Dominions 3, in Computer Games Magazine: Most...

[Endoperez]

Nerfix said:
Was the picture from Dom III?

Damn, I really have to try and find that magazine! Where in Finland can you get it? Book shops in big cities? Or was the picture online?

BTW, here are some statistics:
89332 posts total (more when you are reading this, of course). The first posts that appear are 27 months old. This gives us average of (89332 posts / 27 months) 3300 posts per month, or about 110 posts/day. The real number is little less, probably, but even with 28 months the post count is 106/day. Not bad at all. Today, there have already been about 40 posts, in two days there have been 86. So yes, there aren't nearly as many posters as there used to be... but the Old Ones will return.

How many of us even remember Saber Cherry? She took a pause of at least half a year. And she is one of the most mathematically productive people I know of. Besides that, she did the Battle Simulator, which gave lots of raw data on units and their combat effectiveness. I never used her statistics, but they were very interesting to read, and were quite informative.

[Truper]

I think Johan O. has it right. I still read the forum regularly, and contribute fairly often, but not so much as I used to (not that I was ever one of the top contributors). This is mostly because it has all been said already...

[Agrajag]

Maybe everyone is just out playing CivIV

[alexti]

I think many fans are just taking a break while waiting for Dom3. Personally, I'm enjoying vacation from Dominions. Playing so many MP games was quite stressful, and it will be good to come to Dom3 refreshed

[atul]

Apparently I'm not a rare case, taking a bit of a break from Dominions and just checking the forums every now and then for any new tidbits for Dom3. When it comes, I'm sure to buy it. And maybe get back into the habit of getting regularly beaten by Alexti. Hope not, bad for morale. :>

It's just that most discussions in the general forum feel like "been there, done that, at least several times", and I never caught on that modding stuff.

Old ones (neither the great nor we the lessers) aren't gone, just sleeping. When the stars are right, when the stars are right...

[Agrajag]

atul said:
And maybe get back into the habit of getting regularly beaten by Alexti. Hope not, bad for morale. :>

Lobotomize yourself, with Mindless status you'll never fail a morale throw.

I guess everyone is taking a break then...
Me too, actually, I go over the forums once in a while when I have nothing to do (it takes less than a minute anyway :\), but don't actually play the game. (Unless someone sparks my imagination with a new strategy or idea)
Its probably because, knowing that dominions 3 is coming, people don't want to feel like they are "wasting" their time on a game that will soon be almost completely abandoned.

[Endoperez]

atul said:
Old ones (neither the great nor we the lessers) aren't gone, just sleeping. When the stars are right, when the stars are right...

Sing that to the tune of ABBA!
"Can you hear our prayers, Cthulhu?
Deep in sunken R'lyeh waiting for the rightness of a star?
Where the Deep Ones worship Dagon, Mother Hydra in sea chambers built afar?"

Most of it fits into Dominions theme surprisingly well.

[atul]

Endoperez said: Sing that to the tune of ABBA!

ABBA? You sure do "carry on destroying without sanity or shame / Till the universe resounds with all the sounds of lost souls shrieking out in pain"!

Too bad the mp3 there had such a low volume, I upped the volume 100% and it still is quieter than my regulars...

Agrajag said: Lobotomize yourself,

Another theme-fitting advice. I might gladly take that option after ABBA, though. And here I thought I'd just need a little more practice and patience in playing the game...

Please excuse me while I push this sharpened pen through my eye to my frontal lobe...