Recruting new players - Mission Impossible?

[Gandalf Parker]

The game can go slow at first. If you want to get them interested then have a major game-save available. Preferably something with all the nations and far enough into the game to start seeing minor summonings in the armies.

That way you can let them open the game with any nation they are interested in and scroll around a big game, watch some major battles, get a taste for trying to decide what to use gold and gems on whan you have many items, spells, and provinces you can build troops in.

In fact, I think such a game, downloadable, would be very useful for us all to have access to.

[HotNifeThruButr]

To me, the problem isn't about complexity, it's about the lack on action. Your average gaming dolt needs an action packed game to keep them interested, but Dominions doesn't give them that. The computer controls your battles, and all the orders you give happen next turn. Most people aren't made of a tough enough stuff to endure this, and quickly get bored and go play some corny game like Diablo.

[Norfleet]

Your average gaming dolt also has an incredibly short attention span. Hell, even the people who have managed to become interested in Dominions II have short attention spans. In *MY* day, the ability to concentrate on something for more than 20 hours at a time was NORMAL. If you couldn't, you'd be beaten until you could.

Nowadays, people have problems concentrating for more than half an hour. That's the real obstacle to interest in Dominions II: It requires an attention span better than that of an epileptic lemming. I place the blame firmly on the fact that children aren't beaten enough nowadays.

[liga]

Originally posted by BugRoger:

I also compiled the Newby Guide thread into an proper webpage. This is much more readable than the big post in the confused newby thread.

If you want to try to trasform in a web readable I'm keeping a .rtf file including all the interesting informations about the rules that comes up on the threda.

You can download it at

http://arrakis.unimo.it/~ligabue/dom2/docs/

it is the guida.rtf file

I'm used to update the files 1/2 times a week

good luck
Liga

[Tris]

Hmmm...I showed the demo to a few of my friends. To one of them I gave the advice "Try Ulm to start, they are less complicated" The others I just said "download the demo - this game is cool"

At least three of them got the full Version before I did :-p

Don't know what this says about me and my friends.

[november]

Dom is a deep game but for the reasons you’ve mentioned I’m having a hard time getting into it. Part of the reason, I know, is that fantasy only barley fires my imagination. Slowly Dom is moving into the same Category as Warcraft III for me. Both are very good games and I can see why people like them, just maybe not my cup of tea. I’ll keep Dom on my hard drive and visit it occasionally—who knows? Maybe it will grab me at some point.

[HotNifeThruButr]

Yeah, Norfleet, but in your day, people ate rocks and fire was new and exciting.