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Is dom 4 any fun to gently caress around with in single player or is this still an entirely multiplayer game?
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Sep 6, 2013 22:48
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Speleothing posted:Holy crap, LA Pythium is nice, all the heretics & 'frontier' troops available without a fort. MM3 Comitatense and MM2 Palatines available at every fort and a MM3 standard to go with them. More nations should have the ability to raise troops out in their hinterlands, I think. Though it'll have to be carefully balanced to be not better than fort troops, but still useful.
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Sep 6, 2013 22:50
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Anyone give LA Ulm a try yet? Anything big change with them?
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Sep 6, 2013 22:55
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Benagain posted:Is dom 4 any fun to gently caress around with in single player or is this still an entirely multiplayer game? It's better than dom3 because of the interface improvements, but I think the AI has managed to become worse. Less aggressive and has a much harder time expanding.
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Sep 6, 2013 23:29
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So. Anybody playing the game, is single player actually fun and challenging now?
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Sep 6, 2013 23:32
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Nah, the AI is still pretty dumb-dumb. Fun to experiment in though. Anyways, what do you guys think about having teammates specialize in spell schools? Conjurgation, Construction, and Evocation seems like a good combo. amuayse fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Sep 6, 2013 |
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Sep 6, 2013 23:33
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WYA posted:So. Anybody playing the game, is single player actually fun and challenging now? AI is, and will always be, terrible. Multiplayer is the way this game can be good.
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Sep 6, 2013 23:47
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Anyone doing a nation mod? I'm working on one based on Hawaiian mythos. Almost done with the initial stuff, just need to add unique pretenders and fix up a few sprites. http://www.mediafire.com/download/an8a2m7i9xni1n4/Sawaiiki+0.6.rar Forgot to add, it's for Dom3. Dom4 is still a bit glitchy right now. amuayse fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Sep 7, 2013 |
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Sep 7, 2013 00:09
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Kenlon posted:AI is, and will always be, terrible. Multiplayer is the way this game can be good. Yeah theres pretty much zero chance of the AI ever being able to utilise all of the mechanics in an efficient way let alone be able to respond to the billion billion small counters you can make. e: Ooh im loving new little changes like heat is setting grass on fire as well as other fire spells, the area around where these abysian indies started is all scorched black. LordLeckie fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Sep 7, 2013 |
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Sep 7, 2013 04:03
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Benagain posted:Is dom 4 any fun to gently caress around with in single player or is this still an entirely multiplayer game? I think the AI has gotten better. Granted I've only played the Dawn of Dominions map, maybe it sucks on randoms. It's still not anywhere close to experienced players. It doesn't know any metagame stuff. It plays like a competent brand new player. boho fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Sep 7, 2013 |
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Sep 7, 2013 07:41
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Despite having Dom 3 and now Dom 4 for years I still can't design a pretender worth a drat. Is there any good write up or advice that can help create good pretender gods for specific nations?
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Sep 7, 2013 18:02
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Reason posted:Despite having Dom 3 and now Dom 4 for years I still can't design a pretender worth a drat. Is there any good write up or advice that can help create good pretender gods for specific nations? I think TheDemon made a post about it a while back, it might still be in the current Dom3 thread. Back when I still played I just asked in IRC if I didn't already have some (bad) idea in mind.
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Sep 7, 2013 18:10
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Reason posted:Despite having Dom 3 and now Dom 4 for years I still can't design a pretender worth a drat. Is there any good write up or advice that can help create good pretender gods for specific nations? When in doubt, go scales. Here's what I did for Hinnom and some general thoughts on roles. http://lparchive.org/Dominions-3-(by-Lilli-et-al)/Update%20252/ A lot of it depends on the nation. Really you need to ask yourself "what is my pretender going to do for me?" If it's expansion of rush deterrent or an early research goal or just filling in magic paths or a bless then that will determine what your options are.
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Sep 7, 2013 19:37
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Pretender design is best if it's goal-oriented. Pick goals first, build the pretender to fill them, no more no less. The more specific your goals are, the better. "Get spells!" - bad goal "Get Darkness by turn 20, Cast Darkness from the pretender with no Boosters, Get Boosters so my cap mages can cast Darkness by turn 24" - good goal
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Sep 7, 2013 21:33
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Curse of the Frog Prince seems pretty hilarious. Its funniest bit is that almost anything you frog will, in addition to getting almost all stats set to 1, will also suffer crippling old age penalties to those stats not set to 1 (frog old age is 7 years). It's effectively a nice nature save-or-die for 0 gems at N2. I've been looking at a lot of the nations, and I think one of the clear winners of the balance changes is MA C'tis at present: Their Marshmasters are still recruit all castles and not slow to recruit and are as good as ever, and they have new limited-amount cap-only sacred ultraheavy infantry added to an already decent army, and they got several nice spells out of the changes and addons. Mostly, it's people being nerfed around them though that makes them stand out from the crowd, though - a lot of STR mages everwhere.
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Sep 7, 2013 23:22
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Dammit, I wanted to get in on the beta but Desura refuses to take my money so gently caress them I'll wait for it to get on Steam.
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Sep 7, 2013 23:43
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Started a new game on cradle and took one province and this greeted me. Anyone else seen this? It doesn't appear to be a throne province. 
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Sep 8, 2013 00:22
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rzal posted:Started a new game on cradle and took one province and this greeted me. Indie provinces can get random events so I assume it was a slinger/infantry province that got an event that spawned a 300 elephant army on top of it.
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Sep 8, 2013 00:24
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The massive # of elephants was a dom3 bug that never got tracked down. e: You should post it in the bugs thread on Desura Dom4 forums. TheDemon fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Sep 8, 2013 |
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Sep 8, 2013 00:30
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This post has a list of some of the more important items that have changed in the Dom 4 beta. Notably the Ring of Sorcery now requires 7 Astral from 5, and the Ring of Wizardry requires Astral 8 from 6. This affects the Magic Path Booster Guide in the OP. http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=54424&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=200#346478 EDIT: Thanks, just discovered the original post made by Great Gray Shrike in this thread. TengenNewsEditor fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Sep 8, 2013 |
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Sep 8, 2013 00:37
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TengenNewsEditor posted:This post has a list of some of the more important items that have changed in the Dom 4 beta. Notably the Ring of Sorcery now requires 7 Astral from 5, and the Ring of Wizardry requires Astral 8 from 6. This affects the Magic Path Booster Guide in the OP. It is literally a quote from a post earlier in this very thread.
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Sep 8, 2013 00:38
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I looked through the links in the OP but didn't see it so apologies if this is a dumb question: Is there any sort of babbys first Dom3/4 tutorial? There's a ton of info to internalize before you even click play so stuff like how to build a non-retarded pretender and how to actually play the drat game is sort of hard to decipher.
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Sep 8, 2013 00:52
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JoshTheStampede posted:I looked through the links in the OP but didn't see it so apologies if this is a dumb question: Is there any sort of babbys first Dom3/4 tutorial? There's a ton of info to internalize before you even click play so stuff like how to build a non-retarded pretender and how to actually play the drat game is sort of hard to decipher. I'm going through this now. There's a tutorial in the Dom 3 manual for really basic stuff. For learning Pretender builds there are some nations guides here: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=38122. The guides are not always completely coherent, but reading the comments on each one provides a basic understanding of the different ways to go with pretender builds - often SC builds that depend on attacking with your pretender early vs Bless builds that take 9 levels in one or two magic scales on an Imprisoned Pretender.
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Sep 8, 2013 01:12
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I learned much of what I know from this Let's Play. http://lparchive.org/Dominions-3/Update%2001/
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Sep 8, 2013 14:44
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amuayse posted:I learned much of what I know from this Let's Play. Ye, read some LPs and you're good to go. The original one as far as I know, newbie Rlyeh by Matrix. Some useful mechanics posts at the bottom, also Builds as Hinnom explains a lot (though he's very verbose). Wiki, still very handy. And you can always ask things in here! We've started two test games, so people will probably comment some on differences between dom 3 and 4.
