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I'm a dominions addict. (http://www.illwinter.com, distributed by Shrapnelgames). I confess my sin openly and in public. Am I alone being a dom-junky out there?

*summons PDF and Sunray burning 100 astral gems*


... omg it was a serious site here, without any witches, ghouls and wyverns...

I love strategy games and I love fantasy; however I have never played a fantasy strategy game that I thought was good. I never have tried the Dominion games.

Tyrande by Robin Shahrivar by Sandra
http://www.illwinter.com/dom2/maps.html

The last Dom2 game I hosted was on the Tyrande map. Was that done by one of the people here? If so, it's a very beautiful map. With a bit of balance for the starting locations, it would have been the perfect multiplayer map.

Looking forward to seeing if Pocus is as good as he thinks he is when Dom3 comes out.

Robin and Sandra are the two artists of BoA yes.

I have not said I was good. I just said I will kick your arse Frank. Its different
ok, joke aside, this is the game I know the best (except for BoA of course) and I battled in multi with it since 2001. So I hope you will owe me a tequilla after the dust has settled!

- Good evening, my name is Korrigan

- Good evening Korrigan

- Well, me too I used to play Dominion a lot. It was awfull, I was pbeming and I could not help but MMing everything, I could spend hours just adjusting my spell casters orders to maximise my combos...

- And why did you choose to stop?

- My girl friend was fed up, every other evening I would just say 'just two minutes to check my turn, honey" and then I will just go to bed at 2 PM... She tried to destroy my computer...

- Thank you for your testimony, Korrigan. Do you wish to add something?

- Yes, any of you would go for a blitz on Tyrande, we just miss a Marignon player and here we go!!!

Pocus wrote:I have not said I was good. I just said I will kick your arse Frank. Its different

Oooh, he mocks me! Them's fightin' words!

You do realize there's only one way to settle this?

Pocus wrote:ok, joke aside, this is the game I know the best (except for BoA of course) and I battled in multi with it since 2001. So I hope you will owe me a tequilla after the dust has settled!

Given that I wasn't even the best player in our group, you might have a point. That distinction went to Alex (posts as QAlex on usenet).

As for the tequila, I seem to recall that I'm already one up in that department.

[quote="Sol Invictus"]I love strategy games and I love fantasy]

The best comparison I've seen is that Dominions is a cross between MoM and Stars, if you're familiar with either of those. Dom2 isn't worth picking up at this point, version 3 should be coming out in about 2 months.

Frank E wrote:Oooh, he mocks me! Them's fightin' words!

You do realize there's only one way to settle this?



Given that I wasn't even the best player in our group, you might have a point. That distinction went to Alex (posts as QAlex on usenet).

As for the tequila, I seem to recall that I'm already one up in that department.

yes, this is to even the things, one tequila for each

I propose we play with (or against) each other when Dom3 comes out. I have a dom2 game to finish, but I don't feel to restart one, I'm a bit burned on it for now.

Dominion III seems to be only a cosmetic little upgrade of Dominion II as far as I can see with the recent screenshots.
Furthermore the game is in development for a too long time, it's strange...

Hello, I'm a Dom addict, it was through the game that I met Pocus indeed !

As for Dom3 I still have faith, we'll have 350 new creatures, 150 new spells etc..
Dev time is not unusual for the Swedish Illwinter guys, they sleep for all winter, that is 9 months a year ... Seriously, they make the game as a hobby, and have others jobs, so they don't make it fast.
Dom3 should be out in 2-3 months anyway.

I too like Dominions a lot. I discovered play by mail with the Dominions series. I'm not very experienced and I consider myself still as a beginner.

I'm loooonging for Dominions III, a slightly better interface, slightly better graphics, more spells, more units and nations, and a random map generator... not a revolution but in a word : better.

Pocus, you said that you were addicted. I have two or three remarks for you :

1 - You don't have the time, you must finished your software first
2 - You said you don't like the MM of War in the pacific, sorry but doom his worst.
3 - i lost against you leure:

Anyone knows if there is an official release date?

It's already on pre-order ( Shrapnel web site).
But maybe it should be renamed Dominion 2.5 ....but not sold as an add-on that it should be .

CristoFire-Ice wrote:Anyone knows if there is an official release date?

Sometimes in the summer we hope, at that time the Swedish developers have long days for working

The game is about to be released. It has gone gold and will be available on October 2nd.

Is they any manual available for Dominions II in PDF? The demo is unplayable.
The interface is horrible,the graphics poor, anyway the idea could be good..

Donegal wrote:Is they any manual available for Dominions II in PDF? The demo is unplayable.
The interface is horrible,the graphics poor, anyway the idea could be good..

No manual exists in electronic format but there is a very good guide/tutorial here : http://www.maladjustite.com/dom2_walkthru.html and a detailed FAQ here : http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=261690&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1.
Don't give up for some initial poor impressions, this game is just unique. I'll ban anyone saying ill of it

How about Dom3 in single player mode? Is it worth to pick it up for this or should it only be pbem ?

Definitively worth buying, if you like heroic fantasy. The AI is not great, but do a fair job with higher level of advantages. It has some problems on the end game, mastering the bigger spells, but with a material advantage you will lose quite some games before being able to master magic efficiently anyway. And with 60+ racial versions and subversions and an astonishing lot of spells and items, you will have the pleasure of discovering new things for dozen of games.

I play Dominions (I, II, III) since 2001. I suppose I'm a fan somehow

In fact I read only good things about this game (despite the fact that it is widely considered more a Dominion 2.5, which doesn't matter for me since I am new to the game).
It seems it can only be ordered as a physical shipment from USA, or do you know other distributors?

Primasprit,
I play Dom since 2002, and I'm also somewhat of a fan
The game is only sold online, by Shrapnel and some Linux software vendors such as Tuxgames.
If you don't have Dom2 you shouldn't hesitate to buy Dom3 or 2.5 if you prefer to call it so. Even in SP the game is highly enjoyable, it's just not the same challenge than multiplayer (pbem or IP, but I do pbem only).

you can buy it from several countries in europe, as illwinter is a Swedish studio. (but only online yes, as PDF says).

IMHO: PBEM only. The game is really complex and as far asI'm concerned I don't bother going in that much depth of reflexion and strategy testing against an AI...

I downloaded the Demo for Dom III. Is this a game???

Or a career?

jimkehn wrote:I downloaded the Demo for Dom III. Is this a game???

Or a career?

Or even a call ?

OK...played the demo somewhat. Man....there is no depth, here, is there?? No wonder the full version has a 300 page manual.

So is there much of a PBEM community with this game? I could see where a multi-player PBEM would be a ton a fun.

jimkehn wrote:OK...played the demo somewhat. Man....there is no depth, here, is there?? No wonder the full version has a 300 page manual.

So is there much of a PBEM community with this game? I could see where a multi-player PBEM would be a ton a fun.

Not sure about what you mean with your cryptic remark about depth ...
There's a small but active pbem/online community at shrapnelgames forums (Dom3 MP subforum), and a smallish but colorful French community at Cyberstratege site, where you'll see Pocus too !