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DominionsFan · #1 September 7th, 2006, 08:55 AM

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Tim Brooks said:
No, we can't give you a portion of the manual, but I will let you know that we have just given the formatted version back to Bruce for some addditons and proofing. Right now, the page count is 295! That is with TWO hundred and nintey-five.

wow! Now this will be the king of the manuals probably.

Kristoffer O · #2 September 7th, 2006, 09:09 AM

> Could you please LMK if the full 'tables of units & equipments' are included in the manual for evry nations ? I'm preparing to update the excel unitattributes file

All summonable units have their stats listed in the manual, but not equipment and regular recruitable units. That would take many additional pages

So you'll need to update your lists and make lists for about 60 nations.

Kristoffer O · #3 September 7th, 2006, 09:13 AM

> wow! Now this will be the king of the manuals probably

Actually, yes

. I'm very impressed by Bruce's work and I'm very happy that he did the manual and not us or someone else. Compared to the Dom2 manual it is a MAJOR improvement IMHO. I'm almost willing to say I would buy the game for the manual itself, but I might be biased

DominionsFan · #4 September 7th, 2006, 09:34 AM

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Kristoffer O said:
> wow! Now this will be the king of the manuals probably

Actually, yes

. I'm very impressed by Bruce's work and I'm very happy that he did the manual and not us or someone else. Compared to the Dom2 manual it is a MAJOR improvement IMHO. I'm almost willing to say I would buy the game for the manual itself, but I might be biased

IMHO the Doms 2. manual was very good also.

Caduceus · #5 September 7th, 2006, 11:55 AM

Stupid question - is the manual bound or spiral bound?

[EDIT] And I am refreshing the forums page excessively myself.

Gandalf Parker · #6 September 7th, 2006, 12:55 PM

You people dont have auto-refresh capability?

Or setup Linux to do a GET of the page and then diff it mailing you the results if !0

Hmmm there is an autocheck and mail thing like that in Windows also but I forget how to do it. I could track it sinde I have the Illwinter page on autoreport by the windows method

Gandalf Parker

JaydedOne · #7 September 7th, 2006, 01:04 PM

Oh, the preaching's already taking place. I'm just looking forward to getting the full game and having some time to digest it so that I can drop a review over at GameFAQs the way I did for DomII. I'd love to see the FAQ community there pick up for Dom3 the way it never did for DomII, given that GameFAQs is a great gateway to a larger audience. Hopefully some of us can put a few strategy text files up there after release and get some additional momentum going for the game. After all, more players = more games.

Tim Brooks · #8 September 7th, 2006, 11:22 PM

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Stupid question - is the manual bound or spiral bound?

Not a stupid question at all. We are, and have been, looking at the options with regard to binding. I know we haven't decided for sure, but that decision has to be made next week.

Caduceus · #9 September 7th, 2006, 11:34 PM

Given my druthers (and roughly equal cost) I would request spiral bound as you can leave it open without stacking beer bottles on the corner-edges.

As we all know, beer bottles must be at least half full to keep a manual open and therefore a continual supply must be at hand. When they get below that critical point, a newly-opened beer bottle must replace the now less-than-half -full bottle.

Beer bottles sweat, especially near a computer that has been running for four or five days straight, which can ruin a good bound manual.

Spiral bound is the way.