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Anyways, why is there a forced military service in Finland still? We used to have that in Hungary as well, but now we only have "professional military", and not forced. I think a forced military servince is absolutely pointless anyways, its a big wasting of time for the specific person, who doesnt want to be a soldier. IF we can call "forced regular soldiers" a real soldier at all, personally I wouldnt call them soldier.


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We went a bit off-topic. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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...sigh... My feelings exactly. History, group-think, and our eastern neighbour as a convenient excuse. And backwards defence policy (not an inch of land given away) which essentially requires the current method of conscription. Can't defend huge empty forests with well-paid professionals, not economical, you know.

Yup, totally off-topic, sorry. But I end my part here, the three week trip to middle Europe starts in three hours. Bratislava - Prague - Wien - Budapest, weeeeeee. Let's see whether they let me back in Finland after posting this...

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Thing is, I don't need it on my permanent record that I'm mentally unstable.

Because of the reasons stated by atul, along with the fact that RUSSIANS ARE BLOODY SCARY. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Oh, well. Not like anyone else is posting. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Have a good time. If ou want to visit nightclubs or restaurants in Hungary, just send me a PM, my family runs some nightclubs and restaurants in Budapest.

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Wow! I can't believe it has been about 2 years since my play with Dominions 2 started winding down.

A few times each year I would check the forums to catch any news of Dom3 and a few months back I was very excited to see it coming soon.

Got my preorder in last week and I'm ready to go. The AARs have been painful exciting and brought back a lot of memories about how great this game is.

I hope I am able to find the time for Dom3 or perhaps a better statement would be I hope I have time for my life after Dom3 comes out.

I've got a 11 week baby girl (our first) so I think that will go a long way in keeping my addictions in check.

Its great seeing some of the familiar names in the forums. I'm sure I have played with a lot of you in the past.

Any ways... I'm excited! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Take care and I will talk to you soon,
Adam

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I thought that such information stays private?

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Oh 11 weeks old baby. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif Hopefully the little one will be a Dominions 6. addict! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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> I've got a 11 week baby girl (our first) so I think that will go a long way in keeping my addictions in check.

Beautiful! Take good care of her (and your partner). Dominions can wait.

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Thanks Kristoffer!

Trust me... there is little doubt about her receiving first priority. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Here are some pics and vidoes if someone is looking for a few smiles. http://www.evilfree.com/andrea/blog/

The videos of her first dunking are particurarly precious! (in my unbiased opinion)

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Nice pictures. Is it common in the US to make blogs about the family/kids? It is very rare here.

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Thank you! I'm not sure it is rare.. I doubt many people take the time to install a custom blog rather then use myspace or similar service.

I started it to try to get my wife a little more into computers and it worked fabulously for that process! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Plus it is great to have a journal of everything, easy to share tge latest pics with family.

I work with the web all day so I felt guilty it took me this long to have a blog.

Any ways. Good luck with your Dwarf Fortress. I'm hoping I can avoid downloading it for a while.

Dominoins.... I'm so anxious to play GOD!

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
Adam

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Oh I see. Very good blog btw!
You must try Dwarf Fortress when you gonna have a little freetime. It is a masterpiece, just like Dominions.
It is also extremely addictive. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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We have a four month-old and and a 2 year-old. It gets more fun every day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

DominionsFAN, we keep a site of family pics too. Our parents live 3+ hours away and we have family on both US coasts, so it is easier.

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> Here are some pics and vidoes if someone is looking for a few smiles.

Cute! Thanks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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45 y/o Male Married 2 Kids (12 & 6, late start due to gaming a lot and dating too little)

Born and Raised in Minnesnowta - F.Y.I. Minnesota is coldest State outside of Alaska, Some mountain peaks in Maine and along Nortern Rockys sometimes are colder, but the cold spots in my State are where Towns and Cities are located.

