[Nick_K]

Edi said:

WAD. This is nothing but pointless whining. The various slave trooper and slave guardian units and several of the slave commanders are used by EVERY SINGLE ERA OF R'LYEH. It is quite unreasonable to expect there to be a separate set of completely identical units except for the description, but no functional OR thematic difference.

I'd like to take issue with this, if I may. Firstly, I don't especially like seeing aggressive language like 'pointless whining'. If it was my post you were replying to, I'd view this as a personal attack.

I think that immersion is important in games, and especially in ones like Dominions where the huge roster of interesting units etc is a major strong point.
Seeing this sort of description breaks immersion. If I were a new player looking at the demo, I would find this sort of reference to a nation that does not even exist in EA confusing and I'd certainly consider it a bug.
In fact, I do find that issues like this are annoying and I do view them as bugs. They may not be major ones, but they are certainly on the level of the other typos.
I also feel that naming EA "R'lyeh" as "R'lyeh" does not make much sense. After all, R'lyeh is clearly defined in the manual as the name of the sunken city that I thought was supposed to be the remnant of the fallen star. I'd prefer it if the name were changed.

As for the unit descriptions... I think it is perfectly reasonable to expect units to exist that differ only in their description, if this is needed to make the background actually make sense. After all, this doesn't seem like it would be a difficult change to make.


(edit) Just noticed the stuff about sub-forums... why not have one for bugs /and/ one for suggestions?