For a really rich board-game feeling game, I very highly recommend Dominions 3. The graphics is not great, but the gameplay... well, I've played a great many strategy games over the years, but for the last year and a half I've basically only played Dom3, it really is excellent. The community is very good too.
Darquies - it's because you're playing as an evil race. Different races have different starting positions on the alignment bar.
Thirding Dominions 3, since it is, IMHO, the best game ever.
I haven't played MoM or AoW, but I can't recommend Dominions 3 highly enough - I think it is my favourite game ever (even beating GalCivII), which is really saying a lot (I have played a _lot_ of games in my time). I've been playing it non-stop for a year now, and the multiplayer is brilliant. Play-by-email is a great way to play - in general people have one turn per day, which means you can play whenever suits you, and then really look forward to receiving the next turn. Vinraith: Appa
Dominions 3 apparently vastly improved the interface over Dom2. It does sound like that was fairly awful. Dominions 3 is actually my favourite game ever, I can say quite honestly (and I have played a _lot_ of games). I am sure a lot of people who are fans of GalCiv would enjoy it too - although the game is not so shiny. I highly recommend people try it out. The multiplayer (played one turn a day over the course of several weeks or even months, although people also play "blitz" games on
Another "agree strongly" vote. I've largely given up on reading these forums these days, they just annoy me too much. They've become completely ridiculous.
There's quite a recent remake of mule available. It's called Space Horse www.shrapnelgames.com .
Just on the subject of fantasy TBS games - the one I have been addicted to for about 6 months now is called Dominions 3 (I originally found it, actually, when Brad/Frogboy recommended it in a post here). It's _incredibly_ good, if you have the patience for a bit of depth that is. I've turned into quite a fanboy so I should probably try to stop myself there, but it's certainly really worthwhile looking into if you're interested in fantasy TBS.
Yep, you're correct!
Cool, I enjoyed that a lot.
I like it a lot. A bit 1984-ish.
On the TBS front, I've been playing nothing but Dominions 3 (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/1.htm) since I discovered it a few months ago. It's incredibly good if you're a fan of gameplay over graphics. The graphics isn't the best though... Edit: Now I think about it, I actually discovered it from one of Frogboy's posts. Go Frogboy!
Or it could be a minor race maybe? They can't be flipped. AI doesn't cheat though, not in that kind of way - above Tough it gets bonuses, but that would just give it more influence points, not change the rules.
Those numbers that Moosetek gave don't particularly reflect anything by the way, they're just arbitrary. At tough the AI has all algorithms enabled, and no economy bonuses or penalties. At painful (gifted) the AI has I think just a 5% economy advantage, which Brad thought made it the "fairest" level being as the computer is handicapped by at least 5% by just being a computer.
I think this is a really good idea, and could work really well along with Dano13's ideas.
I don't know why, but I really like the idea of an "Internal Security" slider. Oddly it's the idea that's most appealed to me of all the ones I've seen in a _long_ time of lurking on these forums. Unlike the other sliders, it wouldn't cost anything - it would just represent your civilization's policies, and it would really add a tricky and interesting strategic choice. Should your civilization be open and friendly, encouraging trade, diplomacy and public approval, but leaving it open to
Can't see them, I'm afraid.
That was just me testing what Evil Stormbringer said. Well, he's right about some of them, but not, for example, the one I just used (looks like X - ( ). Anyway, I reckon that one depicts frustration.
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting that it wasn't an authorised e-mail, I was just suggesting that Stardock should try to maintain their normally very high standards of communication. It might be a great product, but the e-mail falls a long way short of your usual standards.
Did everyone else also get the e-mail about the BackupBox, some backup device that Stardock are advertising? I've no complaints about them sending that kind of e-mail occasionally, so long as they pick things very carefully to make sure they're good - but the style was horrible! It was really like bad hard-selling spam. It was really poorly laid out, and just kept repeating that the thing was awesome and we should buy it, but with no proper details at all (as far as I could see it didn't even sa
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There is definitely a cheat to do this, I don't know it though.
Just click on one of the green squares.
It always was +100% econ to all worlds, not just one - you probably just didn't notice before.
