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Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

I'm having fun.

However I don't like the mudslinging by some poster(s) here lately.

Secondly, the new aging system needs to be patched a bit.
I don't have as much problem with Blitz bless strategies as I play MP mostly with real life friends, and we tend to start duking it out after turn 30 or so.

Anyone know if/when a new patch will be out? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

I'm having fun with it and I'm confident that through patches and fan content it will be a game of no equivalence in the strategy genre. The best of its breed!

Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

I am having a blast, especially in MP http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I like atm most Pangae (nothing new from Dom2 there) and Sauromatia (playing first time with them in a MP and like them a lot). Dom3 is eating away practically all my free time, and the curse of "Just one more turn" is ever so horrible at 2 AM when you have to get up to work at 6 AM :p

Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

I don't know if I'll have fun, for me the only fun is MP games, and only now I'm starting the first. This said ...

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Cainehill said:
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maps shipped that didn't have the fixes that had been available for over a year, nations without heroes, the @#$#* aging system, pretenders that once again are unbalanced, and again, I'm forgetting things.

Then, we _still_ don't have even half baked battle reports for castle sieges, don't have proper battle reports that would tell which commanders died, how many of each troop type, still no way to keep people from uploading pretenders w/o passwords, no way to change passwords after creation....
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In contrast to the lot of features that are often requested all the fixes Cainehill points are things that are very easy to code and of great benefit. I'm hoping the great devs of this game are reading this.

Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

I have had Dom3, 3 weeks now and am loving it, I have played it exclusively in that time.

Currently in 4 MP games which is fun, taking me back to my old play by mail days.

Completed 1 SP game to conclusion and started/abandoned too many to account for (just getting a feel of the nations), the AI I find a challenge on difficult, Ermor recently fought me to a standstill, difficult AI, I was MA man, then the other AI's attacked and it was game over...

Sure I have a wishlist, who does'nt.

Sure there r a few parts of the game I dislike but overall I would rate Dom3 about 9/10 or 90%.

Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

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Cainehill said:Too many things we had gotten used to in Dom2 (even if only through the CB & hero mods) were taken away (themes, filtering researchers, ability to view spell list during pretender creation, and I know I'm forgetting others at 1 in the morning), and too many irritations were added : maps shipped that didn't have the fixes that had been available for over a year, nations without heroes, the @#$#* aging system, pretenders that once again are unbalanced, and again, I'm forgetting things.

Then, we _still_ don't have even half baked battle reports for castle sieges, don't have proper battle reports that would tell which commanders died, how many of each troop type, still no way to keep people from uploading pretenders w/o passwords, no way to change passwords after creation....

I hope there'll be more fun after patches, and after equivalents of the CB and Heroes mods come out, but.... Right now, I tend to think Dom2 was a more enjoyable experience.

Apart from the aging system which I think is a wonderful counterforce to Arch Theurg spam and other mage phenomena but needs some tweaking (Abysia's mages...tis' maddness) I tend to agree.

I mean, they took Awe which was pretty much the only reason the use them and not much of a reason either from Sons of Sun pretender. We still have a 50 point Lord of the Gates who gets whopping D1 magic. That water Titan pretender who is not only inferior to Dagon, he is more expensive. And then we get humongously powerful Helheim for early era, making F9/W9 bless even more no-brainer. WTHex guys. WTHex?

Nevertheless I'm having fun with the game but I have a feeling that it would have needed two more months under development or a larger dev team would have done the game good. Some of the stuff that's haunting the game is OLD, like the vague battle reports.

After Dominions 2 I'm not buying the "this will get fixed in a patch". Dominions 2 did get a lot of patches and they mostly fixed bugs, which is good. But we never got those more detailed battle reports etc etc. Instead we got Conquerors of the Seas Marignon, Raptors etc. which were off-balance and had to be tweaked in patches.

I just wish IW would have sat down and fixed the old stuff like battle reports before adding more stuff to the game. Worse, Dominions 3 introduced a number of bugs ranging from the map oopsies to Astral Travel not working. And they removed useful functions like the hosting dialogue even in singleplayer and removing the researcher highlighting. WTHex guys, WTHex?

To sum it up, I really like the game but it has it's glaring problems that are old and never got fixed in past, thus I am sceptic of ever seeing them getting fixed. And that dulls down my enjoyment.

Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

Needless to say that I love the game. Sure there are bugs, imbalances etc. but these problems will be solved sooner or later. Just be patient! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

I'm just a quite sceptic person by nature. If these things don't get fixed in the past I'm kinda doubtful that they will get fixed in the future.

Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

Pick me ! Pick me !

I'm not having fun with this game. It's because I ordered it from Tuxgames on 17th October, and their website still says 'sold out. stock expected to arrive on 10th october'.

As for demo, I have a promising Arcoscephale (I can spell it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif) game. I just launched a coordinated attack on 3 Mictlan forts (but not capitol), while holding ground against R'lyeh(Wyrm seeks vengeance), Jotunheim, Sauromantia and Oceania to lesser extent.
And guess what, 40 turn limit hit.

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About DOminions3 shortcomings:
What the hell were betatesters doing ?!

Re: Is anyone having fun with this game?

I remember someone asking for detailed battle reports (or any battle report for sieges) two years ago,so I'm not holding my breath.