Dominions 3 - FAQ

Ichirou · #1 September 6th, 2005, 08:24 PM

Are there any more editions of that Develpoer Diary, and if so where are they?

Ichirou

Endoperez · #2 September 7th, 2005, 01:51 PM

No. I have been hoping new would come, and I think Illwinter has commented on it... They would like to have more information to give, but they would have to write the diary first. I prefer them working on the game, knowing what they have implemented already and drooling of what they must have added by now...

NTJedi · #3 September 7th, 2005, 02:20 PM

I do remember that they were aiming for a release date for Dec 2005... yet they also said that could change. In most cases this does happen so expect late spring or summer next year.
Hopefully the developers have been reading the wishlist sticky thread.

Oversway · #4 September 7th, 2005, 02:50 PM

Thanks for all the info Endoperez and others!

From the dev diary, it sounds like the map stuff is going to be the same (since he used a dom2 map). For better or worse. I'm in a 'glass half full' mood so I think its great that we will be able to reuse the existing dom2 maps.

Chazar · #5 September 7th, 2005, 05:17 PM

RE: Reusing Map Stuff

I am happy to reuse my own map, but not knowing Dom1 I hoped on the comment from the Devs that they liked the Dom1 mechanism more, where the Dominion could change the very lands where the worshippers where dwelling! This sound kinda cool! For in Dom2 Ctis is still at a disadvantage when located in a Swampy area - which is sort of counterintuitive, although miasma makes up for it...

...but Gods should be able to slowly change their lands of their worshippers, no? Anyone here remembering Populous?

What about expensive terrain changing ritual spells? Of course, they would only make sense if terrain would affect anything else than initial populatiion and non-survival+non-flying movement...

Oversway · #6 September 7th, 2005, 05:36 PM

Yeah changing lands based upon heat/cold scale sounded neat. Perhaps they just havn't gotten to implementing that, although I seem to recall them saying it won't happen.

Endoperez · #7 September 7th, 2005, 06:29 PM

In Dom:PPP, the map consisted of pixels. There was a color for every type of terrain. The pixels changed colors under the effect of scales and dominion. Income, population and resources were counted from the pixels (at least initially, I don't know if they were totally recalculated every turn). Storing lots of pixels isn't very effective way of slowly changing the world, and those maps were ugly, and DomII has and DomIII will have terrain-spesific sites and events, and special effects for spells (Howl), and hopefully lots more... But still, it was nice to be able to know a Cold nation started in Britain and a hot one in Scandinavia when the map changed towards white and yellow accordingly.