Sitting on the fence

[Gandalf Parker]

with a new mega game being discussed, and it being pointed out to me that I need to dig up some of my old ideas for my ghost-town of a server.. it seemed like a good time to bump this thread.

But just to make it more than a bump..
let me add fuel to the fire on the "Civil War" idea that was discussed here. Im not a modder so I have no idea how well this worked but back in the Dom2 days we had a module to do what we needed.

Nation Replacement
This mod duplicates most nations of Dominions II, and Ulm's two themes, so that the same nation can appear many times one game.
Version 0.90
Created by Endoperez.
Download mod: nation_replicas.zip

Its still available on Illwinters site

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I was thinking about, and hadn't found...
A simple mod nation- Observers.
All national units completely immobile.
10 gold, immobile l4 priests to prevent dom kill.
Custom version of the spell that lets you see everything on the map, costing one astral pearl, one astral magic required.

Still... have a few problems with this. Taking up one global slot for a noncompetitive player, for instance.

The whole point of this nation would be to allow some third party to watch the game - as might happen with a RTS tournament. Could be abused during a game, but if I only release those turns ten turns later, perhaps?