New to Dom 3

[Edi]

If you want a tougher AI for single player games, try the Better Independents mod. Once you learn to deal with the AI, you will soon get tired of every AI nation having the same horde of independents and the BI mod forces the AI to use national troops due to ´cost issues.

Just be real careful with the enslave mind and charm spells if you use the gold version of BI or you'll go bankrupt in no time flat.

[Torin]

Wich bless is better is a personal matter to judge. I like B9 D9 with mictlan. Mainly because that scare off big monsters (other players combat pretenders). And regular armies are no problem for the jaguars.

Against the AI the standard F9 W9 is better as it adresses wiping hordes of weak units.

[thejeff]

The standard Neifel bless is E9Nx. Water might be nice, but isn't really needed. The cold aura kills, not the axe strokes. Regen, reinvig and the extra protection keep them alive long enough for the cold to work. In fact, W9 means they do pick up a fatigue since the reinvig isn't enough to cancel out the extra attacks. They start with fairly low defense and get swarmed so the defense bonus from the lesser W bless doesn't really help much.

That leaves you with more pretender points for halfway decent scales.

You can give Neifel Jarls reinvig gear so they can cast Quicken Self and lots of other buffs.

[HoneyBadger]

E9N6 is probably the most competitive. Any more Nature gets expensive fast (and not everyone likes Berserk on their Sacreds). Less, and you're down to 5% Regen, which is almost not worth it.

[ScottWAR]

I am going to be purchasing Dom 3 in a few days as well. It seems the release of elemental was a good thing for Dom 3.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by ScottWAR

I am going to be purchasing Dom 3 in a few days as well. It seems the release of elemental was a good thing for Dom 3.

LOL
Hmmm....
I hadnt considered that. All thru the development of Elemental I understand that Dom3 was often used in comparison. There might be some direct fallout.

Im still hopeful but so far Elemental seems like an example of what I refer to often when people say they are thinking about buying Dom3. "Ive paid as much for games that lasted a month on my machine, but Dom3 has lasted for years." So far Im still waiting to be convinced that this is more than a one-month game.

The only other great example of those-other-games that Elemental could be is if within a month someone posted an always-win walk-thru.

[HoneyBadger]

Gandalf: It is a "more than a one month" game, in that you apparently have to wait "more than one month" after you purchase it, for the devs to render it playable.

While that's happening, Stardock thoughtfully encourages you to explore their interactive adventure, "Adventures in Betatesting!", an exciting massive multiplayer for fans and ex-fans of the game, that Stardock actually plays with you.

It has immense replayability for potentially years to come, as you get to help Stardock magically transform broken and absent lines of code into a working game, right before your very eyes.

So it's really 2 games for the price of one.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

Gandalf: It is a "more than a one month" game, in that you apparently have to wait "more than one month" after you purchase it, for the devs to render it playable.

Well at least you apparently get ONE FULL YEAR of FREE updates and patches.
So I guess as long as they get it working before that year is over then people wont be able to complain TOO much.

While that's happening, Stardock thoughtfully encourages you to explore their interactive adventure, "Adventures in Betatesting!", an exciting massive multiplayer for fans and ex-fans of the game, that Stardock actually plays with you.

Playing with the devs is usually a benefit of being in a beta-test group. Im not sure how well that will work with an open beta like Elementals to play in every game. But there are people here who have espoused the wonderful benefits of a fully open beta where the devs can suffer the slings and arrows of their loyal and caring fanbase. I am sure that polished company such as StarDock will be showing us the right way to do such things just as they led the way to a download system that all of the small game companies will (or should be) duplicating soon.


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[HoneyBadger]

I have to say, I loathe their download "system".

Originally, yes, it was great--you could download the game directly off of their site, with the CD key. No muss, no fuss. Worthy of duplication, I totally agree.

Now, though, Stardock has switched to an incredibly bad 3rd party that forces you to download what I can only assume is an "adware made easy" program from a site absolutely bloated with web advertizements, which didn't even work, and which not only wasted my time, but forced me to run extensive scans.

I could live with an advert page, but not with this kind of strongarm tactic in partnership with a 3rd party I don't even know.

I emailed Stardock directly, hoping that if I provided them my CD key, they could just email me the game, but they were incredibly unhelpful.

It's just another good start that they've made, and then outright ruined, without any consideration for their fanbase, even a proven customer.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

It's just another good start that they've made, and then outright ruined, without any consideration for their fanbase, even a proven customer.

Sorry. I forgot to add the sarcasm smiley.
I know that its very rare that I post sarcastically.

For so long we kept seeing here "how come Shrapnel cant offer digital like Steam or Stardock" as if it was some sort of major news that such things were being done.