Some thoughts on improvements to the game

[Ballbarian]

Originally Posted by Sombre

I agree they /can/ theoretically be useful, but the noise rate appears to be somewhere around 99.99%. You say semirand was born of someone's vision, fair enough. I highly doubt it was this kind of brainstorming. Semirand's fundamental ideas are not pie in the sky and never were. There's a LOT we can already do regarding dom3, but these kind of threads go way, way beyond those limits imo. And since we're using personal examples, I haven't found a single useful idea amongst any of the vast number of 'brainstorming' posts on these forums.

Certainly too far fetched for a Dom3 patch, but I am thinking in broader terms. Yet another personal example is a game project that I have fiddled with for several years now. It is a blend of concepts from Dom3 and Lords of the Realm 2. There are pages and pages of conjecture, sample algorithms & programs scattered across my hard drive that are all about ideas. Time that I spend in a text document thinking through game concepts and mechanics is time not spent writing the program. A discussion like this one is very interesting to me as the pitfalls of a given feature or technique are weeded out. It's not so much a step by step manual of what to do, but rather food for thought.

It might be argued that the discussion is wandering away from Dom3 possibilities and should therefore be squelched. I wonder if it might be interesting to the developers regardless?

(Sorry for going so far OT myself.)

[Illuminated One]

Well, I do find it interesting, from a slightly similar point of view.
And it is certainly doing no harm.

[NTJedi]

Originally Posted by Ballbarian

It might be argued that the discussion is wandering away from Dom3 possibilities and should therefore be squelched.

Just more useful if the ideas are placed on the shelf until Dominions_4 begins. I've provided a healthy list of improvements for Dominions over the years, yet I know reviving them will not provide any changes, until we know development of Dominions_4 begins.
Squirrelloid mentioned willing to help someone lead a project for his idea which is extremely unlikely to happen. Now if he was leading the project and already has working pieces than he might be able to find someone to help him with a few adjustments/improvements.

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by NTJedi

Just more useful if the ideas are placed on the shelf until Dominions_4 begins. I've provided a healthy list of improvements for Dominions over the years, yet I know reviving them will not provide any changes, until we know development of Dominions_4 begins.
Squirrelloid mentioned willing to help someone lead a project for his idea which is extremely unlikely to happen. Now if he was leading the project and already has working pieces than he might be able to find someone to help him with a few adjustments/improvements.

Ah to have that kind of time. No seriously.

[Gandalf Parker]

I think that some of the best ideas that became useful to this community were not treated well when offered just as ideas. But they did help move us forward when someone else was sparked by the idea to flesh it out.