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Cainehill said:
Sheesh. I don't so much mind the forums being hostile and whatnot - but I do mind the way that Dominions 3 is so broken in terms of balance, and yet a few rabid people insist that it's fine the way it is.
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It's broken if you're doing a MP only game which MUST include Vanheim. Two easy fixes available... one is not play with Vanheim leaving at least 18 other nations per era available for gaming!! Second if you truly love Vanheim and must choose the nation in a MP game then the host can create a mod.
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Cainehill said:
*shrug* As people have pointed out, people kept / went back to playing Dom2 largely because of the Conceptual Balance mods - the base game was _never_ fixed. And Dom3 essentially ignored all the play-tested balancing touches in the CB series, and introduced worse imbalances.
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And I'll point out the Conceptual Balance mod dealt with multiple issues... the issue under discussion is one nation. I could understand if the game had only 11 nations or less to play, but that's not the case. I see no reason why SP gamers, MP gamers with AI opponents and MP only gamers should have a very powerful nation NERF wacked when there's easy ways for gamers to address the issue.
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Cainehill said:
And yet two or three of y'all keep saying it's perfect, it's working as designed, etc. Feh.
It's working _so_ well as designed that I've found myself unable to even think of providing friends with the demo, much less suggesting they consider the full game.
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I never said the whole game was perfect. Some imbalances I noticed are the Umbrals that Argatha can summon for 2 death, yet there's no need for me to demand a change because I know a simple mod can make this adjustment. I could see a patch addressing an imbalance in a spell available to everyone, such as if summoning wraith lords was only 8 death gems. This would be an imbalance affecting all nations, yet this is one OPTIONAL nation and not an issue unless the host makes it available choosing not to mod the nation.