On the cusp...

[NTJedi]

kimmitt said:
Yeah, my tone was a bit grumpy; I was disappointed by the demo for Dom3.

I agree that the map generation is probably not a big deal; it just shocked me with the 3 minutes it took to do so. But the turn processing time means that I just can't justify buying the game to myself. I spent more time watching turns process than playing them, and this on the first few turns of a 5-person game in the demo.

My machine's a 2 GHz with 768 MB of RAM; my graphics aren't the best, but my problem isn't with graphics processing.

Well it sounds like there's something wrong with your system. The first few turns on a very similar system my brother owns typically takes about a dozen seconds to process the early game stage turns and this is with 500+ provinces and 10+ AI opponents.
The more complex a game becomes the longer it will take to process a turn within a TBS game. Honestly the issue is definitely your system running the game slow.

kimmitt said:
Anyways, I played the heck out of Dom2 and probably will continue to do so. I'm even enamoured of the "no save" aspect. I just can't justify shelling out for (or recommending to friends) a game that I won't end up playing due to the fact that I won't want to wait for turns to process. I figure Ilwinter deserves to know that.

Dominions_3 is vastly more complex than 99% of the TBS games which currently exist. I suggest you try fixing your system since that's the main issue. I figure you deserve to know that.