What could we steal from other fantasy games...

[Ironhawk]

I dont really think that adding the ability to design items/units to a game really adds anything, anyway. In the end, everyone ends up building basically the same thing just due to the demands of the game.

[Meglobob]

Does dominions really need to steal ideas from other fantasy games?

I think its the other way around really, other fantasy games need to look at dominions and embrace originality and individuality which dominions has in vast amounts.

[moderation]

Seriously though, Dominions could stand to steal a number of UI improvements from other games that would make units easier to manage. For instance, being able to create "stacks" of commanders a la Warlords II that you could easily reorder would help a lot with mid and late-game micromanagement nightmares.

[MaxWilson]

Mid- and late-game I start renaming my commanders to their job titles. An indy priest who's supposed to go to province #49 and build a temple becomes "Build 49". The first thing I do on a turn after checking battle outcomes is to cycle through the commander list and do all the pre-determined moves. Build 49 moves one province closer to province #49, Forge-Boots forges another Earth Boots, Shuttle Fom moves a stack of units one step closer to my Fomoria stack, etc. All of this is done mindlessly before I start making hard strategic decisions like where to move real armies.

-Max

[moderation]

Yeah, I've started renaming my pretenders that way as well. There's a few things I don't like about this system though. The first one is that it makes can spell out your intentions to other players which can be a bad thing. But the bigger problem is simply that you can't display that many characters from the strategic map. Also renaming your commanders every turn to keep things straight is a bit annoying since I also rename my mages according to their random picks. Finding a better way to organize all the various bits of information: magic picks, orders, battle groups, communion configurations, etc. would make the management part of the game more enjoyable.

[Aezeal]

I think being able to desing items would just make SC even mroe powerfull.. which isn't really needed or a good idea.

I think dom 3 could use a feature that you can give orders to move say.. over half the map and that unless you change anything it will actually carry on with those orders.

[chrispedersen]

Note fields tied to units...

I just send a message to myself reminding me what to do.

[sector24]

As far as content, Dominions is miles ahead of most titles. But for graphical, UI, unit management improvements (etc.) I think there's a lot of room for improvement. I would like to be able to recruit from the F1 screen, sort the F1 screen by the column headers, etc.

On the one hand, Dominions is like a fun little puzzle where after playing for 8 months someone tells you that you can press "N" it's the most amazing thing since sliced bread, but it's definitely a daunting and translucent experience.

It's so rare that you actually want a game sequel to be the same thing but with a little corporate polish.