Bought first Wargame - 3rd Reich (AH)at age of 15
Played D&D at age of 16, too many Games of all types followed, and Computer just made list even bigger.
Loved my Amiga (Dungeonmaster and Mechforce) Spent more time playing Civ2, Civ3, Moo, Moo2, SEIV, and EQ than I wish to think about (I coulda been a contenda ...)

Went to college after 3 years being an Airborne Medic in US Army (mostly 82nd Division with time on Smokebomb Hill USAJFKIMA) and then spent 4.67 years getting 1.5 years worth of credits at the local University. (I really learned a lot but not how to get a passing grade) Spent too much time Running a 9 year Rolemaster RPG campaign, driving my drunk friends home, and reading SciFic Books.

Was Advisor for one of local High Scholl's Games Club, I have friend I met when they were freshman who have larger families and better jobs than me now. You really get to know the people you Roleplay with over the years. Seeing them grow up (while I did my Peter Pan thing) was one of coolest things so far in my life; helping and watching my own kids grow up (so far) is first. Some day when I grow up I want to write MY great Novel(s) but that not gonna happen unless I put more time away not doing games <maybe I'll continue tomorrow>
My son has promise to not to become a geek like his dad, but my 6 y/o daughter and I play WoW and Magic CCG when her work is done and she's actually asked to try to play SE:IV once already. (She's doomed too).
Now that I think I should be writting MY book(s) I find yet another Game that has my pavlovian bell a'ringing. So Here I await the Comming of Dom3. Whats unfair is that Dom3 and SE5 are coming out soooo close to each other, that is a bummer. I've never played DomII but it looks similar to a stack of notes I have on one of the games I thought I'd develop (HA!) some years ago. Gonna make those games right after I write my Novels, eh ??

Non-gaming interests: Astronomy, Astronomy, Bugging my wonderful Wife, Astronomy, Vikings Football (American NFL Football), History, Sneak in Game stuff, Reading Sci Fic and Fantasy, Astronomy, Family, and Astronomy (without quite so much Spam in it).

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Hey, we could always use some more geekets. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif
That is (obviously) the biggest shortcoming in our legions right now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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We have two girls. I have passed the geek gene on, even if it is dormant with a second X chromosome.

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6 years old and shes playing WoW already? Holy jeebus! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif
Btw welcome on the forums VanderVecken. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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WoW = Wizards of Wor?
http://www.geocities.com/jlinares007/testwow.gif

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World of Warcraft, more likely. ;-)

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Eh yes, it must be World of Warcraft. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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LOL, i played that game long time on my C64. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Yes me to. Was so fun playing 2 player.
Hated the arena levels.

C64 was such a great little computer. Got me started with whole programming "thing".

good times!
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Sadly I never had a chance to play on a C64, I guess I was like 5 years old, when those computers were so popular. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I was all about the Apple II+ myself. No C64 for me!

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Aye, World of Warcraft. She loves her Hunter now that she has her pets to help fight for her. She just started Kindergarten but has enhanced vocabulary and word recognition due to her gaming. If she makes a mistake in WoW she just hits the shift key and types random numbers - to her that is a swear word. Ahh, to see the world thru a child's eyes.
Wizards of Wor ... kinda looks like a Pac-man clone, how does it play ?? Ack, must not learn another game ... must spend SOME of my waking moments in the Real World ... must ...

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Apple IIc was first computer for me, although I put a down payment on a TRS-80 while in Army. Imperium Galacticum and Reach for the Stars (The much older but more fun version)were first space empire games to 'Hook' me.

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Whooah! Thats wizards of wor! Remember the WORLORD?

My first ones were 'Fort Apocalypse' and 'Shamus'.

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I started on a 286, how noobish of me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

In my defence, besides my youth, most systems that aren't the PC didn't really make it well over here. Even now, the console market is pretty wierd.
In the rest of the world, consoles are sold at a loss, so that the console games will repay the lose, over here it is automatically assumed that you will install a chip into your console so you can play burned games, and so consoles are really expensive.

Then again, I can't blame the console-game-crackers, console games cost almost twice as much as PC games (which in turn cost much more compared to the average salary then pretty much anywhere else), though I don't own any console myself.

