Historical Question
 

What was the biggest advancement from dom2 to dom3?

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The better question is what is the biggest advancement from Dom3 over Dom1?

Random maps.

The reason I say this is because, as an SP player, I simply skipped Dom2. I was interested in gameplay, not fancy graphics, and I didn't see any significant improvement in Dom2 over Dom1.

Dom3's introduction of customizable, randomly generated maps was a huge improvement for me. I like small (50 province) games, but how many times can you play the same small map without getting bored?

(I can't stand big maps because it's just too aggravating to run an empire that large. I can see how it would be fun in MP where you play one turn per day, but it doesn't work at all in SP.)

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I agree. The maps. And the expansion on the size of maps.
Yes 1500 provinces is a lot of map to play out. Or it was when I requested it.
But now we are up to (100?) nation slots? Thats only 15 provinces per player.
By the games definitions 15/player is only a medium sized map :)

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So anyone got anything other than map size?

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I have played all three versions. I like Dom2 better.
You had slightly more options on where to spend points. (Themes).

I like water mages giving water breathing. I prefer the old blood major bless. I prefer how vampires and vampire queens were.

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Well, the nice thing about the game is, it's not that hard to make your own version of vampires and vamp queens, and if it's good enough, it's likely that people will accept it, since I don't think anyone is in particular love with the current vanilla versions.

You don't even have to do the sprites, they're already done.

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The addition of new maps, random map generator, and most of all, all the new nations. The game is basically the same (although it undergoes iterations all the time... as it always has), but the amount of content has expanded greatly.

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I never played dom 2 or 3, but even in dom 3 itself there have been many advances in modding and unit limits, and many additional nations. So I would say probably the biggest advances have been made to the number of options you have available to you as a player, as to how you can play the game.

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For me, the UI improvements are the biggest draw. Especially the automatic tax setting and shift-click to recruit ten units.

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Seconded! I also like the ability to quickly pool all of the slaves from my blood hunters. Blood-hunting was so much micromanagement in Dom1 (Dom:PPP) that it almost wasn't worth the hassle. Now it's much easier.

Monthly casting is another great improvement, especially when applied to site-searching spells.

Finally, the continual updates to the content and the active modding community make sure that I'll never get bored with the game. Ever. I'll probably still be playing Dom3 ten years from now.... :D

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I'll be quite upset if I'm still playing Dominions 3 in 10 years.

I'll want to be playing Dominions 6 by then!!!

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World of Dominioncraft! The continual quest for more epic followers.

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Dominionization! Lead your band of cavemen to develop their own unique culture, discover a being of great power to worship, and commit unfettered genocide among the people whom you fear because you can't understand! :D

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Ooh, I can play!

The Sims 3: Dominions -- Play a family of peasants in a fantasy-medieval setting. Gain education, happiness, and other benefits for your Sims. Suffer when your daughter gets carried off by a blood hunter. Then someone wishes for Armageddon, and you all die.

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Dominions: Total War

Command the armies of your god in battle as you seek to rule the world. Watch as the army you lovingly assembled gets obliterated by one guy. Experience the joy of taking on undead and demonic hoards. Realize that your god views you and your men as little more then cannon fodder.

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Dungeons and Dominions! Lead a group of adventurers in a fantasy world of myths and religions to save beautiful maidens, burn blood-stained temples and defend small kingdoms against hordes of religious, inhuman fanatics. Features unique classes such as Troll Archer, Illusionist and Dark Knight!


Left4Dominions! The Ashen Armageddon is here. Can you survive against the Ermorian hordes? Choose from classic weapons such as Rod of the Phoenix, Just Man's Cross, Wand of Wild Fires and Herald Lance and fight various undead monstrosities in this multiplayer horror game where friends are few and enemies uncountable. Can you reach Marignon's dominion on time, and can even the inquisition stop the undead horde?


Left4TheFishies, sequel to the price-winning Left4Dominions. The Inquisition has managed to spread Purgatory over all that is left of the world of the Seven Seas, but unfortunately, the spreading enchantment has awakened a terrible power hidden under the waves. Madness is spreading and tentacled horrors are on the move, and even the Holy Inquisition has skeletons in its closet. Why are fewer and fewer Paladins returning from their missions, where do all the shrine maidens disappear, and why is the air tinted with sulfur? Fight your way to the House of Just Fires to discover what turned the tides in the war against Ermor! Features unique Mad-Dead-Damned alignment system!


D&D: Oni Alert! Bartholomeus the Patriarch has traveled to the past and killed the C'tissian Sauromancer who trained the first Ermorian necromancer. The Broken Empire is broken no more, and the theurgs are leading the magocracy of Ermor towards victory against the Vanir menace. How will the two enemies react when a new player enters the field? Armies of the new faction, Yomi representing fictional Japan, consist of shape-changing Oni that vary in size from tiny Bakemono to immense Dai Oni.


This is fun! :D

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Dominions XX (w/ matrix hookup available)
When I am so old that I can do nothing but lay in bed anyway then I want a cyber hookup directly into the game where I can be god.

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I want this one! The potential for atmosphere and story is staggering. :o



Unreal Dominions 2009 : Select your hero from hundreds of possible chassis, compete in brutal online multiplayer deathmatches to earn gold and favor, upgrade your equipment, and do it all some more! You can't get find more brutal, intense, hardcore action unless you're over 19!


Call of Dominions : The war of ascension is underway. As a simple farmboy in the frozen north, you knew one day you would be called upon to serve the Vanir. The frosts melt earlier each year, and the ancient Vans are withering away into memory. The fear of Abysia is beginning to pale beside hushed whispers of one word - "Hinnom".


Are you smarter than a Cyclops? : This trivia game pits your wits against those of an ancient, but slightly slow titan. Regarded as a genetic dead-end, and the least intellectual of the titans, you might be surprised what this Cyclops has picked up over the millenia!


Katamari Dominionci : The Prince of the Universe must return once again to save all of reality. Now however, it is a race against time, with danger lurking at every corner! Your father, the King, has inadvertently allowed the Starspawn living on a strange world to fully reopen the Void Gate. If the Void continues to spread, the entire universe could fall from the King's control, and you will be be heir of nothing! Try to roll up the entire world, while avoiding Vastnesses, Othernesses, and other -nesses, who prefer the Void to a strangely addicting action-puzzle game!

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"Dominions: Total War"

This one's not funny. The lack of a Dominions mod for Total War is a travesty.

Heck, I'd settle for being able to send my cavalry in a hook pattern or get them to run from elephants.

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I know, I've been thinking that for years. If Dominion's depth and game-play was hooked up to the Total War engine I would never need to buy another computer game.

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Funny,
I never have any trouble having my cavalry running away from elephants. Usually after a good number of them are smushed of course.