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B0rsuk · #1 July 3rd, 2007, 12:13 PM

Nations are now quite a bit more diverse. For example instead of Sorcery/Elemental/Everything randoms you now have arbitrary random magic. In addition, all independent mages got nerfed, so your initial choice of nation matters much more.
Many nations now have nation-specific spells. Pythium and Marignon can summon angels, Mictlan got variety of crazy demon summons.

No nation/variant is now required to have specific scales. You don't have to take Turmoil as Spring&Autumn.

Random map generator creates very enjoyable maps, and they even look decent.

About 2x more gold and reasources = much bigger conventional armies. Magic research 2x harder.

AI now builds castles.

Sombre · #2 July 3rd, 2007, 12:16 PM

Who could resist B0rsuk's badgery charm?

Morkilus · #3 July 3rd, 2007, 12:40 PM

With NONE of the new nations, spells, and random stuff, I would still not go back to Dom2 after the improvements in this new version. Since it's a given that I play Dominions quite a bit, it's been the best computer game buy since... Dom2 for me.

Before 2004, it might have been Master of Orion 2, Master of Magic, or Warlords Battlecry 2. So you know where I'm coming from.

llamabeast · #4 July 4th, 2007, 10:17 AM

Re the "dead water" request - how about setting income, resources and magic sites for all water provinces to zero? Should be easy to do with map commands I think, and also I think it would be easy to write a script to automatically make the change to any map.

Of course, amphibious creatures could still walk across the sea floor, but that seems like it might be okay? If not, you could quite easily just mod out all the amphibious creatures. In fact, that would also be easy to do and even to automate, using Edi's excellent database.

Let me know if you'd like me to have a go at doing these things, it might be an interesting little thing to do. Not that I'd want dead seas myself.