Dominions 3 development news

Gandalf Parker · #1 July 31st, 2006, 01:21 PM

What do you mean by manual?
They had documentation in Dom2 but the best manuals were written by the players. And if you mean strategy guide then these forums are it.

It would take a strategy encyclopedia set to cover dom2 and it was small compared to dom3.

ioticus · #2 July 31st, 2006, 01:24 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
What do you mean by manual?
They had documentation in Dom2 but the best manuals were written by the players. And if you mean strategy guide then these forums are it.

It would take a strategy encyclopedia set to cover dom2 and it was small compared to dom3.

I'm talking about the paper manual that comes with the game. It's supposed to be bigger and better this time. I'm really looking forward to it.

Agrajag · #3 July 31st, 2006, 02:23 PM

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* Shadow tribune and other soul gate priest have correct priest lvl.

I guess that answers my question.
That does raise the question of how AE and SG coexist, their tales are of alternate endings for Ermor, they don't fit together. The only way that makes sense is SG being a theme of AE (or AE a theme of SG), but I thought themes were ditched in favor of eras.

Oh, and 2.94! W00H00!

Caduceus · #4 July 31st, 2006, 03:53 PM

I'm not going to lie - a manual that I can really cut my teeth on would make my day.

Oversway · #5 July 31st, 2006, 03:56 PM

My guess is that anyone who has played dom2 will be able to pick up dom3 fairly easily, manual or no. Hopefully with the nicer manual there will be more (new) people that will join the mp community.

Annette · #6 July 31st, 2006, 06:24 PM

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Caduceus said:
I'm not going to lie - a manual that I can really cut my teeth on would make my day.

How does this sound...a manual written by Bruce Geryk, author of the essential Dominions II Walkthrough?

Caduceus · #7 July 31st, 2006, 09:09 PM

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Annette said:
How does this sound...a manual written by Bruce Geryk, author of the essential Dominions II Walkthrough?

Sounds good to me... How about that release date?

Annette · #8 July 31st, 2006, 09:35 PM

We'll announce an expected ship date as soon as we can - when we receive the final code from Illwinter. Won't be too much longer, we promise. I think the last day of summer is Sept. 21?

P.S. Has anyone picked up the September issue of Computer Games Magazine ?

Edit - I originally posted "August" issue when in fact the preview appears in the "September" issue.