Dominions 4 is a really good game but it's also got a bad interface and there's so much poo poo in it that it's really hard to even know where to start. Today I start the three step plan Step 1)Get you jabronis playing short games against the AI to figure out the interface and basic strategies and pretender design. Estimated time - 1 week Step 2)Get you nerds playing games against real people with slightly more advanced longterm gameplans. Have the first game ready for signups by September 26th Estimated time - 1 to 3 months per game Step 3)Get you cool dudes trying out more complicated stuff like full battlemagic strategies, or blood magic economies. Estimated time - Holy poo poo there's a lot of cool stuff to try, probably forever. But Pomp why should I want to play this game? The graphics look like butt. Not even a cute butt! Shamelessy copypasted from the games op TheDemon posted:What is Dominions? Remember - it's not about whether you win or lose, it's how many people you dragged down with you. Up next - Pretender design, basic strategies, and what everything means. Pomp fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Sep 26, 2015 |
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Have Some Flowers! posted:Hello new players! We're here to help - hop on IRC and ask questions, and ask them here too. For now we're sticking to Early Ages to cut down on the amount of stuff. Resources Gold, resources and gems/blood slaves Gold)You get gold put into your treasury every turn, you can horde it. Everything but magic costs gold. Resources)Every province has a resource supply every turn. This does not build up, you either spend it or you don't. Used exclusively to buy units. Gems/blood slaves)These fuel any spell more powerful than flinging rocks around. You get gems by having your mages search for magic sites that will deposit a set amount of gems in your coffers. You get blood slaves by having blood mages search out for suitable slaves, but instead of going into your coffers automatically they will go into the inventory of whatever mage enslaved them unless there is a laboratory in the province. Blood magic nations are an administrative nightmare, and they aren't recommended for players who aren't up to that task. Basic early/mid game strategies These come in a lot of flavors, but we're gonna look at three easy ones right now 1)Lots of cost efficient dudes who are good at killing lots of dudes, buffed up my magic. Recommended nations - Ulm, Abysia 2)A few really big, really expensive dudes who are good at killing lots of dudes, buffed up by holy blessings. Recommended nations - Neifelheim. 3) Recommended nations - Caelum, Ulm, Machaka (pictured) Pretender design Wow, that's a lot of options. Let me make it simple for you. Here are the things you typically try to use your god for 1)Expansion pretenders - a god who can take on entire provinces by itself. Recommended - Earth snake, Virtue, any dragon. 2)Bless - Load the gently caress up on one or two magic paths so you can bless your lucky sacred units, making them extremely hard to deal with without a clear plan. Recommended- Cheap rear end wizards, immobile statues 3)Scales - Give yourself a lot of resources so you can pump out more dudes. You should probably try to take some of these no matter what. 4)Rainbow - take a bit of every magic path. I'm not actually sure what this is good for besides forging magic items (I'm not actually very knowledgeable about this game) Recommended - cheap rear end wizards, immobile statues. Manage all this poo poo by just clicking the sprite on the top right, and picking a dude. Decrease scales or magic paths by right clicking. The dormant and imprisoned options are obviously not recommended if you plan to use your pretender for expansion. There's a good more in depth look here that I recommend Putting everything together Recommendations for strategy 1 - any expansion pretender+scales Recommendation for strategy 2 - this is gonna be a bit wordier Libluini posted:If you're playing already it's probably too late, since you need very specific scales and blesses to make them work. Most of it isn't a secret: If you want to use your giant sacreds, you need a major nature bless to give them regeneration and a minor earth bless so they won't tire out as fast. You'll need a prophet and priests in order to bless, scripted to actually cast bless. Recommendations for strategy 3 - Rush research for enchantment 4 to get the Fire Arrows spell, have Fire 4 mages around to actually cast the spell. Pretender design here will vary from nation to nation, but for Caelum you'll most likely need to have F4 on your (most likely Virtue) pretender in order to cast Fire Arrows. Now you're playing the game Whelp. Turin Turambar posted:A primer about the game Your four important buttons here are Recruit Units, Army Setup, Mercenaries and Research. I'm actually gonna mostly leave this part to you. Just click around and figure poo poo out. Right click anything for a description of what it is or what it does, including stats. Click on the words under your commanders on the left to get more than just move options. Up next - I answer a bunch of basic questions here for a week, and point you to the main thread for ones I don't know (anything beyond how to play the game most likely). Pomp fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Sep 17, 2015 ---------------- |
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 04:52 |
mods please give this the Salt tag
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 04:54 |
uhh buy it for me | |
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1 to 3 months?! holy christ good luck intrepid yobbers
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. - William Blake |
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the byob boot camp
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 05:33 |
i only like to play yahtzee can we play that instead
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 05:37 |
thanks i was wondering how to play this
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 05:37 |
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i cannot justify spending $35 at this time on a game that may or may not bring me enjoyment though i will play blood bowl with any who wishes |
