Will there ever be a new patch?
 

Considering that there are still lot's of goodies a new patch can bring and that dominions 4 is extremely unlikely in the foreseeable future I wonder what are the odds of us ever getting a new patch for dominions.

I was going to do a routine check in the progress page - just to see the old March entries when I found these two new entries:
"
19th august 2009
* New resolution 1024*576 (for netbooks).

17th july 2009
* New resolution 1024*600 (for netbooks).
"

Now, I'm starting to get excited. somewhat. A new patch on the way?

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Well if all it includes is resolutions for netbooks, it's not exactly exciting.

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I'm sure there'll be, at least, some sort of bug-fix patch.

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Hopefully some painful bugs would be crushed and just the inclusion of some screen resolutions.

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What I would like in a new patch would be for cave provinces to use darkness rules as they are supposed to be.

It would do a lot to make darkvision more useful, and could make for interesting maps, having cave provinces being hard to conquer depending on your nation, like water provinces already are.

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Yeah that's a big bug that's been around a while. I'd love to see that fixed too.

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Second that, I love playing the cave dwellers.

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I think the "game needs" have rather slid off of the radar for Dom3.

The new project (whatever that is) appears to have moved into the "fun to do" stage for both developers. It did for Johan first but I get the impression that the project has progressed to the point of accepting Kristoffers input also.

Maybe game-crashing or game-destroying items would draw them back to creating a fix if it was something that could be done quickly then let them return to the project.

Turning fixes into a patch is usually not worth doing until there are a few items to be included in it.

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Someone mentioned a while back something about a new nation being added?
I assume this rumor is false?

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Seems like worst case scenario as far as poor old dominions is concerned.

I hope no big dev. goes out and buys the rights to dom-IV. I suspect they'll just ruin it with their short term goals and rush to the market strat.

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Since no gem gen games seem to be becoming more popular I think it would be helpful if a non gem gen version of blood stone could be added to the game. It could be a level 12 magic item so it wouldn't interfere with unmodded games but if it was needed it could be used and the gem gen blood stone deactivated.

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There are a few japanese critters that seem to be coded but do not appear yet.

Also we need EA Machaka Lion Kings :D

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I'm pretty confident that we will see this glorious nation some day. There even is a nation slot reserved for them (like Hinnom/Ashdod/Gath had a year ago).

In the meantime, Bandarlover is working on a modded EA Machaka. He has graphics done at least, but haven't heard of him for a while.

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It's very rare when one company buys a game sequel from another company... so any DOM_4 will probably be from Illwinter which is at least 5 years away.


Anyways the recent patch updates specifically for netbooks must be a personal group of friends of Johan or Kristoffer because I haven't seen anyone from the forums requesting these changes.

I'm sure the Dominions community would love a patch update to fix the graphs as seen in DOM_2 or even some of the other important issues.

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They are still taking care of us NT:
Netbook Dom 3 (max resolution 1024x600)?

;)

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If I were abit better off Id spend a couple hundred to send Johan one of the hand-held linux gaming consoles. Or even hold off for the new Pandora. Its Ubuntu and SDL so it might provide the motivation for abit of screen and keyboard manipulation to get Dom3 into game console mode.

Hmmm... on second thought... be able to take Dom3 anywhere and anytime? Maybe that would be a bad idea. :mean:

Gandalf Parker

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I fell in love with the original Machaka... until I discovered they had the worst province defense in the entire game.

I would love to see the EA Machaka Lion Kings arrive with some good or even average province defense.
:)

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Machaka PD killed Mari's Wyrm in Forge :D

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Well how much was the PD? 15? 25? 55?

And what were the battle results such as what other troops/mages did Machaka have in the battle?

And did the wyrm have any previous afflictions?

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PD-25
Wyrm had something like D5, no buffs, no equip.
No mages, though there were some spider riders, maybe 10 or less spider knights, and a few machaka soldiers with the better spears. Wyrm had no previous afflictions.

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That Wyrm had some bad luck and the other soldiers probably made the difference for bringing him down. It's been generally accepted Machaka has the worst province defense.

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Don't you know Monkey PD is the worst? That's why they WILL NEVER WIN.

P.S. eleven