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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.

>Steamgroup
Join the steamgroup for multiplayer
steamcommunity.com/groups/vanheimageofvidya

>Group chatroom
steam://friends/joinchat/103582791434709795

>Our work-in-progress wiki
dom4.wikia.com/wiki/Dominions_4_Wiki

>Our pastebin
pastebin.com/uTZnjYwm

>Dom4 Manual
jaffa.illwinter.com/dom4/manual_dom4.pdf

>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/

>Play by email guide:
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=202096551

>Debug Mod:
For testing battle formations and spells
dom4archive.kermodebear.org/www.desura.com/games/dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions/forum/thread/debug-mod.html

>Where do I get it?
It is available on Gamersgate and Steam. Desura is kill.

>THE BASICS
>Read the manual
>Read the wiki
>Read the pastebin
>Watch some LPs by Maerlande or NuclearMonkee
>Jump into MP feet first
>don't bully elf

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Also your obligatory disapproving kitsune

Monstergirls

Monstergirl degenerates BTFO

>when a commander who commanders japanese demons with a dieased item fights a blind headless vampire for ownership of a holy artifact

Also nice bless helheim

Hey admin, are you going to do anything about Ys staling for the third time in a row?

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JOIN THIS MA GAME PLEASE I NEED TURNS OH MY GOG

Wrestling is just like anime, based wwe

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>goons

Literally just shao kahn.
Mortal Kombat mod when?

Fuck off, Nuclearmonkee.

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remember when that SJW cunt everyone was girl-fellating in IRC turned out to be cheating and got driven off

You mean the one that got triggered on a regular basis and pretty much drove off any new players? Maybe it'll be worth to play with the Goons again.

No Nuclearmonkee, no Nuclearmonkee, you are Nuclearmonkee!

Yeah that one. The one that got drunk and deleted games she was hosting presumably while looking at other players turns.

Problem is her fanclub are still core members of the community as far as I know so the potential is still there.

Last I checked, half of the playerbase pretty much loathed her, but had no real power to kick her out. What happened?

she got caught cheating and it turned out she'd been doing it in every game she was in. Plus apparently she ended up even more psycho than usual for a bit. It's kind of weird though where they draw the line, she was already shitting up chat constantly, especially after her female representation in Dominions thread on desura didn't get universal support. (because literal goddesses aren't enough, half of my chaff has to have little spritely tits)

But there is tons of girls in dominions.

Dont you have to pay to use something awful or something?

She was clearly mentally unstable. Glad she's gone though, unless she has come back under a different username of course. That's something I wouldn't put past these sort of people.

Yes, an account costs :10bux: , I got mine way back, playing Dominions 3. The community is mostly ok. Got some amusing threads at times.

What was her username?

Man I would not be here if I had to pay for it. I'd probably be out doing something productive with my life or something crazy like that.

She was mentally ill and self medicating with booze, don't expect rationality. Only thing that seemed reasonable there was maybe more chicks for Sauromatia since they're based on the Amazon legends.

If she did it'd be pretty noticeable but I never went back to check. Finished up my games that I couldn't get subs for and got the fuck out when I realized how cancerous the community had become.

Yeah and I've never regretted spending 10bux more in my life.

She changed it a lot. Only one I remember was modpud. She played Arco in one of their LPs.

>Not paying for Veeky Forums gold

>That feel when there are communities worse than Veeky Forums

This is a strange yet unexpectedly pleasant feel.

Veeky Forums split with SA for two reasons. One was Moot wanted to be able to post about his underage anime waifus without shame. The other was SA was getting too faggy even for him.

How was she cheating and how did she get caught?

Dom4 community is pretty chill in general. /domg/ might be retarded, but at least it's good-natured and retarded/

Hosting games and checking other people turns with master-password.

How'd she get caught?

I only have experience with Goons from two communities, EVE Online and Neverwinter Nights.

EVE they seem like a chill bunch of people who are mostly trolly, though their leadership seems fairly shit.

In NWN, they were the special snowflake club, who'd come into RP servers as their own private groups and conspire against everyone else. Instead of actually roleplaying, it always became "goons vs pubbies", which was highly disruptive for actual roleplaying servers.

Didn't she also use her own mod, buffing the nations she was playing?

What the other user said. Don't know how she got caught actually. Must have been pretty blatant for her to have actually gotten called on it though.

Goonfleet was the last bastion of golden age SA for a long time. Not sure what it's like now.

Yes. It was a pretty good mod besides that though desu from what I remember. There were some players in the goon community that knew a shitload about Dominions so could keep that in line to an extent.

>In EVE, they were the special snowflake club, who'd come into the server as their own private group and conspire against everyone else. Instead of actually roleplaying, it always became "goons vs pubbies", which was highly disruptive for actual roleplaying servers.

>were
>knew
Oh boy.

They knew too much.

this

Wait have they still not found The Demon and Flavahbeast's bodies?

