/domg/ Dominions 4 General

First for shilling.

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=JustMAgame

>>153793539
>not b9
Why would he do that to himself

Tengu are better than oni and kappa

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>>153793753
>>153793539

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Sorry, did I hear you correctly?

I thought you said you were going to remove me.

>>153795009
Mage support

We honestly need to start compiling 'Mage Support' images for these situations

>>153795009
>lost all the soulless
A pyrrhic victory tbqh.

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Tien Chi and Asphodel, I knew you were going to attack me at the same time. That's why I calculated which one of you had more forces, and deployed fort defence accordingly.

Did you really think you were going to break my second fort right away, China? Now it has 0 defence. Enough for you to try to breach. But you already know what's going to wait inside, don't you? Your overconfidence will be the reason of your demise.

I warned you about games without summod, but you didn't listen. Now it's time to reap what you sow.

>>153795735
Actually, it depends on what your dusk elders can cast. They might be able to clear it with just fire elemental spam

>>153795815
>wasting gems on battles you can win with skelespam and banefire

>>153795882
I mean that TC might be able to clear Ermor's stuff with fire elementals

>>153796114
Well, let's hope China brought some fire gems, right?

Right, China?

Right?

Did you bring the gems, China?

Did you bring those gems that would've saved you?

Where are the gems, China?

Huh?

Where are those fucking gems, China?

I honestly forgot if China really brought those gems. I gotta look up the last turn.

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Well, I have some bad news and some good news.

Bad news, China didn't bring the gems.

Good news, China brought Gun. Everybody knows skeletons are weak against guns.

jjjust got it hoping to enjoy it. good luck have fun nerds

>>153797056
Prepare to drown.

And read the manual, I'm fucking serious.

>>153795735

>I warned you about games without summod, but you didn't listen. Now it's time to reap what you sow.

lol little nigga you're sitting on two provinces at turn 31, i'd chill a bit my man

>>153797410
Lizards have long lifespan. You can't fully appreciate what I'm doing.

>>153797521
>You can't fully appreciate what I'm doing.
Losing the game?

>>153797410
Also, Asspoodle is pretty big now, and it will eat TC if I die because TC basically has nowhere to expand and has like 8 provinces. If you really want to finish the game and win, I'd do something about that in the future if I were you. He lost 'some' black centaurs, as you can see.

>>153797627
I am prepared to lose a game or die if summod wills it, as long as kafir pigs who insult summod suffer. Summod akbar!

>>153797223

I'm trying to print it but i don't think i have 400 pieces of paper. fug.

Might order one for fun

>>153798070
Don't seriously do that, please. You can always alt-tab, you know.

>>153797056
>>153797223
just read the first 50 pages or so.

there are 50 useful pages and 250 pages of useless tables.

haha okay, thanks I'll read it for real though.

Whats summod that you guys are talking about?

>>153798435
It's a balance mod. Play vanilla first.

>>153798435

It's a balance mod.

It's basically alright, but balance talk in /domg/ inevitably hews to I'm Rock, Paper OP, Scissors Are Fine.

>>153798435

Used for multiplayer games to unfuck certain nations.

Don't bother with it until you have learned the game.

>>153793736
2 spots left.

>>153797410
China is kirr no matter what happens

Remember China as hero

China die so you rive!

>>153796449
Bad noos for you, skereton

China have boots of flying

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dead

>>153799070
Man who run in front of car.

Get tired.

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>>153800676
Not sure if Pan or other furry

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>>153800940
just a man who likes bats

>>153801096

S-s-source please?

>>153801245
http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/schizanthus-r3707

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send turns

>>153798185
Tablets are useful though, they are just a mess to get data out.
>rain doesn't have specific for snow/rain mechanics and fire magic
>storm does

If things like that were better organized we'd have a lot less retarded questions.

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Uhh... Mari, do you need some tactical advice?

You're failing to take that province from AI a second time already...

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Also, I didn't know Christmas is so early.

>>153804020
Give mari a break he probably bought into the crossbows OP pls nerf meme

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A recap for those who missed the previous episode.

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>>153804398
>>153804298
>>153804020
first ulm's capital and now this, Poor mari-chan

>>153804492
Hey man, he managed to repulse me. Then again, I've been under attack the whole game.

The worst part is it's myself whose attacking me, with all this shit freespawn I'd be better off never having.

Also, thx C'tis for the +10 pearls per turn.

>>153806285
Are you taking 15, or should I send some ghosts there?

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>>153806285
my pleasure friend

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Hey guys I'm away from my pc visiting my parents, thought I'd be able to take my turn tonight on their computer before bed but I'm not able to get the mod to work. I downloaded worthy heroes 5.5 (not sure what the NN is but I can't find that version of the mod) and I'm getting this error. Checked the game page on llamaserver and the mod download is no longer there. Neither is the map (do I need the map file as well?). If I can't get it to work I'm going to need an extension of a few hours but I'm hoping it won't come to that.

>>153807770
Forgot to include the game name, It's Magicka

>>153807770
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l16r7ashk0aewvy/Worthy_Heroes_v5.5NN.zip?dl=0

>>153808126
Thanks. Is that all I need or the map too?

>>153808950
The map's here: http://www.desura.com/games/dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions/forum/thread/fantomagoria-wraparound-173-land-59-sea

You can always just check Admin Options on llamaserver game page, links are usually on top.

>>153806594
That is currently my worthless shit depository. I need it to kill my worthless shit.

You can take it, but I'm not going to stop sending my worthless shit there.

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What sort of pretender and scales would you all recommend for EA Mictlan? Thank you for your help! <3

>>153810260
F4W4E4A4S4N4D4B4 smoking mirror

>>153810260
N9B9 immobile imprisoned piece of shit with half-decent scales and dominion. Easy maerlande-style build.

>>153810260
Quadbless Jaguar

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>>153810260
Asshole Batman

>>153811149
Xibalba does the same thing with +1 scale because Xibalba is always better than Mictlan at everything

>>153801463
Don't look at the other batgirl doujins by that guy, they're all TURBO MAXIMUM NTR MODE and it's awful.

>>153812093
it's fine. I only wish that particular bat comic became a series

>approaching end of year 2
>still no mention whatsoever of removing ermor

Good job guys keep it up.

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>>153813673
Good to see that some /domg/ traditions like letting Ermor snowball and win are still in place.

Is possible to get an event to trigger upon a player's death?

>>153813909
Probably. But that would involve a lot of fuckery.

>>153813673
Pretty sure Man has been fighting him

>>153813673
>>153814150
I could get involved if you want. Get this match hot and spicy.

>>153814237
On which side?

>Turn already out
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. Okay, who didn't ask ask for a turn extension.

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>>153816281
Looks like extension to me.

>>153816410
>a mere one hour
completely unacceptable.

