Patch Improvements

JaydedOne · #1 October 11th, 2006, 02:33 AM

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Cainehill said:

Not sure the 150 is wrong, but the added bonus for being imprisoned and not showing up for _three_ years (two years after the slumbering ones) should be at least as much as the bonus for slumbering.

Agreed. A simple suggestion might be that the bonuses should be inverted.

Kristoffer O · #2 October 11th, 2006, 02:48 AM

For a while the imprisoned level was 300, not just 250, but we and the beta discovered that everyone went for imprisoned gods or (at times) awake ones. No dormant gods at all, so we decided to go for 250 points. Perhaps a lowering on the dormant is ok. Lets get back to this when there has been some more MP gaming.

BigJMoney · #3 October 11th, 2006, 02:53 AM

Streamling the Dominions interface [cont...]

VI) The ability to see how much current castle defense your troops plus other abilities/spells are granting you.

VII) The ability to drag-scroll the map using the left mouse button. Especially needed in windowed mode.

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Daynarr · #4 October 11th, 2006, 03:45 AM

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Kristoffer O said:
For a while the imprisoned level was 300, not just 250, but we and the beta discovered that everyone went for imprisoned gods or (at times) awake ones. No dormant gods at all, so we decided to go for 250 points. Perhaps a lowering on the dormant is ok. Lets get back to this when there has been some more MP gaming.

Actually, I'd keep costs as they are. Right now all choices are valid. If you reduce points from dormant, they will again not be chosen.

I think that best way to improve imprisoned is to reduce time they are imprisoned from 3 to 2 years.

SelfishGene · #5 October 10th, 2006, 04:40 PM

It's hard to say, but you can create some pretty obscene high-bless gods with Imprisoned. With even more points, it means you can get a dual-9, decent scales, AND a high dominion.

biekert · #6 October 11th, 2006, 11:52 AM

That sounds wise to wait for MP feedback... thinking out loud, perhaps in my games the early SC theory is less palatable because I always set independents to 9. Lower settings for independents make the awake-god strategy more palatable.

Amos · #7 October 11th, 2006, 12:57 PM

Give us Save function pls
Its annoying not being able to play in full screen mode because i need to save outside the game.

thejeff · #8 October 11th, 2006, 01:29 PM

Not sure what you mean by "save outside the game"?

If you're copying the .trn files to return to old turns, then I'm afraid it's working as designed and not likely to change.
I suspect most here would view it as cheating.

That said, it's your game and the --postexec switch and a little scripting should be able to give you that functionality.

If you meant something else, I'm curious what?

Amos · #9 October 11th, 2006, 02:30 PM

I have been asking for Save for years. Why would I stop now?

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view it as cheating

I dont know what you mean. How is it cheating? Every modern SP turn based game has Save function.
P.S. Pls dont tell me that this game is MP only.

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the --postexec switch and a little scripting should be able to give you that functionality

That kind of defeats my point of playing in Full screen mode.

thejeff · #10 October 11th, 2006, 03:15 PM

Philosophical question, I suppose.
It seems like cheating to me because the game is designed to be played without saves. Lots of things are easily abusable if saves are used.
But as I said, it's SP. Do as you will.

As far as I know, --postexec should be able to call a script that copies the .trn file after every hosting even in Full screen mode. You'd have to rename the file and reload the game manually when you wanted to load a save game, but you should be able to play full screen. I haven't tried it.