Dom 3 slow game (2 day turnaround)[closed]

[JasonPratt]

Yay, I can play my turns this afternoon! (For this and Groghammer both!) I see have I have diplomacy to catch up on first...

[parone]

hey jason-

if you played your turn, it never got in.  i only mention it due to recent history...

[JasonPratt]

Played it a few minutes ago; the server received it. Caelum stands last this turn.  ;D

[parone]

ahhh, Ysko, that airborn rascal

[Yskonyn]

Guys, bad news. Its been crazy here and my complete week schedule has been changed. I now am out of town for the rest of the week, actually I wont be back until monday.
We had to go into emergency mode to get our Son taken care off because of this. Not cool!
Anyway it means I wont be able to return anything till monday. *sigh*

[Phobos]

Thanks for letting us know what was going.  Stay safe.

[JasonPratt]

No worries, we're still averaging around two days a turn. :) (I think. Okay maybe I feel. Okay I honestly have no idea.  ;D )

Plenty of other things for me to play meanwhile. PLEASE GOD LET ME FINALLY BEAT STRONGHOLD 1 THIS WEEKEND KTHXBI!

[Huw the Poo]

Can't be helped Ysk.  Stay safe!

[parone]

pratt:

i always wanted to try the stronghold series.  is it worth giving them a go?

[JasonPratt]

I recall Stronghold 2 being a bit of a buggy mess, and I haven't gotten back up to it yet so I don't have any current impressions of it. From what I hear Stronghold Crusader is the best; I think it's SH1.5 in effect.

SH1 is rather nice. The economic campaign is kind of like a tutorial, and cheats terribly, and isn't really needed as the military campaign teaches all the econ stuff along the way. The sprites are quite detailed for the time, lots of little touches. The game's speed is scalable to be very managable. The AI is a bit dodgy but it can and will find and exploit holes in your defense (or offense). The game is much harder when I try to play a bit realistically and make actual castles rather than walling off map entry points to make killing zones. Archery is absolute king, crossbowmen moreso. I hardly bother to use foot troops. The acting during the story mode is entertainingly over-the-top, with a classic come-from-behind to avenge your father and serve the king campaign. The UI could use some improvement.

GoG released both SH1 and SHCrusader in fan-redesigned HD formats, at $6 and $10 each. I can't tell you how much the HD improves the experience because I bought the collection through Steam instead. Regular SH1 is certainly well worth $6 to me. SHC from GoG (not sure about steam) includes all the improvements from various expansions, including a ten thousand unit mission cap. (I have no idea how many units I've ever had onscreen in SH1, but I'd be surprised if it was more than 300 altogether.)

[Yskonyn]

Ok guys I am back from work.
Turns will be sent in the next few hours, but Ill be going on holiday on wednesday morning. Not able to play for about 2 weeks.
Do we want Caelum to be taken over during that time so we can continue or is everyone fine with waiting?
Caelum is in a peaceful spot, but has a tiny territory. Should be fairly easy to maintain and I have no issues with someone of the existing players wanting to maintain it in my absence.

[undercovergeek]

i would have said its better to wait - but thats just me, seems awfully odd handing the reigns over

[Huw the Poo]

Yeah I'm happy to wait too.

[JasonPratt]

I'm okay with waiting, but I'm okay with an ally of Caelum managing things in the meantime, too. :)

[parone]

i'd kind of like to keep playing, since this is my only real dom game going.  but if we end up waiting, that's cool. 

if we pause, i'll be in danger of joining another game(i'm a glutton) :D