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Just got my shipping notice, I ordered 09.09.06, way to go illwinter, great job, u deserve a [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon44.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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And Shrapnel too, because they've been going through the packages really fast! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon44.gif[/img]

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Mine order was Sept 1st and I got the notice early this morning! Awesome!

Just a few days away. I'm guessing maybe 2 days... Dayton, Ohio is not too far away. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Just got my copy in the mail! Installing now, but may I say, this has to be the biggest honking manual I've ever seen in a PC game. It's fantastic. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Feel free to express your feelings in here. For a day or two, you can tell them anything and/or everything and they'll believe it all. Not that anyone would abuse that kind of power, of course.

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wow, you got it very fast. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Have fun playing the game mate, post your feelings about it when you managed to come back to the real world from the land of Dominions. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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My order has been shipped:
Order Date: 05-16-2006 11:21:46

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Any chance of Annette, Mindi, Tim and others coming out of the salt mine soon? How many have you guys shipped?!?

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The elves are making great progress. Last I heard we were working on mid-September preorders.

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I just got my shipping notice, and I only ordered on Sep. 15 -- normally I wait for demos, even of sequels of favorites, but the whole commanders-going-insane bit from one poster's R'lyeh tales must have affected my sanity. I'd been expecting it to only be shipped on Thursday. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

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The elves have been working hard, indeed. My shipping notice was sent out at about 7:30 Saturday morning. (I guess elves really do work while the rest of us sleep http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif)

Awesome work, folks.

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My gamer's front order says it's backordered. Is this normal?

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Shipping Update

Hi all!

It's been a while http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

As some of you are aware we shipped alot of orders today. Having half of Saturday and all day Sunday without the usual interruptions allowed us to get alot done. We have shipped all pre-order through September 16. I think we even got one or two of those orders place on the 17th, but not the majority. We are now anticipating completing shipping all pre-orders tomorrow. That would be all orders through September 29 placed before 6:00 am EDST.

On Wednesday, we will then start shipping those orders placed after release (orders placed after 6:00 am EDST on 09.29). We hope to be caught up on all orders by next Friday or Saturday, although that is just an estimate, as we have received many orders since release and are getting more each hour of each day. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Thanks for everyones' patience.

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I got my first copy.
NICE manual. And a very nice tutorial in it. (Id seen the tutorial game but hadnt seen the follow-along writeup in the manual). Excellent job!

Its also cool to see that my name is on the credits page.

Also my "example strategy" for Middle Age Pangaea

Whats that line from The Jerk?
"I'm in a book! That means I'm SOMEBODY!"
(just kidding. But it is cool)

Gandalf Parker

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Can u confirm or deny the rumour u drafted in cheap labour from lapland, normally work for a guy called santa, big gig coming up soon, so needed some practice. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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No not normal - usually. You see, with most games, we ship your order within 24 hours. If your game is pre-ordered, which means we don't have product yet, your order will move to backordered. Also, if we run out of stock on something it will move to backordered.

Dominions 3 is unusul in that we had so many pre-orders, that we were unable to ship orders place after product release (we always ship on a first ordered first shipped basis -- only fair) and so we had to move those orders to backordered status so that they wouldn't clog up the system. After all, we are still shipping our other products within 24 hours of ordering.

Once we catch up on Dominions 3 shipments, things will work as normal and orders will start shipping within 24 hours (and won't move to backordered).

Sorry for the troubles.

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No comment.

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You'll see lots more orders one week after the demo becomes available.

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Yepp, I am pretty sure also. I can speak in the name of a couple of friends of mine, who refused to order the game until they've seen the demo. I was like "HUH?!", since they are playing with Doms 2. a lot.

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Im willing to push Dom3 but I know its not the game for everybody so Im waiting for the demo so I can push the demo instead.

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Sadly no box was waiting on my doorstep for me when I got home from work today. Hoping desperately for tomorrow. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

(btw: Congrats on making it into the credits Gandalf!)

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Sorry guys if this isn't the right forum but there is no time to spare no not even for punctuation not even for parentheses the game is here I must go back and conquer all with over-limbically-endowed Giant White Dude and if you want to play just AIM me at rzwfs OK

DAVE

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Hah! sANTa, ANneTTe - coincidence? I think not! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Ho Ho *cough*

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Is there a download option?

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Nop there isn't such a thing for Dominions 3. You can only order it from the net.

http://www.gamersfront.com/ - US
http://www.tuxgames.com/ - EU

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Just ordered the game from gamersfront.

Feels darn odd ordering a Swedish game from U.S to be shipped to Sweden though :p

In a few days Cthulu should be summoning allies from across the rift to conquer the world *evilgrin*

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You should've order it from tuxgames. They are shipping it from the UK. IF its true 2-3 days and you can have your copy from there.

