really sure what the best way to introduce myself is.

I've been playing dominions single player and one on one with a friend on and off for 3-4 years, but haven't touched the game in almost a year. Recently, I got back into it in a big way, when I discovered this forum and all the amazing mods and guides. i tend to like lurking, but I really want to try my hand at a multiplayer game and that requires coming out of the shadows.

Anyone have any advice for the ettiquette surrounding signing up for games, or should I just find a nooby thread and dive in?

Streets

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I'm a 62 year old man living in Norwich, Connecticut USA. I'm a confirmed :angelUbuntu:angel user. I've always liked turn-based strategy games. I fooled around with the demo and hemmed and hawed about buying the game for the longest time:doh:. I finally relented:rolleyes:, and oh, my Deity. 100% Gaming Goodness. Best turn-based game ever:confused: Almost certainly.:D

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Hey Streets_Ahead (and anyone else fancying a multiplayer game), there is a game signing up for new players here at the moment:

http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/...?showtopic=307

Just read the post, then post yourself saying what nation you'd like to play.

(It's on "the other" forum, so you'll need to sign up there as well - the two forums have many players in common, but that one has a slightly different tone and is not moderated, being unofficial - personally I like to use both forums regularly.)

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Thanks Llamabeast. I have gone ahead and signed up. Here goes!

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Hi 52 years gamming most of it. Turn based strategy is my favorite. City of Heroes is the game I have played the most lately due to a lack of good turn based games. I live in Texas and love it here. I just discovered Dominions 3 and am in the 4th year winter of my first SP game.

It's an early age game with the indies set up one notch from default. Me vs 5 indies. I took Caelum and the great sage as my pretender with all magic paths except blood.

So far I have faced C,tis, Kailasa,and Atlantis. I drove Ctis back to their starting castle. It looks like Saurmatia will take that soon. I am in the process surrounding Kailasa and should take them out within the next year. Atlantis drove me from the water but has stayed put so far. I made a few mistakes that cost me, but nothing unrecoverable yet. This is a great game and I am having fun. Hope to see some of you in multiplayer soon.

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Hello I usually just download mods on the forums and play against ai's but besides that hi peeps of dom3 :) I live in Oklahoma and im 19

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Hello :)

I am new here and I am interested in gaming some Dom3 games in the internet (best would be via email I guess).

So if someone has some newcomerfriendly games to come up in the future, feel free to contact me :)

If there will be mods needed, please explain how to install and use them, since I did not take them till now for single player.

Of course I would be interested in some general tipps for multiplayer gaming, too :)

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Um...Let's see..It all started when I heard about this game called Zork. It wouldn't play on my Intellivision. It required a personal computer. I bought an Apple IIe a couple days later.

And so here I am. I live for turn based games, but never heard about this one, or maybe if I had, I thought it might have been too complex.

I still have not had my turn-based itch scratched since Alpha Centauri. One of my all time favorites. I mean, come on, it had video.

So giving this game a go.

300 page manual.
Priceless.

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@Nimirian
Hey, My friend and I are also new players if your interested we're setting up a game on llamaserver.net called "kathmandont"

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HI ALL,i am spanish HOLA, i am anxious to start a mp game. now i have free time and i am usually conected to the chat in gamesurge.net channel #dominions, so if you want a quick noob blitz i am your man ;)

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I have enjoyed turn based strategy games (MOO,MOM,
AOW SM, etc) but only recently found Dominions 3. In fact, so far, I have only played the demo version. I ordered the CD version from Shrapnel a while back but it hasn't come in yet.

When I do have the full version I am sure I will have a lot of questions as what I know so far about Dominions 3 is very limited. I look forward to future discussions.

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Greetings, Dominionsians. After enjoying the demo, I have just dropped an eyebrow-raisingly large amount of cash on the full game, and I'm glad I did. Seems to have the potential for real long-term appeal.

So I'm feeling my way against the AI, trying to suss out how Communions work and that sort of thing... Once I feel like I've got the basics I definitely hope to find some MP action.

Other games I enjoy include Solium Infernum (so I'm used to PBEM games that go on for months), the Football Manager series, Civ 4 (yes, I like turn-based strat games), Dwarf Fortress, Stone Soup, Crusader Kings...

I look forward to getting my troops beaten up in exotic and horrifying ways.

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Hi, i'm new on this forum and of course a huge fan of 4x games both fantasy and sci-fi. Imho dominions 3 is a great game, very complete and enjoying :)

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Been playing dominions SP on and off for 6 years now, meaning no experience with MP and tactics that are meant for games 10 patches ago, this will be interesting.

Hopefully the enemy will just charge indies at me.