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I sent Xanatos an e-mail telling him how to organise a game on Gandalf's server.

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"An unnatural plague has swept the province killing thousands. In the decaying corpses magic death gems were found. Rumors of the mythical Crown of Darkness has circulated in the province ever since."

sounds like a bad event, or maybe a neutral one (you receive something, but you lose something too)

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Well... sounds like a site to me. I've been accidentally looking at the Dom2 magic site database on the library at http://www.freewebs.com/dominions2/

They have a crown of darkness site, you might try casting Dark Knowledge on the location of that 'random' event or searching with a level 4 death mage. If you frequently see disease spring up in that province, then the Crown of Darkness may be the culprit...

I'm new here too, I looked at earlier dominions releases, but they just had a bit too much of a learning curve and excess of options. With the tutorial included in the demo and reviews mentioning the manual, I bought the game.

Now, you can call me Lazy Perferctionist, Lazy P, LP, or just Paul. Personally, I'm 23, into anime, good food, sailing, video games, will read a good four hundred page novel in say, six hours. I'm in a divine quest to find the best gummi bear candy, and have found the best local ones at Staples, of all places.

My artistic talent isn't so great, but I've frequently used GIMP, Paint.Net, and Photoshop, and a serious critic. I've often provided friends with advice and the perfect online tutorial that explains just what they need. Most of my work, though, is in 80x80, or generally inappropriate for a general audience. I may make some new, cleaner banners and avatars for this site.

I live in Florida, a state which is undergoing some drought conditions, and has recently been on fire in much of the state. With the subtropical depression that blew dry air around for awhile, the entire state was covered in smoke. Maybe I'll make my first multiplayer game a scanned map of Florida, with a special rule- no water mages allowed? Heat scale encouraged? Eh.

Professionally, I work six days a week. Evenings mostly, except on Fridays and Saturdays where I work more regular hours. I'm a tech guy at a telemarketing company thats contracted by the Department of Education. I'm also the guy who has to go through Do Not Call voicemail inbox to take you off the list. A word of advice, I can swallow obnoxious insults, but for goodness sake, follow the directions when asking to be taken off, and leave your number. By the time it gets to me, I have no caller id. If you have the gall to insult me, or rather a defenseless machine, and then leave no information I can use to take you off the list, well then [insert obscene and biologically improbable act here]. We're not the most evil telemarketers, if you wonder. We consolidate student loans and we DON'T take a cut, since we work for the DoE. Many save several thousand dollars.

So, lets try this thematic intro.

LazPer12, Lazy Perfectionist, Paul, the Slothful one, the Thorough god. The tech desk of evil, salvation of sinners, the god of silence who ends the dissonant howls of unwanted demons. Changer of illusions, creator of none. He who always edits his posts is imprisoned in the land of water-once, now aflame.

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Welcome.

The event you guys are discussing does not create Crown of Darkness in the province. It's flavor text, because the site causes disease. It's actually a pretty difficult site to find, only appears in mountains and is rare and lv 4 to boot.

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Hey, I just recently bought dominions 3, and after two singleplayer games, would like to see how multiplayer works out. I'm fairly good at most games (For those of you who have played any games by Slitherine, we've probably battled at some point), but have never played one like this online before.

And I'm looking forwards to the chance.

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Salutations to all.

I am, obviously, ArkkiMeisseli. Arkki for short.
According to my calculations, I'm 23, but I'm not betting my head on that. My calculations suck.
And I'm from Finland. It's surprising to see so many of our kind here.

My hobbies include anime, gaming, drawing, reading, writing, pen&paper RPGs, miniature gaming, computer gaming and freaking people out.

I came upon Dominions somewhere during the 2006, when a friend of mine gave me Dominions 2 which he didn't like.
Obviously, the guy is bonkers or something.

So, after playing that for a long while, I decided, earlier last month, to finally mod it a little.
After a little while of learning, I had managed to mod Caelum to include all three clans working somewhat happily together towards world domination.

Then came my copy of Dominions 3 and did the same thing, only better. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif
It was kind of depressing, for a while.

Then I just figured, what the heck, and started planning new mods for Dom3.

I guess that about sums it up for now.

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Happy to be here..

Longtime gamer. (over 40 years on this planet now)
Back to the days of Avalon Hill games, Squad leader, ASL, Europa, Pencil and paper, D&D up to AD&D 2E (then regular life took over) to name just a few. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Was looking for a new way to get strategic and tactical (still do some Ageof Wonder 2 SM) gaming fix and came across Dominion 3. Tried the demo and WOW I was hooked!

The layers and depth to this game are like a skyrise onion!

Getting my feet wet in SP and look forward to some MP someday soon.
My 4 year old son wants to try the game out too!
Cheers.
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> My 4 year old son wants to try the game out too!

He is very welcome! Unfortunately I only know kids of less than two and a half years, and they do not fully grasp the game yet. Otherwise we could set up a kiddos tornament http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Greetings, Friends.

I am 48 year old male. I live out in the wooded hills of the Ozarks, in the USA. I am a country doctor. I have been playing board games since the original squared map version of gettysburg. But dont be fooled by my profession or my long term wargamer status... I am barely on speaking terms with these computers. It took me several tries to log in here. I am the kind of guy who would drag you over(if you lived next door) to show me how to 'get this thing to work'.

I played dominions 2 a few times so i am not a total newbster.

I have never been the person to spend much time before a game rehearsing some killer combination of moves. My motto when it comes to gaming is to have fun and just play, although once the game starts i give it alot of thought and try hard to win.

I would like to try MP. In this game one needs to understand all the magics and mechanics to be a great player. i dont understand those things but i want to play anyway. I cheerfully accept my fate whenever it shall fall upon me.

So draft me into a game! or maybe i will just jump into one. I only hope the downloading and modding and whatever isnt so complicated that i can't do it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Heya Soren, maybe we can swap country doc advice.

Let me know http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif