Scout-triggered Wars and Longest Game

Norfleet · #1 March 18th, 2004, 10:34 PM

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Originally posted by NTJedi:
Almost always I play the large maps of 350 provinces or more.

Huge epic maps are always the way to go. Gotta have the huge epic maps. It just doesn't feel like conquering the world when the world is a puny little island.

Harmonist · #2 March 18th, 2004, 11:11 PM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by NTJedi:
Almost always I play the large maps of 350 provinces or more.

Huge epic maps are always the way to go. Gotta have the huge epic maps. It just doesn't feel like conquering the world when the world is a puny little island.

I find (at least with Dom1) that huge epic maps take way too much time and micromanagement to finish out, especially once its obvious that you'll win. With the 40-turn demo limit, it's hard to get a feel for how much better Dom2 is in this regard than Dom1. How does the micromanagement in Dom2 compare to Dom1?

Harmonist · #3 March 18th, 2004, 11:19 PM

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Originally posted by Johan K:

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Originally posted by Harmonist:

BTW, do mods work in the demo?

No.

Thank-you, Johan, for your comprehensive reply. Did you get a chance to read the email I sent a few days ago (Heavensong mod)?

Peace,

Karacan · #4 March 19th, 2004, 12:47 PM

The micromanagement is still there, but its gotten a lot better since Dom I. First off, you don't have to manually tax your provinces anymore to remain competitive - excess taxes of more than 100% seldom make sense anymore.
Second, the leader-overview helps you finding lost scouts quickly without having to go through all provinces on the map.
Third, the provinces now thankfully remember the paths of magic you used to search them. No more tedious excel-tables running in the background...

Helps a lot to tone down micromanagement. And you can store orders for leaders, you can assign a bunch of mages to cast rituals with two mouseclicks, and a lot of other nice features that drop down the micromanagement to bearable levels.

von_Schmidt · #5 March 20th, 2004, 02:20 AM

And don't forget the life saving (or at least time saving) 'N' key, which scrolls through all commanders on hide or defend orders!

Gandalf Parker · #6 March 20th, 2004, 08:27 PM

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Originally posted by Harmonist:

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Originally posted by Johan K:

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Originally posted by Harmonist:

BTW, do mods work in the demo?

No.
Thank-you, Johan, for your comprehensive reply.

Heehee. Johan K is the programmer for Dom2. Like many programmers his responses to Users tend to be... umm.... efficient. Like good code.

He does better than alot of the programmers Ive worked with.

Kristoffer O is a teacher and does most of the nation/unit designing. His responses tend to be more involved answers. Johan O (his brother) can be counted on for ongoing conversations.