Did you noticed.......

PDF · #1 November 2nd, 2003, 03:29 PM

I'm not used enough to Dom2 (wasn't even that used to Dom1 ..), but I think the main gameplay change comes from the reduced gold income, itself coming from the new tax/no patrol system.
I fear that Dom2 games will be rather "smallish" in terms of army size compared to Dom1, so focusing more on elite troops/SC (as many pointed out).
But conversely note that the reduced mm will allow us to play larger maps, thus giving nations more gold/resources...
So we've still to experiment, but surely we have to adapt - and changes are always unwelcome to old vets

Mortifer · #2 November 2nd, 2003, 04:58 PM

I don't know, I love the whole layout of Dominions II. I love the demo as well, the only thing what I don't like is the weak strategic AI, but that's nothing new, since we're talking about this for days.

I am sure that the devs are checking the AI threads. If I remember correctly, Kris has posted something that he will play some games against the AI, after hes back. [He will be back today.]
So just wait and be patient.

[ November 02, 2003, 14:59: Message edited by: Mortifer ]

Pocus · #3 November 2nd, 2003, 05:52 PM

Quote:

from JO:
The warlock apprentice is certainly not cheaper then a scout with a sanguine dowsing rod. The warlock apprentice is only recruitable in provinces with castles and labs.

I have been unable to recruit the apprentice but in the capital. Is it supposed to be that way?

johan osterman · #4 November 2nd, 2003, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pocus:

quote:

from JO:
The warlock apprentice is certainly not cheaper then a scout with a sanguine dowsing rod. The warlock apprentice is only recruitable in provinces with castles and labs.

I have been unable to recruit the apprentice but in the capital. Is it supposed to be that way?

No its probably right, I just didn't bother to check out if he was exclusive to the home province or not, and to be on the safe side I made the more inclusive claim. But the home site requierment obviously only strengthen the point I was making.

As for comments on the AI it is better that JK or KO handles that than me. Kristoffer should be back in a couple of hours.

iRichard · #5 November 2nd, 2003, 06:36 PM

1) This is a great game.

2) If a (minority??) of players don't like design choices then they should harass (or attack rearmost...) for a modding tool instead of complaining about these choices.

3) However I agree with [don't remember who] whos said that a 50$ game must accept criticism much better than a 30$ game.

5) This is a great game

Particle · #6 November 2nd, 2003, 07:13 PM

Yup, great game but it will need lot of fixes/tweaks.

Pocus · #7 November 2nd, 2003, 08:54 PM

what bother me a bit (well more than a bit) is now that blood magic is much more restricted to native blood nations, then SC will concentrate into these nations.

Whereas, as a worst case, you could at least try to counter/temper the influence of SC (which are mostly blood creatures) in doms I by starting blood magic yourself (I remember a pbem game where after 15 turns of efforts, starting from nothing, I produced one ice devil every two turns with a mystic which was empowered in blood magic).

But this was a very poor workaround. What would have been better is to reduce much further the nastiness of big creatures in Doms II (several mechanisms can be found to increase how a sole creature can be mobbed by several smaller ones). With more than 12-15 demons prince available, there is in practice no reduction in the numbers of SC dominions games will see, with the annoying change that they will be controlled by the 4/5 blood nations.