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Old March 3rd, 2006, 10:56 AM

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Default Re: Dominions 3 Wishlist

This detail about "which kind of random magic pick is this?" is my pet peeve about Dominions.

There should be no important facts about the game that the user cannot learn from the user interface! This applies especially to game state.

For example, how many Calls to God have you made? How many turns have you spent building a Mountain Citadel in this province? Any game state which the user cannot get to in the user interface should be removed from the rules. Conversely, any game state which is part of the rules should be accessible in the user interface.

As another little example, the Medusa's turn-to-stone power is not featured as an icon in her list of qualities. I lost quite a lot of troops to her because I wasn't aware of it.
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