Is there a way to lock research paths?

Jazzepi · #1 February 14th, 2007, 01:55 PM

Yeah if you could type in a number, that would be great.

Jazzepi

T77 · #2 February 15th, 2007, 10:48 PM

Thanks for the responses guys, I didn't think so.

You know, I love IW and I love Dominions, but something like this is inexcusable in the third iteration of a series. Shame on you IW!! And Shrapnel is just as much to blame, you've had this game for two releases now this should be fixed!

Edi · #3 February 16th, 2007, 04:16 AM

T77, The Dom2/Dom3 research is much better than in DomPPP where you had to assign each damned mage separately and fiddle around until you got what you wanted, and it was a real pain in the arse. So we're talking about the current research model in its second incarnation.

Edi

llamabeast · #4 February 16th, 2007, 08:19 AM

I don't actually think it's a problem to be honest, it only takes a few seconds at most to get it how you want it.

T77 · #5 February 16th, 2007, 10:45 PM

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llamabeast said:
I don't actually think it's a problem to be honest, it only takes a few seconds at most to get it how you want it.

In my current MP game I was trying to set 3 paths and I got so frustrated that I almost gave up.

Reverend Zombie · #6 February 17th, 2007, 12:54 PM

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llamabeast said:
I don't actually think it's a problem to be honest, it only takes a few seconds at most to get it how you want it.

I've been frustrated with this problem since Dom 2. It's a royal pain.

T77 · #7 February 19th, 2007, 01:50 AM

Another problem is that sometimes pressing + or - doesn't go up or down by 1, it moves by 2 or 3. And clicking on the bars doesn't work either.

Olive · #8 February 19th, 2007, 07:02 AM

Yes, a button to lock / unlock a path, like in Master of Magic for Mana/Research/Skill if I remember well, would be great.

And the + / - should add / substract points 1 by 1, it's always frustrating to spend time trying to adjust precisely research, and not succeeding at it.

Something more, when choosing a school to display the list of spells, the spells are sorted by levels. Near of the level, it would be nice to have the research points needed to reach it.

Ex :

Alteration 1 : OK.
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... List of spells
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Alteration 2 : OK.
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... List of spells
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Alteration 3 : 43 remaining.
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... List of spells
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Alteration 4 : 203 remaining.
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... List of spells
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etc...

OK, it's actually possible to calculate it if needed, but it would be more comfortable to have it displayed.

lch · #9 February 25th, 2007, 07:13 PM

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T77 said:
Another problem is that sometimes pressing + or - doesn't go up or down by 1, it moves by 2 or 3. And clicking on the bars doesn't work either.

What, you can use + and - keys?? Whahoo! I didn't know that, I was missing buttons for exactly that, ALOT. I got fairly good at making mouse clicks with single pixel precision now, though.