Yeah, I also think we should hold off until the patch for the Hoplite game, if for no other reason than that will give me some time to figure out what nation I want to play.
When will they patch the merc screen?? Could we just input our bids please rather than click one gold at a time??
Johan_O
1863
Clicking one gold at a time is a minigame, the clicking one increment at a time minigames is what many people likes best about dominions.
Foom
1864
What a newb.
Lloyd: Press and hold the up and down arrow keys to buy mercs, province defense and globals.
Really?? I’m a mouse, not a keyboard shortcut guy,I assumed if holding the mouse button down did not work there was no other way to do it faster…
Throw your assumptions out the window, there is no rhyme or reason to the Dominions 3 UI.
Memorizing the keyboard shortcuts is one of the only ways to get things done quickly in Dom3. I shudder to think how painful bloodhunting would be if I couldn’t group select the blood hunters and hit shift-Z.
So am I missing a way to speed up the 1 1/2 hour battle replays too(see above post)??? Other than turn down the options and fast forward,which has not worked…
Plus anyone have any ideas on the setup bug which I mentioned above??
Clark
1868
I think I know what your problem is (I ran into this a couple days ago and figured it out). If you use “y” for a province you are attacking, everything works fine. But if you use “y” for a province you are defending, you can ONLY move those troops moving into the province, NOT those already there. So you have to do a “y” and a “t”, and keep in mind which commanders are in each category.
Hope that helps.
Clark
1869
“n” is your friend in the battle screen. It skips to the next turn.
Quaro
1870
Awesome. Maybe I’ll actually win some merc bids now!
Ferox
1871
I’d like to give it a shot. My nation choice depends on the age we pick.
MAP: No preference
AGE: Middle
SPECIAL SITE FREQUENCY (40)
MONEY MULTIPLE (100)
RESOURCE MULTIPLE (100)
SUPPLY MULTIPLE (100)
RANDOM EVENTS (“Common”)
SCORE GRAPHS (“Disabled (not no info on other nations)”)
RESEARCH (“Standard”)
VICTORY (“Standard”)
RENAMING (“Not allowed”)
Johan_O
1872
Implementing shiftclick was a sellout.
I want to play. I’d like to win please.
Dammit, Matt called winning before me.
I’ll play. I want to form an alliance and then brutally backstab the poor sap.
Does that give you all the units and commanders together so you can coordinate your placement between the groups as it would for situations where you use “y”?? Thanks.
There must be really large mice in Europe, as all the developers from there are deathly afraid of them…:)
Clark
1878
If I remember correctly, when you use “y” you do not see the units already in the province show up on the battle position display. The commanders and their individual units are on screen, but when you try to click on their battle position display, nothing happens. So I think you have to set the troops already there (using “t”), remember where they are, then do the “y” command and integrate the incoming troops into what you just saw. Or do the reverse if you have lots of defending troops and fewer incoming troops.
A bit cumbersome, but the “y” command is a huge improvement overall.
Can I join? I’ll do a random nation.
MAP Cradle
AGE Early
SPECIAL SITE FREQUENCY (40)
MONEY MULTIPLE (100)
RESOURCE MULTIPLE (100)
SUPPLY MULTIPLE (100)
RANDOM EVENTS (“Common”)
SCORE GRAPHS (“Enabled”)
RESEARCH (“Standard”)
VICTORY (“Standard”)
RENAMING (“Not allowed”)
I would love to join the Hoplite game! Since I still don’t know that much about the real impact I don’t mind any setting being fine with the default. Age doesn’t matter and nation is random please! In short: I don’t care as long as I’m in! ;)
