This Game Sucks!!!

[LordArioch]

I found it pretty amusing, because by the end you are certainly revealed as sarcastic.
I used to not like the idea of losing control over battles, but then I realized that Dominions II has more control over battles than many games because of the combat system.
You cannot give direct orders, but your indirect orders matter because battles are more strategic and less of a "large army beats small army" slugfest. I much prefer the Dominions II system than having to give the same orders every battle to my army because there's no strategy and the designers threw in a bad combat AI/autocombat. Nothing worse than battles with simple strategy where you can still abuse the AI battle after battle.

[Japher]

that this is a game built around PBEM

Really? I am having fun with it as a single player game, for now... Maybe when I get better I'll be up to a PBEM game, though that could be a while. I only have one AI I am playing against right now. The indies are giving me enough of a challange. (though a beefed up pretender fixes that)

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by Japher:
This Game Sucks!!!

Guess this means I'm on your ignore list

[Japher]

Did some one say something?

How long have you been playing Quantum?

Probably the best recommendation I have received since CIV2, and before that MoM...

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by Japher:

How long have you been playing Quantum?

About a month, I tried setting up a multiplayer at apolyton a week or so ago but for some reason Dominions seems almost totally unknown there. So hopefully we will start a chain reaction and in no time Dominions will have it's own forum .

[PrinzMegaherz]

But I have to agree with one point...

I mean come on... why had it to be "sancta maria"? Praises to the mother of jesus are not exactly what I want to hear while my blood fire moloch brings doom to the living

[alexti]

Originally posted by Xavier:
For example, I find it hard to beleive that anyone could seriously suggest that a game should only have 1 spell per path and 2 different kinds of combat units....

I guess, you haven't met any AI programmers yet

[Norfleet]

About the only thing I can think of that could really use some improvement *IS* the battle orders. Order queues for all units, just like commanders, would be nice, as well as "move to waypoint" orders. Conditional IF/ELSE orders would also have been nice. And, of course, some more basics, like "Hold and Fire", and "Stand Ground". Hell, I'd settle for an order queue with an order which consists entirely of "MOVE FORWARDS". Who needs attack rear, when you could instead queue an order like "MOVE FORWARDS, MOVE FORWARDS, MOVE FORWARDS, MOVE FORWARDS, ATTACK CLOSEST"?

[PDF]

Bah, Japher forgot to mention the fact that the game is waaaaayyy too inexpensive ! A game like that, sucking 100's of hours, should cost at least 500$ !

[SalsaDoom]

Damnit, sarcasm is to complex for me to understand in the mornings ;(

That, and my creeping doom phobia, where I have this unnatural fear that the authors of my favorite games are going to make the sequels lame. I imagine Illwinter guys randomly logging in and only seeing "to complex!" type stuff. Heh heh. whew.

--SD