Incline Dominions 4 announced

[KoolNoodles]

Malakal, have you ever played chess online? The pause between turns is kind of like that. I'm not talking blitz chess or those silly versions. Either online(which often have 24hr timers), or even tournament rules with games lasting multiple hours.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with waiting and thinking about a turn in a strategy game. Hell, back in the old-school days of those huge War in the Pacific "boardgames", one "game" could last a year or more.

It works fine.

 

[Dim]

Days per turn MP certainly works. There are more than 50 game on llamaserver right now. Every game i joined got finished. It's just that I for one completely loose interest after 5 days and sometimes i get intoxicated and then also forget about it. Still there is nothing better than D4. So i play it.

 

[Malakal]

Right, you guys are entitled to your opinion and if you like this type of mp do enjoy it. For me its shit and I am not going to buy this game even tho I really like how it *could* be played with many players.

I prefer civ4 and simultaneous turns of some kind. Good and easy rules to follow, one evening per game. Sweet spot.

 

[Berekän]

You can also do 'traditional' mp without using PBEM.

 

[Malakal]

You can also do 'traditional' mp without using PBEM.

Wait really? Then why no one does that?

 

[Berekän]

Takes more time to setup, there are more time constraints... etc. Besides, no one said that there isn't any people doing it. On the writeup that Noodles posted on the page before they're playing a blitz game.

 

[Chef_Hathaway]

It's p easy to set-up, you just have to run two instances of the game as the host. But yes, the time constraint is what gets a lot of people, even doing it that way, games can take more than a couple nights to complete.

 

[Dim]

http://www.dom3minions.com/HostedGames.htm

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

necromancer at work.

given the absence of an extended demo, i need to ask: is dom4 a worthy upgrade from the previous one or i could happily live with dom3?

 

[pakoito]

Given the lower price, availability and constant support, put your goddamn jewgold to it!

EDIT: You're allowed to smuggle it from russia or wait for a discount price.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

what about mods?

 

[pakoito]

what about mods?

Same place as always

http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/index.php?showforum=21

The modding API has been improved AFAIK, but it's still datacentric .txt driven.

EDIT: Plan B

http://www.desura.com/games/dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions/forum/board/palace-of-dreams-modding

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

new pathc!

 

[Malakal]

Titans are dead now, immobiles weakened, not sure what will be the new meta.

 

[KoolNoodles]

I guess low dominion rainbows with okay scales could be a thing now, with the new dominion spread update.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

how can you even play this, let alone enjoy it?
"you have 76 idle commanders". tell me where the fuck they are!!!

 

[JohnTheRevelator]

how can you even play this, let alone enjoy it?
"you have 76 idle commanders". tell me where the fuck they are!!!

Read manual filthy casul.

 

[mondblut]

how can you even play this, let alone enjoy it?
"you have 76 idle commanders". tell me where the fuck they are!!!

Press N.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

because simply highlighting regions with idle commanders and commanders themselves was too hard.

not counting inconsistent and scattered commands, and absence of diplomacy ai, and lack of buildings, and uninteresting research...
all this game has is watching combats, which is pretty awesome, but still nowhere near to qualify it as a 4x. it has barely 1 x.

"N" is not going to save it.

 

[pakoito]

Uninteresting research. Nice trolling.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

what's so great about research? it's perfectly linear.

 

[Johannes]

It''s a game about war strategy. Not a full fledged empire simulator.

what's so great about research? it's perfectly linear.

It's got more interesting spell system than about any game out there.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

that's the spell system, not the research tree.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

It has seven branches, that's not linear.

 

[Kane]

MadMaxHellfire you're pretty dumb go outside and get a blowjob and stop shitting up the thread with your boring thanks