Dominion Score Chart

[DonCorazon]

Anyone know how the dominion number that shows up in the score charts (and can be seen niftily in Llamaserver's game stats) calculated?

Thanks.

[Szumo]

Straight count of candles, AFAIK.

[Zeldor]

I really doubt it.

[capnq]

IIRC, the Dominion score is (10+candles) for each province with your dominion. (I think I read that somewhere on these forums a long time ago.)

[Gandalf Parker]

You mean like this?
http://www.dom3minions.com/games/Fallacy/scores.html

The game itself creates that, in html (web format). You can even get it in games you run on your own machine by running the game with the --scoredump switch. Add it to your dom3 shortcut if you want your games to generate one each turn.

[llamabeast]

I also think I read somewhere that it's (10+candles) for provinces with your Dominion, as capnq says.

[DonCorazon]

Thanks - just looking at one of my games, that formula seems to come close ( +/- a couple, which could just be me missing something), assuming that black candles count as a negative for provinces you own.

[DonCorazon]

You mean like this?
http://www.dom3minions.com/games/Fallacy/scores.html

The game itself creates that, in html (web format). You can even get it in games you run on your own machine by running the game with the --scoredump switch. Add it to your dom3 shortcut if you want your games to generate one each turn.

thanks Gandalf - I haven't played a game on your server so didn't know it could calculate the scores too. The --scoredump is a great tip for my own games. I am pretty technologically illiterate but assume that there is a way to add that to the run line in the shortcut properties on windows?

Any other recommended things people typically run while playing Dom?

[Gandalf Parker]

Well when I right-click my desktop shortcut and click on "Properties" my run line shows up as this...
"C:\Program Files\dominions3\dom3.exe" -fwacd --clickvol 10 --magicsites 65 --renaming --scoredump --indepstr 7 --hofsize 15 --eventrarity 1

(notice that the command switches are AFTER the second quote mark)
These switches read as...
-f no fade ins and fade outs
-w run in windowed mode
-a no animated backgrounds on menus
-c no end credits screen when I leave
-d turn on low level debug to a log file

-clickvol set the clicky volume lower

then various game settings that I got tired of changing for every game that I started on my machine. It still shows that screen so I can change them if I want for one game. But it sets the defaults more toward things I prefer, such as making the Hall of Heroes default to 15 intead of 10 and turning on renaming.

Here is a complete list of the switches.
http://www.dom3minions.com/docs/CommandLine.txt

Gandalf Parker

[Gandalf Parker]

I also have an icon that has these switches...
"C:\Program Files\dominions3\dom3.exe" -fwacd --clickvol 10 --scoredump --statfile --preexec preexec.bat --postexec postexec.bat asdf

I often name my solo games "asdf" so this icon takes me directly into my latest game. The preexec.bat makes backups of each turn, and the postexec.bat makes a sound to let me know that the turn has processed. Since I play on mega maps (1500 provinces) with all the nations and many extra features it can take up to 10 minutes to process a turn in late game.

[Gandalf Parker]

And another shortcut with a different icon. One that looks like a network. The switches on that shortcut is this..
"C:\Program Files\dominions3\dom3.exe" -fawcd --tcpclient --ipadr game.dom3minions.com --port 9876

It changes the IP and Port to take me directly to a server game. Having a seperate icon for each game saves having to remember and type in the address for each game I might be playing in when its running on someone elses machine.

[JimMorrison]

You are a beautiful man, Gandalf.