[Omnirizon]

got it!

open dominions3.app/contents/macos/dominions3 -dd

the farking dominions3.app is actually a folder that does something magical when you click on it to launch the game. if you want to use command line switches, the actual executable is deeper in the folder, and becomes confused by trying to use them at the magical dominions.app folder level

that's my explanation and i'm stickin with it. magic.

at any rate, i fixed it. now to read the stupid log file.