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thejeff · #41 September 24th, 2008, 12:02 PM

Not saying you shouldn't.

I just don't understand.

Edratman · #42 September 24th, 2008, 01:03 PM

The explanation is long and complicated. Here is just a simple stab at an explanation.

I'm much older than the average Dom3 player. (I'm even older than Gandalf.) I'm fairly successful and well off, my boss is a very long way from here and I am the plant manager of a good sized factory. There are many people on the other side of my door who tremble when I frown at them or think they are having a great day after receiving a kind word. The job is tough, 24 hours of stress and quite demanding of every talent I possess. I'm kind of like a pretender with a few small provinces under my dominion.

In other words, the game is of lttle or no real importance to me. All of the real competing I do is at work.

But I'm a gamer, always have been and always will be. The smaller competition the game provides is a pleasant change of pace from the real life penalty competition that is my life outside the game. The game is fun, diverting and no one loses money or their job if I lose in the Dom3 arena.

And Dom3 has "Start New Game", an option I really, really wish was available to me away from the computer.

HoneyBadger · #43 September 24th, 2008, 04:33 PM

I know exactly what you mean, Edratman. I don't do the same work that you do, by any means-and I've only got about 10 hours of stress a day-but it's demanding of me in many different ways, and on many different levels, and if I screw up, things go badly in a widening circle around me.

More than a Pretender, I'm like one of those versatile combat mages that don't have a lot of Hp., but you send them out onto the battlefield anyway, because you need their spells.

More than the "Start New Game" button, I'm appreciative of "Break Seige" and Supercombatants

because I know what it's like to be confronted, surrounded, and confounded by a horde of gibbering demons, when you're just trying to do the magic that you do. Ofcourse, my job is to *help* the gibbering demons get where they're going safely, securely, unafraid and confident--which is a neat trick, when your Nation has an integral fear/fatigue aura.

And I think I play big huge enormous maps because they just feel more roomy. I like the idea of actually playing things out on a world-sized battlefield, where everything is possible, and there's always more going on. I get a lot of entertainment from imagining what's happening *outside* of the scope of the game. If I could, I'd play on 2500 province maps. I might never end a game, but to me it's not about winning, it's just about getting far enough ahead that I can have fun, but not so far enough ahead that my enemies can't have fun too-just not as much fun as I'm having.

SlipperyJim · #44 September 25th, 2008, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

More than a Pretender, I'm like one of those versatile combat mages that don't have a lot of Hp., but you send them out onto the battlefield anyway, because you need their spells.

[SPOCK] Fascinating. [/SPOCK] It makes me wonder what you do for a living, HoneyBadger.

I work in IT. If I had to compare my job to Dom3, I'd probably be one of those mages who gets stuck in the lab because you always have three or four tasks for them at the same time.

"Our eastern army is about to engage the enemy in a hot province that will melt their ice armor. We need a Wolven Winter, right away!"

"Hey, can you forge another Skull Mentor? And some Boots of Quickness would be great."

"Water gems are in scarce supply! Can you do some more site searching?"

"Hey, when the heck are we going to see a Catoblepas? The tungaliks haven't been doing all of that research for nothing!"

"We're forming another expeditionary force to conquer the northern seas. Some mage support would be handy. Are you available?"

Sigh....

Fortunately, Dom 3 always allows me to recruit more Angakoks. If only my real-life employer would be so understanding!

Gandalf Parker · #45 September 25th, 2008, 11:06 AM

Heehee. Im the old mage that has built up afflictions so now gets to just stay home and research whatever he feels like.

HoneyBadger · #46 September 25th, 2008, 11:21 AM

I'm a reservationist for a major airline, so I book flights and get hassled by the general public for a living.

I'm actually pretty good at it, which scares me.

Edratman · #47 September 25th, 2008, 12:25 PM

Reservationist???

It is obvious what the word means, both by the context of your sentance and by parsing it, but I had neither heard nor seen the word before. It is legit, I looked it up, twice. A little surprised there I admit.

An interesting OT thread would be alternate definitions for "reservationist"; I've got three myself.

Gandalf Parker · #48 September 25th, 2008, 04:13 PM

True. I was a reservationist (very different meaning) for abit during my childhood.

HoneyBadger · #49 September 26th, 2008, 01:01 AM

I dated a member of the National Guard for a period of time, when I wasn't too far out of my own childhood. I suspect that's closer to the Gandalf's definition of "reservationist" than my own use of it, as it applies to me. There's nothing quite like a woman in uniform.

Lingchih · #50 September 26th, 2008, 02:33 AM

Can you get me a cheap flight to Las Vegas, Honey?