Dom III sitll gets some parental attention

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Bananadine

How did that feature work?

Pretty much like most games. You could create a playable map that sets all the game variables including the opponents. It would allow every map to have a variations file that pretty much makes it a game just to play the map.

For Dom2 I had a few even though the options were much less than Dom3 would have allowed.
http://www.dom3minions.com/~minion/Indeps.shtml
http://www.dom3minions.com/~minion/WEvsTHEM.shtml
Ive played Dom3 versions of both of them which are lots of fun in Dom3. They can be setup (with some headaches) on servers for multiplay, but there is no way to package it for download and play without alot of headaches.

[Bananadine]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Pretty much like most games. You could create a playable map that sets all the game variables including the opponents. It would allow every map to have a variations file that pretty much makes it a game just to play the map.

Well it's already a game to play a game on a map. But you're saying it'd be a game that the map creator had an extraordinary amount of control over? Because they would have picked victory conditions and research speed and AI nations and AI pretenders etc. (Although I guess some of those things can already be set in a map?)

[Tollund]

That one is absolutely needed to make blood nations have less insane micromanagement. For the cost of two scouts and about a minute per blood hunting province you currently get exactly the same thing. Just make the slaves get deposited at the beginning of each turn. It would also make ensuring that Mictlan priests had slaves less of a nightmare.

[Gandalf Parker]

Id still rather see the promised scenarios feature restored that Dom2 had and Dom3 broke.
That would provide a far extended life to this game which would be a nice parting shot prior to unveiling the new game.

[vfb]

Originally Posted by Tollund

That one is absolutely needed to make blood nations have less insane micromanagement. For the cost of two scouts and about a minute per blood hunting province you currently get exactly the same thing. Just make the slaves get deposited at the beginning of each turn. It would also make ensuring that Mictlan priests had slaves less of a nightmare.

So what happens to the slaves I've got on my blood-hunting mage that I want him to cast Leech, or Life for a Life with, to defend my province from raiders?

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by vfb

So what happens to the slaves I've got on my blood-hunting mage that I want him to cast Leech, or Life for a Life with, to defend my province from raiders?

If the slaves were already in his inventory, nothing, since the idea is for the slaves from bloodhunts to go directly to the lab, not go to the hunter then be pooled to the lab.

The case where you needed to blood hunt to get slaves to cast scripted spells to defend yourself the very turn you hunted them,.. well that's a marginal case and would be sacrificed in the name of massively reducing blood micro and saving players hours and hours of time.

[Tollund]

Originally Posted by vfb

So what happens to the slaves I've got on my blood-hunting mage that I want him to cast Leech, or Life for a Life with, to defend my province from raiders?

Have them be deposited at the very end of turn processing, after all battles are completed. That would be a better point I think.

[vfb]

Originally Posted by Tollund

Have them be deposited at the very end of turn processing, after all battles are completed. That would be a better point I think.

I like Sombre's idea better actually, now that I understand it. Having the blood slave income sucked into the lab (just like gems go from sites to the lab) sounds like an awesome plan.

[Sir_Dr_D]

Not just blood slaves. Any time any sort of gem is auto produced , from clams or what not, they should by auto deposited in the lab. This is a simple thing to implement that would improve the game immensly.

[Psycho]

Originally Posted by vfb

I like Sombre's idea better actually, now that I understand it. Having the blood slave income sucked into the lab (just like gems go from sites to the lab) sounds like an awesome plan.

The problem is that this makes blood-hunting much safer - you cannot lose harvested blood slaves due to someone attacking your province on that turn. So, in order not to break current mechanics, it would need to be done after the battles phase.