questions about fade to battle screen and is there any website to play dom3 online?

[numskully]

Is there anyway to turn off that fade to battle screen? I don't remember dom2 having that.

Also, is there anywhere on the web that will host games for you? I don't have an extra comp to act as a server.

1 more: In dom2 you could review the magic schools/spells when creating a pretender, can you review them now when creating a pretender in dom3?

thanks!

[K]

I don't know how to turn it off permanently, but if you hit Esc while it happens it'll snap off. My computer is a little slow so this saves me precious seconds of my life.

[numskully]

Originally Posted by K

I don't know how to turn it off permanently, but if you hit Esc while it happens it'll snap off. My computer is a little slow so this saves me precious seconds of my life.

Thanks for the ESC info, not really what I wanted to hear though.

What about the way the arrows when moving an army slowly extends from the army? Can't it just be there when I click?

[rdonj]

If you check the multiplayer and aar forum out, llamabeast and gandalf have servers that host games. There are also many threads started there advertising new games if you want to join one without going through the hastle of running it.

[numskully]

Originally Posted by rdonj

If you check the multiplayer and aar forum out, llamabeast and gandalf have servers that host games. There are also many threads started there advertising new games if you want to join one without going through the hastle of running it.

Ah, of course I didn't look in the most obvious place!

Thanks rdonj!

[K]

Originally Posted by numskully

Thanks for the ESC info, not really what I wanted to hear though.

What about the way the arrows when moving an army slowly extends from the army? Can't it just be there when I click?

It sounds like you have a slow computer. There is not much to do about that, though I've found that running it in a smaller screen tends to help.

[Endoperez]

I'm pretty sure you can turn the animated arrows off in Options, under visual options.

[numskully]

Originally Posted by Endoperez

I'm pretty sure you can turn the animated arrows off in Options, under visual options.

I can't find that option.

Is there a command line tag for it?

[lch]

The game can be started with a few parameters, I'd recommend the following to you:

-a  --noanimback    Don't use animated backgrounds

-f  --nofade        No fade effects

    --nograss       Don't draw the grass

So you'd start the game like this: dom3 -af --nograss

As for hosting games, there are stickies in the Dom3 MP forums regarding that. Quite a few people offer to host games, including Gandalf, llamabeast (for PBEM), myself and others.

[numskully]

Originally Posted by numskully

In dom2 you could review the magic schools/spells when creating a pretender, can you review them now when creating a pretender in dom3?

You can't do this in Dom3?