Dominions 2 Demo Review

[Arryn]

Originally posted by PvK:
In this case, there is no need to force missile units to have such a large chance of killing their own men. Even from a pure "fun" perspective, it's not fun to excessively kill your own men in silly circumstance, like when there is one limping enemy spearman running away and your archers kill a dozen of your own elite pursuers by taking pot shots at long range. That problem isn't helping anything.

The solution which has been suggested many times increases fun, reduces micromanagement, makes sense, is realistic and even historically accurate: Have archers only shoot when they will have near-zero chance of killing their own men!

It would also be possible to reduce the entire-army-missing spread of missile attacks, and have the chance of affecting a target in the hit square reduced - it would look a lot less silly, reduce unintended casualties, without making the weapons more effective than intended.

PvK

Very well said. I agree with you 100%, oddly enough. And thanks for the reasoned and polite response.


Cheers!

[Fyron]

Exactly what I was talking about...

[PvK]

Yes, that's the one complaint of yours that I agree is an important issue, and the only thing I find really problematic in Dominions. There are some ways to avoid friendly fire, but it's still a hassle and a problem.

Aside from the issues of taste, you made some other good points too of course (e.g. castle defense stats should be clearly shown from the selection list) but those I agree with fall under "there are tons of details to be learned, many of which aren't (well) documented, but part of the fun is the continuous and unending adventure of discovering the enormous quantity of details."

PvK

[Johan K]

Fyron, when will we get the score?

[Fyron]

Still have not decided yet...