And while I'm on it, I'd just say the I don't like consoles, they just aren't as useful or comfortable as a PC http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Hello,

My name is Chris. I'm 30 years of age and live in Iowa, U.S.A. Married to a nice lady from Japan so I am usually travelling over there once a year to visit her family.

My hobbies - games of course, tinkering with computers, photography, kendo, my reef aquarium, and SCUBA diving.

I think the first computer game I played was possibly, Oregon Trail on the green screen Apple II(?). I later bought a commodore and loved the gold box D&D games on it. I used to play consoles but the last console I bought was the playstation. I bought a PC shortly after that and have since found consoles boring.

Really looking forward to playing some dominions 3 with some of you guys when it comes out.

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*sigh* I hate myself for asking this, but I can't help myself...

Do they call you MISTER tibbs?

Apologies to all Sidney Poitier fans.

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hahaha, Actually, thats where I did get the name from.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

And to answer your question, yes they DO!

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Heh. Good on you, then.

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Welcome aboard tibbs! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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Iowa?
I grew up in West Branch, Iowa.
(and when I got to California some lady told me "we pronounce that ohio out here". I swear to God that she did.)

Gandalf Parker

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Sister lives in Iowa, east side of state (Iowa city). Lot of Iowa jokes told up here in Minnesnowta, only cheese-head Wisconsin jokes are more popular. When I was a kid the jokes were about other countries and such but with ethnic awareness they have turned to less hot-point topics such as States and Pop Culture figures. But no matter what the joke is about, Funny is Funny and demeaning is wrong ! (Where did that come from, my inner monologue states).
P.S. How steep was Dominions II's learning curve or was it a case of skimpy rules documentation that some had issues about ???

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I felt that Dom II didn't have too steep a curve, but the interface was not what one would call initially intuitive. I was lucky enough to find Bruce's walkthrough while trying out the demo so I never had to go an extended period of time without knowing what was going on, but I definitely had to help my friends out with some very basic army commands in the game -- part of that was definitely the manual, as it was mostly text and didn't give you diagrammed game screens or a tutorial to get you started.

As for learning the strategy of the game itself, that can be pretty steep. The game is incredibly deep with a wealth of options -- it takes time to learn how one nation matches up against another, to say nothing of all 18. But half the fun is trying, failing, and learning. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I recommend trying the demo first. Some people really cant get into it. But if you can get into it then it will live for years on your machine.

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Yes well, many people had that problem with Doms 2. It was too confusing at first look. I introduced Doms 2. to my friends [they are all strategy gamers], and they were all whining that the game is confusing. After that I loaned my manual to them, so that they could learn the basics.. 2 days later they all bought the game. That was a long time ago. Since then we still play many TCP/IP games. The complexity and diversity of the game is awesome, this is why we are never bored.

Btw, imho the demo will need some .pdf help file ..the people [potential new players] will need informations about the basics of Doms 3.

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typo

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Hi Everyone,

It's nice to see such an active international forum; that bodes well for the game! I'm very new to Dominions. Although I love the genre, somehow I've been missing out and just discovered Dominions having been sent here from a Galactic Civilations 2 forum.

I love strategy games, though I never seem to have enough time to put in to get good at any of them. My favorites are X-com, Fallout Tactics:BOS, the Age of Wonders series, MOO3, Dune II, Dune 2000, Emperor: Battle for Dune, and currently Galactic Civ 2. I also enjoy playing miniature wargames.

As soon as I found the site, I read an AAR and was hooked by the apparent depth and subtleness of the game. I then downloaded Dominions 2 demo and couldn’t stop playing. I can’t wait to get Dominions 3!

My only concern is that I have two very young children, and it might be bad for their health should I be consumed by this…

I'm currently living in Arizona, but have previously lived extensively in Asia and a long while in California.

I look forward to learning more about Dominions from all of you.