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Get in chat.

I am there.

Year 2017 of Ascension Wars soon.

JESUS CHRIST IMLERETH GET BACK ON THE BOAT, I ONLY RENTED IT FOR THE 12 HOURS

So, where's that one guy that wanted to start an RP match?

Dead, avenged for the death of my brother

>making us send the turn on new year
What a monster. Why don't you give us one more week?

*teleports behind u*
sigh..wrong, kiddo

*casts souls slay with 900 pen*

Here but not much time now. Anyone that's interested pipe up, maybe talk about settings, age, and mods among yourselves. I'm leaning towards vanilla withworthy heroes myself. No strong preference for age.

Also thinking that since it's a dumb autistic rp meme game a pretty map is probably better than a balanced one. So if anyone has any recommendations for map porn feel free.

Later tonight or tomorrow I'll try to be less a piece of shit and actually do shit on my own.

Why is CoE4 so... basic?
Might just be because I'm playing Dryad Queen, but aside from having some depth in magic, the game is really barebones. I'm essentially just ferrying freespawn around and watching fights. It's like the game is still in beta.

ILLWINTER GAME DESIGN
I'm confused by it too, they likely wanted something simpler than dominions to play with but they also stripped out everything that isn't acquiring resources, ferrying stuff around and using magic rituals.

it's simple
>make original game for turbo autists
>lets make it casual
>surprise surprise the game is so basic turbo artists won't play it but still obscure that normal autist won't touch it

have a anime picture too while we are at it

There's so much stuff that's just not there. Even if they wanted to simplify things, I can't understand why they haven't included stuff like post-battle reports.
I just don't get what the main draw here is supposed to be.

They actually did, and they're enabled in MP by default. In SP you had to RUN THE GAME WITH -b command line command. There are also --autosave and --rename.

>In SP you had to RUN THE GAME WITH -b command line command
Illwinter quality game design.

Dear Arco,

Midgard is helping to remove spooks. Please do not get Malakaled into stopping them from helping to remove spooks.

Love,
The Living

Dear Bogarus,

u wot m8.

Love,
Arco

>dear Bogarus
>mesanger from Midgard

refer to

>so many freespawn satyrs that i don't even know what to do with them
>stop trying to upgrade them and just make a giant horse of rapegoats
Maidens beware.

I don't even border Lemuria

Is this some sort of CoE Pan/Ermor crossover?

>Grand Necromancer casts Soul Drain

This is the apathy that lets Lemuria destroy the world

I am but a humble shopkeep. I just want to develop items and ever more powerful artillery and sell my Battlespace Solutions to the highest bidder.

Yes, but with more rape.

1300 Rapegoats and their Forest Friends against 400 Jewish Giants.
Of course, since you barely have input at all in CoE, this isn't even exciting.
Especially since I have so many units that none of my archers or mages will ever come in range of the enemy.

It'll be better.

Story events on, unironically
Common events
Everything else default
EA?
Vanilla with WH works for me.
And Ragnarok Comes for the map

>Ragnarok Comes for the map
please not this shit with bad starts again

t. TNN

Won't even deny it.

>thank you for playing summod

That's less than 50 gold per turn. What are you even bitching about.

it's a pretty big deal in the 1st couple turns of the game

It's the second turn. It's like -2500 - 4000 gold if you count the whole game.

>Literally getting mad that people don't want to live in creepy elf town

Just found some old folder:
*opening the box:"

Kind of. Barely. I don't end that many turns with less than 50 gold left in my treasury. Some very specific expansion strategies might sometimes be delayed by a turn which sometimes results in one province less in total expansion. More than likely that small amount of gold will be eaten up by the pile of small but mounting inefficiencies that build up over the course of a game.

It sure it a bad event to get on turn one, sure. It's worse than nothing. But I don't know that it warrants 4 g's in fug is all.

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Ragnarok's starts aren't the best. Maybe Valanis, or Glory of the Gods?

Also, I would highly recommend magic enhanced for muh immersion.

nice

As Caelum, do I take an awake, or a rainbow for national summons?

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Glorious. Dominions needs more drawfags, if only so I can have more variety when it comes to backgrounds.

I'd assume the calculated autism required to enjoy dominions keeps away most artists.

So only a special kind, a rare breed of autistic artists will make their way here.

But some exists: the map artists

this looks like pymous map style drawing

>Dispel successful
Phew. No need to thank me, world.
Also did Ermor teleport his capital into space or something? Why is it so hard to find

I fucking know right?

I'd go with this man's suggestion. No real preference about age.

It is.

Valanis suits me fine. Voting for EA

llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Today_Local_Domg_Man

What has local /domg/ man done today? We'll find out if you join this game! All skill levels welcome

Man, you know a map's shit when fucking Valanis is rec'd over it.

As an aside, Valanis is also a shit imbalanced map. Just not nearly *as* shit.