Player controlled battles???

[st.patrik]

Originally posted by HJ:
Whoa, a whole lot of anti-critique critiques.... Which can be summed up as "Shuddup, especially if you haven't been here as long as we have, and you're not a buddy of the devs". This is the kind of atmosphere I was refering to as it feels very inflexible and somewhat hostile.

That is completely NOT what I was trying to get across.

Discussion is a good thing - a forum like this has the potential to be (and I would argue is) a hotbed of new ideas and innovative suggestions. My point (which you did not respond to) was that some people come in here wanting to re-create dominions as their favourite other game, without first appreciating Dominions for what it is. This is an inherently misguided thing to do, for obvious reasons I think.

Accordingly it is my (humble) opinion that the suggestion to make battles player-controllable is coming from a perspective which has not realised the good thing which it would replace (and therefore destroy). Ergo something I would not want implemented.

Note that none of this implies that it is bad to bring up suggestions, or that they are not welcome, or whatever else. All I would say is that newer converts to Dom I should try to get a feel for why the game is so good, and make suggestions which fit with that rather than cut against it. I don't think this ought to offend anyone - it's a reasonable suggestion.