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Old February 6th, 2004, 10:40 AM
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Is there a reason the assassination reports do not or should not contain this information?

Assassins get the report: X found no commander to assassinate in Province Y

Assassins get the report: X successfully assassinated / failed to assassinate commander Q in province Y
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I assume the latter is to build suspense. I don't know about the former.
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Suspense would make sense if it weren't for the fact that anything you read about in Dominions II is already in past tense. As such, having to either find the assassin, or watch the replay, is more of a nuisance and impediment to the rapid and uninterrupted flow of a game than anything else.

Other nebulous Messages like "X units died", are similarly irritating and unhelpful because it doesn't tell you where or who died.
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