What could we steal from other fantasy games...

Sombre · #1 June 30th, 2008, 08:54 AM

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MaxWilson said:
Well, I guess if you're worried about retreating you could equip your pretender with a Slave Collar.

(I thought pretenders and prophets had Morale 30, anyway. Is this not the case when they fight Doom Horrors, or does Fear override Morale 30?)

-Max

Morale 30 just means you aren't very likely to retreat. It has no special properties beyond that.

Edi · #2 June 30th, 2008, 09:30 AM

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Sombre said:
Morale 30 just means you aren't very likely to retreat. It has no special properties beyond that.

Yes it does. The game treats it as unbreakable morale, so it won't target spells like Panic, Terror etc at units with morale 30.

llamabeast · #3 June 30th, 2008, 01:01 PM

Yeah, I think morale 30 units will never break unless the total hp of their side falls below 25% of the starting total.

Gandalf Parker · #4 June 30th, 2008, 05:58 PM

PLEASE no menu-handled diplomacy. There is not a game which has it which I have not abused horribly. Dominions is just about perfect in diplomacy IMHO. Im MP games it allows for the maximum amount of creativity and realism. And in Solo play it is usable but not abusable. (I love to make Herald Lances and Wineskins then send them to the AI bordering Ermor.)

Monkeyfinger · #5 July 1st, 2008, 05:35 AM

A save system.

Lots of games of many genres have one, they're awesome. Pretty cool in D3 too. Too bad the only form it exists in is a mod that explodes if you play the game in fullscreen mode.

calmon · #6 July 1st, 2008, 05:43 AM

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Monkeyfinger said:
A save system.

Lots of games of many genres have one, they're awesome. Pretty cool in D3 too. Too bad the only form it exists in is a mod that explodes if you play the game in fullscreen mode.

Savegames are for Sissies!

Gandalf Parker · #7 July 1st, 2008, 12:09 PM

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Monkeyfinger said:
A save system.

Lots of games of many genres have one, they're awesome. Pretty cool in D3 too. Too bad the only form it exists in is a mod that explodes if you play the game in fullscreen mode.

The "saves" are basically linux mode (which the game is created on). The ports to more "user friendly" hand-holding systems such as windows and mac tend to lost it.

But there are quite a number of saves available. Not just some mod. I think Ive made 3 different versions available myself.

Let us know what your OS is and what you mean by "save" and we can probably help you out.

The ones that come to mind are:
shortcut-icon
bat file
python program
java

and saves that come to mind are:
save of the game you are entering
save of the game you are playing each turn
multiple back-saves of game you are playing each turn
save of all games every time you start dominions 3
save/restore (a desktop icon to take you back into the game you are playing)

HoneyBadger · #8 July 1st, 2008, 06:08 PM

A few cutscenes, like an opening one at the beginning of the game, would be nice.

Sombre · #9 July 1st, 2008, 07:11 AM

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Gandalf Parker said:
PLEASE no menu-handled diplomacy. There is not a game which has it which I have not abused horribly. Dominions is just about perfect in diplomacy IMHO. Im MP games it allows for the maximum amount of creativity and realism. And in Solo play it is usable but not abusable.

What are you on about? There is no diplomacy in SP. There's a degree of AI behaviour anticipation, in that you can fluff up your army size statistic or PD up your borders,.. but there's no usable diplomacy whatsoever. And as for not abusable,... just send the AI a load of bane venom charms.

Re: Morale 30 - have people actually tested that it's unbreakable, won't be hit by panic etc? I've never noticed it doing anything special.

Edi · #10 July 1st, 2008, 07:44 AM

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Sombre said:

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Gandalf Parker said:
PLEASE no menu-handled diplomacy. There is not a game which has it which I have not abused horribly. Dominions is just about perfect in diplomacy IMHO. Im MP games it allows for the maximum amount of creativity and realism. And in Solo play it is usable but not abusable.

What are you on about? There is no diplomacy in SP. There's a degree of AI behaviour anticipation, in that you can fluff up your army size statistic or PD up your borders,.. but there's no usable diplomacy whatsoever. And as for not abusable,... just send the AI a load of bane venom charms.

Re: Morale 30 - have people actually tested that it's unbreakable, won't be hit by panic etc? I've never noticed it doing anything special.

Yes. There were some bug reports caused because somebody thought some units were bugged for not casting panic against a morale 30 unit despite being in range and KO confirmed that mor 30 is considered unbreakable.