Newbies and Confused People - Look Here!

[Gandalf Parker]

Since multiplayer games are beginning to kick up....
OK I dug up some of the info from Dom1 on how to create an icon JUST for doing a turn in a game. this makes it easy for me to click on it to snag my turn file. This is for games that are done on a tcp server (someones machine up all the time to receive requests). If you already have an icon for Dominions2 on your desktop then right-click that and choose "create shortcut" to get another icon. Right click that one and select "Properties". Find the line that is calling dom.exe add this to it.

"dom.exe" -wif --tcpclient --ipadr (ip_address) --port (port)

Where the content in the braces () is to be replaced with the correct numbers for the server of your game. If there are quotes after dom.exe be sure to add the switches OUTSIDE of those quotes.

There are alot of other switches that can be added to do speed up or slow down the game for just that one icon listed in the command_line_switches file (its a text file in the doc directory of dominions). Such as, in the example above I also have -w to pla yin a window, -i to skip the intro, and -f to skip the fade-in/fade-out effects. This way you can set your daily-turn game to be ugly but fast with no music if you wanted, and still leave the other icon playing Dominions2 in all its glory.

You can create one for games done by email or by ftp but it would be different for each program people use.

[Saber Cherry]

-- replaced --

[ December 11, 2003, 06:00: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

[Taqwus]

-- Missing command:

Seduce Commander:
When in the same province as enemies, a succubus can attempt to seduce an enemy commander. Just as with assassination attempts, the player cannot choose which commander will be seduced. If the seduction succeeds, the succubus and the seduced commander will appear in the owning player's capital province. If it fails, she will attack the commander as if it were an assassination attempt.


Corrupt Commander: may or may not function the same way as Seduce Commander, but probably also tries to draw the commander to your side. To my knowledge it's only available to one Demon Lord, Belial, and I've never tried it.


Capture Slaves: Used only by Mictlan Tribal Kings and Priest Kings, it's used to press people into your army. Such troops have poor training, morale and equipment, but have excellent potential as cheap fodder for arrows, blade winds and the once-per-battle lance attacks of Knights.


Break Siege: Used only when under siege. Y'all charge out of the gates and hope you defeat your besiegers. The castle defenses will not help you in this fight.


Move and Patrol: Combination order; it automatically sets troops to patrol on arrival. Useful when you want the troops to defend outside the castle instead of remaining inside it.

Continue Fort Construction: Forts generally take multiple turns to build. If interrupted, you can resume construction with this option from the Construct Building menu. It costs you nothing but the commander's action since you've already paid upfront.


Sacrifice: Used only by the priests of Abysia, Vanheim, and Mictlan -- the latter of which MUST use it to spread dominion. Requires a temple to be present; the priest will sacrifice blood slaves in order to boost dominion.

[Saber Cherry]

Thanks! I'll add those now. And thanks to Zen and Gandalf as well, I'll update the relevant sections very soon=)

The Formula for Positive dominion on Pretender/Prophets is out!

For every level of dominion your Prophet/Pretender gains +20% of the base HP of the unit.

Impressive no?

Or not.

[Saber Cherry]

Yay! Now post each of the remaining stats

What do you mean?

As far as the other stats a pretender/prophet gets?

+1 Str for every level of Dominion
+1 MR for every 2 levels of Dominion

Prophet Only

+2 Att
+2 Def
+2 Precision
30 Morale