Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by DonCorazon

Hmmm... I recently was in a position where I had a champion forced to defend the crown. When the death match was announced his orders defaulted to "compete in death match" and IIRC I could not change them so not sure how you are able to avoid it.

I actually did not avoid it on purpose, but I was playing around with his equipment loadout and scripting, so that I wouldn't lose any good stuff if he lost. It's most likely that sending some items back to the Lab set him back to Defend, as usually happens with item transfers. It can't be purely a bug, though, or else there wouldn't be a built-in event for this case.

-Max

[lch]

Originally Posted by MaxWilson

It can't be purely a bug, though, or else there wouldn't be a built-in event for this case.

-Max

That "poof" thing is just the same that you get when somebody wishes your stuff away. It probably uses the same code.

[Zeldor]

MaxWilson:

Boosters mostly, if someone has a chance he should check it [or patience to wait for 2 arenas in test game].

[Gandalf Parker]

Did you know that you can change many of the games defaults?
Tired of setting the magic sites higher for each game you play?
Tired of setting the independents higher for each game?
Tired of turning on renaming for each game? (or worse, forgetting to)
Tired of switching to windowed mode all the time?
Is the clickity-click too loud for you?
Do you turn off music and/or sound every time to go into the game?

Tired of typing in the IP number, port, etc for every game you play online?

Would you like the random maps in your games to be less water, more mountains, greener plains, border lines more or maybe less noticable?

Tired of seeing the credits screen when you leave and having to click on it?

These are all things that you can set on the "command line". For Windows users its as easy as adding your preferences to the command line of your desktop icon you click to get into Dominions 3.

[trentzero]

Originally Posted by NTJedi

* You cannot find blood sites within water provinces, supposedly because the water washes away the blood... ... yet you can find fire sites.
water and fire seem more likely to cancel each other than water and blood

Maybe you can't find virgins near bodies of water.

[trentzero]

Originally Posted by Ewierl

Yeah, it was quite a shocker for me in MP when all my longbowmen charged straight into melee. I looked at the replays, and in the first battle they'd fired bows as normal, so their commands were all correct. The only explanation I can see is that they were out of arrows from round 1.

Actually this might also be caused if one of your archers in an all archer stack (or if you stick a non-archer in one) happens to lose an arm, he won't have a bow anymore, thus, sending the whole squad rushing forward into the arms of the enemy.

[thejeff]

I think that happens when the first unit in the stack doesn't have a range weapon (lost arm or non-archer).

I know I've seen individual archers charge forward when they lose an arm.

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Did you know that you can change many of the games defaults?
Tired of setting the magic sites higher for each game you play?
Tired of setting the independents higher for each game?
Tired of turning on renaming for each game? (or worse, forgetting to)
Tired of switching to windowed mode all the time?
Is the clickity-click too loud for you?
Do you turn off music and/or sound every time to go into the game?

Tired of typing in the IP number, port, etc for every game you play online?

Would you like the random maps in your games to be less water, more mountains, greener plains, border lines more or maybe less noticable?

Tired of seeing the credits screen when you leave and having to click on it?

These are all things that you can set on the "command line". For Windows users its as easy as adding your preferences to the command line of your desktop icon you click to get into Dominions 3.

I'd like to know more about these commands. Is there a list of them available somewhere? Specifically the renaming one would be good.

[vfb]

If you run dom320 --help it tells you the available options:

