What is Dominions II?

[Chazar]

Oh, btw, this leads me to a feature request - not for myself, but i guess this could increase the popularity of the game:

The screen should show a timer somewhere and hit end turn automatically if the time is up. (For network games only.)

In this way, one could settle for blitz-matches...

[Leif_-]

Dominions II is a very large and extremely well-balanced turn-based strategy game on a province level, set in a fantasy world based in real world mythologies.

[Pickles]

Dominion2 is a turn based 4x strategy game in a fantasy milieu with magic research replacing the usual technological research. It has a simple core system with massive emergent complexity & depth. The races are strongly characterised & draw from mythology & mythologised history rather than the usual fantasy stereotypes. While it is a very good game it is poor software.

Pickles

[magnate]

Pickles said:
Dominion2 is a turn based 4x strategy game in a fantasy milieu with magic research replacing the usual technological research. It has a simple core system with massive emergent complexity & depth. The races are strongly characterised & draw from mythology & mythologised history rather than the usual fantasy stereotypes. While it is a very good game it is poor software.

Why is it poor software? Apart from the message interface, which needs improving, the software is easy to use and nice to look at. It also does what it says on the tin. What more do you want?

CC

[Pickles]

magnate said:

Why is it poor software? Apart from the message interface, which needs improving, the software is easy to use and nice to look at. It also does what it says on the tin. What more do you want?

CC

The whole message thing is very poor. The graphics are indifferent I do not find them nice to look at but they are not offensive. The layout is pretty clear & good in that respect. I am perfectly happy with them but they are also massively demanding on hardware - which for graphics of that quality makes it bad software.
The interface in general is not very good. It is not consistent & it can be hard to find units or provinces sometimes. Micro could probably be reduced too though is somewhat a game issue rather than an interface one.
Similary spell use in battles.

Pickles

[Gandalf Parker]

Pickles said:
The whole message thing is very poor. The graphics are indifferent I do not find them nice to look at but they are not offensive. The layout is pretty clear & good in that respect. I am perfectly happy with them but they are also massively demanding on hardware - which for graphics of that quality makes it bad software.
The interface in general is not very good. It is not consistent & it can be hard to find units or provinces sometimes. Micro could probably be reduced too though is somewhat a game issue rather than an interface one.
Similary spell use in battles.

Well the game is good.

As to things like graphics and interface its not too different than any game which runs on so many platforms.

And the devs are here so if you have specific suggestions feel free to mention them. If they arent quick fixes then it might wait for Dom3 or something like that. But thats OK. The patches tend to be pretty full. Im not sure that anything is in need of Johan spending full time so that only 1 major change is made in one patch. Id rather see all the little tweaks and surprises.

[J Henry Waugh]

Why is it poor software? Apart from the message interface, which needs improving, the software is easy to use and nice to look at. It also does what it says on the tin. What more do you want?

Dom2 is a great game but there are many UI problems and aesthetics & graphics quality are poor.

* Unable to use hotkeys to scroll popup lists (forced to use mouse) and unable to sort on F1 nation screen (like you can do in the Civ series).

* Right-click on province instead of left-click is unintuitive but not too bad once you get used to it.

* Random map generator, though I'm working on one myself and I know there exists a random map generator. The maps that come with the game arn't all that great IMV. Still, a superior approach would be one built into the game and "generated on the fly".

* Better font - yeah, it's probably just personal taste & all.

* Need to incorporate a built-in help facility - Dom-o-pedia or something to display the battle mechanics and other stuff (though some stuff like spells are accessable...).