Fistful admin, please give control back to Lambert.

>>153811149
What does Asshole Batman do? I've heard him mentioned before but is it just memes or is he amazing as an awake expander or something?

>>153817161
Fly to an enemy cap then assassinate stuff there from turn two or so. Makes it much harder for the other player to send out expansion parties

>>153817278
Hahaha. It seems like the sort of thing I'd love to do, though in a large game I'm only really screwing one player at a time, and potentially making more than one enemy by doing it.

>>153817370
Possibly.

Also worth noting that asshole batman can basically solo a nation if run with high dom score, since he can literally dom kill them if they don't have an awake pretender by sitting there (usually aided by the rapid arrival of sneaky flying priests, which Xibalba has access to)

>>153817669
Too bad getting a capital in the first 10 turns is never a good idea unless you're a diplomonster.

Oh wait this is /domg/ meaning everyone will expect someone else to handle the huge early threat, carry on.

>>153817669
Aha. I didn't think about that. Sadly, I don't think I get flying sneaky priests as EA Mictlan. But it's a devilish idea for an EA Xibalba game, thank you!

>>153810654
Imprisoned Statue of the Bloody Mother D4N9B9 with Dom8 O3S3H2G2M2D2 sound acceptable, or?

>Border with Ermor

Three possibilities.

>You ignore Ermor.
Ermor either completely slaps your shit in with a million morale-less freespawn and a tri-quadbless if it's early game. If it's midgame, they cast globals and fuck the entire world up. You lose either way.

>You fight Ermor and win
Congratulations, you may have just won yourself a 0 income 0 population dead province. Your troops will starve and get diseased if you stay here any longer. You can not push any deeper into Ermorian territory, unless you have supply items or nature mages at the ready. If you do manage to push deeper, you are likely to find one or more castles, which you can not siege because of the lack of supplies. If you actually manage to break the gate, skeleton spam ensures that you can not capture the fortress. Even if you do, you gain nothing. No resources, no income. A neighbour notices your momentary weakness and stabs you in the back. You lose.

>You pool up gems to cast Dispell
The person pooling the gems keeps them, potentially spending them on shit to kill you with. You can not get the gems back by any means. Even if you do manage to dispell a cancer global, Ermor can just put it up again in a few turns. Outside of the very late game, you can not stop this, you can not counter this. You lose.

Why is this cancer nation in the game again? Just rework it completely or remove it. There has not been a single game in /domg/ history where someone who had a border with Ermor during the first year and fought the cancer that ended up winning.

>>153818886
You forgot the most common.

>Ermor sucks shit and doesn't know what he is doing and ends up defeating himself. You could take his cap for some free gems but why bother. There is a noticeable improvement in his game when he goes AI.

>>153818886
>>153819172

Ermor is the /b/ of Dominions.

>>153818886
>There has not been a single game in /domg/ history where someone who had a border with Ermor during the first year and fought the cancer that ended up winning.
Wasn't there that one Nazca that took out Ermor early and then snowballed off the extra D gems?

>>153787449

It ended with me and TC owning half the world each, we decided that the battle between T3 Yomi and O3 TC would have been a massive fucking drag so one of us should just take the win. I do not remember how we decided who (might have been a dice roll, fuck if I know was ages ago) but in the end it was me.

I was lucky really, Marverni and Arco(?) started next to me with T3, so they got fucked over by Chaos Power 3 oni en masse, since I had a very good expansion and it gave me the gold to drown them in oni. The ~50 banefire spammers of which 20 Dai Oni took care of the mid-late game.

Is there any spell, item, trait, unit, etc that can bring population back to a 0 pop province? If not, do any of the popular mods offer options for this? Maybe a high level spell or a mechanic that allows provinces with positive growth and a population near the upper limit to have an immigration option or just passive natural spillover of people.

>>153793539
>not giving your asshole batman a shield, armor or a decent weapon before parking him on a cap
Shit nigga what are you doing

>>153818886
There are a few nations which benefit from gibbing Ermor early and getting that death income.

>>153819602
As the Ermor in that game, it was more Nazca beat me after around 20 or so turns of fighting. If anyone else in the game was competent (or Jotun hadn't AI'd) they could have won.

Ironically, I told Nazca that he should wait for there to be no other people who could use the weakened state he would be in to backstab before attacking me. Sadly, that condition was apparently realized on turn1.

>>153820070
What build did Nazca have?

What troops/mages did he use. I want to get into Nazca but I can't think of good skeleton removal strats for them.

>>153820070
Yeah, just checked the old TRN file, was Late Winter of year 5 when I was effectively beaten, so around turn 60 or so actually.

Jotun easily could have won with demon spam had he not gone AI for literally 0 reason.

Do people ever domkill Ermor?

For EA Mictlan, should I use this pretender?

>>153820172
He spammed Supaya, at a rate I couldn't match. Shinu and C'tis helped as well, but were utter morons that were easily slapped down. Took time and effort, and distracted my forces though.

It was a B9W9 bless. I had been beating them reliably, until a reverse communion killed me in a way I'll never know (thx llamaserver bug).

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>>153820235
Err, this one

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>>153820328
or this one?

>>153820434
Without a doubt 2

I would, however, consider Misf 1 and Magic 0, because of how luck scales work and the fact that blood hunting bad events suck

>>153820328
Oh shit nigga what are you doing
Never, ever, EVER mix misfortune and drain, even if you're gonna confine your dominion to more or less just your cap.
It unlocks some game-losing events.

>>153820492
Thanks for the reply! Sounds good to me. I'm used to taking O3M2 for most nations, but admittedly, they aren't as blood-focused as EA Mictlan.

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>>153820328
>>153820434
Neither, use this bad boy

>>153820573
Hey, that's why I'm asking you guys! I .. kind of want to know what sort of events we're talking about. Some sort of morbid curiosity at work.

>>153820604
I worry about the lack of income here. But I guess who the fuck needs income if you have triple-bless jaguars?

>>153820604
Actually, because Mictlan can control its dom-spread much better than most, you usually run Drain 3 on the tribless build (yes, really) and then move mages out of your cap if you are going to leave them researching. You then research away from the core-dom that keeps you alive. This lets you take some luck scales, to get good events out of your shitty-income cap, since it and the surrounding areas are getting extra events from your Turmoil 3 anyways.

I would definitely NOT recommend this to a newer player, though, because if you don't manage your blood saccing, you can get dom-killed or just spread the drain-cancer across your land.

>>153820281
B9W9?

Weird bless for supayas...

>>153820737
I'm a newer player (about 6 multiplayer games played, 3 won). But yeah, I was thinking about those delicious free points. I guess it's a roulette with who spawns close to me, and how focused they are on spreading their dominion.

If it's a game for newer players, though, perhaps this strategy could be even more potent?

>>153820840
3 wins moves you out of the newb category as far as /domg/ goes. Like, really far out of it.

Mictlan is actually very good at spreading its dom or killing enemy dom given that it gets triple temple checks with jade knives, so you actually have no problem getting dom killed IF you already have the daggers and slaves ready and turn them off and on as needed.

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>>153820328
>>153820434
>>153820604
Go quads or go home.

>>153820971
Statue does it cheaper scrub git gud

>>153821039
No it doesn't. It has one less dom.

Monolith does, but then you have to take E9S9N9B9 instead of the W9D9N9B9 that demi gets

>>153821039
>Less dom
>Less jags early game

Kill yourself for suggesting that

>>153820964
Oh wow. All right, those daggers are awesome. And only construction 2 (which I'll likely be heading to 4 for rods)? Thank you for the recommendation!

>>153820737
Would you take Fortune 2 Drain 3 then?

>>153820654
We're talking "have 50+ gems disappear from your treasury in a single event" events here.

>>153821438
I bet it was the elves.

>>153821372
Don't listen to pussies like >>153821438.

Go misf 3 drain 3. Let your IRL Luck 3 guide you through the flames.

>>153821510
Isn't there an image of someone dom-dying turn 1 to some unfortunate event?

>>153821575
They were weak. You are strong. Go quads.

>>153821510
>not turmoil 3 misf 3 drain 3
WUSS

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>>153821575

>>153821651
Turmoil 3 is implied. You need it for QUADS

>>153821692
I love you. Just what I needed to fuel this madness.

>>153821692
This was in the olden days where you had to take like 2 dom to even get quadbless. Your candles spread much faster these days with builds like >>153820971

>>153821372
It's a bit slim on the games, but the winrate is rather high (50% is higher than almost any player can boast sans a very limited amount).

So yes, if Domg had a ranking system, you'd be near the very top.

>>153822181
Two of my three wins were disciple games paired with a more experienced teammate. I will say that the other teams were structured in much the same fashion, but maybe disciple games don't count for as much?

If my pretender wins the battle by turning into a dragon, does he recover his lost items from the shapeshifting once the battle is over? Or is it random?

>>153822262
I generally count disciple games in their own separate category desu. For instance, atm I have a 66% winrate in FFA, and a 0% winrate in Disciples.

>>153822181
Also, the main issue is I have very little experience playing with or against certain nations because of my limited playtime thus far. But damn, this game is fun. I love complexity and depth and I just want to lose myself in it more and more.

Thanks for everyone in the thread (and in prior threads) helping me with my silly questions.

>Latus_3_Big_Trouble_In_Little_Ragha
>Turn number 12
>Next turn due: 10:04 GMT on Sunday September 4th

Dafuq's that?Certainly doesnt look like an extension to me. Am i being trolled or someshit?

>>153822364
So, 25% winrate in FFA, but 100% in disciple. Albeit with very small sample sizes.

>>153818886
In a perfect world there would be no need for a single nation to dedicate all its war efforts towards removing Ermor. The burden would be split among all its neighbors, and the one who lost most would get the capital.

We do not live in a perfect world.

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>>153822567
Your perfect world was a desura game with binding diplomacy.

>>153822267
pls respond

I am 100% serious that if you are willing to do the micro for blood sac management, tribless Mictlan is very strong. Luck 1 / Growth 1 or Luck 2 both work.

Quadbless is funny, but not actually viable aside from small blitz games

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Here's a tidbit of info for those bordering Ermor right now and debating on whether to attack, he sent 10 dusk elders VERY far away from home, it's literally one tile away from reaching my capring. (And I'm gonna block their path from getting back too.)

>>153822567
In a perfect world faggots wouldn't play Ermor

>>153822567
Dead provinces should slowly start to be populated and become live once taken back. Like adding migration events specifically to populate domkilled provinces.

>>153823353
I never wanted to play Ermor but seeing the butthurt about it I might start.

How does a D10T3S3C3D3M3D3 Prince of Death sound? Don't care for winning, just want to be as cancerous as possible.

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>>153822807
And I also have some dead gems from endlessly trading provinces with Ermor. I'm willing to trade them for gold which I unsurprisingly lack.

>>153823556
The most cancerous Ermor build is the one actually playing to win.

In vanilla, I vouch for tribless because you have the gems to trade the slower start for a stronger midgame. In summod, I'd say an awake dom9 monobless or semi-rainbow expander is best because you want the earlygame to fend off the inevitable rush (or better yet to kill someone else off early).

is there a way to design an event to repopulate Ermor's provinces?

like we could have an hidden super stealthy immortal dummy unit appear as the province has been in ermor's dominion and property for a certain amount of time, then when the province is no longer Ermor's we could start an event chain that repopulates it by few thousands and then remove the dummy.

>>153823662
Summod adds deadlands sites that provide death income to Ermor provinces so it clearly is possible to identify Ermor provinces. I'm not in touch with event modding but I suppose it'd also be possible to identify such sites once Ermor is gone and cause them to generate repopulation events.

>>153823662
Looked into it. It requires an immense amount of work

>>153823752
>>153823785
so we could use deadland as a trigger. if we could detect the fact there is no longer ermor's dominions and proeprty there then it could be easy.

How much range is 25 for a spell? If I put the mage right in the front will he reach the rearmost enemies?

>>153823662
Repopulating provinces isn't in the spirit of the game. The world is supposed to be more and more fucked as the war goes on. Sometimes with only a handful of pop surviving in the end.

>>153823956
You can, but it needs to be set for Rare(%) or else it triggers right away (and even then, it can trigger on the turn after they lose the province)

>>153824061
Is it possible to check if Ermor is still in the game?

>>153824048
I mean, kinda-sorta. Personally I like casting Celestial Rainbow and Fata Morgana and Well of Mistery and Gift of Health and Gift of Nature's "The Mustard Tastes Better" Bounty

>>153824048
There's already an Air spell that consumes all corpses in a province.

Make a nature spell that starts the re-population on an area with no unburried corpses and 0 population.

>>153824224
And then someone wishes for a few Armageddons to take you down a notch.

>>153824321
Or don't. The timeframe of the game is too short. You can't repopulate a dead world in months.

>>153824048
I think populations acting as they see fit is in the spirit of the game since controlling population is outside the scope of the game. Just like freethinkers can leave in search of a more pluralistic government, I don't think it's unreasonable for people to return to Eldergate and surrounding territories with all the aqueducts and markets and palaces and such like presumably still intact. Especially if you justify the existence of such refugees by having emigration events in Ermor dominion provinces that still have population left.

>>153823785
No it isn't, and someone already made the mod you want. It's in the mod list, misc mods under "repopulation".
http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/index.php?showtopic=2740

>>153824516
Sure you can. One month is more than enough to bring back a group of 200~ people , who after one year will have a prosperous village which will attract plenty of other people.

>>153824593
That's really cool actually. Maybe I was going about it the wrong way. Let me take a look and see what they did.

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>>153824006

>>153824642
Thanks. So they'll still need to move a bit forward huh.

>>153824593
Ok, so this works but it actually only increases pop from a province that's completely empty to one that's marginally not-empty. It's still essentially worthless gold-wise and doesn't provide a steady increase of pop to relevant levels which is what I was interested in.

>>153824689
Yup.

Usually scripting one Attack order at the start of the fight is how people do it.

>>153824982
Will it move and then cast the spell or move and skip its turn because it can't attack?

>>153826008
The "attack" order is basically "walk towards the nearest enemy and punch them if you enter melee range."

>>153826151
uh, but to answer your question, no it doesn't move and cast.

Is Latus hosting in 5 mins with 4 turns not in?

>>153826303
Thanks for reminding me to extend the turn for a different game

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAT

>>153826303

Man, Midagard and Tien'Chi. wtf u guise doin.

>>153819772
Why would you emigrate to a barren shithole.

>>153826303

Badmin was right.

>>153826930
Because that's what God wants. Worked with the jews and Moses.

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Oh banefire how I love you.

That was actually a lot closer than it looks.

>>153826930
Free farmland I guess. Also, if the god has growth scales, it won't be barren long

>>153826303
Hosting was delayed by 16 hours, I don't know what the fuck is going on. Check the Admin log if you don't believe me.

>>153826930
Presumably the undead haven't actively destroyed aqueducts, baths, roads, markets, great public buildings, walls or other things that made life in the Eldergate (supposing it's like Rome) great before Thaumaturgs fucked up so they've just been neglected for some years. Even after Ermor's cancer dominion has disappeared, it'll take a while for nature to fully recover, but crops could probably already grow next season and the city (supposing it's like Rome) is a lot more liveable than alternatives in many other ways (running water, sewer system and so on).

Besides, a lot of people must have fled the devastation so they'd be returning to their homes.

>>153827378
They staled, fuck them. That's what's going on.

>>153793539
I played Dominions 4 for about 8 hours and I didn't understand it.

I had a giant rock as my pretender as the Atlanteans. All I did all game was build armies of Deep Ones, research a few spells, and moved the armies around as the AI fucked up on the map so I could conquer neutral territories and enemy territories. And that was really boring.

I also tried playing as the Ancient Chinese civilization and sort of got a handle on producing different types of gems and making some low-level magic items, but I had no idea whether it was effective or not.

I keep hearing that this game is deep and complex, but where?

>>153827663
The AI is... well, "special", it can barely use magic. Hence MP being the main aspect, because then you're playing against people whom will use the full bredth of spells/items/summons to try to kill you.

>>153827540
Oh no you don't, I saw that.

>>153827663
You just suck a lot. Like in any other field you have to be at the very least slightly competent to enjoy the process.
Basically you are just casual.

>>153827757
Are spells just randomly researched or something?

>>153827663
The AI is garbage and can be beaten by just throwing more units at it with maybe some basic mage support. Multiplayer is where the complexity comes in since just using more units won't work past the early game.

>>153827928
Actually I've heard a few players say on higher levels the AI is actually really tough to beat. The thing is it doesn't use the tactics that players use, they just throw endless doomstacks at you until they grind you down. So learning to beat the AI doesn't teach you things that will be useful against other players.

>>153827484
And anyway, even if Eldergate is in ruins and isn't ready to become the world's greatest city again any time soon, the region isn't naturally inhospitable (indeed, there's a reason why big historical cities have popped up where they have) and once cancer dominion is gone, people would want to stake out a claim to this desirable piece of land.

>>153827663
>I keep hearing that this game is deep and complex, but where?
Multiplayer.

As you've seen, the AI does not provide a large challenge. Playing against people requires you to actually make use of the large magic tree, and gives you useful feedback on whether or not what you were doing was effective.

>>153827776
Could easily be someone trying to stir up trouble. Seems a little too convenient to me.

Also for anyone who missed the deleted post, it had the name "Latus 3 Badmin" and said this
>Just let it go, one stale isn't too much, I for one vote for not rolling back, fuck that.

>>153827919
You can distribute research between different schools of magic. At each new level in a school you get a bunch of new spells. One of the buttons on the right should have a menu for it, and you can click on the school names to look at a full list of spells for that school.

>>153827663
The magic and item system. Deciding which spells/items you need, when you need them, where you need them, how best to use them, how best to gather the resources to use them, how best to defend against the counters for them, etc, etc.

You were literally playing as an AI, against the AI, doing nothing more than just hurling giant doomstacks around. I bet you didn't even reposition your troops or set up formations or orders.

As a comparison, imagine playing a standard skill-based RPG, setting the difficulty to 'very easy', cranking up the enemy HP (And nothing else), and then playing through the entire thing using nothing but the basic autoattack option. That's what you did. The AI is terrible at the game unless you give it a whole ton of breathing room, the general recommendation is to get a working knowledge of how gameplay is supposed to go and then jumping into MP as soon as possible.

For reference, those mages you can recruit are literally the most important thing, to the point where 95% of nations never recruit an actual commander in the entire game, and the other 5% recruit maybe 3 or 4, tops.

>>153828073
>>153827928
>>153827757
How is diplomacy handled in Multiplayer?

>>153828045
They're wrong, the AI's doomstacks are just chaffworks, decent mage support will wreck them every time.

>>153828045
A small group of mages can generally beat unlimited doomstacks, but that is... More or less accurate, if you're a newbie. Being able to kill a team of impossible AIs on your own is admirable, and at least a little difficult, but it won't teach you anything or be nearly as fun as an MP game is.

>>153827919
It's not that the AI doesn't research spells, it's that Dominions spells are often very situational and need careful setting up to really wreck the enemy. The AI basically casts spells at random, so if it pulls off a combo it is entirely by accident.

For example, the spell Foul Vapours deals a little Poison damage to half the creatures on the battlefield every turn. A basic tactic is to summon lots of poison resistant creatures and then cast the spell to slowly kill the enemy as the fight progresses. You can also mix in Rigor Mortis which slowly paralyzes every unit on the battlefield. However the AI can't put together these kinds of complex plans, so it just throws mixed hordes of monsters at you with mages casting random spells.

Against other players it becomes a game of cat and mouse as you try to exploit their weaknesses and counter their plans before the enemy counters yours.

>>153828045
Really tough to beat is an exaggeration. It just gets a lot of free income so instead of throwing small armies of random garbage at you, it throws big armies of random garbage at you. It does make things harder especially since it tends to attack rather randomly so you can't always just intercept its stacks, but if you play in a focused way and make good use of magic it's still easy to beat. When you hit your basic research goals, an army of 50 units supported by 10 mages that are used well, is better than an army of 100 units not supported by mages at all. So it makes the AI more dangerous early on, but doesn't help them much in the mid- and late-game.

>>153828138
The old-fashioned way. Just personal arrangements through ingame messages and/or Steam chat. Diplomacy isn't binding and you can never fully trust anyone, so games typically have a lot of backstabbing.

>>153828079
>I bet you didn't even reposition your troops or set up formations or orders.
I did play around with formations and orders but I had no idea what was effective against what and was just experimenting with how different things worked.

>>153828045
impossible AI is like wrestling with 500 kittens.

you punch 50 awway from you and 350 will swarm over your legs... but they are still fucking kittens and will go away with a kick.You aren't even scared, just inconvenienced for having lost one fort.
once you unlock your chainsaw ( = you have more than one good army with mage support), kittens are going to die without a chance.

>>153828138
People talk to each other somewhere (here, via messages ingame, on steam, etc) and can make agreements about what to do ingame or share information.

None of it is enforced by ingame rules, but most communities consider direct trades (X gems/gold/items for Y gems/gold/items) binding and will have the admin intervene if you don't follow through with your side.

Anything which isn't a trade is fair game for you to break, at least around here.

>>153828138
Here on /domg/ the unwritten rule is that trades are binding, meaning you can't propose a gem/item trade(or accept one) and not keep your end of the bargain. If the other player proves that you didn't (by uploading his turns) you'll either get ganked by everyone in the game or even set AI by the admin.

However everything else concerning alliances, threats, false promises of support have free reign. Backstabbing is the norm. As is pretending to be weak and asking everyone else to gang up on the only nation who can provide a threat to you later.

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>>153828138
>'You're my neighbor and I'm stronger than you, I'm gonna take your stuff.'
>'Help, my neighbor is trying to take my stuff, help me take their stuff instead and you can get half of it'
>'Hey, if you bring some armies around over there, we can kill both these chumps and take their stuff while they fight'
>Meanwhile the cancer nations sit unmolested and spawn unlimited skeletons as everyone capable of fighting them backstabs each other.

Cloak and Dagger bullshit diplomacy is not only expected but actively encouraged. Alliances are transitory and fragile, because at the end of the game there can only be one Pantokrator, and so the entire world is your enemy. Oh, there will be nations working together, perhaps even forming a close bond, but that will only make the inevitable betrayal that much sweeter, as they both brandish the knife behind the other's back. It's all about the presentation of threat and the promise of remuneration, really. Seem less dangerous than you are, but not so safe that people feel like they could get away with attacking you. Make reasonable offers, and expect reasonable offers in return, but never let your guard down.

Trades are always binding, though. ALWAYS. In every game, in pretty much every community, trades are binding.

Anyone knows where batcap is?

>>153827484
>just been neglected for some years
Just like Rome only regained the same level of water infrastructure as Ancient Rome at the beginning of the XXth century?

>>153828892
Too bad ingame populations are like what 30k, not 1 million.

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>>153828138
Here's some diplomacy in action.

Never trust a squid.

>>153829021
More like never trust Nicknight

So how does Ys get taken out before LA in canon?

>>153828892
Sorry, I don't quite follow what you're saying.

Vandals deliberately dismantled the aqueducts that allowed Rome to support population over a million, a few years of undead rule wouldn't do a thing to that kind of infrastructure. Hell, many parts of Roman Aqueducts still stand after millenia of lackof use. Or consider the sewers: I understand Cloaca Maxima is still in use for some parts of the city.

>>153829242
I assume R'lyeh mind rapes them like the rest of the UW nations sans Atlantis.

I need items with lightning resist (storm spools, acron necklaces, rings with resist). To ward of Ermor, of course.
But I have not much stuff to give in exchange. My only options is to trade 3 said items for 21 air gems, or for the 1 dwarven hammer. Or 6 items for both gems and the hammer.
Well, if someone is suffering from WoG, then any gifts of those items to me will be much appretiated. Be sure I'll use them to harm sceletons and Lich Queen as much as I would be able to.

>>153829340
>Oceania is the worst UW nation in both game and lore

What the fuck is illfraud thinking.

>>153829242
The Devs are working on an LA Ys, it will be an undead elfs nation with refugees from Vanarus and Ys led by Helhiem Hangdrott Liches. They'll have rituals to fight void insanity and start UW.

>>153829139
Amen

>>153829304
How the fuck do you know what undead rule is like lmao.

Your idea sucks balls because by removing the permanence from destructive actions you make them less impactful and thus boring.

No one will care about Death dom or popkill or BoT so long as he has some nature.

>>153829472
So basically just like Marignon fought Ermor with demons Ys fought R'lyeh with undead?

>>153829472
>The Devs are working on an LA Ys, it will be an undead elfs nation with refugees from Vanarus and Ys led by Helhiem Hangdrott Liches. They'll have rituals to fight void insanity and start UW.

As if UW glamour was cancerous enough we will now have UW, glamour with possibly popkill and reanimation.

Is Illwinter trying to kill off the community with these shitty new nations?

>>153829528
I think that's the idea they're going with, in their time of need they sold themselves to the lords of Helhalla and the city of tarnished bronze preserved itself.

>>153829581
>2 UW popkill nations in LA

Oh boy it'll make the waters utterly worthless. Good news is that R'lyeh and Ys will be forever locked in war there.

>>153829581
Apart from Xibalba and Ragha, all of the new nations they've introduced are mediocre to bad, so it's not going to kill the game in any way. Worst case scenario nobody will play the new nation and business continues as usual.

People were flipping out over Therodos and Ys at first, but neither of them has had an impact on how the game is played. And even though Ragha and EA Xib are considered OP as fuck, they haven't driven anyone away from the game either.

>>153829821
>People were flipping out over Therodos and Ys at first
Ys was greeted with a "meh", and Therodos was called worse than EA R'lyeh.

>>153829876
People were full of shit when talking about Therodos.

>>153829426
I imagine that if Oceania ever makes it's way to LA if will be a fusion of Oceania and Asphodel with evil undead kelp and Capricorn Pandemoniacs. LA is the age of edge after all.

>>153829480
>less impactful
Good. Popkill is no fun to play with.

>thus boring
Why so? Letting provinces repopulate after they've left ermor's dominion and control wouldn't affect ermor gameplay at all.

The only thing it'd affect is the value of ermor's lands.

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>Wake up check turns, no new turns
>Check llamaserver, waiting for 2 nations
>Go to work, check again after 6 hours

>AntiquisTerra
>Ermor Waiting for 2h file
>Marverni Waiting for 2h file

>>153829876
>Ys was greeted with a "meh"
Yeah because nobody was going all "oh shit underwater elves this is the end". Nope, not at all. Only after the details became known did people realise they were shit, and even then some people were still "oh shit look at those firebreathing sacreds"

>and Therodos was called worse than EA R'lyeh.
Again, only after the details became known. Before that, people were freaking out over what was perceived as Lemuria except with more options and even harder to remove because they're UW. And even after they were released, people still complained about how OP they were until they were nerfed.

You guys think the devs ever browse this place?

What would you tell them if one of the devs was here right now?

>>153830028
>And even after they were released, people still complained about how OP they were until they were nerfed.
Confirmed for not knowing what the fuck you're talking about

>>153830108
Swedes get triggered by 4chan hard.

>>153830127
Confirmed for not having been on /domg/ when Thed was released.

>>153830176
I've seen the dev's account and he plays Dota, I'm sure he can handle some bantz.

>>153830127
That sounds about right to me. The only thing I'd add is that there was some evidence for them being strong as a lot of their early games were won.

What did he get wrong?

>>153830334
Hello Scott.

My favorite meme is Bob le Forester.

>>153830351
speaking of, anyone got the battle report from that game?

>>153829480
I'm not thinking of ability to repopulate provinces at will but Ermor (perhaps just the capital) getting repopulated to a thematically sound degree once they are defeated through events (let's say Eldergate was home to 500k people before the cataclysm: would it be unreasonable if 30k of those people returned within a year or two of Ermor's defeat?). Populations already move around in events for various reasons, thematically this wouldn't be anything new.

>How the fuck do you know what undead rule is like lmao.
The skeletons are mindless so they don't just organize a massive deconstruction project unless a necromancer commands them to. In general, they wouldn't have a reason to destroy the city or its surrounding infrastructure, there's no mention of any deliberate acts of demolition and indeed, the fortifications of Ermor capital are still in place complete with supply storage and and such like. The faction description merely says every living thing in the dominion will wither and die, that's it. No mention of crumbling aqueducts or collapsing amphitheatres.

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>>153830515

>>153830516
Skellies still use forts, labs and temples. It makes sense that they'd take materials from shit they don't need like aquaducts in order to build the shit they do need, rather than going through the effort of mining new materials. In addition, making the land unliveable would be very much in the undead's advantage, so it makes a lot of sense that they'd just wreck everything they don't need.

All of which is irrelentant since there's no evidence either way in the game or the lore, and making up some imaginary scenario to support your point is entirely meaningless.

>>153830789
If they were using existing materials, why do their forts and labs and temples all cost the exact same as normal? Shouldn't they have a discount?

>>153830947
Skellies are mindless, so the necromancers have to hire outside contractors to build their shit, and pay them double to work in cancer dominion circumstances.

>>153830747
Wow a thug beat 2-3 mages not geared towards taking down thugs, truly amazing.

>>153831082

Still here, Helheim?

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>>153831082
>it's a "Forester Bob isn't even good this meme is dumb" post

>>153830947
Besides, why not use the existing walls and labs and temples of Eldergate to begin with? There's no need to dismantle the city to build something new from scratch. If I was a death god, I'd rather have not-Pantheon rededicated for me alone rather than some shitty ordinary temple skeletons have built, much in the same way Pantheon was used as a Church during the Middle-Ages.

What if Ermor couldn't build forts/temples/labs with cash but had to use death gems?

>>153831337
Because that's not how Dominions works.

When you conquer an enemy temple, the first thing that always happens is you raze it to the ground, because it's dedicated to an enemy pretender and you can't just rededicate it.

Stop trying to overrule gameplay mechanics with your own made-up lore.

>>153831425
Then no-one gonna play it. And all those sceleton-loving fedora tippers gonna die drown in their own shit.

>>153831425
So if their starting lab burnt down they couldn't ever make another? Sounds hilarious

>>153816530

Righto. Will track him down and get that sorted.

>>153831447
There's many capital sites featuring temples that must have existed long before the ascension wars and the new pretender didn't demand their destruction. Ancient temples and other discovered sites aren't destroyed either. Pretenders clearly are happy with old temples being present as long as they weren't constructed for one of their present enemies.

>>153831570
That's fucking hilarious but could be solved by an event that remakes it for them.
>>153831509
That bad huh?

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=JustMAgame
2 spots left

>>153832185
>as long as they weren't constructed for one of their present enemies
The pretender of EA Ermor would certainly have been a "present enemy" to the pretender of MA Ermor at the time of the cataclysm.

>>153832227
>Ermor
>no summod
Nice try skeltal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIypdzgZAaI

ALERT: Bats have now taken Hinnom's cap, Apes are on the adjacent province but don't seem to be attacking at the moment.

>>153831881
I'm on steam, etc.

>>153832503

Have pinged you, yeah.

>>153832472
>don't seem to be attacking at the moment.
Hinnom took O3, I'm using Chaos Power sacreds, so you can imagine why.

Who else is fighting bats anyway? Lizards?

>>153832562
I'm not seeing it, I blame steam

>>153832270
There must have been hundreds of years between EA and MA with Pantokrator, EA pretender (whether or not he was thrown to Tartarus or ascended) is long gone.

Anyhow, suppose the skeletons take down the temples of Eldergate. There's certainly enough building materials for a temple to the new pretender and then some, they don't need to go around tearing down the rest of the city so it's only reasonable to assume it isn't quite in ruins yet when the god of Ashen Empire is defeated.

>>153832712
A city occupied by a hostile force that has zero reason to maintain most of its infrastructure (and in fact has a good reason to make it unuseable to living things) isn't going to stay functional for hundreds of years.

Again, stop trying to make up your own lore just so you can use it to second-guess simple gameplay mechanics.

Can Ermor benefit from blesses? If so, do they regenerate from N9? It'd be a great combo with D9.

>>153833087
>Can Ermor benefit from blesses?
Yes. Their sacreds work just like any sacred and can be blessed like normal.

>If so, do they regenerate from N9?
Yes. An N9 bless works on anything, even undead and lifeless units.

>>153833192
Would you reccommend Lictors or Wailing Ladies as my go-to sacred?

>>153833431
I have honestly never seen wailing ladies used

>it's the S9 tartarian has been retarded for 5 turns episode

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Well good fucking job to whoever decided it was a good idea to backstab Caelum.
Who the fuck did that anyway? Tell me about your plans regarding this game and specifically Pangaea.

>>153834521
>joining as two nations

this is to be considered cheating.

>>153834626
>Believing salt at face value

>>153834626
I'm not the admin there but I can assure you if someone was doing so in one of my games and there was proof of it, I'd AI him ASAP.

>>153834626
It's just Caelum (t. Pan) being a retard as usual, throwing the game long before he's lost and blaming it on others not playing fair.