usage: dom3 [option(s)] [gamename]
options:
-v  --version       Print version number and exit
-d                  Increase debug level
-g  --host          Generate new turn and exit
    --verify        Verify all 2h-files and exit (creates .chk files)
    --statfile      Create a player info file after each turn (stats.txt)
    --scoredump     Create a score file after each turn (scores.html)
    --finalhost     Generate new turn, send out final score msg and exit
-c  --nocredits     Disables the end credits
******* Network Options *******
-C  --tcpclient     Connect to a Dominions multiplayer server
-S  --tcpserver     Start a Dominions multiplayer server
    --ipadr XXX     Use this IP-adr when connecting to server
    --port X        Use this port nbr
    --preexec CMD   Execute this command before each turn generation
    --postexec CMD  Execute this command after each turn generation
-t  --hosttime X Y  Host on day X (0=sunday) hour Y (0-23)
    --minutes X     Set host interval in minutes
-h  --hours X       Set host interval in hours
    --pauseday X    Stop timer on this day (0=sunday)
-q  --quickhost     Host as soon as all turns are done
-n  --nonationsel   No nation selection when resuming a network game
    --noclientstart Clients cannot start the game during Choose Participants
    --uploadtime X  Game is created after this many minutes.
    --uploadmaxp X  Game is created if this many players join.
    --closed X      Nation closed X=nation number (0-94)
    --easyai X      Nation ai controlled X=nation number (0-94)
    --normai X      Nation ai controlled X=nation number (0-94)
    --diffai X      Nation ai controlled X=nation number (0-94)
    --mightyai X    Nation ai controlled X=nation number (0-94)
    --impai X       Nation ai controlled X=nation number (0-94)
******* New Game Options *******
    --mapfile XXX   Filename of map. E.g. eye.map
    --randmap X     Make and use a random map with X prov per player (10,15,20)
    --research X    Research difficulty 0-3 (default 1)
    --hofsize X     Size of Hall of Fame 5-15 (default 10)
    --indepstr X    Strength of Independents 0-9 (default 5)
    --magicsites X  Magic site frequency 0-75 (default 40)
    --eventrarity X Random event rarity 1-2, 1=common 2=rare
    --totalvp X     Vic. points available in the world 0-25
    --capitalvp     One extra victory per capital
    --requiredvp X  Vic. points required for victory (default total/2)
    --summervp      Vic. points are accumulated each summer
    --richness X    Money multiple 50-300 (default 100)
    --resources X   Resource multiple 50-300 (default 100)
    --supplies X    Supply multiple 50-300 (default 100)
    --masterpass XX Master password. E.g. masterblaster
    --startprov X   Number of starting provinces (1-9)
    --renaming      Enable commander renaming
    --noscoregraphs Disable score graphs
    --nonationinfo  No info at all on other nations
    --nocheatdet    Turns off cheat detection
    --era X         New game created in this era (1-3)
-M  --enablemod XXX Enable the mod with filename XXX
******* Random Map Options *******
    --makemap XXX   Generate a random map with filename XXX and exit
    --riverpart X   100 = normal amount of rivers, 0=no rivers
    --seapart X     Percent of map that is below water level (default=30)
    --mountpart X   Percent of map that is mountains (default=20)
    --forestpart X  Percent of lands that are forests (default=20)
    --farmpart X    Percent of lands that are farm lands (default=15)
    --wastepart X   Percent of lands that are wastes (default=10)
    --swamppart X   Percent of lands that are swamps (default=10)
    --mapaa         Enable antialiasing for random maps
    --mapsize W H   Set width and height of random map (default=1600 1200)
    --mapprov X     Set number of provinces (default=150)
    --passmount     Don't use impassable mountains on random maps
    --mapgcol RGBA  Ground color 0-255 (default=170 146 116 255)
    --mapscol RGBA  Sea color 0-255 (default=54 54 130 255)
    --mapbcol RGBA  Ground border color 0-255 (x4)
    --mapsbcol RGBA Sea border color 0-255 (x4)
    --mapnoise X    Ground color noise 0-255 (default 15)
    --borderwidth X Border width 0-500 (default 100)
******* Video Options *******
-w  --window        Run Dominions 3 in a window
-u  --fullscreen    Use the entire screen
    --bitplanes X   Try to use a color depth of X bits per pixel
    --zbuffer X     Try to use a depth buffer of X bits per pixel (default=16)
-T  --textonly      Use this with --tcpserver to get graphicless server
    --gamma X       Set gamma function (brightness) 0.1 - 5.0 (default=1.0)
    --opacity X     Set gui opacity 0 - 100
-r  --res X Y       Set screen resolution / window size (default=1024 768)
    --animback      Use animated backgrounds
-a  --noanimback    Don't use animated backgrounds
    --fade          Use fade effects
-f  --nofade        No fade effects
    --nopopups      No helpful popups
    --fps X         Aim for this nbr of frames per second (default=20)
    --maxfps X      Maximum nbr of frames per second (default=50)
    --filtering X   Quality of OpenGL filtering 0-3 (default=2)
    --maxtexsize X  Max texture size in pixels 32-4096 (default=unlimited)
    --treequal X    Tree quality 1-5 (default=3)
    --texqual X     Texture quality 1-5 (default=3)
    --nolightfx     No light effects in battles
    --partamount X  Max nbr of particles 0-8 (0=none, 4=default, 8=max)
    --nograss       Don't draw the grass
    --noarcade      Don't draw floating damage numbers
    --noglext       Don't use any OpenGL extensions
    --vsync         Enable vsync
-V  --novsync       Disable vsync
    --renderpath X  Use different optimizations 0-1 (0=good for low mem cards)
-x  --fastgrx       Faster graphics (use 3 times for best performance (-xxx))
-p  --perftest      Run a performance test and exit
******* Audio Options *******
-s  --nosound       No sound effects or music
-m  --nomusic       No music
    --musicvol X    Set music volume, 0-100
    --clickvol X    Set mouse click volume, 0-100
    --arts          Route sound through aRts (default)
-o  --oss           Use direct oss sound output (best quality)
Example: dom3 -wm   Run Dominons 3 in a window and without music

[vfb]

More trivia...

Stealthy commanders hiding in enemy territory cannot be given the order to participate in the Arena Death Match.