Sitting on the fence

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Soyweiser

I have a challenge. Create a menu driven system.

You mean something like this?
http://www.dom3minions.com/lab/MakeGame.htm
You can search and see that was one of the original ones. Even before LLamaServer existed. In fact it was one of the example scripts given to LLama when he first started the conversation about a server.

But seriously, "try to win" scenario's sound fun.

Something with a goal would probably be best.
I did a Dom2 scenario called "D.A.R.E (Deadly Atlantis Rlyeh Emor alliance)" which challenged all the players to ally and take out a heavily fortified and boosted AI alliance. Ermor was down in a corner on a large island surrounded by water. Atlantis and Rlyeh had the watery moat ocean surrounding it. They were all allied not to attack each other. And they had multiple castles, extra magic sites, extra starting armies. Not to mention designed pretenders and logical scales. The 3 of them owned that entire corner of the map. The 3 pretenders were "Siblings who have decided to stack the search for a new Pantokrator by teaming up until everyone else was gone."

Such scenarios are no longer downloadable/playable in Dom3 the way they were in Dom2. But they can be run on a server. And it would be easy to "see" the goal being reached. Such as taking the main castle of Ermor in the game log.

[Gandalf Parker]

Scenario games with Dom3 can only be setup effectively as server games. But we can use more of those.

Maybe this will help BROWSE THE NATIONS MODS
http://www.llamaserver.net/globu/Dom...ations_EA.html

It doesnt have everything. Some of my favorites (and of course all of mine) do not seem to be there. But it is a fantastic community service. Looking thru some of those might make a scenario storyline come to mind

[rdonj]

Well, which ones are your favorites? As far as I can recall, globu had put up pretty near every single nation mod made for dominions 3. As well as pretty much every miscellaneous mod I can think of. In fact there's a few up there that are so old, I didn't know they existed until he posted them. Did you check the miscellaneous section? There are some mods in there that could maybe be what you're thinking of.

[Gandalf Parker]

Well I have always loved the AMOS mods which work particularly well with this thread. They just seem to scream scenario. As if they were made NOT to be used by the player but used by the game against the player.

[Gandalf Parker]

OK I found a very interesting post on one of the other forums. Its not a game variant but more of a server variant.
http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewto...ac020263fdc1c0
It explains how to do a PbEM style Dom3 game on anyones server, but using a file share site such as DropBox.

Like I said, not a game variant but it seemed worth posting here.

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewto...ac020263fdc1c0

Unrelated but browsing that thread:

4. Pitfalls

Jews might sue you for using their savegames or stealing their customers or some other jew ****.
...
Link to a SS march movie

WTF. Stay classy rpgcodex.

[Gandalf Parker]

Yes it looked like a bit of a troll slipped in there to sell the idea of a pay-to-play Dominions server

[wonderloss]

Pretty typical RPGCodex. A mixture of intelligent RPG discussion (though that has arguably declined over the years) combined with wannabe 4chan antics.

[Gandalf Parker]

I was trying to come up with some mod ideas and I remembered this game variant.

Some people like gem-creation items and such. But others feel that they set the game on an automatic path if someone focuses on only that. So how about a game which uses a mod called CBM4now.dm

At the beginning of the game it would be a copy of the latest CBM mod.

And then at some set point in the game (turn 50) everyone would copy chopped version of CBM into CBM4now.dm

That way the many abusive items that CBM pulls from the game could be available but only late enough in the game to be minorly fun but not a game killer.

[krpeters]

Why not just increase the cost of the items that are causing the trouble?

Suppose clams required W5N3 instead of W3N1...