Re: Excess design points
Stars is one of the games I most refer to when trying to find people who would like Dom. I do alot of "if you liked" Stars, Master of Magic, and lately another Shrapnel game here called Space Empires IV. They all have the "make my race to play my way" type of game feel to them.
As to the extra points question....
Maybe instead of finding a new benefit we could return it to an old one. I know we select the dominion strength as a 1-10 but there are game variables which apply to dominion and dont act in quite so large steps. So Im thinking that the actual game variable might be something like 1-100. If the dominion selector were changed to allow choosing from 1-10 but show the results as 1-100, then a note that extra points will go to dominion strength.
Of course I dont mean a placebo thing. Only if the game variable actually supports such a range where 44 really is treated as 45 and not rounded to 4. In fact, as I think of this.. it feels very much in game-theme. You are making a pretender and you have points which should all start as dominion strength. Your additional powers/bonuses should appear as though you are stealing from the dominion strength you could have in order to get the other goodies.
Just a thought.
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