Introduce yourself!! :-) - Page 14

Caduceus · #**131** September 7th, 2006, 02:52 PM

*sigh* I hate myself for asking this, but I can't help myself...

Do they call you MISTER tibbs?

Apologies to all Sidney Poitier fans.

tibbs · #**132** September 7th, 2006, 03:02 PM

hahaha, Actually, thats where I did get the name from....

And to answer your question, yes they DO!

Caduceus · #**133** September 7th, 2006, 03:07 PM

Heh. Good on you, then.

DominionsFan · #**134** September 7th, 2006, 06:02 PM

Welcome aboard tibbs!

Gandalf Parker · #**135** September 7th, 2006, 09:54 PM

Iowa?
I grew up in West Branch, Iowa.
(and when I got to California some lady told me "we pronounce that ohio out here". I swear to God that she did.)

Gandalf Parker

VanderVecken · #**136** September 7th, 2006, 10:18 PM

Sister lives in Iowa, east side of state (Iowa city). Lot of Iowa jokes told up here in Minnesnowta, only cheese-head Wisconsin jokes are more popular. When I was a kid the jokes were about other countries and such but with ethnic awareness they have turned to less hot-point topics such as States and Pop Culture figures. But no matter what the joke is about, Funny is Funny and demeaning is wrong ! (Where did that come from, my inner monologue states).
P.S. How steep was Dominions II's learning curve or was it a case of skimpy rules documentation that some had issues about ???

JaydedOne · #**137** September 7th, 2006, 10:41 PM

I felt that Dom II didn't have too steep a curve, but the interface was not what one would call initially intuitive. I was lucky enough to find Bruce's walkthrough while trying out the demo so I never had to go an extended period of time without knowing what was going on, but I definitely had to help my friends out with some very basic army commands in the game -- part of that was definitely the manual, as it was mostly text and didn't give you diagrammed game screens or a tutorial to get you started.

As for learning the strategy of the game itself, that can be pretty steep. The game is incredibly deep with a wealth of options -- it takes time to learn how one nation matches up against another, to say nothing of all 18. But half the fun is trying, failing, and learning.

Gandalf Parker · #**138** September 7th, 2006, 11:34 PM

I recommend trying the demo first. Some people really cant get into it. But if you can get into it then it will live for years on your machine.

DominionsFan · #**139** September 8th, 2006, 06:38 AM

Quote:

JaydedOne said:
I felt that Dom II didn't have too steep a curve, but the interface was not what one would call initially intuitive. I was lucky enough to find Bruce's walkthrough while trying out the demo so I never had to go an extended period of time without knowing what was going on, but I definitely had to help my friends out with some very basic army commands in the game -- part of that was definitely the manual, as it was mostly text and didn't give you diagrammed game screens or a tutorial to get you started.

As for learning the strategy of the game itself, that can be pretty steep. The game is incredibly deep with a wealth of options -- it takes time to learn how one nation matches up against another, to say nothing of all 18. But half the fun is trying, failing, and learning.

Yes well, many people had that problem with Doms 2. It was too confusing at first look. I introduced Doms 2. to my friends [they are all strategy gamers], and they were all whining that the game is confusing. After that I loaned my manual to them, so that they could learn the basics.. 2 days later they all bought the game. That was a long time ago. Since then we still play many TCP/IP games. The complexity and diversity of the game is awesome, this is why we are never bored.

Btw, imho the demo will need some .pdf help file ..the people [potential new players] will need informations about the basics of Doms 3.

*Edit*
typo

Fremen · #**140** September 8th, 2006, 05:32 PM

Hi Everyone,

It's nice to see such an active international forum; that bodes well for the game! I'm very new to Dominions. Although I love the genre, somehow I've been missing out and just discovered Dominions having been sent here from a Galactic Civilations 2 forum.

I love strategy games, though I never seem to have enough time to put in to get good at any of them. My favorites are X-com, Fallout Tactics:BOS, the Age of Wonders series, MOO3, Dune II, Dune 2000, Emperor: Battle for Dune, and currently Galactic Civ 2. I also enjoy playing miniature wargames.

As soon as I found the site, I read an AAR and was hooked by the apparent depth and subtleness of the game. I then downloaded Dominions 2 demo and couldn�t stop playing. I can�t wait to get Dominions 3!

My only concern is that I have two very young children, and it might be bad for their health should I be consumed by this�

I'm currently living in Arizona, but have previously lived extensively in Asia and a long while in California.

I look forward to learning more about Dominions from all of you.