Dominions 2 Demo - Manual petition to Illwinter

[Boron]

I started a Dominions 2 AAR in the german Paradox-Forum with the hope to recruit a few more german Fans .
http://www.si-games.com/forums/showt...7&page=1&pp=20

Now 2 guys downloaded the demo but were disappointed by the complete lack of a manual for the demo .

Nebukadnezar said that he played the demo for 4 days and read this forum but he didn't find much useful information and so to him Dominion 2 seems just like another 4-X game .
He just recruits troops and sends them to the other province but he does not know why they win or lose or what to do at all .

Therlun also said that there are huge interface weaknesses and there is no feedback why something happens and what kills troops and what not .

I can understand them and think that the dominions 2 Demo was really made poorly because instead making Dominions attractive for players it makes dominions look like a bad but complicated game .

You start the demo with no information at all , you can only play till turn 40 , the AIs only rush with troopmasses and you can only research up to lvl 4 .
So you can never try out a SC at all or a nice spell like Wrathful skies etc. .

So if you judge Dominions 2 only after the demo you think it is not a good game .

So for Dominions 3 the demo should rather be either like the dominion 1 demo again or maybe 2 nations and 2 of the 7 ? magic schools are completely play/researchable without a timelimit and 3 additional nations for the AI Opponents .
Then you could try out a few highlevel things but would still have to buy the full game .

I have finally a petition : May i send Therlun and Nebukadnezar the Dominions Manual ? They both play Paradox-Games so they are the ideal Dominion 2 potential buyers group . But especially (most) germans are always rather careful and curmudgeonly . Though they like to play hardcoregames like Dominions because of the very poorly done Dominions 2 Demo they don't buy Dominions 2 then because they can't get a detailed enough impression or even worse a wrong impression from it .