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Gandalf Parker said:
The game was more designed toward MP with day turns. Blitzes were figured into Dom2 abit more. And Solo play was looked at for support in Dom3.
It does appear that suggestions for lessening micromanagement will be looked at if it doesnt change the game into something different. IMHO
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In my experience long MPs in Dom2 were often getting abandoned around turn 80-100 due to too much micromanagement. In vanilla Dom3 it seems more like turn 40. Spending an hour a day to do mostly mechanical work is not much fun. I was used to give Dom2 as an example of elegant gameplay in other groups and forums (for example comparing it to micromanagement hell of Civ4), but now I'm not so sure that Dom3 (vanilla settings) has retained this quality. Of course, different people have different levels of micromanagement tolerance and I probably have rather low threshold. On a good side, it seems one can sidestep all those issues by choosing appropriate settings - no changes to the game are required at all.
I remember that during Dom2 times there were frequent discussions about making Dominions more accessible to the new players and in Dom3 we saw some of such changes. I wonder if default settings were actually chosen to provide simpler gameplay more accessible to newbies? It's probably reasonable to assume that experienced players will figure out how to change few options in the game creation interface...