Dominion Spread

Saxon · #1 January 27th, 2004, 02:51 AM

Dominion and how is it spread. I did a search and did not see anything, but, as always, if I missed a good thread, please feel free to point me to it.

Let us say I really want my dominion to spread and I am C’tis. I have a nice choke point with a temple and Ulm has a temple on the other side. I believe the preaching only effects the province I am in.

1. How quickly, if at all, is my dominion going to spread to his province?
2. Does this depend on my dominion strength?
2. The home province effect. How far does it reach?
3. The pretender and prophet effects. Do they reach beyond the province they are in?
4. My dominion strength. How does it really work? (I guess this is my key question)
5. I build more temples. Does the rate of spread go up as your strength goes up, or is it just to maximum total you can have?

My fiendish plan is to take advantage of my control of the oceans to surround him with temples. Then, as I can muster the troops, do hit and run, destroying his temples to reduce his counter to my temples. As you may have guessed, I am having a tough time taking Ulm out in battle, but I seem to have better dominion and have Mimosa, so spreading disease seemed like a nice idea.

ceremony · #2 January 26th, 2004, 03:04 PM

I've put together a short primer on dominion and its spread and effects. All the mechanisms you ask about are there:

http://www.maladjustite.com/dominion.pdf

diamondspider · #3 January 26th, 2004, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ceremony:
I've put together a short primer on dominion and its spread and effects. All the mechanisms you ask about are there:

http://www.maladjustite.com/dominion.pdf

Wow ceremony, that was great. Really well written and clear. I needed that!

Thanks!

P.S. I'm obsessed with Miasma and had been trying to figure this stuff out with testing: not easy...

[ January 26, 2004, 14:28: Message edited by: diamondspider ]

Targa · #4 January 26th, 2004, 04:56 PM

Just a quick note to say THANK YOU, Ceremony. This should be part of Illwinter's official docs/downloads.

Johan K · #5 January 26th, 2004, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Targa:
Just a quick note to say THANK YOU, Ceremony. This should be part of Illwinter's official docs/downloads.

I believe the walkthru is there:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom2/docs.html

Not in pdf format though... I guess we should add that as well.

ceremony · #6 January 26th, 2004, 05:12 PM

Actually, what I posted there is the chapter on dominion, Johan. Just to clarify for everyone, this is just one chapter of a strategy guide I'm hoping to complete at some point, which is why the dominion section is Roman numeral III (since I plan to have an intro chapter and a chapter on movement/building etc.) Right now I'm working on a comprehensive chapter on the magic system. I didn't really mean for the dominion chapter to stand alone, but since Saxon asked such a specific set of questions that I had compiled all the answers to, I felt dumb not posting it just because it "isn't finished." Also, I can get some feedback on whether or not people are interested in having the Dom2 game mechanics broken down in this specific manner.