Re: WHY MOD ?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Don't go GUESSING how people spend their time playing this game. I ALREADY play against human opponents when possible... in fact it's what I prefer. Developing one super opponent would definitely be worthwhile to see especially for the multiplayer games.

Re: WHY MOD ?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You could make a map that gives them extra castles, extra castles with few defenders already built near where they start out, and/or provinces near their start that don't offer any cheap troops.

PvK

Re: WHY MOD ?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Another nice thing is that if you have certain people upset about some particular detail, we and the devs don't have to listen to them whine about it so much, since they or someone can make a mod to change it to suit their tastes.

Modding gives people more options to enjoy a game system, and to try out changes and different things, and to express their enthusiasm by adding and sharing options. Yes Dominions has more to discover than most players will ever encounter, and it certainly doesn't need to be modded to be enjoyed. There's little sense in disdaining the option to mod, though. Sort of like saying, "dang, I wish people couldn't make their own sandwiches", or something.

PvK

Re: WHY MOD ?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You could make a map that gives them extra castles, extra castles with few defenders already built near where they start out, and/or provinces near their start that don't offer any cheap troops.

PvK </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I have a number of maps that do that. Poke_Eye and MiirunstX for example. Im working on one that has an Rlyeh/Man/Atlantis alliance starting out boosted. And working one that has Man starting as the leader of the Indeps (kindof) and he starts with scattered castles owned by him all across the lower part of the map (players all start near the top). I could probably finish those two if I stopped play"testing" them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: WHY MOD ?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'll just take a chill pill here. I don't like to be yelled at for trying to help, but I'll just take a chill pill.

Regarding your idea of balancing the weakpoints of the AI with a superplayer--I'll reiterate: good idea. It should be easy to do. I already have some ideas that would do the trick. I bet a lot of people would like one or two of these. I'll throw something together this weekend for the archive.