Wish-List for Dominions 4 - Page 25

lch · #**241** August 8th, 2007, 03:40 PM

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Burnsaber said:
Please.. Just stop those Brigand Lairs. I'm gonna go postal soon if I find more Brigand Lairs in SP game I'm having (found 4! of them).

I can top that - five!

And I share your pain...

Burnsaber · #**242** August 9th, 2007, 03:28 AM

I can't believe this...

I just played some of the before-mentioned SP game I'm having and I conquered a province with a 100+ unrest. Unrest increasing site was a likely culprit but I didn't want to find more Brigand Lairs so I wanted to know if it increased by 5 every turn. So I patrol with my army and turn taxes to 0% and after couple of turns I see that it rises by 10 each turn. Yes! No Brigand Lair!

Perhaps.. It just might be Devil's Den? I find my monthly Bowl of Blood caster and make him target that province. I was so excited that I probably forgot to move all my troops before hitting end turn.

Next turn begins and I quickly check the Bowl of Blood report. He found 2 blood sites! Damn I'm excited! I get to see two cool blood sites! Oh, my innocent mind.. I quit message screen and hit the province in question. I click the new site icons..

BAM! THEY'RE BOTH BRIGAND LAIRS!

And a piece of soul died and withered away..

That's what you get for using blood magic, kids.

I was stunned. I just quit the game and deleted it afterwards. There is no way I'll be playing that game again.

I know that this no suggestion and is a bit off-topic but I just had to share this.

BigDisAwesome · #**243** August 9th, 2007, 03:58 PM

Not to laugh at your misfortune, but that is funny.

YuanShi · #**244** August 10th, 2007, 10:21 AM

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shaihulou said:

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Gandalf Parker said:
Im fine with the 2D sprites and 1 move animations. I have plenty of "pretty" games on my machine (that I played about a month)

I couldn't agree more, that's why i love this game as well as Paradox's Hearts of Iron

Actual gameplay/fun > graphics(3D)

Hmmm, I wasn't talking exactly about 3D Studio rendered realistic animations, but about a certain "synchronizing" of background and unit graphics.

Indeed, the background is a bit "too much" 3D, while the units resemble paintings. My idea would be making the background more like painted with a brush, that would indeed only require
reducing the number of colors. And perhaps add darker orders to the units.

I'm quite happy with the rest, else I wouldn't even have bought Dom3 or stuck to Dom2 from the beginning (OK, I'm not quite a social animal of sorts).

I will, nonetheless continue adding opinions, if they make sense, nice, if not, don't hesitate in telling

BTW: Dom2 and Dom3 are the _only_ games I have on my Mac and
I'm just not interested in other stuff.

Kristoffer O · #**245** August 10th, 2007, 11:50 AM

@burnsaber

OK, I'll make a Slaughter House for you

Burnsaber · #**246** August 10th, 2007, 12:25 PM

My whining made a difference! My dreams have come true, I can now die in peace..

But seriously speaking, you're the man.

P.S: I know that some villaineous people would probably send me into a mental asylym by making this new "Salughterhouse" site to be something like this:

Increses unrest by 5 per turn
Allows recruiment of boars

But I know you're above that. Aren't you?

Kristoffer O · #**247** August 10th, 2007, 12:36 PM

HoneyBadger · #**248** August 16th, 2007, 07:49 PM

I want to see Dominions 4. On the other hand, I've heard rumors that the Devs don't want to make Dominions 4 because it would mostly involve work that would be boring and nasty and make them break out in hives in uncomfortable places.

So, here's my effort to find a way to make it happen, without driving poor Johan insane and forcing poor Kristoffer to invent Dominions-the pinball game.

How many people on these forums can write in C? I think that's what Johan uses, I could be wrong. How many of those can write in C would be willing to put in the time and effort (for free) to help create Dominions 4?

There's been a lot of talk about adding more people to the Dev team to help take the pressure off. So, since it's us-the rabid fans of Dominions-who care most about seeing a sequil, why not provide that workforce ourselves?

So, to give the Devs the option of adding more people to the team, without *hiring* more people, who here has the skills and time and economic stability to become slavish interns and do the boring, time-consuming work that would take the pressure off the Devs and lead to Dominions 4, purely for the thrill of the experience?

Gandalf Parker · #**249** August 16th, 2007, 09:21 PM

It was originally written in Atari Basic if I remember right. C is a great cubicle language but only the major companies work in cubicles. Much fewer independent games are written in C than people think.

And Im guessing the spaghetti code might be something that Johan is not real interested in another coder commenting on.

Also there is the alpha-group language requirement (swedish?). I remember being in a programming project (a MUD) where one of the main programmers was russian and the only common toungue was C so I know that it can be done but it can be a hassle.

Since Dom4 would have to be rewritten pretty much from scratch to get any major changes, I foretell a future like other games. When Dom is dropped then an open-source project will recreate it with all new code which will be more efficient for having the end goals clearly in view. For not having gone thru the bit-and-piece growth that it has gone thru up to now.

johan osterman · #**250** August 16th, 2007, 09:40 PM

Dominions 1,2 and 3 is all in C. CoE was in atari basic before it was converted.

I kind of doubt JK is eager to supervise other people messing around with the code. He isn't usually that keen on explaining stuff, even in person, and the code is not commented or structured to be easy for others to read.