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Hmm, I wouldn't mind more money, but I presonally think patches and expansions should be free. As long as they aren't altering the game play.

I suspect we will add new content for quite some time after the release. It is not that easy to let go.

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Yes I agree, and if your game does do very good on sales I see the possibility of shrapnel offering your company a deal to make an expansion for the game... probably a year after its release.
The DOM_3 expansion is seperate from patches in providing new features such as:
1) new types of buildings (new buildings can be optional if you're worried about balance or lack of use by AI)
2) new advanced diplomacy options (very useful for SP & MP)
3) new feature: campaign editor (SP gamers would love)(could be used in MP as well)
4) new type of AI which uses one of multiple personalities (option for random selection at start of game)
b) gamers can use scripting to create their own AI personality as well
5) plus any ideas you know I missed


Combine 3 or more of the features above and all the hardcore fans which love the game will be eager in pre-ordering the expansion as well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif
Also Kristoffer congrats on post#2000... which arrives with your next post!

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I agree with Kristoffer also. Btw I already preordered the game too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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What qualifies as large? To a lot of us Dom III is pretty big.

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Already spreading the word on Ubuntu Linux forum (100.000 members nearly) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=160572

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I've lured about 400 GalCiv2 players to my website, but I don't know if any followed the links...

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Well, my 3 friends who I was playing Doms 2. all the time via tcp/ip on small maps are all preordered the game of course. However I wasnt able to convice my brother to order it, he wants to see the demo first. He usually played singleplayer, I dont know why, but he didnt liked the multiplayer part of Doms 2. Strange...well maybe because he couldnt win a single game ever. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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I dont tend to play multi either so I totally understand his concern. But I can already see much more solo-play stuff being added to Dom3 than there was in Dom2 just from the develoeprs logs and screen shots. I went ahead and pre-ordered mine. Id ont doubt that I will get at LEAST as much play as I get from any other game of the same price, and Im pretty sure I will get much much more

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Indeed Gandalf, also dont forget, we gonna probably see many mods for Doms3, which is just awesome. I always preferred games with heavy modability. Just take a look at Rome Total War. Fantastic mods are out for it, and I am still playing that game.