Hi there; your happy moderator/designer here..

[StormcloudCreations]

I was happily playing Overlord. When I needed to quit the game, I always Saved and Exited. Til now...
Please at least add a "Are You Sure?" before allowing the player to destroy everything with 1 inadvertant click!

Probably a good idea, though I tried to separate the buttons enough so that "accidental" clicks didn't happen. Saved games are deleted when they're loaded again in all 4 of the games in the Thunder Pack (to prevent save/reload cheating), so always be careful to save your game when you have to leave if you want to continue it later on. I'll have to remember to add a "Are You Sure?" pop-up box in future games when quitting.

One more thing... the town size (600) needed to win seems way too small. I never had an opportunity to even visit any of my towns! How about an option to set this to at least 5000?

You're having an easy time getting to 600? Most players when I beta tested the game found 600 for each town as goal to be a real challenge, requiring several hours and a fair number of setbacks at the least to get there. You must be a heck of a good Overlord player!

[Willgamer]

Hmmmmmm.... maybe I just got lucky!

It was my first "real" game after messing around with Overlord for a couple of hours. Based on that, my impressions were that: going to town was mostly too expensive; a strong military was the highest priority; a 500+ copper reserve was needed.

So initially I bought a military oriented general and troops (trying to keep the numbers of each type even). I clicked thru the months and if there was a copper surplus bought a building every couple of years starting with the military ones. I said Yes to all requests if I had the copper.

That's about it; I'll definitely try more games to see if it was a fluke...

In any case, I like the idea of these (relatively) quick to play games where losing is a definite possibility.

[StormcloudCreations]

Hmmmmmm.... maybe I just got lucky!
It was my first "real" game after messing around with Overlord for a couple of hours. Based on that, my impressions were that: going to town was mostly too expensive; a strong military was the highest priority; a 500+ copper reserve was needed.

Visting town functions are necessary most of the time though for the smoothest game. You can get a stronger feeling how a town is actually doing with the leader's feedback, and change the internal functioning of a town (shift the priority more towards military, trading, or farming), gain money through extra taxes for a time if you need the money, attract more people to the city, and other things. Yes, a strong military in each city is important, and yes, keeping an extra copper reserve is essential.

I said Yes to all requests if I had the copper.

Well, this is generally good, but don't put yourself out too much for the leaders; they may grow to depend too much on you and put you in a bad spot financially at some point. And make sure that you aren't just bailing out a dumb leader that isn't doing a good job; keep their stats in your head, esp. Intelligence and Honor. You don't always necessarily want to be funding a "ruthless dictator", so to speak.

Thanks for your feedback! If you have thoughts or questions on any of the other games, feel free to post them.

[mlmbd]

I actually 'WON' my first game of "Domain Wars". Oh yeah, Baby! I am just so, COOL! OK, don't ask about the other 3 games, YET!

mlmbd

[StormcloudCreations]

Good job! Congrats! Now when you win any 2 of the other 3 games, only THEN you'll get the medal of strategy gaming mastery. (Nanotech is the toughest game, just so you know; only 12 of my 50 original beta testers were able to win a game, though they had fun trying).

[mlmbd]

Now when you win any 2 of the other 3 games, only THEN you'll get the medal of strategy gaming mastery.

Wow! A medal! I'm in.

mlmbd

[StormcloudCreations]

Wow! A medal! I'm in.

Well...how about a hearty pat on the back and a handshake instead (about all my budget allows).