lab vault upgraded?

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Johan K:
I don't like the idea of searching for magic items. It would require a button which complicates the interface. And it feels like a cumbersome thing to make in a good way. Also it doesn't feel important unless you play a very large game.

ok, taking a deep breath now, but I feel it is my duty to put a recurring problem on the discussion table (telling something that many thinks without daring to speak):

...and again we bump against the style of play that the IW team practice, small to medium games, versus large games (or medium games with a long duration, often the case in pbem) that fans prefers.
I suppose you never used Forge of the Ancients to produce mass of items too (200 items created in 15 turns for example).
And no its not producing items for the sake of producing items. An astral nation with the majority of his mages with spell foci and rune smashers is not a secondary advantage.

Before you flame away, can we have the official position of IW on what they feel is important versus what fans feel is important? Is our opinion really requested, or is this forum just a a place where fans asks for tech questions, and you respond, and thats all?

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Is it possible to think that you might consider some of the features requested by fans, even if you deem the feature of poor importance? I need a clarification on this. I make no idea about myself, I'm just lambda fan amongst many others, but at least knowing your position will help me posting (to be exact help me not posting). Perhaps there is a good half of all discussions here pointless if you think that you (the IW team) and only you decide what will make Dominions.

Last, but not least, I dont want the discussion to drift into this silly attitude that we (excluding the team here) are customers and vote with our purse. I like the game, I really like it (my preferred game since I play, roughly 1980 I will say). It even pushed Master of Magic in my heart, and it was not an easy task. I'm just asking that you take notice that you are selling a game, so it means you want people to play with it. The time were you made a game for your sole pleasure has ended, I hope you realized that. This is a fact, people play with a game because they find features in it that please them.

Hope you will take this post for what it is, a constructive critic.

[ October 23, 2003, 07:37: Message edited by: Pocus ]