Previous Pantokrator Dominions is a fantasy turn-based war game created by two dudes. One of them is a teacher.
The game combines a simple presentation with an extremely wide array of strategic options, including over 2800 units, 800 spells and 300 magic items. Turns are resolved simultaneously, with players planning battles rather than directly controlling them.
It has simplistic graphics but is easily moddable and extremely deep.
Basically, it's an autist’s wet dream of a war game.
>Dom4 Inspector This is a community resource that has every unit, spell, and item in the game in an accessible database. larzm42.github.io/dom4inspector/
You need to use #selectnation, then use #addrecunit to add it to the unit roster, I think.
Hunter Johnson
It's being modded for Pythium, though, and shows up in it's commander list. I'll try adding those in though, gimme a sec.
Oliver Cox
Everything is a commander by default. Units are just dumbed down commanders.
Cameron Hall
>Giving Communicants reclimit 10 and gcost 10
The absolute madman
Caleb Martinez
le french man has arrived
Charles Thomas
>yfw each theurg waltzes onto the battlefield with a fucking harem of 10 communicants >yfw there's twenty theurgs
Christopher Gray
>ermor's face when
Eli Adams
I feel like that would make 256 man communions viable, at which point you'd have like 30 theurgs all casting Master Enslave.
Caleb Brown
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Joshua Green
You've discovered my master plan.
You've rain-of-stoned one too many times, Ulm
Brody Baker
What could possibly go wrong?
Cooper Martin
As Pythium you can get from S2 to S4 with a skullcap and coin fairly easily, at which point you only need a measly 32 communicants to master enslave. I mean, they'd all die after like, one round of casting, but you could still do it. With 64 you'd half the fatigue cost to 50 and ensure your communicants survive.
Jason Peterson
>Not getting N9Ex on Pythium Now your communicants only go squish after two turns!
Dylan Foster
But the penetration boost!
Tyler Lewis
Using Arch Theurgs and boosters you only need sixteen communicants.
Brody Brooks
But 256 gives an additional +2 penetration.
James Lewis
Every saturday, the thread is ded and I have no turns.
I should make a game with week long deadlines so that turns only progress on weekends just to have more turns to do.
John Martin
Do it.
Jacob Ortiz
lel down to 4 players now, the game ends when its down to zero, I won't end the game prematurely.
Caleb Flores
Soon.
Alexander Phillips
Tell me your Steam name so I would never ever join your shit games.
Camden Taylor
I'm not sure who is worse - this admin, or the guy who hosted BigGayCity
Jayden Hill
I have admined a shitton of games here, odds are you've played in a few of mine already if you've been playing dom4 through here for the past year and a half.
James Green
I vote for the NoMemes admin.
Cameron Bennett
So YOU'RE the one who keeps fucking up all those games
Jason Ross
You're saying this like it's some kind of achievement. Again, tell me who you are, I'm never going in one of your games again.
Joshua Ross
Blame all these fucking assholes asking for extensions over the weekend, every single weekend.
I bet it's all the same guy.
Eli Roberts
Most games run pretty smoothly desu, I'm quite surprised Evropa had such issues with players not submitting the right pretender and then others backing someone fucking up. Yes I could roll back but the shit I've gotten for ever rolling back turns has been way worse. /domg/ is pretty hostile at the best of times, people here are impossible to please and are quick to shit on admins who do all the administrative work of setting up and maintaining games while trying to enjoy it themselves.
AI'ing people as an example is a pretty pain in the ass thing to do if you're playing the game. You have to get someone else to install maps/mods etc. and then set AI and send the turn off. This means you have to have good friends willing to do it and you have to be sharp about getting it done quickly to avoid stales. If you're knocked out then you've got to maintain a game you're not even playing which has happened a couple of times to me. Watching the /domg/ thread is mandatory too and I have to keep an eye on it 24/7 just to make sure I can keep the games running without issue.
At the moment I run three games here, one Evropa I've mentioned. I won't mention the others incase some aspie decides to quit out of the other 2. I wouldn't put it past some of the players here.
Here's a partial list of the games I've run here: ScrubOff ScrubsAnonymous ExtremeWays TornVale Haerland Persia CastleDoctrine
There's like another 6-7 games I've run through to the end who's names escape me and probably another 3 which ended prematurely due to player fuck ups similar to Evropa. By all means hate on me but you've never actually obligated to join any game I run and ultimately if you don't like what's hosted you can always host yourself.
