Are there any existing guides discussing race specific startegies?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by SelfishGene:

Against AI. Not vs. other human players. The AI doesn't seem very competitive on bidding for merc contracts on the lower difficulty levels.

Are you sure about this? I've found the AI to bid rather aggressively on merc contracts, and most of them are already hired before the price drops to a range that's reasonable. Not so in any of the MP games I've found: Most of the time, the mercs go unhired for a few turns, which drops their prices into bargain-basement levels.

[rabelais]

Dominions X has a fair number of Race specific Guides.

I suspect some of them may date from Dom1, but I bet they will still be helpful


Rabe the Antiquarian


http://www.dominionsx.com/guides.html

[SelfishGene]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Are you sure about this? I've found the AI to bid rather aggressively on merc contracts, and most of them are already hired before the price drops to a range that's reasonable. Not so in any of the MP games I've found: Most of the time, the mercs go unhired for a few turns, which drops their prices into bargain-basement levels.

I hire mercs as soon as they come on the market whatever their initial asking price, partly because if you wait the AI will indeed hire them up. AI tends to bid, as far as i can tell, about 1 over the current bid. So if a Merc company wants 400, and you bid 400, you'll almost always lose the bid (and likewise for rehiring). But the AI never really competes with you for a contract, thus my comment. If rampaging an AI with merc armies it won't bid 500-600$ for a 400$ contract to steal them from your service, something a human player is likely to do.

As long as your bid is 3-5% over asking price, you always seem to take the bid. In my current PBeM game mercs tend to have been bid upon rather competitively; one bid i made that was 100 over asking failed. Bidding is harsh in multi because your money may not be working for you if the bid fails, where instead you could be more dependably hiring casters or units, and the whole games' pace feels more pressing. Whereas with the AI your bid is assured if a bid is within the range above (at least at Normal and below).

[ March 12, 2004, 00:50: Message edited by: SelfishGene ]

[GavinWheeler]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by GavinWheeler:
We don't all have always-on broadband access!

This is the 21st century, you should. Even in the remote boondocks of Wales!

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Try telling that to British Telecom!

See, I don't mean that we haven't bothered to get it, but rather that we cannot get it yet, unless we go for an insanely expensive satellite option.

BT won't upgrade our phone exchange to enable ADSL unless we get another two hundred or so people in the area to register their interest in Broadband, and most of the locals are old dears who think 'broadband' refers to some variety of hernia girdle.