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tinkthank said:
- Pretender building: while having fixed castle types does seem to make sense, I did miss the option in pretender building. What I really missed most, however, was the miscellaneous options (such as restless worshippers). Were they deemed unfit?
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For the most part they're now incorporated into the nations. For example, IIRC EA Abysia's domain spreads heat.
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- the pale ones are all amphibian; the nation overview listed in nation choice indicates that they are "poor amphibians", which makes sense. As it is, they seem to be at least as aquatic as atlantis, and that seems very out of place. Either that, or there is no differentiating between poor amphibian and amphibian.
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Not sure if this is a bug or not. Pale One's are amphibious, and they can recruit an aquatic troop (wet one's). I don't know if they're meant to be poor amphibians, or whether it's referring to the fact that they only have one true aquatic troop available (barring indeps)
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- I really miss Machaka -- but perhaps they will make an appearance as a later form of one of those races I can see in the demo...?
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They're available in the Middle Era. Don't think they have a predecessor or sucessor.
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This is my main point: If Shrapnel were really worried about people abusing the demo instead of purchasing the full game, they should have restricted its use to 3 or so nations FOR ALL AGES, but removed the research level cap and increased the turn cap to at least 60.
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I kind of agree. To my mind, they should have either opened up all nations and kept a turn and research cap, or restricted it to 3 nations (perhaps one in each era?) and a research cap. Restricting both turns and the nations doesn't really give you much sense of the game, especially if your a returning Doms 2 player. I guess for a newcomer you can get a sense of how the game works, but even then it's somewhat limited.
It's back to the niche market thing I guess. With the demo restricted as it is, your looking at an audience who are looking for precisely this sort of game, and just need the re-assurance of the limited demo to see that Dominions is just the type of game they're looking for.