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Go dune!
I also like FOT and dune.
You actually play MOO3? I couldn`t realise what was going on during combat, since every weapon sounded the same an I couldn't peek ship`s gear. But I still play MOO2 once in a while.
You won't regret playing dominions.

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I also recommend Space Empires (which is about to put out a version 5).

But you are right about the addictivness..

WARNING: this game is NOT suitable for students, interns, apprentices,
or anyone else who is expected to pass tests on a regular basis. Do not
think about Dominions strategys while operating heavy machinery. The
demo has built-in protections which should not be bypassed. They are for
your health as much as for monetary reasons. Do not begin on the full
version without first making arrangments for someone to check on you
daily. If you find that your game has continued for more than 36 hours
straight then you should consult a physician immeadiately (Do NOT show
him the game!)

Gandalf Parker

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You know, they really should put this on the cover. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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Welcome! The nice thing about Dom forums is that they've always been very supportive of new players. When I jumped in two years ago, everyone was fantastic about answering questions and offering advice and finding a game was never a problem. Be looking forward to seeing you around!

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Thanks for the great reception! And Gandalf, thanks for the warning.... I saw the light of dawn just with the Dom 2 demo, so I'm afraid of what the full version of Dom 3 may do. But I don't think I can resist either http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

@Manuk: I actually did play MOO3 heavily patched, and it wasn't too bad at that point, but I did mean to put MOO2 there.

Space Empires looks REALLY cool, and I can't wait for that to be released either!

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Hello everyone.

Friendly looking community u have here.

I have come to the party late, Dominions 2 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gifor just on time with Dominions 3. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Got the link via Galactic Civilizations 2, Brad/Frogboy, is a big Dominions 2 fan so he plugged Dominions 3 going gold.

Been hooked on the Dominions 2 demo for a week now and have just pre-ordered Dominions 3, can't wait, just the joy of playing past turn 40 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

I am going to play all the demo playable nations up till turn 40, hopefully I will have Dominions 3 by then, now back to that bad boy priest with smite http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Look forward to playing with some of u, in a multiplayer game, when I am clued up...

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Welcome, welcome. I'm a transplant from the Space Empires group, myself.

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Welcome on the forum Meglobob. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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I loved Wizards of Wor! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

(oops, didn't realize that I was so far behind in reading this thread before I posted...) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

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This is my first post in this forum. Hello.

I was a big fan of Master of Magic. A few months ago googling MoM I happened across some post by a GalCiv developer mentioning Dominions II as a sort of successor to MoM, so I downloaded the demo and started become a big fan of Dom2. Ordered Dom2 and preordered Dom3 after playing the demo for a week or so.

current self-imposed rules:
no gem-producing items (aka clam-hording)
no wising for Doom Horrors

favorite nations so far:
Jotun, Van, Pangaea, Abyssia (not R'lyeh despite my name)

favorite pretenders so far:
Ghost King, Great Enchantress, Vampire Queen, Wyrm, Great Mother

favorite spells so far:
Curse Of The Blood, Awaken Vine Ogre, Juggernaut Construction
(an infinite stream of immortal units w/ 0 upkeep for 55 blood, quite good units for only 1 nature, and a temple on wheels so that you can re-enact the tiananmen square massacre while increasing your dominion)

favorite items:
dwarven hammer, rainbow armor, chainmail of displacement, lucky coin, starshine skullcap, shield of the accursed

favorite national heroes so far: Angerboda

biggest complaints so far:
1 no way to easily access information from previous turns that is still useful
2 combat seems fairly buggy. also the relationship of combat to strategic things also seems somewhat buggy
3 combat summary reports omit important information, and are too... static. should have a simple report (that includes more info than the current report, like seperate numbers for #s of units that survived but ran away or respawned at your capital) with the option of requesting more complete information (like number of units that acquired afflictions, or a breakdown of deaths by unit types, etc)
4 strategic AI seems incapable of playing late-games
5 combat AI seems suicidal for many important units. seems like it ought to be easy to fix
6 routeing mechanics seem quite arbitrary