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Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 8th, 2004, 02:05 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 3,341
Posted By PhilD
Re: Combat results log

The second question in this poll is a perfect example of what a poll should NOT ask: you ask "who is best suited to deciding what we want", while the question you're really asking is, "who should...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 6th, 2004, 04:09 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 10,401
Posted By PhilD
Re: Speeding up battles

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Don't hold your breath.

It was present in Dominions 1, but the devs' comment is that it was buggy in Dom2, and was removed for this reason.

They...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 6th, 2004, 03:38 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,483
Posted By PhilD
Re: Rod of Phoenix or Wand of Wildfire?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">In my current "I have unlimited Fire gems" game, I've forged tons of Rods of the Phoenix for those secondary commanders.

But why Crystal Shields?...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 6th, 2004, 10:44 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 2,060
Posted By PhilD
Re: PBEM Hosting Suggestions

I might be interested, but it's likely that the "semi-marathon" start will be a problem for me - I'm in Europe, so if the majority is west of the Atlantic, my possible semi-marathon times are likely...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 4th, 2004, 09:57 AM
Replies: 83
Views: 10,401
Posted By PhilD
Re: Speeding up battles

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Now, since modded ranged weapons seem to have no missile animation (I learned that from the Ashikaga mod, where the archers are just as deadly, but...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 11:26 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 10,401
Posted By PhilD
Re: Speeding up battles

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Something that isn't part of the game engine would be mostly useless, IMHO. If you decide to watch a battle replay closely, you'll want to click on...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 09:10 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 10,401
Posted By PhilD
Re: Speeding up battles

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Cool! <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Me too. It's annoying to replay a battle over and over to see everything that happened. Many...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 08:38 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 5,179
Posted By PhilD
Re: Some humble Tips and Advice for beginners

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">More precisely: cost of going from (n-1) to (n) is always n gold, so that buying (n) PD from scratch costs (n+1)*n/2 gold.

Also, one should keep in...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 03:24 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,442
Posted By PhilD
Re: is the 2.06 patch still avaible somewhere ?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Arryn has it on her site.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 10:38 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 5,134
Posted By PhilD
Re: I Love This Game

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">So am I. It's a standing joke among scientists, that everybody keeps citing papers where this "al" is among the list of co-authors, in each and every...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 2nd, 2004, 10:32 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 6,303
Posted By PhilD
Re: Better, Simpler Programming Contest

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Let's nitpick a little: just saying the problem is NP does not mean no good solution is known. Every P problem is also NP. What you're thinking of,...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 2nd, 2004, 10:27 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 5,134
Posted By PhilD
Re: I Love This Game

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Poor al, he doesn't get appreciated very often. [/b]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What do you mean, he...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 2nd, 2004, 10:21 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,053
Posted By PhilD
Re: The Behemoth

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hah! That will teach you for reading the spell description. I just go by those that have a cool-sounding name, and try them out.

Of course, I also...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 2nd, 2004, 10:06 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 4,565
Posted By PhilD
Re: misc questions

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Call of the Winds, Imprint Souls, Ghost Riders, etc. [/b]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">OK, so what's the...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 2nd, 2004, 10:05 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,301
Posted By PhilD
Re: Is the programming contest too hard?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Bah. Real Programmers write in machine code! http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html

I vote that we hold the programming contest in either...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 1st, 2004, 09:53 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,842
Posted By PhilD
Re: Friendly hiddens icon?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That, and one for labs, and another one for "recruiting", would be nice.

(the "next commander" command is nice, but in large games, I tend to have...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 1st, 2004, 09:47 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 5,179
Posted By PhilD
Re: Some humble Tips and Advice for beginners

Very interesting post, even though I don't believe I'm enough of a newbie anymore to make the most of it...

Minor comments, mostly about fortresses.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial,...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 1st, 2004, 09:19 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,456
Posted By PhilD
Re: Partial protection can kill

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It is a problem of targetting IMO. A mage with protection vs something is not a valid target for the spell. The system does not check if the...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 1st, 2004, 09:15 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,726
Posted By PhilD
Re: Forging Observations

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It seems (from aldiss' tests) that there is a minimum of 10% of the base cost, so that getting 87.5% reduction as I do with my...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 1st, 2004, 08:20 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,651
Posted By PhilD
Re: Programming Contest

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What, exactly, do you want us to solve? What should be the output?

I mean, there are a lot of things one can optimize for. Number of searched...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 29th, 2004, 09:20 PM
Replies: 73
Views: 7,514
Posted By PhilD
Re: So i made a new world map

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What's that "rar" extension? (I'm used to the .zip, which can be extracted easily on my Linux system, but this...)
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 29th, 2004, 08:06 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,969
Posted By PhilD
Re: Opinions Wanted

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I've got something quite similar going - I'm Ulm (Master Alchemist, heavy on the forging and gem generators), and I've been at war with Ermor for...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 29th, 2004, 07:45 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 6,625
Posted By PhilD
Re: Affliction record?

This certainly isn't a record, but let's give the poor chap a nod - he's only a lowly Longdead Horseman:

Lost one eye
Lost the other eye as well
Mute
Feeble Minded
Lost the head

Can you...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 29th, 2004, 03:38 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 10,348
Posted By PhilD
Re: The Summoned Creature Quick Reference

The SCQR names the Treelords Zanbarth, Jadros and Morael. The one I summoned is called Bolmarc (though it seems to have the stats listed for Zanbarth)
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 29th, 2004, 09:42 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,651
Posted By PhilD
Re: Programming Contest

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Can you make pure-AI games now? I admit I never even tried... (since you cannot even look at an AI's screen, it's not that useful, but...)
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