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i would guess promille is exactly as it looks - "per thousand" - so 5 promille per dom str == 5% pop loss at dom 10...

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Is it thta much? My maths suck but isn't it more like 0,5%..?

And no updates for three days. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

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5 per thousand = 5/1000 = 0.005

so...

0.005*10 = 0.05 = 5%

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5%/turn "only" ? That's an understatement ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Exactly as it looks?
Can you tell me what a Sah-Rahok is just by looking at the word? (obviously, you can't, since its in hebrew).

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Yeah. I wonder how smart idea it is to cram all these popkilling nations into late era.

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I'm not sure where Morkilus was going with his math, but 5 per 1000 is .5 per 100 or .5%

That's not too bad. Stronger than regular death dominion, but not even as bad as CW.

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Wait...so even one pick of Grwoth will cancel it out?

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.5% times dominion strength. That's very high.

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Just tell the similar Ashen Empire variable, so that the non-math people have a comparison. I could calculate it, but I wouldn't know how much an impact it would have, so I quess I'm one of these no-math people. I hope it isn't as bad as Ashen Empire, myself.

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Wait, this should make sense... percent = per-cent. Then shouldn't promille (or pro-mille) instead be permille (per-mille)?

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In swedish it is not percent but procent. It might be called permille in english. I have no clue, but I didn't have a 'promille' on my keyboard.

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I don't know. But at dominion 5, you'd lose half your population every 27 turns (as Dreamlands).

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"you can gain extra points by having your pretender god be dormant or imprisoned for a certain length of time, which prevents you from using him to improve your nation at the outset, but gives you a powerful god when it finally comes into your control." (from the new preview)
So that's what the whole awakening thing is about.

Edit: "teh" >_< I feel oh so 1337 >_<

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Yeah, this sounds interesting btw. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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Very interesting stuff there.

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Hey, NakedLunch, what happened to your impression thread?

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I'm turning it into an article for Tcancer which in turn is taking longer than it should because a) i have to cram for finals b) i suddenly started hanging out with my friends and c) i haven't really had that much time to work on it. when it does get done, which hopefully will be before the game is released, i promise it will shake the very foundations of your faith and belief.

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Good to hear, I just hope the shaking foundations is a good thing http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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yeah, sorry it's taking so long and whatnot. I'll try to get it done sometime soon so hopefully my suddenly busy schedule will allow for it.

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I cant wait to read it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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Well, school for me gets out monday so I'd say expect it sometime next week.

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School! I thought that you are working already. Ah well, good to see younger people here, I thought that only me and Nerfix are school the doods. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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I hope the 6 days of silence is a good sign. Like leading up to gold, maybe?

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I definetely want to believe so. The other explanation being that they are having vacation.

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My money is on vacation.

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Just be patient guys. Johan is surely not on holiday, because he is posting almost every day on the Quarter To Three forums. Perhaps they were a bit lazy to update the development site. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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Or then they aren't developing the game at the moment. They can be keeping a break while staying in Sweden, within computer's reach.

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The football world cup might also have something to do with this, if they are avid football fans.

Edi

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No football. Some beers on my part (work is done now) and a hangover made me somewhat unproductive. There are also changes made at times that we forget to add to the dev log. Not sure if there were any of those this week though.

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> Just be patient guys. Johan is surely not on holiday, because he is posting almost every day on the Quarter To Three forums.

Thats actually JO and hes not a developer. He's just my brother and a good source of ideas. I sometimes outsource some item describing or textwriting to him, but he's mostly not involved in the development.

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Wait...is he saying that... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Ohhhhhh I see. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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> Wait...is he saying that...

Schools over.

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Ah, yes.

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Aaah, new updates. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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A quagmire (from "quake" + "mire") is, literally, shaky, miry ground; as a political term used to describe a foreign military campaign in which there is either no foreseeable possibility of victory or the objectives are unclearly defined, and at the same time no clear exit strategy has been formulated in the absence of victory. The military campaign is likened to a kind of swamp or marsh in which the warring nation is unable to remove itself.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagmire

Does anyone else wonder how they can choose such fitting words for spells? I don't know what the spell does, but the name alone gives many hints of the direction, and with the other changes (swamp affecting battles; maybe other terrains are already implemented?) this could be very interesting spell...

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new changes are up..
http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom3/dom3progress.html
* Ancestor Vessel spear removed
* Barbarian HC weapon fix
* Zweihander improvement
* Monster fish
* Damage nbrs looks better
* Midgetmasher works again
* Khan, Noble sprites
* Noble commander TC EE
* Moss Body spell
*
17th june
* Some spell cost & lvl changes (Breath of winter, fireshield, magic duel, elemental kings, drakes, vine ogre, spectral mage, dai oni, summon scorpion man)
* Swamp affects units in battle
* New Quagmire spell
* New artifact Tome for Frankenstein aspirants
* Fortress fixes. All nations should have correct start fort now.
* Lightning rod increased corpse man construction
* Corpse men shock resitstant
* Spectral mage less random magic

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I wonder what the "Moss Body" does. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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If you ask me...I think that it will be a "nature" spell, what will raise the def value of the units. There was a game with the spell "barkskin" and it was a defensive spell, I think it was in NWN. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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Funny, I think it was in Dominions http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Moss Body probably makes units camouflaged in forest battles, and allows them to photosynthesize so spells like Solar Rays and Stellar Cascades will give them energy instead of hurting them.

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There! I knew that it was an NWN spell also.

http://nwn.stratics.com/content/stat...s/spells.shtml

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Anyways your idea about the spell sounds very valid. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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Are we still on target for going gold in july?

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My money is on "no".

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Perhaps there'll be a 'vine creature' attribute with resistances to certain spells and vulnerabilities to others. Say, boosted hitpoints and resistance to most nature spells. The downside - no fire resistance EVER. Moss body simply confers this bonus onto the castee.

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I tend to agree with Nerfix.

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I dont know why. The changes seem to be mostly "good idea" changes and little thematic tweaking. Nothing that couldnt have been released in a game. It really only has to be crash-free in order to make the release date. As long as no large changes are made that add crash-bugs I think we are ok.

If you think Johan will hit a gap of no changes at all prior to the release then you havent been paying attention during the previous 2 versions. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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It can't hit gold until 3.00, which will be a while at the current patch rate. Version 2.84 would still be Dominions II. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Yup.

Oh and as for the current delay I think it might have something to do with scandinavian midsummer traditions...midsummer is celebrated in Finland (ok we're not scandis) and I remember swedes had their own "midsommaren" funs.

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I celebrate all day in the whole summer period on the beach. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif