Dave Perkins - C’tis Mr Sweetie - Ulm Soapyfrog - Jotunheim ron_debry - Marignon TheSelfishGene - Man Hanacker - Pythium
Game Settings:
starting provinces: 1 strength of independents: 5 special site frequency: 25 world richness: rich random events: rare score graphs: disabled hall of fame entries: 10 research: difficult victory: standard renaming: allowed host: quick mods: none
Map:
The Sundering. (This map comes with the game, so there’s nothing to download.)
Notes:
These are the settings we’re using in the other currently running Dom2 game, and that game’s been a lot of fun. The low frequency of magic sites has prevented anyone from fielding super-combatant heroes easily, so most battles are between national troops. We aren’t using any mods.
Please don’t join unless you are excited enough about playing to play your turns promptly–that is, within 48 hours or so of a turn hosting.
How good is the hosting setup? Are there email notifications when quick host fires so that people know when a new turn is available?
I haven’t played for awhile, so it might be fun to get in a game again, but I’ve gotten spoiled by games with email notication and can’t see myself remembering to check in frequently to get my turns done.
The way we’ve been playing the other game seems to work well. Whomever is last to go sends the email notification to the others. Using a distribution list, or reply-to-all, it’s simple. Hope you play, Nick.
Edit: I should add that we don’t use quick host. We leave it up to the players to play their turns quickly.
I don’t think such a download exists, I’m afraid. But I bet you could buy a copy off of someone here in this forum. It’s my favorite turn-based game, so I recommend it highly.
It’s a niche game from a tiny publisher and an even tinier dev so I don’t think there are lots of fancy options available for ordering it. Go to shrapnelgames.com and what you see is what you get.
When does Dominions 3 come out? Looks good. Never played the others, figue I might as well wait for the newest.
All this talk of simultaneous turn based strategy games reminds me of the dozens and dozens of Combat Mission: BO games I used to play. God, that was a good game.
Hell, it still is a good game. If anyone has it and wants to play a casual email game, drop me a line.
For my pesos, dom2’s niche is “long-term PBEM TBS”. Games last for months at a turn every couple of days. No good if you lack the patience, but perfect for me because I only have to sink a few minutes to an hour per day into the game. It fits the slow pace because by mid-game there are so many options for each turn. Huge numbers (kinds) of troops & mages, lots of items and different spells, so even 2 of the same kind of mage can perform vastly different roles on the battlefield.
Dom3 is supposed to come out this summer. They’ve been in a by-invitation beta test for a couple of months, at least. If I had to bet, I’d say August.
Oh yeah - Dave/Sweetie’s game. Can’t decide between claiming a blood nation, or claiming a non-blood and crying that blood hunting should be banned with such a low sites setting :)
Guess I’ll grab Marignon, as I never played that one - but if blood gets the boot I may change.
