Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

I still pray that you will be able to buy multiple castle blueprints for your nation... I don't like the current "We can build a huge city, but we are to dumb to build watchtowers" system

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

There's always "Three Red Seconds", "Living Castle", and so forth. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I agree, though. I'm hoping for (at least) two levels of castle per nation - one that can be built cheaply in one turn, offers no economic bonus, has only 50 supplies and 25 defense, and maybe improves the quality of the province defense... and the next tier, which offers full bonuses (the official national castle). Having a military fortess choice that gives new troops a +5 or +10XP bonus would be great, too, for people like me that use recruitable troops http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

The (enchanted) castles in Master of Magic were pretty cool - walls of fire, for example. But as always, there are more neat possibilities than time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

Goodgood.

You know, does that "The Awekening" adds you can see around here have anything to do with the game...? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

Well, I'm quite puzzled at the lack of any communication effort by IW and SG about Dom3.
This game should be SG workhorse as sales and buzz go, yet in the last 3 months we had to ask for an interview with KO (that he ans SG gently agreed on) to have news and screenshots for Cyberstratege (the french mag I write for...).
IW site is a polar desert, the latest journals should have more than 6 months, and SG don't even assure they'll publish it now (or is it a joke ?) !
Well, I suppose it's a try to get buzz through silence http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

Exactly my point!! Also, if I remeber correctly the release date for doms 3. was 2006 Q1, no? Ok I can understand that a company is pushing back the release date, BUT! Months passed, I havent seen screenshots, or not even a real feature list. No news since months. Why? The devs are coding and stuff, thats ok, but they have no time to release any informations, screenshots or a planned release date? I think all fans of the game would be excited if Illwinter would release infos so the players would stop to worry that whats going on with the game.

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

Well everything has its pros and cons.

Illwinter is two guys with jobs and familys and lives who also happen to be programming our absolute favorite game. I cant feel right about pestering them to come here and give us a heads up also if it knocks out another item in the update list for Dom3. I guess that a second-hand post saying that they are deeply working on it in the beta will have to keep my fingers from twitching

The PR side is probably more Shrapnels thing? But since I do see them stepping in to calm us, and I do see articles appearing on the net about Dom3, then I guess something is being done. Any more would probably cost us. Any company with a stronger PR push tends to pay for it out of the sales profits somewhere so Im also not going to push to have more of that.

I could probably help abit. I have seen a number of sites that have a Dom3 page with no info other than "its coming" so maybe I will do my little bit to go there and post some excitement building comments. Im not saying that its the prefereable choice but at least its something I can do.

Gandalf Parker

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

Dominions 3 is on track, in beta, with alot of effort currently going into getting marketing up and running. Shrapnel Games has a signed contract with Illwinter to publish Dominions III. With a game of this scale, we can't guarantee a release date, so we have been waiting until we are closer to completion, and can at least give a reasonably close schedule, before we announce.

Now, having said all that, look for more infromation, MAJOR information before the end of March.

Has not anyone wondered about the Awakening ads?

See you soon.

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

Now, that's some news. I'd just like to hear the rest of them as well... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Other than that, I don't really have much to say. There have been no news in these forums to post, unfortunately. Except that the developers have been (somewhat) more active lately - encouraging comments on mods, on certain threads, etc.
Oh, and Illwinter site isn't a polar desert - last update is "only" from the end of December. That's actually moderately active for that one... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

I saw the Awakening ads and took them for an Omen! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

But...you guys really do need to be more forthcoming. The post i have quoted above is perfectly sufficient. Put up a sticky thread and have someone post "there, there, it's ok, we are making progress" every two weeks just so we are reassured.

We live in the Age of Noise, there are 15 gillion new entertainments coming out every week and ADD is epidemic.
Out of sight is out of mind. Your hardcore fans will wait, but you will lose casual customers if they check in once and don't see something. Everyone who plays these type of games has been burned by vaporware at some point, (Matrix ticked me off so badly I won't even buy their games anymore) so you need to be carefull.

Thanks for your post Tim!

Re: What the hell is up with Dominions 3???
 

I think that if you can help generate "buzz" for the game, then do it.
Even though we would like to hope otherwise, dominions is not a strong and major title, and I think its loyal community (as is often the case with such games) is one of its prime assets. And if we can help "spread the word" in order to help such a small game, then we should.
I know I use every chance I get to tell other people about Dominions. (Sadly, I think the vast majority of people that hear about from me either don't check it out, or don't enjoy it. But that has more to do with the gaming demographic here in Israel than everything else :\)