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Well, the "select your own castle" system caused problems in lategame in Dominions 2, and many people complained about this in vocal manner.

Removing the thing altogether was admitedly a bit radical but if it works...then it's good.

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It does work pretty well, actually. I agree that removing it was a bit too rash, but perhaps Illwinter couldn't create a workable version that satisfied the fans? Better to just get rid of the problem than just to exacerbate things by trying to fix it.

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BTW, I heard that the castles are much expensive now, but that the money income has increased...is there enough money to have a castle in every province, or has it become prohibtively expensive?

And now that the castle part of spending pretender points into is gone...have the pretender/scale/magic path costs changed?

Also, how exactly does the whole Awakening bussines go? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Having different kinds of fort for different kinds of province is interesting. I wonder how it will work?

Will each nation have a series of forts for certain types of terrain? That is, Man has a forest tower, a farmland castle and mountain fort. And nothing for plains, wastes or swamps.

That would be alright, I think - particularly if you could choose your starting fort type (and thus starting terrain). It would also limit madcastling.

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Well, fortresses cost about 1000gold and hillforts and labs and the like are about 500g so it's not too bad. If you manage your money right, yeah, it's possible to get a castle in every province you own.
Hmm, I forget the exact costs from Dom2 but I'm guessing that's the case.
That's top sekrit info, bub.

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That's a lot in Dom II money...but we shall see what's the case with D3.

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Well, imho these are good changes. 1. No more watchtower spam. 2. The AI gonna build castles as we know, and if this is true [probably the castle type what you can build will depend on the size of the province?] the AI can handle the castle building very well.

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Yes, but hopefully the AI has been developed to know where on building these castles and staff/guard correctly. If it just randomly selects provinces leaving few or little units it will be more of an AI weakness.
Each province should be considered for a castle based on the following variables:
Bottleneck province ( 2 or 3 connecting provinces )
-castles built here are important for defensive purposes
Highway province ( 7 or more connecting provinces )
-castles built here are important for offensive purposes
Gold income for the province ?
How many magic sites in the province ?
How much gem income for the province ?
Total population should be considered, but not as important as the other variables.

Yes it would be nice if certain provinces couldn't have castles for most nations. For example only a few nations can build a castle type in the swamp... such as C'tis.

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Watchtower spam is more of a Dom2 myth than an actual problem. The technique was advocated an popularized by a player who had... well, let us say unnatural amounts of resources.

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I agree. I've never seen "mad castling" as a problem at all.