If you really do hate me so, avoid all games that are run on Worthy Heroes 1.23 alone as a mod. That's how I run my games mod wise and it's a good way these days to ID me as an admin.
Aiden Morales
>CastleDoc, where the admin rolled back a turn so his friend could rescript a lost battle
Sebastian Foster
>/domg/ is pretty hostile at the best of times, people here are impossible to please and are quick to shit on admins who do all the administrative work of setting up and maintaining games while trying to enjoy it themselves.
I've admined games here before and never been shit on. Admining is honestly easy - the only time consuming part is setting it up, and even that is very minor. If you're being shit on, it means that you've manged to fuck up a pretty simple job. If it happens repeatedly, you're -probably- doing something fundamentally wrong. Evropa and CastleDoc are pretty good signs that this is the case with you.
Joseph Edwards
>joethepro36 And we get the steam name at last.
Christian Jackson
>Atlantis and Riley share cap circle >no restart You deserve everything you get.
Grayson Howard
Did that really happen? Wew, that's fucking disgusting.
Joseph Rogers
I was told by Pangaea that he was having issues with turn sending like Machaka did who had to quit because turns weren't sending to Llama successfully. Apologies though, I do think rolling back in general is a mistake, it causes more problems than it fixes.
Daniel Moore
A couple of admins here have shut the game down entirely when they start losing. I know of one guy in particular who when losing set the turn time to the max he could and just let the game run with impossibly long turns. Another who just force hosted over and over until he won at a certain point. There's plenty of bad admins here.
Jackson Murphy
YEAP, after doing 48 hour turns pretty much immediately with extensions for his friend. Hell, he was even defeated then when someone staled twice took them over. I'm not sure what happened in the end but currently it's LITERALLY JUST PAN AND THE AI.
He didn't stale that turn, he attacked Ermor and got his ass handed to him. Rolling back when NO-ONE STALED is stupid unless something went majorly wrong with llamaserver, which it didn't. Hell, it's a dead game and you haven't removed it from llamaserver, you have one job dude ONE JOB.
Multiple people in Evropa asked you for a restart, first on turn 1 when only 2 people sent their turns, then on turn 2 when it was discovered that two nations were 1 province from each other. You answered "haha, you just want to get a better position, so the game won't restart. you're free to make a new game and AI yourself". The most disgusting thing about you that now you're spewing "I'm the misunderstood good guy" bullshit (even using cringe-inducing Churchill's pic) while telling everyone that "/domg/ is impossible to please". The one thing that admins do is listen to players. Players asked you for a restart, and you decided to be a prick about it. You literally had one job and you fucked it up because of your ego and "lol, those players, why would I listen to them, lmao XD" attitude. Fuck off.
John Cruz
>Turn 175 what the shit
Hudson Baker
>Another who just force hosted over and over until he won at a certain point. Actually, he set the turn timer to 2 hours by, did a few turns, either couldn't figure out how to roll back or didn't care to, then declared the game over. That was BigGayCity
Oliver Cook
Unless there was another game where that happened, in which case nvm
Nathaniel Martin
I took over T'ien Chi after he'd staled 5 turns in a row and had obviously quit. I did lose to Pangaea, he'd been able to get demon lords and such by that point and I couldn't turn the tide.
Again I'm sorry for rolling back, I learnt my lesson to never roll back and also to not trust players who tell me to do so.
Well it is tough shit if you have poor starts and/or submit pretenders wrongly. Fucking deal with it. I've restarted games up to 3 times to deal with shitty players complaining about starts or fucking up pretenders and all it does is cause even more rage when people lose good starting positions for shit ones because players fuck up. Hence why I'm saying you can't win with the complainers here.
>I listen to players and restart, people bitch like fuck at me. >I don't restart, players bitch like fuck at me >People have issues with starting position, bitching ensues >I restart, bitching ensues
Jose Fisher
>I learnt my lesson to never roll back and also to not trust players who tell me to do so. There exist times when rollbacks are okay. They are pretty much always obvious to everyone.
Also, this bullshit: "The admin for the game FirstBreath has sent you a message:
__General Reminder__
To all players, if you are last to submit a turn please submit a double. This has been an issue for most players in the game and is not directed at one or two.
Hope the game's going well for you.
Peace.
(End of message)"
If it was earlygame, I'd understand, midgame, maybe, but fucking turn 71?
Jacob Jenkins
Yeah Shiny in that game I think was leaving turns to the last minute on a 48 turn timer. Literally last hour before host. Did it something like 12 times in a row. Never ever did a double turn. I asked nicely, eh what can you do?
