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Old September 24th, 2003, 10:13 AM

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Default non duplicate races, game design choice?

I always wondered why it was not allowed in Doms I, and wont be too in Doms II, to have duplicated races in a same game.

I suspect it is a game design choice, and not a technical one. But I fail to get strong arguments against having duplicates... on the one hand perhaps too many people would play the same races (but it seems that most people have a differing prefered race), on the other hand it would lend to even funnier scenarios to be set.

is it a feature which can * possibly * makes its appearance in a patch, someday ?

Would some of the IW team care to elaborate ?

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Old September 24th, 2003, 02:05 PM

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Default Re: non duplicate races, game design choice?

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I always wondered why it was not allowed in Doms I, and wont be too in Doms II, to have duplicated races in a same game.

I suspect it is a game design choice, and not a technical one. But I fail to get strong arguments against having duplicates... on the one hand perhaps too many people would play the same races (but it seems that most people have a differing prefered race), on the other hand it would lend to even funnier scenarios to be set.

is it a feature which can * possibly * makes its appearance in a patch, someday ?

Would some of the IW team care to elaborate ?
It was more than 5 years ago since that particular decision was made, so it is a bit difficult to recall the original reason was. But, if I recall correctly, we liked the feature in VGA planets. Even if I dont recall the original reason I still think it is a good setup, for the reasons you mentioned above as well as a few others. And at this stage there are technical reasons as well since it would require work on the GUI, how would multiple players of the same nation be represented on the map? in the score graphs? it would also cause incosistancies in the text etc I do not think the cause for changing the way it is is particularily strong either, so I think that the advantages of keeping the current setup and the work required for changing it makes it highly unlikely it will ever be changed.
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Default Re: non duplicate races, game design choice?

Personally, I like the setup as-is...although, a Pythium civil war scenario would be cool (An Empire Divided )
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Default Re: non duplicate races, game design choice?

Living Ermor vs Pythium?
Well, it could simulate Pythian Civil War to some extent.

In fact, you gave me inspiration for a map.
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Default Re: non duplicate races, game design choice?

I think on this I'm with cpbeller - I kinda like that you can't have the same nation twice.
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