Been a while, any word on Dom 4?

[Calahan]

Originally Posted by Robert Lawrence James

The only thing I could ask for would be a more powerful battle orders system, possibly with the option to do real-time tactical battles if the two opponents are online at the same time. That would be....

.... the most hidious and repulsive change possible for Dominions, and would almost certainly see the community collapse in less than 12 months (despite the potential sudden surge it could create from the fly-by-night gamers checking Dom out for a few months while saying "Cool" and "Awesome" a lot at the new RTS battles, and then disappearing 3 months later to play the next "Cool" and "Awesome" RTS game they found.)

There are plenty of games that offer tactical RTS battles or turn based battles, and the appeal of Dominions for many is the very fact you don't control the battles (or at least that's the appeal to me). If any aspect of Dominions (regardless of choice) ever turned into a horrible Total War or Fantasy Wars clone, then I'd stop playing in an instant.

If people want more control over battles, then they can fudge off and play a TW game or Wesnoth game or whatever game that offers the type of direct control they're after. But they need to leave alone any thoughts of changing the only good game that exists (or at least I've found) that doesn't allow direct control.

(not that a change like this will ever happen to Dominions. But it still irks me to see people who post wanting to change aspects of Dominions just so it can play the same way as all the other games do in the so called strategy genre. With the suggested change almost certain to be just so Dom can move closer to becoming a carbon copy of the plethora of identical games of the same genre that exists. All of them just as rubbish and shallow as the next clone that pops out of the womb)