What the hell is up with Dominions 3???

Kristoffer O · #1 March 19th, 2006, 11:50 AM

Do you recognize yourselves? This is a mad cultist:

Dominions 3 is coming along nicely. JK is sitting beside me at our new Mac and experimenting with a random map of 1500 provinces. Not that 1500 provinces is a setting I would reccomend, but it is good for testing purposes. His Ageless Olm pretender is apparently missing a description.

shovah · #2 March 19th, 2006, 12:10 PM

1500 provinces? ARE YOU MAD!?!?!

Kristoffer O · #3 March 19th, 2006, 12:44 PM

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shovah said:
1500 provinces? ARE YOU MAD!?!?!

Probably only Gandalf and perhaps Boron (IIRC) would play with 1500 provinces

JK reports that scrolling is a bit slow with 1500 provinces, but otherwise it seems to work fine.

Boron · #4 March 19th, 2006, 06:53 PM

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Kristoffer O said:

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shovah said:
1500 provinces? ARE YOU MAD!?!?!

Probably only Gandalf and perhaps Boron (IIRC) would play with 1500 provinces

JK reports that scrolling is a bit slow with 1500 provinces, but otherwise it seems to work fine.

Yeah Boron will be insane enough to try such a game probably

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More important than the province limit is though the unit limit, may i ask how large it is in Dominions 3?
Imho the unit limit was the biggest flaw of both former Dominions. If you tell me that Dominions 3 has a unit limit of 1 million units or even higher i am happy and will buy Dominions 3 immediately when it gets released

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archaeolept · #5 March 19th, 2006, 06:58 PM

nice that you can see what gems the commander is carrying just by looking at the front of the unit... hopefully this includes magic items - no more endless searching for that missing hammer, I'm guessing

alexti · #6 March 19th, 2006, 10:21 PM

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archaeolept said:
nice that you can see what gems the commander is carrying just by looking at the front of the unit... hopefully this includes magic items - no more endless searching for that missing hammer, I'm guessing

This looks like a very important improvement to me - just yesterday I've found the hammer lost couple of years ago

Daynarr · #7 March 19th, 2006, 10:48 PM

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Boron said:
More important than the province limit is though the unit limit, may i ask how large it is in Dominions 3?
Imho the unit limit was the biggest flaw of both former Dominions. If you tell me that Dominions 3 has a unit limit of 1 million units or even higher i am happy and will buy Dominions 3 immediately when it gets released

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Unit limit on main map or unit limit on battlefield?

Cainehill · #8 March 20th, 2006, 02:35 AM

He's talking about the unit limit in the game, period. On huge maps like Faerun, especially with themes with auto-spawns, a limit is exceeded around mid-game - all of a sudden, scouting starts to work very erratically, you can't even always see the troops in a province neighboring your own.

At some point I understand the game can also crash, but haven't seen that - the invisible troop side effect has been bad enough for me to avoid large maps since knowing of it. ( As if the micro-management and 3 hour turns weren't bad enough

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Daynarr · #9 March 20th, 2006, 05:38 AM

That's fixed.

DominionsFan · #10 March 19th, 2006, 12:16 PM

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Kristoffer O said:
Do you recognize yourselves? This is a mad cultist:

Dominions 3 is coming along nicely. JK is sitting beside me at our new Mac and experimenting with a random map of 1500 provinces. Not that 1500 provinces is a setting I would reccomend, but it is good for testing purposes. His Ageless Olm pretender is apparently missing a description.

Hey there Kris!

1500 provinces?!