What Would Really Help New Players

[Atrocities]

What would really help us new players is a basic walk thrugh of how to play the game up to a point where we have learned the basics and have gained a good understanding of the game play.

Right now I am literally a blind man in a room full of hazards looking for the exit. I know nothing about the game, and am reading the Posts here as I play.

The game has grabbed my interest so now it simply must keep it.

Well back to reading and playing.

[Atrocities]

I just discovered the guides that came with the game. Must read.

[Norfleet]

What you REALLY need to do is actually play the game. Against actual players. Because while guides are all fine and good, it's no substitute for the tried and true method of Improvement Through Getting Your *** Handed To You Repeatedly.

[Cheezeninja]

One of my first suggestions would be to set the independants to 6 or 7. The AI can actually be harder with it set to 3 (the default) becuase they can expand alot quicker.

[Thilock_Dominus]

It took me some time before I understood how to play Dom2 when I played the demo of Dom2. I clicked on everything and the first 5 games I played was a mess ...But slowly I learned.

So just hang in

[Atrocities]

Thanks guys. All I need to do now is come up with coin of the realm and just buy the game.

From what I have read, and seen so far, this game looks like it could be a hell of a lot of fun.

God knows I need a good game to take up some of my free time..... Since all I have is free time.

When I was working, I used to dream about not working and having all the time in the world to do as I please, but in reality, now that I am not working, I have discovered that free time is directly linked to fun time, and fun time is directly linked to how much money you have. Since I have none, literally, I do nothing all day long but sit on my computer posting in the SE IV forum, or playing older games and dreaming about buying new ones.

Aside from some chores around the house, and helping with such things as cutting fire wood, mowing, cleaning, and cooking, I do much of nothing. Yet I still find that I have very little true free time to just sit at the Computer, as much as I am accused of, because I stay up late and get up late. I much prefer the night time to be on the Comp as there are no distractions, no one needs anything, and the GD phone never rings.

However, now that it is summer, more and more I have discovered, much to my own displeasure I asure you, that staying up late on the comp has become more of a hassle as I am needed during the days now to cut wood, make deliveries, go do this and that, and on occations baby sit.

I wish I was able to work again. I miss the simplicity of it. Get up, shower, go to work, work, (Deal with day to day political BS), come home, eat dinner, do some PC / TV stuff, and go to bed.

I think if I do buy Dominions II, I will find that it is as everyone here as said, an addictive life sucking monster from a demension like the which I have never experienced before. Well, we will just have to see.

It has also occured to me that 24 hour days are far to short.

Well I am off to bed. Looking forward to getting the learning curve over with and getting down to some serious magic making, enemy killing, dominion conquest.