Kristoffer's encouragement thread

Kristoffer O · #1 March 6th, 2007, 03:39 PM

> 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 · #2 March 6th, 2007, 03:42 PM

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 · #3 March 6th, 2007, 03:58 PM

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 · #4 March 6th, 2007, 04:03 PM

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 · #5 March 6th, 2007, 04:12 PM

> 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 · #6 March 6th, 2007, 04:22 PM

Thanks Kristoffer for not forgetting Dominions!

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

K · #7 March 6th, 2007, 04:29 PM

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 · #8 March 6th, 2007, 04:35 PM

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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.

Sombre · #9 March 6th, 2007, 04:41 PM

Edi: There's a mod which fixes bless.

Edi · #10 March 6th, 2007, 05:10 PM

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Sombre said:
Edi: There's a mod which fixes bless.

Yeah, I know about that one. It's great thing to have in the interim but the actual issue needs fixing still. But now that the actual location of the problem is known, the fix shouldn't be too much work.

Edi