Yes I'm around,had a weekend of yard work and family,sorry. Seems we have 8 so good to go. Any suggestions for a race I should play? Wonderloss are you set to make the appropriate map? Shall we all start making pretenders then?
Me.............. We are going to need to move on this soon before 20 people start up games. This one is defiantly now vanilla,I looked into CBM and its far,far different game. Anybody used to CBm is far ahead of a noob to vanilla. As soon as we get numbers on this game.ie...number of players a proper random map will be generated. Shall we just go with EA and start stating nation prefs? I'll take any nation so pl
Alright then...... How about Early Age.........seems that is what the majority lean toward. As for Mods,lets keep it simple and just go vanila as I think the rest of us or 2 out of 3 have no experience with mods. Map..........make t large and random is fine. Some 15 provinces per player. We'll see how many players we have,might not need a large map.
[quote who="wonderloss" reply="36" id="2949508"]For PBEM, llamaserver is an easy way to go. The details can be found here. It is a server that hosts the game. Everyone emails their turn to the server, when all turns are received, it processes them and returns the new turn files. It seems to be a fairly popular way to do it. We are using it for the Elementalists game without any trouble. I am going to sit this game out, but if you would like to use llamaserver, and if you
Hmmmn,several links within Dom3Minions regarding maps were dead links. This first game isn't going to be out of the box so i lean heavily to LLamaServer............thoughts? Still like a list of who actually is going to play........... First decisions: EA.................? MA................? LA.................? Also nation choice for each of the three ages. I'll start off by saying t
Well we could simply do a large random map? We could have random,luck of the draw empires for each of us? Thoughts? I'd like to actually get this off the ground in a few days if not sooner. It had been expressed that playing pbem other than through a server was an option....how so? Simply e-mail the turn file to the next player in order?
Well we are starting to get some player interest and some fairly new player interest at that. Good! I believe the placement on the current game being played on these forums was probably the culprit of Elana's demise. Isn't there a setting,tool or mod to give a minimum number of Np provinces between players? Or is it we have 10 provinces per player and hope nobody gets a poor draw and ends up within 2-3 provinces of another player? Early? Middle? Late era? I'
That is a very valid point,people who might flake out and just drop,basically spoiling the game for those who put the time into it. Some 20 provinces each max per player sounds fine,you are correct in noting the micromanagement problem. And looking at the Fearun map,it has a ton of provinces. I think trying to stress diplomacy will help put a break on noob bashing. Then again if the fates align against your empire,well its an unjust and deadly world out there. </
Hmmmn,interesting discussion here............still don't see many new players though. In terms of a map,bigger with some breathing room is better IMHO. Then again as i said off the bat its open to the players to decide. If a large map makes rush tactics difficult,then TDB from my perspective. I have no interest in rush games whatsoever. As far as mods go,I think on doing a good deal of reading that you gentlemen are correct and its vanilla or CBM. For a noob game I'd stick wit
At this point with EmersonPF and myself we have 2 players. With 2 confirmed players I don't see a limiting what the definition of a noob is argument as productive. Thranite,please direct your buddy to this thread. Wonderloss we can put it to the group when we have a group. Map,time period and mods if any are all things up for discussion. shadowtounge I tend to agree with you about learning more from being smacked around by a better player. I haven't had the tru
Basically this is for all the players that wish they could of been in the first dominion 3 game and missed the chance or had some bad luck and were knocked out of the first game. Guidelines: 1) yea,its a noob game,so lets see if we can keep it to under 10 MP games played. Naturally exceptions can be made hence the guidelines category. just please be honest and state your experience level upfro
Anyone interested in a a new,noob game of Dominions3? Probably should start a new thread of this,but that is after I finish cutting the grass. After reading this thread i was inspired to find my dominions3 disk and thick spiral rule book. Send some pm's,we shall see if we can get a party together.
[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="7" id="2757734"] Quoting b0rsuk, reply 5 Quoting Hozy, reply 2I would wait, it's a great game (concept) but it's just not done, or at lease until a demo comes out, as the above post said, if you got the $50, a big fan a 4X's why not but if your use to a finished product. I think in the long run you maybe disappointed. I wish people would stop abusing words like 'great', 'beautiful', 'gorgeous', and 'awesome'. Elemental may be a good game, perhaps
[quote who="Tormy-" reply="6" id="2747870"]It takes like 2 minutes to navigate to the official website and look for patches [= and read the patch notes] on a weekly basis.[/quote] Don't cloud the issue with pertinent facts.
Opps..wrong post replied to..........
[quote who="gryeyes" reply="60" id="2741536"]I suppose the inept would find a game that is nearly unplayable to be a good game. Sadly for those who like to understand and use the game mechanics are a bit let done by an obviously unfinished broken product. After Demigod this is the last thing Stardock needed, well that and the utter travesty of a companion book.[/quote] Indeed,I have myself taken some umbrage with the level of vitriol and attack against this game.I have not suffered th
Tom chick's review was brought up in the forums a week plus ago in another thread. Unless he has done another review based off the latest patch version. Basically he didn't understand squat about what was going on and was confused...there was a math implementation problem for him and a vent of frustration. Now a week plus ago the forum dwellers here gave short shrift to Mr.Chick,now the disgruntled seem more to be spouting off about unfinished,unpolished,unintuitive,unhelpful,unpleasa
[quote who="Todd Hawks" reply="1" id="2733096"]They are able but based on my experience with GalCiv 2, it will take at least half a year. Considering how bad the game currently is, make that one or even two years.[/quote] What? Are we playing the same game?
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="67" id="2721065"]It'll still be a couple of hours. Bear in mind we're between gold and day 0 so we're having to put this stuff together. We weren't even planning on being here today.[/quote] Ouch! Are you sure you really wan to be doing this then? or is it now more since we started this we may as well finish and get it out?
[quote who="Twohawks" reply="33" id="2720014"] Quoting bllevinson, reply 32 Quoting Twohawks, reply 31 Quoting Mtn_Man, reply 28I assume when Brad says "midday" that his point of reference is Eastern Standard Time (US) since Stardock is located in Michigan, is this correct? Yes Stardock is in MI.. as am I muwhah hah ... I will sneak into the building tonight and ninja the game ! Get me a copy while you are in there and i will cover your bail money...rofl!
Hmmmn,I did get a pre-order confirmation e-mail but its not showing in the impulse "My Games"area. Is this true for most pre-order customers? Someone in an earlier post indicated they didn't get the confirmation e-mail but did have the game listed in "My Games" area. Normally I wouldn't even worry about this until after 1pm tomorrow but I got sucked into the forums and am posting against my better judgement.