Tim, as a strategy and role playing game player for years - pnp, board, online, single player PC - you're completely correct about the dropping of ball on the Dom II manual. I ordered. I recieved. I read the manual. I started playing and had no idea what I was doing. I didn't have a month straight to dicker with the uninformative interface. I moved on. Was awful. And the manual seemed so, uh, large. But the information available online was far too esoteric and time intensive for me to bother with forums, much less try multiplayer. Dom2 dropped off my radar within a month.
Got my shipping notice today and am very very excited (you guys have done a fantasic job of gettin' them out, and THANKS!!!). I hope it's different this time, regarding the manual.
And that I'll be checkin' these forums daily as some of us have a propensity to do with other games. heheh
tromper
PS and completely OT: Is there a way to occlude 'signatures' when reading the forums? No offense to folks like DominionsFan of course, but for me, his signature is really obtrusive and wastes a lot of screen space.