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Old September 28th, 2004, 08:47 AM

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Default How to see whom I am at war with???

Newbie-question perhaps, search didnt come up with answers:
After playing for many turns I tend to forget which dominions have declared war at me. Is there a way to see this in the game? I have not noticed any differences in the different creasts on the map, this would be an easy way to see at and shouldnt be too hard to incorporate in the game if any future patches are planned.

Any info guys?
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Old September 28th, 2004, 08:55 AM
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Newbie-question perhaps, search didnt come up with answers:
Thanks for taking the time to actually try a search before posting!

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After playing for many turns I tend to forget which dominions have declared war at me. Is there a way to see this in the game?
No. It's been a requested feature for at least 9 months. I'm still holding out hope we might one day get it in a patch. The easiest method of implementation, IMO, is to put some sort of small icon next to the appropriate name on the in-game pretenders list.
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Old September 28th, 2004, 09:13 AM

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Cheers, thanks for the quick reply.
Im keeping all my appendages crossed that we will get it in the near future. Any hope of another patch? The game isnt excactly new and in a serious need of patching...
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Old September 28th, 2004, 09:34 AM
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Are you kidding? They've already put out several patches that have fixed most of the outstanding issues, and there are not that many really broken things.

Most notable ones that I know of are the cheat detection false alarms, three buggy items (two of them completely broken) and one minor and two serious monster bugs (one of which breaks sea-targeted Imprint Souls), and all of these will be fixed in the next patch.

Furthermore, it's just two guys who are doing it all, on their spare time, and the game is less buggy than almost anything that comes out these days, so cut IW some slack, will you?

As for remembering who you are in war with: In MP you should be able to keep track of it, with the assumption that as soon as your allies have more profit from turning on you than remaining allies, you will be fair game, and in SP it doesn't really matter, because you will be at war with every AI nation by default and their declarations mean diddly-squat (unless Abysia, Marignonm or Caelum, in which case you might start seeing a lot of Fires from Afar or Seeking Arrow attacks).

It would be nice to have the diplomatic status marker, though, but in a game of "There can be only One!" diplomacy is relegated to secondary role by necessity and default.

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Old September 28th, 2004, 09:48 AM

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Hey fellow Finn!!! Are you taking sides with the swedes?
I didnt mean that anything is broken, Im still so new that I havent noticed anything amiss except the issue I mentioned.
I think its amazing that only these small developers with a few ppl working on their games have proper "maintenance" after a game has been published. Its easy to see which ones work out of sheer dedication and which ones do it purely for the money.
Im not bashing IW, just curious.
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Sorry to have been so harsh, but the comment in your previous post came across in rather negative light. What you are talking about is more a request for a new feature than fixing something that is not working as it should. I actually added it (or a variation) into the September Wishlist thread.

As for not noticing anything more while new to the game, you shouldn't really, because there has been constant feedback for a long while and almost all the easily visible real issues have been ironed out, especially with patch 2.14.

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Cheers, thanks for the quick reply.
Im keeping all my appendages crossed that we will get it in the near future. Any hope of another patch? The game isnt excactly new and in a serious need of patching...
Oops, thats going to cause a rumble.

Patches have been pretty common since the very first days of Dom1, and very few items in patches have ever needed to fix something that was "broken" (game crashing or commands that didnt work, that type of thing).

There are many things in the game which people say need "fixed" but not much agreement on what those are. So they all come down to being more of a "please can we have this" type of thing. But the devs are here in the forum and do see the conversations. The nicer requests do seem to make it in within a patch or two. Each patch seems to have about 1-change-a-day worth of work in it which is pretty good for a couple of guys who have other jobs.
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The nicer requests do seem to make it in within a patch or two.
That's not quite true. For example, polite requests for the ability to use arrow keys for scrolling, and some sort of indicator for who you're at war with, have been made by numerous people for many months, yet we've not seen these requests acted upon (yet). Many other requests have been implemented, but they are mostly those that do not involve UI changes (even minor ones) or that have an overwhelming number of people clamoring for them. The devs themselves admit that any change that involves the UI is less likely to be acted upon than, say, adding a mod command (no matter how nicely someone asks for it).
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The nicer requests do seem to make it in within a patch or two.
That's not quite true. For example, polite requests for the ability to use arrow keys for scrolling, and some sort of indicator for who you're at war with, have been made by numerous people for many months, yet we've not seen these requests acted upon (yet). Many other requests have been implemented, but they are mostly those that do not involve UI changes (even minor ones) or that have an overwhelming number of people clamoring for them. The devs themselves admit that any change that involves the UI is less likely to be acted upon than, say, adding a mod command (no matter how nicely someone asks for it).
Nobody, but nobody, enjoys writing UI code* Even fewer enjoy changing it or rewriting it except in the direst circumstances with the clearest benefits.


* Counterexamples are rumoured to exist, but until an actual sighting has been made they will be assumed non-existent.
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Nobody, but nobody, enjoys writing UI code* Even fewer enjoy changing it or rewriting it except in the direst circumstances with the clearest benefits.

* Counterexamples are rumoured to exist, but until an actual sighting has been made they will be assumed non-existent.
Assume all you want. *I* enjoy writing UI code, and have done so since the late 80s. What's more, the part of writing UI code I most enjoy is precisely that which you claim the fewest enjoy: that of tweaking existing code. Moreover, I particularly enjoy rewriting other people's (bad) UI code.

Your (false) assertions are refuted.
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