Dominions 3 - FAQ

Oversway · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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.

Ichirou · #5 September 7th, 2005, 10:43 PM

Thank you much for the info folks. This board seems to have a very helpful community that quite frankly has helped me considerably in getting started in this game. And while I have just begun to scratch the surface of this rather deep game, I still find it very encouraging to hear that the developers are still working to improve and evolve the system. And I too would rather see the devs working on what they want to do rather than have to take time out to write a regular diary...but I do like reading them and getting a peak into the creative process.

Endoperez · #6 September 9th, 2005, 03:10 PM

Have you seen Gandalf lately? I don't remember reading his posts for a while. However, I checked the comp.sys.ibm.games.strategic to see what people said of DomII to get PCarroll (Newbie's first impression) in here. I browsed a thread of "I don't like FPS, I don't like MMO*, is there any hope", and found this:

Quote:

Gandalf Parker Sep 4, 11:35 pm

Dale M wrote:
> I am going to stop typing now that I feel better. If someone can provide
> me with any glimmer of hope... thanks for the suggestions.

Nice list.
tried Dominions 2?
Space Empires IV?

Presently Im also slumping. Dominions 3 is in beta. Space Empires V is in
beta. A great music game Im presently helping alpha test. Im back to
playing free online worlds just for some variety

Gandalf Parker

I didn't know that!