Capturing Capitols

[Meglobob]

One of the reasons I would like to see the conquerer get the spoils is it would encourage more attacking play in MP. Often you can end up with a stalemate situation abit like this:-

3 Players ABC, roughly the same in power. None dares attack each another because the player not involved in the war will wait until the 2 warring factions exhaust themselves or until one as nearly defeated the other and then move in and grab everything. Seen it done many times.

To a certain extent Dominions 3 rewards those players who sit on there butts building, building, avoiding wars until later in the game and only attacking the weak or war exhausted.

[Sandman]

It's not inconcievable for a player to lose their last lab, and still being far from defeat. Especially when you take lab-destroying events into account.

[Ironhawk]

The issue is more complicated. What happens if you capture a capital without killing a player? Do you still get thier money and gems?

[LoloMo]

In MP it definitely just serves to increase micromanagement. Before their capital gets taken over, people would send all their stuff to an ally, after the capital is taken over, send the stuff back.

Capturable site would be better. I would suggest adding a site to each capital only national site that mimics the national troops, but at a slightly lower stats to reflect non native conquerors recruiting them. Perhaps even eliminating sacred status, or increasing costs. Would require a big mod though.

[LoloMo]

On second thought, bad idea. This would just lead to "let's exchange capitals for a few turns" deals between allies.

[Sombre]

I think if capitals had a higher gem income there would be much more incentive to try and capture them. I would consider making/using a mod which simply doubled home province gem income.

So EA - 12 gems total
MA - 10 gems total
LA - 8 gems total

[Gandalf Parker]

Or a map. A map could be created which set starting positions and also assigned a next door province with extra magic sites. MAYBE even duplicate the capitals sites but I havent tested that yet.