Happiness in Darkness -An Argatha Ktonian Dead AAR

[ioticus]

What's a TC mod? Anything you can do to improve the AI (without giving it cheats) is a good thing.

[DominionsFan]

ioticus said:
What's a TC mod? Anything you can do to improve the AI (without giving it cheats) is a good thing.

Total Conversion mod. It means that the modded game will be very different compared to the vanilla game.
Its very hard to make, especially for Doms 3., since you can/must change tons of datas, graphics, etc. Not to mention that finding the optimal balance will be also very hard. I would say, releasing a TC mod will take lot of months even for 5 people.

[Boron]

DominionsFan said:

Total Conversion mod. It means that the modded game will be very different compared to the vanilla game.
Its very hard to make, especially for Doms 3., since you can/must change tons of datas, graphics, etc. Not to mention that finding the optimal balance will be also very hard. I would say, releasing a TC mod will take lot of months even for 5 people.

Wow that sounds great DominionsFan .

You said it will have the classical fantasy nations like dwarfes/elves. Do you plan to make a mod based on an already existing fantasy universe like warhammer or D&D or do you create a new one that you and your partners invent?

Btw you have to include a draconean nation then .
Thilock Dominus was working a draconean mod for Dom2 but afaik unfortunately never finished it.
But i love Dragons and Lizardmen

[DominionsFan]

Well Boron, the mod will have a "traditional" fantasy setting, but it won't follow any existing fantasy universe. IF you ask why, the answer is simple. Following an existing fantasy universe means restrictions in spells and units. Restrictions = not good.
So we've decided that the first release will have 6 races: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblins, Undeads.
3 races will be "good aligned" [humans, elves, dwarves], and the other 3 races will have evil alignment. This will be important in the campaign scenario, there will be permanent alliances in it.
Later on, we plan to add more races, starting with neutral races like Gnomes and Lizardmen.

Hopefully, IW will give us the power to change the Spell names/descriptions, so that we can add many unique national summons. [AFAIK this won't be possible in the vanilla game ]
Originally we wanted at least 20-25 national summons / race or more.
Also, like I've said in a previous reply, all units will have totally new photoshopped graphics.
When time will come I will start an own thread for the mod, you can read lot of other informations about it there of course.


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[Thilock_Dominus]

Boron said:

Wow that sounds great DominionsFan .

You said it will have the classical fantasy nations like dwarfes/elves. Do you plan to make a mod based on an already existing fantasy universe like warhammer or D&D or do you create a new one that you and your partners invent?

Btw you have to include a draconean nation then .
Thilock Dominus was working a draconean mod for Dom2 but afaik unfortunately never finished it.
But i love Dragons and Lizardmen

Don't worry. I have intention to transfer my wood Elf to Dom3 and finish my half done Draconian race to dom3.
The problem with dom2 was the limitation of modding some things. Luckly I've heard it should way easier to change stuff in Dom3

[Boron]

Thilock_Dominus said:
Don't worry. I have intention to transfer my wood Elf to Dom3 and finish my half done Draconian race to dom3.
The problem with dom2 was the limitation of modding some things. Luckly I've heard it should way easier to change stuff in Dom3

Hopefully .
Your wood elf nation was nice too, but i really love dragons and draconians, so i am really looking forward to your draconian mod .

[DominionsFan]

Boron said:

Hopefully .
Your wood elf nation was nice too, but i really love dragons and draconians, so i am really looking forward to your draconian mod .

I don't see a way to add a dragon race to Doms 3. How could it be balanced? Dragons are supposed to be rare and mighty. We will definitely add dragons for various races as a high cost summon....but as a race...I just don't think that it would work. Just imagine a dragon with 50-100 HP, that wouldn't make any sense. Well maybe a half-dragon race could work, but that race would be a bit odd.

Lizardmen on the other hand will be perfect for a race.
They can get dragons as national troops, but only as high summons. Dragonlings could work as low level summons.
Just my .02

[Nerfix]

The half dragons were my fav race in AoW 2.

Shadow Demons were cool in Shadow Magic.