Dominions 3000 (name confirmed!)

[Darkwind]

llamabeast said:Agreed with Sombre that Neoclidia sounds like an STD.

At least it's more original than Noneuclidia! It reminds me of people's privates, too (if that doesn't sound creepy; if it does, forget I said it ).

[llamabeast]

I think it's fair to say that sounds creepy.

[Darkwind]

llamabeast said:
I think it's fair to say that sounds creepy.

Looking back on it, yes, it does sound creepy. Very creepy.

Also, any ideas for heroes for Neoclidia? Right now all I can think of is a super-holy Deep One (with H3S1, H3S2, or H4), some sort of really-really-old Awakener (likely S4 or S5, maybe S4H1), and a semi-strong Old One (not as weak as normal old Ones, but nowhere near the power of the Great Old Ones either). Does anyone have any better/equally nice ideas?

[JimMorrison]

That's okay, your illithid kitten avatar reminds me of..... Actually no, I'm not throwing myself under the bus to distract people from you, use your imagination. That kitten is HOT though.

[HoneyBadger]

Heroes for Neoclidia? You mean besides Staff Infection Sergeant V. D. Schlongowitz, winner of the Dark Star for service on Herpes 4?

[Aezeal]

hmmm could someone focus on a nice other nation to battle against my Ulmish spaceknights?

This idea is nice but it seems to be suffering from pplz not doing much about it

[Aezeal]

llama: about the spacesuits: if I can't use one creature I guess I might as well give them all their own stats and HP but just the same weapons, more realistic

for now they just get pooramphians though..

[Darkwind]

Aezeal said:
hmmm could someone focus on a nice other nation to battle against my Ulmish spaceknights?

This idea is nice but it seems to be suffering from pplz not doing much about it

I'm making Neoclidia, which could be considered a spiritual successor to R'lyeh.

Also, have I been lax on the gold cost of troops/commanders? I expected that there wouldn't be nearly as much gold around as there would be in a standard Dominions game, but I might have undervalued some units.

Finally, can anyone suggest a better name than Dominions 3000? Or is Dom3K fine?

[JimMorrison]

I love Dom3K! Not only is this already Dominions 3, so it is so fitting, but it reminds me of MST3K, which is a pretty cool association.

I'm trying to gather my ideas for the spell lists. Was wondering how really to go about it. It seems like we may not need to make use of all schools, it would just result in few spells being scattered about. Honestly, I think we could make the game fit into Conj/Alt/Evo/Cons. Anyone else have any thoughts on that? I figure Evo is your missiles, espionage and black ops - Alt is your actual buffs and whatnot, such as they might be - and then Conj and Cons would mostly be "summons" of various types for all of your various spacecraft.

I was just trying to figure out how to start structuring the spell lists, and it occurred to me that if all "summons" (except maybe just a few mercenary types) were species specific, and if we avoided having much if any actual pure magic - that there really might not be a tremendously large list of spells that are available to everyone. Even many of the "black ops" stuff may be specific, special biological attacks for one species, or different bombs for someone else.

God I just type..... Someone shoot me.