Re: 2nd Dominions community
 

The Laser Squad Nemesis crew did a "Learning LSN" feature where players would blog about their turns and strategy and what they expected the opponent to do during the same turn. When you put it all together it made for a really great learning tool because you could see how accurate one player's predictions were and how their strategy matched up compared to someone who was working with less accurate information. It was usually broken up by turn with the occasional host commentary about when someone made an obvious tactical mistake that the viewer should learn from.

It was a really great tool, but LSN games last 15-30 rounds so the PDF file didn't end up too long like a Dom3 one would.

Re: 2nd Dominions community
 

I played in a different community before Katrina. New Orleans actually has a local gaming site with about 100 members of all ages 15-50. We would actually meet at a bowling ally etc from time to time.

Dominions was not the only game played, however. Katrina killed the community, and when I returned to New Orleans, and was able to get internet, I joined this community.

VGA planets had a strong following on the old new orleans site, as did Dom II.

Re: 2nd Dominions community
 

The SA community isn't another Dom3 community, it's a gaming community in general, same for QT3 and the OO crowd. (Something Awful, Quarter to Three, Octopus Overlords) I started off at the latter before moving to here, too.

I do hate extremely big all-purpose threads for games like they seem to do it at those sites, though, too. They have threads with over 60 pages about Dom3 or Dwarf Fortress etc. and EVERYTHING about that game is being posted in there. That might support their discussion board structure that everything about a specific game is in there, but like KO wrote it's totally impossible for an outsider to keep on track about what's going on in there if you just decide to jump into the middle of it. Lots of good and interesting posts might just drown in there.

EDIT: Forget a mere 60 pages, apparently they're over 180 pages right now at QT3. :eek:

Re: 2nd Dominions community
 

Yep. I poked around for a few minutes and haven't been back since. :)