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At this point it's not guaranteed tuxgames will be faster. They might have to wait for a while before they even get their share of copies...

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Hm I'm not sure, because now there is an Impulse Buy option even for Dominions 3. on their site. [Impulse Buy: save even more time when ordering, ergo they can ship it even faster compared to "normal" buy.]

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Aha, I see then.

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first it was 'the biggest preorder ever', now this:
approximately how big a number is many ?

1000? 5000? (N+1)?

("more each hour" = at least 150/week, but not enough info to make an estimate).

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I just got my fulfillment email. I ordered on 25th Sep.

I just have to wait for it to get to the Uk and hopefully it won't get intercepted by customs.

GM12

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We don't give out exact numbers. But, knowing that the preorder was our biggest ever, and you take the average number pre-ordered per day, we are now selling 28 times more per day.

At this rate, we will surpass the pre-order number this weekend.

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Awesome! I wonder how many people will pre-order after they've tried out the demo. Probably hella lot! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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You can pull a little loophole there. UK Customs duty only applies to goods coming into the country - according to UK law, software isn't classed as a good, ergo the value of the import is whatever the media and manual are worth.

The problem is it still has to work it's way through the UK postal system, which is all screwed up due to the new pricing thing. Last time I sent a letter first class it took a week to arrive. I remember when they were guaranteed in two days. Could be worse though - at least we don't need to worry about the Christmas rush.

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Does anyone know how sales from this game compares to Dominions II sales? Is it more, or "many times more"? I'm curious, because it would be great to see Illwinter be empowered to do things with Dominions or another game they had not previously been able to.

I suppose this question cannot technically be answered for several months, but only a forecast can be established.

=$=

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If this is bigger than Main Battle Tanks for Windows then this is Umor-freaking-some big. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Well, I can only tell you what we are projecting. First off, Dominions II did very well. We believe it could have done even better and that we, Shrapnel, dropped the ball with the manual.

As for Dominions 3, we are projecting that we will double, and maybe triple the sales of Dominions II. Of course that is just a projection. Alot has to fall into place. Reviews must be good, fans such as yourself will need to talk it up on other forums, etc. We are off to a good start though. Dominions 3 Pre-orders were over double those of Dominions II. And after-release sales, well, they are going very well compared to Dominions II. But it is very early and alot has to fall into place -- only time will tell.

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Wow, sounds great.

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Earlier, I noticed that 70+ people were on the forum. Don't think I have seen it that high before.

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I got my shipping notice. Since I preordered mine the night before they started shipping, Shrapnel should soon be done with the preorders if they are not already. Wow! Two days before I expected it to be shipped! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Ooooh, cool! Good good. Since atul ordered the game for me today I might be getting it early next week... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I would definetly do that. Take advantage of whatever slight lull there will be between getting the pre-orders out, and the rush that the demo will cause.

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Well, I already did it. Today during a break from the shcool I cycled to the bank I use and made a money transfer to him. And he placed the order. And now I am just waiting...

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Tim, as a strategy and role playing game player for years - pnp, board, online, single player PC - you're completely correct about the dropping of ball on the Dom II manual. I ordered. I recieved. I read the manual. I started playing and had no idea what I was doing. I didn't have a month straight to dicker with the uninformative interface. I moved on. Was awful. And the manual seemed so, uh, large. But the information available online was far too esoteric and time intensive for me to bother with forums, much less try multiplayer. Dom2 dropped off my radar within a month.

Got my shipping notice today and am very very excited (you guys have done a fantasic job of gettin' them out, and THANKS!!!). I hope it's different this time, regarding the manual. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif And that I'll be checkin' these forums daily as some of us have a propensity to do with other games. heheh

tromper


PS and completely OT: Is there a way to occlude 'signatures' when reading the forums? No offense to folks like DominionsFan of course, but for me, his signature is really obtrusive and wastes a lot of screen space.

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Congrats on that! And to atul too, that was a grand gesture!

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On top right part of the screen, you can see Main Index, Who's Online, Search, etc. Choose My Home.

In there, near the bottom, under Main Configuration, you can see "Display preferences, number of shown threads...", and to its right, a link to edit those preferences. Uncheck the last checkbox on the bottom of that screen.

Sorry for the double post.

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Thanks so much Endo.

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Shipping Update

We have finished shipping for the day and I am very happy to say that all Pre-Orders have now shipped! Tomorrow we will start shipping those orders place on September 29 and forward.

We still hope to be caught up by Saturday, but only time will tell.

Thanks for your patience everyone!