Elijah Smith
>Fucking deal with it. I did. I AI'ed immediately.
"Bad start" is one thing, starting in each other's cap circle is entirely different. If you can't uderstand that simple fact, just don't admin games.
Caleb Phillips
Man, the only time I ever failed to start a game was All Tomorrows, but trying to start that while Memegeddon just started, and while Flatus was still running, and another biggish disciple game started, was a tad ambitious.
Honestly, the whole game concept was super ambitious. Trying to find 30 players that won't stale/ai/quit . . . good luck (I could maybe muster 20 in all, which given 6 teams that have/did sign up is about accurate).
Landon Clark
Firstbreath, the EA game in which unless my scouts missed a battle you got BTFO twice by 5 province Therodos. So nah, shinny wasn't in that game.
Mason Nguyen
Big games are by design memegames
My mistake, I did send a similar message to a guy playing shiny in one game though. Is there really much wrong with asking though?
Kayden Ortiz
All Tomorrows was only going to have 10 teams though, and in disciples # of teams is more important for determining game length than # of players.
As I learned the hard way in DwD.
Josiah King
Never played a disciples game, whats it like?
Jace Hall
It shows a lack of understanding of how long turns can take at different stages of the game, which is not too bad if you listened to players, but as you don't seem to.
Levi Fisher
Glorious.
If you have good teammates.
David Brown
My teammates bully me ;_;
Juan Cox
Should be asking the admin to extend turn timer then if that's the case really. You should never have to leave it to the last hour every turn because your turns take so long to do.
Nathan Brown
If the case is not doing doubles on turn 71? Why would that need an extension?
Ryan Bell
I mean in terms of overall turn timer length
Bentley Powell
probably cause you're a fag, nerd
Joseph Hill
Thank you Lemuria, you continue to martyr yourself so that we may live in harmony and contentment.
Logan Cooper
Now combine it with foul air.
Eli Ramirez
...
Wyatt Campbell
Those are his spooks biting the gas line
Jace Lopez
Well, his spooks are immune to disease, so when the lightnings hit other players their guys will get afflictions. Win-win.
John Barnes
It was the second biggest single loss of ghosts I've had this game (my first Genocide wiped 8k+)
Alexander Garcia
That's not lightning.
Easton Long
Oh, it's that enchantment. RIP.
Parker Walker
That's Purgatory. Literally the 'Fuck Ermor/Lemuria' global that kills undead at a ridiculous rate.
Flatus Lemuria has hundreds of thousands of ghosts.
Sebastian Harris
It's technically only friendly dominion, so unless you're a blood sac nation, you're unfortunately not going to be able to rely on it to clear forted thrones.
Or, to put it another way, I T S A L R E A D Y T O O L A T E
Liam Hall
You can outpreach Lemuria pretty easily with most nations.
Aiden Sanders
Ayup. C'tis dom kills my spooks, Xibalba's would kill my commanders if I ever get there.
Thankfully at 90+ death gems per turn, I guess I can BoT to clear at least one of them.
Ian Miller
In some RPGs, there's the concept called "Rusty knife shanktown", due to at early levels both players and enemies being crap and yet able to die to each other due to one fluke of luck.
With that in mind, I present to you a 10 man disciple game, two sides of 5 players. Set in EA, as UW in MA is PELAGIAVILLE and LA is non-existent, gold and rescources are on 50% to make scales matter slightly, research needs to be discussed. The map it will be on is a modified version of Talis, which shall be uploaded once the nations are chosen, so one team starts against the right side, the other the left.
Three level three thrones will be placed, in 6, 13 and 14.
Fuck it, sounds interesting. I'll be in the steam chat for a bit if anyone wants to discuss teams.
David White
Are you using summod for this mad venture?
Nolan Jackson
NO SUMMOD
Devourer of souls suffered enough.
Ian Hernandez
Teams will choose on that and worthy heros before starting. As well as choosing how to distribute nations, whether by draft or gentlemen's agreement.
Josiah Gomez
You'll be pleased to hear that the newest version, which is out once I finish writing up the changelog and big testing, makes luck amulets a little less good.
Hudson Myers
>that picture >kek
Ian Flores
>10 players >UW
whad
Eli Robinson
I tell it to myself every time I attack someone aggressively without warning.
Hunter Phillips
Between 0 and 2 members of each team can be UW, and one throne will be.