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Sep 8, 2013 16:39
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Benagain posted:Is dom 4 any fun to gently caress around with in single player or is this still an entirely multiplayer game? Most goons swear by multiplayer and it is very fun, but I never had the time to handle games, they can become time intensive as the game goes on. I always had fun in single player.
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Sep 8, 2013 16:41
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I'm not serious about multiplayer in Dom4, but I can have fun in both playmodes. Single-player can be entertaining (especially if you want to broaden your horizons by trying out new strategies you aren't sure of against the computer), but it can get pretty grating if you take a bunch of turns in a row, so you might want to consider breaks. Single-player is definitely aided by the various micro-reducing features of Dom4, and hotseat co-op might be pretty fun. I'm gonna start a local disciples game later today, and I think it'll work pretty well.
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Sep 8, 2013 17:26
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I imagine single player will be more interesting now since the AI actually stands a chance of winning the thrones victory condition.
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Sep 8, 2013 17:40
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The Ryleh LP isn't a newbie game. Though I believe he's not particularly experienced with EA Ryleh.
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Sep 8, 2013 18:43
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There are some pretty cool main screen backgrounds... e: not the best screenshot of this horizon though  Speleothing posted:The Ryleh LP isn't a newbie game. Though I believe he's not particularly experienced with EA Ryleh. It totally is. He put it on the wiki as "Dominions 3 Newbie Game" TheDemon fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Sep 8, 2013 |
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Sep 8, 2013 18:49
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uPen posted:The developers ditched Shrapnel (and their insane pricing model) some time ago. Dom3 has been sold for as low as $10 and dom4 is launching at $35. So... does that mean there's no hope for ordering a physical copy? 
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Sep 8, 2013 19:29
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Alehkhs posted:So... does that mean there's no hope for ordering a physical copy? 
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Sep 8, 2013 20:08
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Pierzak posted:Come on, you've had that option for years I meant for Dom4. v  v
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Sep 8, 2013 20:28
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Yeah, looks like Dominions has going all-digital. People have been bugging me for literal years about this, so yesterday I finally said gently caress it and drew up a draft of EA Muspelheim for Dom4. It needs sprites desperately but the troop stats are done and all. I'm working on the descriptions right now. I guess I'm looking for a sprite artist volunteer before I try recoloring Niefel sprites red or something.
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Sep 8, 2013 20:40
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Had a spare half hour, made a thing. I don't have time to do all of them, but maybe it'll inspire someone or something.
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Sep 8, 2013 21:32
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That's incredible. Do you have that in .rgb or .tga (which are the only formats dom4 accepts) or the base file for that matter (psd or whatever)?
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Sep 8, 2013 21:42
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What exactly are the UI improvements? The ones that I'm aware of are: More detailed report screen Can set newly produced mages to auto research Can set your production queues to loop Can enable an end of turn warning for idle commanders
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Sep 8, 2013 23:24
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Charez posted:What exactly are the UI improvements? The ones that I'm aware of are: Mage paths displayed on icon Many improvements to army setup screen, including commander in-combat orders. Servers you connect to are listed in a recent connections list so you don't need a separate shortcut for every MP game you're in. Improved orders screen for commanders. Spell info screens are vastly improved with more information. Monthly Forging
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Sep 8, 2013 23:45
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TheDemon posted:People have been bugging me for literal years about this, so yesterday I finally said gently caress it and drew up a draft of EA Muspelheim for Dom4. If you want to just tell me what sprites you want to recolor or alter, and how, I would work on it in my free time. My custom stuff hasn't always been popular with the community, but I could do simple recolors and alters without upsetting anyone I think. Some stuff I did if you don't remember.  You can just email me at dominions4stuff at google mail if you are interested.
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Sep 9, 2013 00:42
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I was always really impressed with your arco sprites they're beautifully done.
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Sep 9, 2013 01:04
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