>oh no two people attacked me, they must be the same person!

If it was real and he had any proof that would definitely be a serious issue, but there's no evidence that suggests such a thing.

>>153834707
I can assure you that if evidence is presented to prove this, I will set the relevant nations to AI within a day. However an accusation from a salty player does not mean anything until proven.

>>153827378
>Hosting was delayed by 16 hours, I don't know what the fuck is going on. Check the Admin log if you don't believe me.

Well it seems that instead of being delayed by 16 hours, it has been cut off by 8 hours.

>>153827489
>They staled, fuck them. That's what's going on.
Well if you feel like being a cunt then i guess i won't be submitting my turns until 5 minutes before time limit.

How do you even expand as Nazca?

>>153836354
>Well if you feel like being a cunt then i guess i won't be submitting my turns until 5 minutes before time limit.

Big words when you don't even name yourself.

Also big games always have a problem with faggot stalers, last thing we need is to start rolling back turns for it. Oh and turn rollback has a chance of bricking the game. Take the stale and just don't be a faggot next time.

>>153836518
Very successfully.

>>153832227
>Ermor
>Asphodel
>Vanheim
>Nazca
We just need Caelum now for full MA cancer combo.

>>153836778
As a scrub I'm confused. I get the rest, but caelum?

>>153838275
Birds and Bats are cancer always.

>>153816449
>>153816281
>be nick
>be meaningless and about to lose in a game
lol u butthurt XD

t. Aran

>>153838275
Flying, storming, thunderstriking faggots aren't cancer to you?

>>153836778
Caelum joined.

Enjoy your cancer stew.

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>>153840908
Splendid.

>>153841072

Who's the Mac faggot? That name's shown up in a bunch of other games.

>>153841264
Product placement. Illwinter has recently begun advertising Macintosh Plus.

justMAgame map link isn't working

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Something something demon jester.
Definitely AI cheats.

>>153835229
>Implying I play Caelum in any age

They have access to ONLY AIR MAGIC until they reach like level 7 or 8 or something in conjuration when they can maybe branch out if they somehow can find D or S gems to summon their overpriced national summons, half of which have CHAOS POWER (on a nation that really does not want turmoil)

There is literally NOTHING good about that shit nation. ANYONE with blood access can summon better flying armies that don't have a shitton of fatigue to boot. The fact that half of Caelum's summons are DEMONS TOO, and thus have the same flaws as the blood summons, just adds insult to injury

tl;dr Caelum is shit and there's a lot more memeworthy nations for me to play

I'm basing this all off what I can see in the inspector

t. Pan

>>153841264
The Sarnath guy is in a bunch of games as well.

>>153843181
i'm in 2, and i joined them within 20 minutes of each other

>>153842961
Try this one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ry2spjzktkymf5n/Snerdryn_v1.1.7z?dl=0

Does this run on Linux?

>>153843079
You can get that from an event though?.

>>153843291
hmm still says "can't find map image: Snerdyn_v1_1.ta" but it's in the folder

>>153843340
Yes.

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>>153843340
It was made in Java (I think?)

>>153843417
Rename it.

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Still waiting for a Y's sub, still waiting on disappearing sceleria. Help.avi

>>153843497
worked thanks

>>153843143
The hero we need

>>153843342
what event?

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>>153844054

>>153844054

There are two. 2375 and 2393

>>153843143
Well the Caelum player mentioned had a very similar style off faggotry to yours. Either he was impersonating you or you are full of shit.

>>153843442
>>153843468
Sweet, thanks. Time to dive in.

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>>153843340
Dominions actually was made for Linux originally (of course, Linux software is quite inherently portable so it's more like multiplatform, Dominions 1 and 2 were even distributed for some other Unix-like operating systems like Solaris as well as non-x86 Linux architectures, but I'm pretty sure the devs always used Linux). It's apparent from old screenshots (some 90s window manager) but also if you look at audio options support (it supports pretty much all audio systems that have appeared over the two and a half decades) or other such details.

>>153843468
It's written in C.

>>153828884

Bats have cave spawn right? I believe it is located at 140.

What is /domg/'s view on sending your gold and gems to another nation when you lose? Legitimate tactic or giant fuck you to the balance of the game?

>>153844431
nothing has changed from dom 2

>>153844637
Only if you play both nations.

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>>153844258
I'm full of piss and jizz, but not shit. Scat isn't my fetish :o)

>>153844431
>of course, Linux software is quite inherently portable

t. average undeducated Liecux user that is full of shit and doesn't know a single goddamn thing about software development

csockets and winsockets are not the same thing, faglord

>>153844431
This is literally the first time i've ever even seen proof that Dominions 2 existed. Dominions 1 was presumably on a stone slate.

>>153844878
And it probably had the same sites and unit icons too.

>>153844431
>Interface on the righthand, left and top left side hasn't changed a single fucking bit

>>153844637

It depends.

In a disciple game, deathbasketing teammates is perfectly acceptable, and deathbasketing enemies is Crix.

In a free-for-all, it's generally better to fight to your last resource, but throwing what's left at enemies of enemies is fine.

>>153844637
There aren't really any rules against it, but a lot of people frown on such things since it can be seen as kingmaking.

Though usually it's not such a big deal imo. Unless they're really shit, someone losing a war will use up their gems and gold in order to turn the tide. Someone who loses the game and still has enough gems left that gifting them makes a significant difference either doesn't know what they're doing or is fucking up the balance on purpose.

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>>153844878
>Dominions 1 was presumably on a stone slate.
You're not very far from truth.

>>153844704
Sounds exactly like that Caelum player.

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Gotta cut Illfraud some slack. At least now you can actually understand what's happening on the screen.

>>153844637
Generally speaking, I think it's bad form because I would rather expect players to exhaust all their resources fighting until the end (even if that means converting gems to fire such that you can alchemize them for gold to fuel your war machine).

Hower, if you did truly commit yourself to the war and what you're sending really are the remaining scraps (sometimes you lack the foresight to see you're going to lose quickly or your mages are busy fighting instead of spending gems on inefficient stuff so it can be a good amount), I don't have a problem with it. In addition, I think it's reasonable to pay a more powerful player to assist you against a common more powerful foe (they can use the resources more effectively) so in principle I'm not opposed to this line of thinking: "I'm down to my capital so you'll be able to use the resources a lot more efficiently and perhaps lift the siege with those resources and let me live for a couple of turns longer than I otherwise would have. However, while this move would enable me to stay in the game a couple of turns longer so it's the right move, I'm never going to have any impact so I'll just go AI."

TLDR: Not committing yourself seriously and pussying out at the first setback before you've had even a chance to spend your resources if bad form and so is sending your stuff purely out of spite. Sending your last scraps or buying assistance (even if you simultaneously go AI) are all right in my book.

