Can we expect a better Holy/Unholy Magic in next patch?

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

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Originally posted by Stormbinder:
P.S. BTW are there any perleminary talks about Dominion3? From what I've heard Dom2 is selling pretty well for indep game, correct? I've bought 4 copies myself btw, 1 for me and 3 as a presents.

Ooh dont do that. A major Version means a major code re-write. I think Id rather see Dom2 continue awhile before shutting off the patches for a Version change. Especially if it makes all the maps, mods, help files that the Users have done completely worthless (which usually happens with a Version change). No no, too soon.

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I understand your feelings Gandalf. But I don't think it has to be this way. Take EU1/2/HOI for example - it's another small studio game company (I think it only had one or two programmers, same as dom2). Patches (huge number of tweaks and enchantments) were being made 2-3 years after each game was released, many of them after the NEXT game in seria was released. That shows that starting to work on next game doesn't have to mean abandoning the previous game to the winds.

Face it - there is only so far that devs can push the existing engine. And they already indicated that many changes that players would love to see are too big for the patch (and it is understandable). I am not saying that they shold drop the patches and started to work on the dom3, there are still some things that could be easely impoved without changing large ammount of code. But the sooner they will start working on the dom3 the sooner we will get it. Since Dom3 will propbably take at least 1+ year to develop, personally I would prefer to have it sooner rather than later.


Also keep in mind that pathces are not making money for developers. We all want Illwinter to prosper, so they would continue to make such great and unique games. Perhaps with additional resourses they could hire few more people to make the future games even better - people like AI programmer, professional artist, etc., and also the current developers would be able to dedicate larger portion of their time to development of their new games. (from what I underatnd they made Dom1/2 in their fre time, correct?)
The effect could be both speeding up production of the game and its patches, and broadening appeal of the game to wider public without sacrifacing the depth and quality of gameplay(meaning again more resourses for future developments). Wouldn't it be great?

As for already existing mods and maps - the best of them are likely to be updated for Dom3 when/if it'll be released. Happened to a lot other MP games that I've observed.