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Oh nice. I tried to learn the game but I'm hopeless at it. Screenshot LP's though are pretty great. Can't wait to see where this one goes.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2024 20:53 |
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# ¿ May 20, 2024 06:32 |
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Glad to see a dominion LP while it's in making. And with other player input on top of it. Can't wait to see how everything will go to hell and friendships get broken in a bloody fashion.
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2024 19:54 |
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Hey folks, are cavern system"s new to dominion 6? I saw a few LP of 5 and don't remember caves. Apart from that question, great LP so far, even noobs like me can understand what's going on, and on such early kill got the hostilities rolling. Can't wait to see how wonky things will get.
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# ¿ May 5, 2024 22:56 |
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Do we already know - or suspect - if other nations have gone into all out conflict? Or does it so far look more like low-key border friction while everyone waits for the next person to make a move?
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# ¿ May 7, 2024 15:42 |
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DarthRoblox posted:We haven't seen any fighting to-date, my scouts are still slowly working their way to uncovering the full map (and then saturating it - you only get battle reports if you have a scout sitting in the actual province). "Things don't stay peaceful for long in dominions." Hehe. Us wiping out a nation off the map right at the start somewhat clued me in on the impermanent nature of peace in this game. From previous LP's I read I got the feeling that players also like to negotiate who to defend against or pay for some calm on at least one front when stuff gets violent. I guess if your neighbor's communication remains calm, then things haven't heated up too much yet. Mindopali fucked around with this message at 19:36 on May 7, 2024 |
# ¿ May 7, 2024 19:32 |
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PurpleXVI posted:
Playing the really, really long-term meta game.
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# ¿ May 7, 2024 19:57 |
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IthilionTheBrave posted:
Reminds me of other LP's where one player was so locked in by terrain that his only other choice was through one neighbor only. Seems like a similar situation here. Are there Thrones of Ascension underground? Even if there are, sooner or later the underground nation will come knocking as it's pretty much their only exit. Unless there are special spells or some mechanic I missed, you're their obligatory first target. So either strike first or wait for the inevitable army coming knocking. I get the feeling a good chunk of your forces will be occupied there either way. I admit I don't really get why the exit points tend to be clustered, sounds like spread out would make more sense. It would avoid one player getting all the oily heat - and other players aware of it would sense a target rife for plunder - coming from underground and wouldn't make a bottleneck every single game. Mindopali fucked around with this message at 12:03 on May 8, 2024 |
# ¿ May 8, 2024 10:06 |
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I can accept cannibalistic giants facing off against a Chinese myth while Basque inspired creatures lurk in the background trying not to get devoured by nature's revenge. But this: IthilionTheBrave posted:The Outer Throne is underground! Just irredeemably broke my immersion.
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# ¿ May 8, 2024 18:17 |
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my dad posted:No. It takes 4 slaves for the remaining 26 geomancers to start dropping rocks right away. Will the 4 slaves survive? No. Will you care? No. Ah, the capitalism take on the workforce. Glad to see that seas and mythologies apart, blood drinking mesoamericans or ethereal roman ghosts can still shake hands on that. PurpleXVI posted:I mean, most of the human, non-blood nations are "neutral." Like their backgrounds don't really involve any genocides, their troops aren't slaves, etc. same goes for the non-Lanka monkey nations. Arcoscephale even has free healthcare. It's a trope you can find again and again in books and movies and videogames. In fact, you can even find it in real life very often. It's the "You're the good guy, cool, but if you end up losing before the bad guy then it was for nothing, so you gotta be a little bit bad too." It's one sentence, but this was actually used to justify a shitload of stuff throughout history, from anti-communism intervention to pretty gruesome stuff done by the french army during the Algerian war, and too many other examples to count. Mindopali fucked around with this message at 16:29 on May 9, 2024 |
# ¿ May 9, 2024 12:38 |
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Donkringel posted:I like to think of the mage pretender gods are just juiced on magical steroids. While all the other gods were from a previous era shaking off the chains the prior pantakrator put on them, our rainbow mage God was just walking around the world, looking for magical gems. I suppose they could use a powerful sigil that seals the arcane might of the gems into their body, but I like to think they just swallow X amount of gems for their appropriate level. I suppose achieving godhood isn't that original of an idea if you're baked enough to consider eating shiny rocks for days on end in the first place. For a real life example, read Mike Tyson's biography.
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 19:35 |
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I don't understand much about how communions and similar work in game terms. But I love the different variants (Chorus, Sabbath, Communion) from a roleplaying perspective.
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 05:57 |
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Do we (as in, you) have enough information to make an educated guess as to what sort of pretender god Tien Chi possesses? A researcher or weak God that traded strength for scales would have TC keep them out of the way (I believe), but a fighter sort of god? Even if they aren't immediately here, they are not too far away, and if TC manages to bring them and troops over fast, this could get hairy and more drawn out than we'd like.
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# ¿ May 18, 2024 14:47 |
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My bad, had forgotten we already saw the pretender god. So, they got a combat chassis that isn't exactly a tank, TC will want him in fights he's sure to win. Unless desperate. We're shutting down what TC is naturally good at, I wonder if they'll bring up unexpected countermeasures in terms of weird spells or mercenaries or something.
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# ¿ May 18, 2024 15:49 |
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IthilionTheBrave posted:Ethereal is also massively devalued lategame as mages become more prominent and important. And is also massively devalued in this case due to Phaecia's sacreds having magic weapons by default. Completely negates any benefit from the bless! Common video game logic would tell me this is a good combo with a nation that has an aggressive early expansion tendency. But that sounds like something necessary for everyone to do anyway in this game. Are there nations that are equivalent to Zerg like nations in this game? Mindopali fucked around with this message at 16:38 on May 18, 2024 |
# ¿ May 18, 2024 16:04 |
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# ¿ May 20, 2024 06:32 |
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Thanks for the in-depth answer on my question about zergs. And I gather from this that Ulm has quite a good reputation too.
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# ¿ May 19, 2024 09:17 |