Kristoffer's encouragement thread

[Meglobob]

K said:
Kristoffer, this game is fantastic. Anytime that someone asks for a downward "balance change", I'd like you to feel free to ignore them.

Can I second this.

So many people complain about 'balance' and this usually results in a unit, spell etc... being nerfed, made vastly inferior than it was. This happens time and time again until eventually the game does become 'balanced', in such a way that noone plays it anymore, cause its boring. I have seen so many good games spoiled this way.

[Sombre]

Edi: There's a mod which fixes bless.

[Edi]

Sombre said:
Edi: There's a mod which fixes bless.

Yeah, I know about that one. It's great thing to have in the interim but the actual issue needs fixing still. But now that the actual location of the problem is known, the fix shouldn't be too much work.

Edi

[SelfishGene]

What we need to fix vampires is a new tag and ability that gives them mistform for free by default (like glamour gives 1 mirror image).

[Gandalf Parker]

I have to be diplomatic about requests to "balance" nations. Especially since Im mostly a solo player and such balance is usually an MP thing so that people know the winner won by strategy. But if its a road which leads to eventually every nation having the same exact units and abilities but just wearing diffrent colors, then my biggest complaint is that there are already a ton of those games. I know that rock-paper-scissors balance is much harder to do but I highly appreciate it.

I also love the art, the RPG themes, the prettier generated maps, and the whole game concept. Thank you Kristoffer.

[RamsHead]

Meglobob said:

Can I second this.

So many people complain about 'balance' and this usually results in a unit, spell etc... being nerfed, made vastly inferior than it was. This happens time and time again until eventually the game does become 'balanced', in such a way that noone plays it anymore, cause its boring. I have seen so many good games spoiled this way.

*points to vampires*

Anyway, keep up the good work Kristoffer!

[Velusion]

Meglobob said:

Can I second this.

So many people complain about 'balance' and this usually results in a unit, spell etc... being nerfed, made vastly inferior than it was. This happens time and time again until eventually the game does become 'balanced', in such a way that noone plays it anymore, cause its boring. I have seen so many good games spoiled this way.

I've also seem games where balance was ignored and players simply stopped playing the game because unless you played a specific way you were at a distinct disadvantage.

[Meglobob]

Velusion said: I've also seem games where balance was ignored and players simply stopped playing the game because unless you played a specific way you were at a distinct disadvantage.

Obviously this does not apply to Domnions as there are easily 100's of different ways to play/strategy's to try.

[Gandalf Parker]

It could if all of the games were small maps and 2-4 players with no VP.

[Velusion]

Eh, I can't bother to argue with fanboys that think Dominions3 is divinely perfect when it comes to balance. No point.

To Kris O - Dom3 is a great game and I hope you keep improving it!