OT - Dominions: Preists, Prophets & Pretenders

Nerfix · #1 September 14th, 2003, 12:12 PM

My favorite pretender/nation combo is Arch Seraph with lots of diffrent paths of magic(so called Rainbow Mage) and Caelum. Whopping gem income= lots of summons and lots of neat magical items. Fire and earth gems can be turned to money too.

PvK · #2 September 15th, 2003, 03:15 AM

Giving missile shields to heroes and having archers only fire at commanders are work-arounds, but they only go so far. Not being able to have archers and melee engage the main enemy body without frequent "friendly fire" is my main gripe with the tactical AI.

PvK

Pocus · #3 September 15th, 2003, 08:52 AM

but PvK, friendly fire was and is a reality. Just remember the examples we saw in Afghanistan and Irak. Even with precise armaments, there was still casualties from friendly fire.
The problem is that most of the games gave us the bad habit to fire at will, and magically our troops would not be harmed.

You find your archers too stupids? Aside from the fact that the AI in doms II is augmented when it comes to targeting, the problem lie perhaps because you ask too much of them. Historically, a commander would ask his archers to rain arrows upon the enemy, and stop when melee start. In dominions you could just do that, and this is not workarounds IMO : ask for firing at commanders (rear area), or ask to fire and flee (so they fire 2 rounds). I must recon though that the best order would be to fire X rounds then stop. Dont know if it will be available in doms II.

the main forum (most Posts) about dominions is a newsgroup, for those interested :
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic

you can also fire google (dejanews) and search topics in this newsgroup, for example 'ermor pretender'.

MythicalMino · #4 September 15th, 2003, 03:33 PM

hmmmm...still no info as to Shrapnel Games publishing Dominions 2....or it going to print....or anything from shrapnelgames for that matter.....

does anyone out there know anything about what is going on?

Pocus · #5 September 15th, 2003, 04:34 PM

Lets start the ritual of 'Invoke Johan Osterman' then!

Johaaaaaan Johaaaaaan Johaaaaaan Johaaaaaan Johaaaaaan Johaaaaaan weeeee neeeeeed youuuuuuu !!!

Nerfix · #6 September 15th, 2003, 05:03 PM

Johan, Johan, Johan, Johan, Johan...
Did you know that Illwinter has it's own logo at the game? IW is learning to play like big boys!

Richard · #7 September 15th, 2003, 05:16 PM

It will be announced this week. These things take time to do properly.