Dominion Vs Military

[The Panther]

Nagot Gick Fel said:
I made a similar testbed with 2 nations, one (let's call it A) had a dominion of 10, the other (B) had a dominion of 8 + 9 extra temples (so 10 temples with one in the capital, ie an effective dominion of 10). I placed the capitals in opposite corners on a large map. Both dominions spreaded at a steady rate, with B spreading marginally faster. When the 2 dominions came into contact, B started to overrun A, and slowly pushed it back to its capital. At the time I stopped the experiment (after 100s of turns), B's dominion was about 10+ times as big as A's.

This seems very easy to explain to me. Each temple is equal to your max dominion spread when pushing dominion. In this example, both nations had 30 for god and 10 for home province push. But A had only 10 for the single temple push while B had 10 temples at 10 each spread or 100, resulting in a whopping 90 additional dominion spread above B.

I think, in fact, that a 10 base dominion selection with 10 temples is exactly equal to an 8 base with 10 temples. The dominion spread should be identical, once B catches up to A by achieving 10 in the home province.

On a small map, high dominion is very important since you may not get the 19 extra provinces to increase your max dominion by 4 with mass templing. On a large map or with only a few players in the game, you might as well get low dominion and just plan on building lots of temples per the typical AI strategy.

My two cents worth anyway.