# ? Sep 17, 2015 05:39 |
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im gana wait for the epic strats before i start playing |
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Damp Star Baby posted:1 to 3 months?! holy christ good luck intrepid yobbers 1 turn a day can take awhile ---------------- |
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back in my day we learned dominions 2 iwth no tutorials and we likeditTheDemon posted:Terminology Pomp fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Sep 17, 2015 ---------------- |
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 05:50 |
MA/LA ermor is extremely good and cool but will be banned because they ruin newbie games btw (EA Ermor is a pretty normal nation inspired for rome) Ermor is a nation of undead. You do not recruit units, instead you get free legions of skeletons, zombies and ghouls every turn. Your religious influence actual kills population, which makes his you a unique issue. Left alone, Ermor is guaranteed a win, but Dom isn't a 1v1 game so they're rarely left alone. The thing is that whoever goes through the trouble of killing you gets no real reward. The population is dead, and will never come back, and now they've got a bunch of priests for banishing undead and no undead to banish. A game with ermor end it tends to go 1)Everyone tries to convince eachother to kill ermor 2)Whoever did it gets killed Ermor prostrats Blot out the sun and cast the world into a perpetual shadow full of spooks and monsters Curse far away provinces with black death, to spite them for being outside your influence Grind the bones of every unit on the battlefield into dust Have your undead mages drain the life from everything living around him Summon a bunch of ancient dead titans from tartarus ---------------- |
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 06:04 |
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Ermor sucks balls and I hate them, moving all those skeletons around sucks balls.
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i didn't read the whole spiel but this game sounds very wizards. |
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Lizard Wizard posted:i didn't read the whole spiel but this game sounds very wizards. there are lizard wizards in it ---------------- |
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 17:36 |
the kinds of wizards you can be A normal wizard A lich A ghost king A really old lich who fell apart into an immobile pile of bones who I guess just shouts orders atop himself Lizards Aztec priests ---------------- |
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 18:04 |
uh be a lich like is this even a question
paul_soccer12 posted:everyone in the idf must die |
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 18:06 |
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this sounds way too complicated for my idiot brain welp |
# ? Sep 17, 2015 19:21 |
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my dumb garbage good for nothing piece of poo poo brain |
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does it run on linux? |
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Pomp posted:there are lizard wizards in it HOLY poo poo THAT IS EXACTLY MY FETISH |
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apparently
paul_soccer12 posted:everyone in the idf must die |
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 21:31 |
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1-3 months for a game is terrifying |
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Awesome! posted:1-3 months for a game is terrifying "oh man im loving this relaxing evening, every thing is gr-poo poo I FORGOT ABOUT MY TURN" plot twist is that he forgot about it for 2 years. |
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Awesome! posted:1-3 months for a game is terrifying It's like 5-30 minutes a day, and things can be paused if someone's gonna be gone for a little while I remember doing PBEM games of solium infernum, those were a real nightmare. ---------------- |
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Piso Mojado posted:does it run on linux? yes CAT BRUSH posted:uh be a lich like is this even a question It's still competing for things like being a fountain of blood, most ancient pantheons, and this guy Pomp fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Sep 17, 2015 ---------------- |
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 23:34 |
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giant spiders |
# ? Sep 18, 2015 03:19 |
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sure let me just quit my job |
# ? Sep 18, 2015 03:54 |
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I'll pomp it up wit you I'll play KALISSA, RISE OF THE APE KEGS |
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ill play |
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When are we playing?
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# ? Sep 18, 2015 06:25 |
drilldo squirt posted:When are we playing? I'm gonna get a game read for signups next week to give people time to fart around in an AI game for a bit and get used to things ---------------- |
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# ? Sep 18, 2015 11:24 |
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if you're new probably always use an awake monster god. earth snake, big pig, snake/dog are all good picks |
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hey its next week, are we playing? |
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my question is that how similar is it to mahjong. my next question is that will there be any older sexy asian broads playing it |
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I submitted the new have request to the goon game service | |
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I am not good at this (or any) game but I will also play. |
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has an age been decided for the multiplayer game? it would help me narrow the races i look at |
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early ages
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