Kristoffer's encouragement thread

[DrPraetorious]

KO - hang in there, in just another couple of weeks the sun will rise.

I have been greatly enjoying the game and have found these last several patches to be excellent.

I'll register one vote for ignoring QM/CB entirely. I think you guys do a much better job than he does.

[merlinme]

I'd strongly support making the game (and in particular, the AI), more moddable. If you look at what has been achieved with a game like Hearts of Iron II, it's impressive how big an improvement has been made to the AI just by allowing modders to tweak things like aggressiveness, build queues, research queues, etc.

Not everything can be fixed this way, but you can definitely improve the challenge the AI gives to a human player. And the best part of it is, most of the work is done for you, for free!

[Kristoffer O]

> I'll register one vote for ignoring QM/CB entirely. I think you guys do a much better job than he does.

No way, QM had a big role in the beta testing balancing. His work is good, although I havn't peeked at the CB for quite a while.

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Man is not called man as in human male. More like man as in Isle of Man or something. A place, not a gender or a race.

I pronounce it with a long 'a'. Like in 'bar', 'lard', 'bard' etc. Maan. But I'm swedish.

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Cavemen will appear in many forms if and when I finish Gath.

[Kristoffer O]

Modding stuff is good, but it is JK's business. I only read code. No actual programming, apart from adding stats, spells and nations.

[Sombre]

One other thing I'm sure the residents of the mod forum are interested in: Can we expect clean Dom3 unit sprites to be available at some point? It would make the lives of modders much, much easier and I remember someone mentioning in a thread over there that you planned on releasing the images,.. maybe?

Hmm. That sounded more like a nagging request than encouragement. My bad. Soo,.. Wow us with flavoury Gath-y goodness! Dom3 is up there with master of magic as one of my all time favourites.

[Taqwus]

Perhaps I've a sadistic streak, but I really enjoy watching massed archers wipe out enemy formations with flaming arrows or scattering them with chariots.

[Kristoffer O]

> One other thing I'm sure the residents of the mod forum are interested in: Can we expect clean Dom3 unit sprites to be available at some point? It would make the lives of modders much, much easier and I remember someone mentioning in a thread over there that you planned on releasing the images,.. maybe?

Actually it's something I have intended to do. I'm not sure if it is possible, but I vaguely recollect that JK made some function to that end. So the nagging is quite OK.

[SelfishGene]

Thanks Kristoffer for not forgetting Dominions!

Maybe, perhaps, you could bring back the proper holy/unholy icons

[K]

Kristoffer, this game is fantastic. Anytime that someone asks for a downward "balance change", I'd like you to feel free to ignore them.

Now that I have Lanka, I'm a happy man. I get my cake and I can eat it too! (Mmmm, monkey cake...) Keep up the good work with the new factions.

That being said, if you'd like to make some more troops for middle-era Agartha, I'd be as happy as a puppy. They are a little light on troops.

[Meglobob]

K said:
Kristoffer, this game is fantastic. Anytime that someone asks for a downward "balance change", I'd like you to feel free to ignore them.

Can I second this.

So many people complain about 'balance' and this usually results in a unit, spell etc... being nerfed, made vastly inferior than it was. This happens time and time again until eventually the game does become 'balanced', in such a way that noone plays it anymore, cause its boring. I have seen so many good games spoiled this way.