Impartial MASTER LIST of issues/problems

[st.patrik]

Originally posted by Wendigo:
It's a known rule regarding statistics that whoever writes the questions is determining strongly the results of the poll.

In the one previously mentioned the outcome was obvious:

Graphics, music & UI had seriously improved from Dom I, and it is too early to judge balance (and this was pretty correct in Dom I, while some nations & designs were stronger all nations were playable)...this only left AI.

No offense meant to the guys that enjoy launching polls, but their use to support a personal PoV is debatable at the very least. I much rather prefer an argumented post.

A simple example:
Do you prefer to pay a) 80% taxes to the Government or b) 60% taxes?. Voters will rationally opt for b), but you cannot conclude from that that voters _want_ to pay 60% taxes.

On that note if anyone put forward one of these and thinks it could be stated more clearly, please feel free to suggest a better way to articulate it.

[MythicalMino]

research point locks for magic school research in the lab

[Mortifer]

Originally posted by st.patrik:

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Originally posted by MStavros:
Nice list.
patrik, Mortifer's Poll is sorta about that.

What should IW improve in Dominions II.?

GFX 4% (2)
Music & SFX 2% (1)
AI 67% (32)
Game balance 10% (5)
UI (User Interface) 35% (17)


32 had voted for the AI.

Thanks

And you're right, Mortifer's Poll was something like this. It just didn't have all the things people have since then mentioned. Also some of the things on his list haven't been raised as major concerns by anyone (at least as far as I know) - I'm thinking here of GFX and SFX particularly. So I guess I figured an update was ok - no offense intended at all to you, Mortifer, if you're reading this.

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Its all cool man, we do need polls. That is the best way for the Devs to know that what the players want.

[st.patrik]

Originally posted by cpbeller:
research point locks for magic school research in the lab

I forgot that one. And I also added starting with a "nation" in the sense of more than one province, which is being talked about here. Here's the updated list:

• Strategic AI
• SP diplomacy
• Increased battle replay functionality (various speeds, etc.)
• Castle battle results
• More than one god for each nation
• Darker colours/textures in unit displays
• Bug fixes
• Moddability
• Alignment of stats in unit info screens
• Less focus on supercombatants
• More regrowth possibilities / less emphasis on population death
• Ability to search for items on commanders
• '?' accessible on main menu
• Newbie demo 'get started' guide (& perhaps quick start game?)
• End/quit/save/host button remake
• research point 'lock' for schools of magic
• Enhanced start (more than one province)

Any more? Post 'em here.

[ October 29, 2003, 16:01: Message edited by: st.patrik ]

[st.patrik]

Kristoffer, I'm thinking that it may be helpful to divide this list into a 'Major feature addition' list [read "lots of work"] and a 'Minor tweak' list [read "less work"]. What do you think? And if you think this would be helpful, maybe you could help say which are which?

[Mortifer]

Originally posted by st.patrik:
Kristoffer, I'm thinking that it may be helpful to divide this list into a 'Major feature addition' list [read "lots of work"] and a 'Minor tweak' list [read "less work"]. What do you think? And if you think this would be helpful, maybe you could help say which are which?

I second this.

However I think that everyone have their own answers. [Propably we know what is the most important thing anyways.]

[ October 29, 2003, 16:15: Message edited by: Mortifer ]

[Wendigo]

Leave it as it is, even sorting the list in 2 Groups would reflect a personal bias.

Rather let the devs decide from the input in other threads whether something needs to be tweaked, (or not) & how much...just leave it at a list of issues raised by fans.

Something that some old timers miss from Dom I:

Renaming (or tags) for roleplay/MM reduction.