>>153844860
Suppose you use SDL for most of your platform-dependent stuff.

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>>153845871
>Original statement is licux is inherently portable
>Current statement is SDL is portable

WOW A LIBRARY MADE TO BE PORTABLE IS PORTABLE

>>153846030
In Linux game development, regardless of if your intent is to create multiplatform software or not, you end up using libraries like SDL, OpenGL, if you program it in C and target GCC compiler then you're in luck because GCC is available to virtually every platform etc.

If you wrote the game in Assembly, it wouldn't be portable because system calls vary from different operating systems (although I suppose the ones included in POSIX standard would be applicable to other Unix-like systems). If you wrote the game with graphics produced with Xlib, then it obviously wouldn't translate to Windows or OS X because they don't use X display server. BUT NOBODY DOES THAT. The way you'd develop a game for Linux if you were targeting only Linux almost certainly involves those multiplatform libraries and APIs and tools that are available for all modern operating systems. Ergo, games developed for Linux are highly portable by default. This is in stark contrast to Windows game development for example in which case the most natural tools to use would be, say, DirectX/D3D, and they aren't available to any other system.

>>153846956
>C IS MORE PORTABLE THAN ASSEMBLY!!!

Just fucking stop. The language being portable has nothing to do with licux. The goal post has moved all the way to China by now. This is the last (you) a first grade CS college junior is getting from me.

What cross paths deserve more spells? A/W is a bit disappointing, with only Freezing Mist and Yetis despite being rather thematic together, as elements for rain and lightning.

>>153847843
D/N for C'tis.

F/N.

E/D.

F/A.

>>153847228
If you want to deliberately misunderstand me for the purposes of stroking your ego or spewing shit to misdirect others from your initial misunderstanding (or alternatively, not knowing even half of what you think you know, although it's quite probable you are more knowledgeable on the subject than I am) then be my guest. Even if I may have, in my lack of knowledge, misunderstood some details (like the system call compatibility within POSIX systems), everything relevant to my argument is factual, or for the very least you haven't made any efforts to prove otherwise.

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>Mages go horribly offscript and cast earthquake on the wrong turns, not to mention only three times instead of the scripted six
>Still beat the crap out of Ermor and its outdated skelespam
>Kill his pretender and make him lose all those gems and all that shit
>-1 Dusk Elder
>-1 Dusk Elder on the other end of the map

Nice attacks, cancerman :o)

>>153847961
>D/N
Life and Death? Maybe battlesummon Mandragoras/Manikins?
>F/N
Treants. On fire. They'll just be vine ogres with fire auras

>>153848460
>D/N
Maybe something plague/poison-related?

>>153848460
>Treants have one weakness: fire
>Let's make a treant that has fire resistance

>>153848167
Based rocks putting the skeletons in their place.Under ground

>>153847843
Something like hail storm would seen a natural addition.

>>153848719
Maybe it should deal 14 blunt damage to the entire battlefield?

But seriously it could be something like Magma Eruption that leaves a cold aura instead of a hot aura
>>153848509
The thing is all the plagues so far are death. A rain of poison battlespell could work or an long range ritual that poisons wells.

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>>153848515

>>153849176
Gruul and Golgari could be good inspirations for FN and DN spells

Game: MAdden_2016_Hexxy_Edition

Abysia 2h file received
Agartha 2h file received
Arcoscephale 2h file received
Asphodel 2h file received
>C'tis Waiting for 2h file
Ermor 2h file received
Man 2h file received
Marignon 2h file received
Nazca 2h file received
>Pelagia Waiting for 2h file
Ulm 2h file received
Vanheim 2h file received

1,5 hours left faggots.

>>153848167
Actually it's amazingly great. Didn't expect something so good from memester like you.
Well, I have to achieve more than that, that is all to it.

>>153848167
>Defenders of the Halls
Are these worth using ever? I'm genuinely curious. They seem to be pretty awful.

>>153845676
game?

>>153849176
I was thinking of fairly minimal damage (say, b1, possibly targeting heads only) but continuous effect (also doubles as rain and storm) and additional cold effect (like additional cold damage). It'd be good against troops without helmets in the long term but it wouldn't be killer the same way RoS is.

>>153850937
now, that's a freaking awful pretender build.

Hello from the LlamaServer.

I received an e-mail from you, but unfortunately there seems to be a problem with it.

Your 2h file seems to be for a different turn number to the one the game's currently on. The 2h file is for turn 36, while the game is now on turn 35.

Details of your e-mail:
Subject: Dom4 Turn
Sent at: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 11:03:39 -0700 (PDT)
Attachment: mid_caelum.2h

FistfulofDeathGems seems bugged, I just got turn 36 but server says its still turn 35.

>>153852361
Dominions.

>>153852762
E-mail llama, he'll fix it.

>>153852781
Which one?

>>153852897

Done.

>>153852995
Are you literally retarded?

>>153845676
>>153845367
Dominions I

>>153844431
Dominions II

http://i.4cdn.org/gif/1472995551901.webm
Dominions 4

>>153853228
Now I think I am

>>153831082
>Almost three years later, Helheim is still assmad

There's some fuckery going on in Fistful.

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Does this guy gain MAX HP whenever he kills a unit? Or is it "temporary" HP (meaning his regeneration works only on his true max HP) that, once lost, are not recovered after battle?

Now the turn file came in again, but I received turn 36 again. Now it says I staled the last turn?

What fuckery is going on?

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Why not make an AW spell out of this?

Admin stop handling turns from phone while also masturbating.

can we just make it work just by sending the first turn? i am not looking to lose muh events and muh battles

>>153853802
What's going on there? In any case, it seems Dominions as fuck.

>>153853761
Same thing here. Even though staling data says I've sent the turn.

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>>153854410
And for some reason, it's turn 36, not 37.

Here is my correspondence with Llama. Seems like we are fucked with the stale turn. Take note, FistfulAdmin

>Thanks. The turns rolled in again, and now its saying we had a stale turn. Checked with some other players, they seem to have stale turns as well from the round before.

>Ah, oh dear sorry, it did a double host. This is a very rare problem, but it does happen occasionally unfortunately. I've not been able to track down the cause. It's important that you don't do a rollback as the skipped turn won't have been saved properly. At this point the best thing to do is to consider it as just a very extreme random event. Please let your admin know about this before they try a rollback! Cheers, and sorry about this.

>>153829021
There were many turns between the message and the attack. Back when I sent that I sought to protect the smaller nations from the wrath of the great land powers.

Turns out, they didn't want to be saved.

>>153847843
Elemental paths, mostly. A/W, A/F, and E/W.

S/D has tons of crosspaths, D/N has a bunch as well. S/N has a few, but more probably wouldn't hurt.