No interface Improvements?

[Dekent]

Originally posted by Kuroth1:

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Originally posted by Dekent:
Now from the start when I received this game I was disappointed, even before I opened it up. (No jewel case?)

Now that is interesting to me... This tells me that you did not even read what you were ordering... I just ordered the game Last week(received it yesterday)... It clearly states that you will receive the manual shrieked wrapped with the CD inside... If it is really that big of a deal, email me your address and I will mail you a jewel case...

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Hmm I preordered it before it even came out, money left my Credit Card, it came a few days after release, it never mentioned anything about its packaging.

Dom1 had a nice little dvd case thing it came in, I was rather hoping for something like that. It's not a big deal just a minor thing, I stole a case from a CD-R.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
If you read back thru some of the older threads you will see that you are coming in on the tail end of some of us trying to train other people in how to ask for things. You definetly have not been the worst. Some got rather loud and rude about things they thought were "broken" and "must be fixed" along with other more insulting choice of words. So things that come up often now from some of us are comments about how the devs have "real jobs and families" and are working on things that they "find interesting" in their "free time" that Users have "requested". I dont really know for sure how much the devs agree with all that but it has made an obvious difference in which threads here they join in, no matter if the ideas are good ones or not.

Welcome to the "real world" of the internet... the vast majority of the internet is plagued by such stuff...

I still have my orginal dom1 folder floating around, 3 years old as it is and being bumped around from various HDs and partitions, I can't say that about ANY other game =)

I can say that about Space Empires III and IV. Although, SE III is far older than that... Civ II has also survived for quite a long time intact on my computer in all its incarnations.

[ January 14, 2004, 02:39: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Maybe we should in turn, welcome you to the Shrapnel Dom 2 Forums as opposed to you welcoming the Internet. The community here is not the vast majority of the internet, otherwise you'd see a "Blizzard" or "Ubisoft" as the publisher and not Shrapnel Games.

What the Internet is like and what you create a community to be are two entirely different things. I'd hope you'd appreciate that aspect and not the fact that the world is filled with *******s

[ceremony]

Originally posted by johan osterman:
Ulm is inspired by amongst other Teutonic Knights and German Landsknechts. The black forest theme is Ulm an intended shift of style towards central and eastern Europe, Southern- Germany/Bavaria and Tranasylvania. One of the classic ingredients of gothic novels is tainted bloodlines, another feature common amongst the traditional, Anglo Saxon and Protestant, gothic novel is that it takes place in some part of catholic Europe, so making a goethicized fantasy 'Bavarian' Ulm is a natural step, I think.

That is a great post. Comments like this about other themes would be great as well.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I can say that about Space Empires III and IV. Although, SE III is far older than that... Civ II has also survived for quite a long time intact on my computer in all its incarnations.

Ive put Dominions into the Category with MoM and Stars! which have lived on my computers thru 6 Versions of Windows.

Gandalf Parker

[Dekent]

I have MoM, Moo2, and KoDP as some of my old legacy games that still keep dishing out fun =)

What is Stars exactally? I've heard about it but have never been able to find any good information on it, or where one could obtain it.

And the black forest is weird because they took Ulm, the nation known for being a wall of steel, of turned them into a bunch of sneakers, black forest is almost a completally different nation, where most of the themes are just minor changes. I'm not complaining, and I found them fun to play, but that is a rather drastic change you have to admit.

[Gandalf Parker]

Stars is a space conquest game which feels alot like Dominions in many ways. Its PBEM but also greatly enjoyable for solo play. You have many options in creating the race you start with allowing many very different styles of play. It doesnt have quite as many options as dominions but it was safe to say that people who loved starts should look at dominions.

The only thing I would say it fell short of Dominions for me was that its old. Its alot of fun to play and discover tactics that work but as far as the community of the game it felt like there was nothing new to discover. Even *I* was unable to offer any interesting twists they hadnt seen. But it is alot of fun and I still load it to every one of my machines.
http://www.starsfaq.com/

[ January 14, 2004, 19:54: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[licker]

Is stars! still the micro hell that I remember it being? Sometime in the middle 90s I stumbled across it, checked out a demo and ditched it almost immediately as the micro was such a chore that it killed all the enjoyment for me.

Granted I didn't really give it a long enough look to perhaps learn shortcuts and better methods for doing what I wanted, but at first look... well alot of the time first impressions are the most important (Dom suffers from this too, but I'm more of a sucker for fantasy based games than sci-fi ones).

[DimmurWyrd]

actually the biggest real difference (so far) is that in stars! it's a spreadsheat controlled game where there IS an uber race design and UBER ship design etc. and if you don't follow em and the enemy does your going to lose unless of course the enemy is a strategic nincompoop of course in which case you just got lucky lol.

but seriously I see people comparing the two games a lot and I just don't see the comparison. (aside from the fact that both are great games in thier own right.) but dominions is by far the more balanced where you can play ANY of the races and have an even chance of winning (as long as you don't totally barf on your dominion design but even if you do it's possible to make up for it with good sound strategy) it really is hard to really make a totally unplayable "god" in dominions but in stars it's the opposite it's hard to make a playable "race" hehe.

I guess it's the relatively large number of players per game and PBEM styles of the two that seem to mak epeople want to compare them

[ January 14, 2004, 21:07: Message edited by: DimmurWyrd ]

[Dekent]

Spreadsheet style? *flashback of moo3* ....*shudders*...Stars is a game right? It's not a simulation of a game? ;p