Dominions 3 development news - Page 23

ioticus · #**221** July 27th, 2006, 07:22 PM

Do you think that removing all cheat detection means they are close to gold? Also, what is the significance of putting the operating system after the version number? Is that a good sign?

Gandalf Parker · #**222** July 27th, 2006, 07:28 PM

Probably. It looks like balance and stuff coming from play-testing (like cheat detects). That means the testers are playing full games. Good sign.

I think the version thing with OS just means that he didnt do all the versions at the same time.

ioticus · #**223** July 27th, 2006, 08:04 PM

False Horror now level 3 air is a pretty major change. Should all but eliminate false horror spam.

Endoperez · #**224** July 29th, 2006, 01:52 PM

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* AI of higher difficulty settings get supply bonus corresponding to income bonus

I'm really surprised this wasn't implemented yet. I thought more powerful AIs already got more supplies. We know their large armies starved most of the time, but was the supply bonus just too weak, or was there a bug of some kind?

It's a good change, but I wonder why it hasn't been done earlier. Well, at least we got another update of the OMIWCOOL rank yesterday. Namely:

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* Bind Demon Lord causes caster to age 10 years

...OT SERAD OHW

Agrajag · #**225** July 30th, 2006, 02:35 PM

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* Ashen ermor can no longer get living legionaire as hero

Does that mean that SG was scrapped? Is there a substitue*?
*-that is, another nation which similar gameplay to that of SG (if its scrapped

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Folket · #**226** July 30th, 2006, 04:31 PM

Bloodslave collection dependent on site frequency

Great equalizer.

Aslo, Agrajag, Soul Gate are still around. From posts it seems to be a special dominion of Ashen Empire (LE Ermor).

ioticus · #**227** July 31st, 2006, 11:17 AM

Does "manual input" mean they've actually started writing the manual or are they only coming up with ideas to put in the manual?

Gandalf Parker · #**228** 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 · #**229** 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 · #**230** 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!