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Which is not suprising considering the fact that for all of them it was the first MP game.
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Beautiful. This is just the way to draw more people into a game that is hard to easily get into but needs more blood to keep the games fresh.
Yes, I'm sure that people cheating, or even power gaming in general is the way to bring new blood into the wonderful game that is Dominions.
If it isn't absolutely, positively clear already, let me make it clear: I'm not blaming Stormbinder for that, just the morons who need to damage the integrity of the game, and in front of first time players no less. For a game like Dominions, which needs to intrigue and entice all of the new players it can because it is a niche game and the pool of players will naturally shrink over time, this is defenseless.
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You are absolutely right Sly Frog. Cheating can easely turn off new players from any MP game, especially from such a long and complex game as Dom2.
Fortunately these particular three new players were not turned off by these events. Once we established contact in the game I've created mailing list for them, that we used to communicate with each other, and I've send several dozens of emails to them, (probably 20K-30K text total
) giving them a lot of advice amd tips on what are the effecitve tactics for their nation to do in our game, as well as general game tips and advice, and answering their questions. From the personal game-wining point of view that was probably not the best course for me to do, as Norfeet wrote in our Ermor's game thread, if he would be me "he would wipe them all from the map immideatly, and wash his shoes after it". However I didn't want to go this road, and instead chosen to cooperate with them and educate them. During the game and especially after the game was finished, they all send me a lot of emails, saying how gratefull they are for all advice they got, how much they learned about about this game and how excited they were to participate in the alliance against Undead Legions.
One even said he is saving all my emails for personal archive for studing and references later on during his future Dom2 games.
All three of them are registrated forum members now, and you may already seen some of their Posts in this and in other threads. They are starting a new game now, and all are very excited about Dom2 as far as I can tell. So I am glad to say that at least these three people were not turned off from Dom2 because of the blatant cheating that they were unlucky to encounter in their first game.
Regards,
Stormbinder