[Pocus]

Originally posted by rabelais:
[QB] Hey. Been playing the Dom2 demo. It's frighteningly good. Goodbye productivity ;(

and in one year, you wont have recovered from the game.

1. How do I end/speedup the replay of a battle?

you cant. My main problem with the game as of now.

2. How do I get spells to hit targets? My megaearth Cyclopian pretender can't hit squat....do where the sprites land not matter?

compared to dom1, accuracy has either not changed, or is lower. Thats why you will need to be closer to your enemy to hit them reliably, lest you will only cast nice fireworks in the sky.

2.5 Do mages/pretenders naturally gain magic levels, or is empowerment the only way to improve?

they wont gain anything with experience. You either need to empower (very rare, perhaps done 0 to 2 time in a game, if you can do this more often, then it means you are already rolling over the opposition). More frequent, is to give them items giving a bonus in a path.

3. how high a magic proficiency do I need for a comprehensive site search? Is 5 enough, or does it go all the way to 9+?

3 is sufficient to get 90+% of the sites.

4. Is there a random map generator? The 2 demo maps are haunting my dreams as is...

the full games will have more maps, and a fan made RMG is planed I think.

5. Is there anywhere to buy the full game retail, or is mail-order likely to be faster?

the game is sold exclusively Online.

6. Is there any way to lock move orders so that I don't accidently change them while province scanning. I guess just become f1 obsessive, eh?

you cant lock orders.

7. are domain effects detailed anywhere?

dunno, but I dont think. Perhaps Sunray will have this one day.

hope it helps.