We love you, Illwinter, but DO NOT DO THIS!

[Boron]

Cainehill said:

Also : SciFi Dominions might be kinda neat - there've been a number of far-future or other alternative settings of beings striving on a near-galactic level to achieve godhood & dominion. Could be a mix of species, each with their own types of ships, weaponry, etc, mostly technological but with divine / mystical powers as well.

Yeah that might be cool .
Ships but also still magic. Like in many Animes or also in Star Wars.

If you decide to go Science Fiction you have to include some kind of Mechs though. For inspiration use Battletech and the good old Transformers Movie + Series and Neon Genesis Evangelion .

[NTJedi]

Saber Cherry said:
For me, it is the descriptions. Period. Without the text, I would never have started playing, and I would have quit at Doms I if, say, Doms II had come out without descriptions (like the Age of Wonders -> AoW2 transition, where they killed the unit descriptions).

I believe the unit descriptions returned within AOW:SM using patch_1.4.

[NTJedi]

Boron said:

Yeah that might be cool .
Ships but also still magic. Like in many Animes or also in Star Wars.

Definitely can be done as seen with StarWars, but it can be difficult to mix SciFi and Magic.

[eshock113]

I just got the game last week. For the most part I like it a lot. Finding a good turn-based game is just not as easy as it used to be.

As such I kind of shuddered when I saw the "rts" word. I can't tell you the number of games I go through going "oh this looks cool" and then "Damn, another stupid rts".

I think Dominions is carving a fan niche out of people who don't like to be rushed making decisions (and like lots of info). Tell you the truth, if I had been given Dominions and told it was an rts -- doubt if I would have even loaded on my system (only two rts's I really stomach or Hearts of Iron and Kohan). Instead I would have broke out another game of Disciples, Civilization or Age of Wonder.

Space Dominions sounds cool. I loved Alpha Centuri and I think there is a lot of room here.

But, I really think there is a lot of room to grow in the direction this game is going. Actual tactical combat (similiar to Fantasy General, not Age of Wonder) would make this game even better. You have so many units, spells and weapons -- damn it, I want to use them.

[DominionsFan]

Uhhh what a horrible idea, scifi Dominions! Guys we got decent TBS scifi games, like Galciv II. or the upcoming SE V. Yes, yes a space Dominions would be different but still!
Scifi/magic mix?! I think there were some games in the past in that genre, I forgot what games, but its a risky stuff to make a game like that. I think only a small amount of people like the scifi/magic mixed games, and tbh I dont like it for example. Magic should be sticked with fantasy and high tech weps with scifi. To mix the 2...well its not the best...but again I am subjective now, however like I said, that genre doesnt got "support" from most of the players.

IW should work on fantasy games until the end of time!
I think a Dominions RPG would be the best idea...or ofc Dominions IV. But hell why are we discussing about this anyways? Doms III. not even released..

[Argitoth]

Ok, I'm going to create a voting thread to see what us fans feel should be the next step for Illwinter.

[DominionsFan]

Argitoth said:
Ok, I'm going to create a voting thread to see what us fans feel should be the next step for Illwinter.

Good idea, but dont forget, we -who are visiting these boards- are just a small part of the IW "fanbase", most of the players/fans arent registered here for sure. Anyways, let me vote where is the poll?

[Argitoth]

THERE WOULD BE A POLL... except it's not working for some reason. You do it if you can. ill give you some ideas

Steampunk-style space game
Dominions RPG
Dominions RTS
Dominions 4
Dominions Expansions
Do something other than Dominions, post your idea
Undecided/Decide after Dom3 comes out

yeah...

Edit: I think it would be even more interesting if you add a second section to the poll "what would you LEAST like?" and then list the same options.

[DominionsFan]

Damn yeah the poll function isnt working...

"Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{' in /home/forum/public_html/threads/addpost_newpoll.php on line 23"

[Gandalf Parker]

Also keep in mind that IW has already said that they will do whatever they feel is fun for them to do. But a vote would be fun.