your thoughts on Dominions II

[MythicalMino]

yes....it is not a problem with only 2 schools being researched at once...but when you get up to 3, then it could be used....

for example....lets say you are researching Alteration, Blood, and Conjuration at the same time....

You don't want Blood to go below 10 RP's. So, you lock that one...then you can change the RP's beetween the other 2 (or, 3, 4, ect...)


you have 23 RP's to use:

Blood would be locked at 10 RP
Conjuration you could set at 8, and Altaration at 5, without moving the Blood RP's

Like i said, not actually a big priority, but I think it may make things a bit easier trying to assign research points...

[licker]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:


Heard you before, but loudness isn't always bad. You actually got my attention again.

Did you prefer the old hotseat mode?

Perhaps if there was a 'SP-unsavable' mode (the old hotseat renamed SP for those that prefers quick hosting without ingame saves).

Not sure if JK would like this. It was very difficult to persuade him to remove the hotseat mode.

Actually just adding hotkeys for the host command would probably satisfy a lot of people. Hot keying the nations would be cool too, but maybe confusing? If you did it numerically it wouldn't be that bad maybe, but then you are limited to 10 nations being hotkeyed that way, unless all nations got a unique letter for their hot key.

Removing clicks with hot keys is usually an improvment...

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by licker:
Just a lock to freeze the research points going into a school. For example if you want 20 points in alteration you set that bar to 20, and lock it, now whatever other bars you play with alteration will not change from 20.

Aha. That sounds useful.

[Kristoffer O]

You can use + and - (IIRC) to adjust the research bars a few points if you hover above a school.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
Not sure if JK would like this. It was very difficult to persuade him to remove the hotseat mode.

WOAH there, tiger!!! Don't you DARE take out hotseat mode and blame it on me - people would have me drawn, quartered, and evicted from the forums!

No, I'm just suggesting that in addition to the current main menu selections, and additional selection is put in, for a pure singleplayer game, so you can click on that, and never see the main menu again. If you wanted to play a hotseat game with only one human player (the current DomII singleplayer mode), you would still be able to do that.

And, yes, for your reference, I thought the original Dom I singleplayer mode was more straightforward. But my primary issue with the interface is not that you have to click "host" in between each turn... rather, that there are a whole bunch of steps you have to go through to start a new singleplayer game, which is the first thing that anyone will do upon installing the demo.

-Cherry

[ October 28, 2003, 17:29: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

[Dekent]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:

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Originally posted by Kristoffer O:

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Originally posted by Dekent:
Could yall streamline the single player interface a bit then Kris?

In what way? We are open to suggestions, but make it concrete.

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I'm thinking, something along these lines...

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=74;t=000180

I'm just crosslinking it in case it was overlooked, as you did ask. Well, you didn't ask me, but I'm loud

-Cherry

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Yeah it's basically all in that topic heh

[MythicalMino]

ok, something else I really like, is when you go to view the battle....you see where the battle is taking place, with the map zoom in....helps me keep track of where and what I am trying to do

ok, back to playing