Fortune teller

[DeathDaemon]

Do fortune tellers only prevent events in their current province (where they start/end?) or for your entire nation?

[Aezeal]

current province

[GrudgeBringer]

Ya know....

I am 57 years old.

I have a degree in Culturel Anthropology and a Minor in Psychology.

I own a succesful company.

I play no-limit poker every day at the casino and can whip off the correct statistics and odds for your probabilities of drawing or receiving cards to help that hand in a flash.

I am very competitive and still play full contact (Union) Rugby evey weekend.

I have had this game 30 days and have started it over maybe 60 times in SP, have asked maybe 100 questions, and even understood maybe 65% of the answers.

However, when I see the depth of some of the answers to questions on here AND the equations and math to back it up....I am astounded at the intelligence and understanding of this game and realize...I may NEVER win a game in MP in my life ...

Just ONE thing....Please tell me that I am not about to take a thrashing from some 10 year old gentleman (or lady).

[Endoperez]

Spring 2004, DomII forum:

Less than 15: 1, 1 %
15-19: 6, 5 %
20-24: 24, 18%
25-29: 31, 23%
30-34: 33, 25%
35-39: 18, 14%
40-44: 12, 9%
45-49: 4, 3%
50-54: 3, 2%
55-59: 0, 0%
60 or more: 1, 1%

total votes: 133


It's so outdated that only a couple of posters from the thread are still active, but I guess it represents the community pretty well.

[JimMorrison]

GrudgeBringer said:
...Just ONE thing....Please tell me that I am not about to take a thrashing from some 10 year old gentleman (or lady).

Well, take comfort in the fact that this isn't some twitch action game where the kiddies reign supreme. Dom takes a lot of patience and thoughtfulness to really excel at, so I'd think you have a fair shot. at it.

[Saxon]

I would guess that all the ages on the survey have slid 3 years upwards. Dom seems to hold players pretty well. I know I changed age categories in the last four years� Perhaps that is just my two year old daughter running around and making me feel older though.

GrudgeBringer,

I doubt you will get whipped by a 10 year old. With age comes wisdom and that helps a lot with the diplomacy in MP. If you are running a successful company, I assume you can negotiate a mutually beneficial deal, which will help you a lot in MP. Of course, if you still play rugby union in the scrum, you may lack the subtly needed for some parts of the game. But if you are in the backs, you are pretty boy and beyond hope in any case. You can guess where I played.

More helpfully, don�t count on winning. Most games have 10 or more players and even if only two or three are good, it is still a tough road to victory. But if you do win, victory will be far, far sweeter than against the AI. Also, expect to put some real time in if you are playing seriously. The turns have to come in on time and you have to spend some quality time to make sure your turns are good. Perhaps more important is the diplomatic negotiations. You have to talk to a lot of people, a lot of the time. It isn�t work, it is fun, but if you are seriously competitive (which I sense you may be) know that you can get sucked into this.

To put it in perspective, I had to cut a deal with my wife. One last game of MP, then no more. SP is fine, but the time and deadline demands for MP were too much for us. In other words, you may have to cut back on your poker�

[Cerlin]

full time girlfriend and full time japanese job definitely cut into my dominions 3 mp time... sadness ensues.

[sansanjuan]

Sax: ...To put it in perspective, I had to cut a deal with my wife. One last game of MP, then no more. SP is fine, but the time and deadline demands for MP were too much for us. In other words, you may have to cut back on your poker�

Sax,
Only way is to play late at night after she is in bed or early in the morning (be sure to put the coffee on before playing).
My $0.02,
_SSJ

[Zeldor]

Cerlin:

You should try to visit irc anyway I wish I could live in Japan too...

[JimMorrison]

Cerlin said:
full time girlfriend and full time japanese job definitely cut into my dominions 3 mp time... sadness ensues.

A Japanese girlfriend? I would swear off gaming forever. >.>

Though, I am still hoping for a Korean GF, who will complain if I don't game with her enough.