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 penetration. 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/
>Where do I get it? It is available on Gamersgate and Steam.
>THE BASICS >Read the manual >Read the wiki >Read the pastebin >Watch some LPs by Sy, Maerlande, or Nuclearmonkee >Jump into MP head first, the best learning experience is by playing the game
I will miss times when navy seal copypasta required dedication...
Gavin Flores
2nd for how many virgins can I sacrifice in one day without papa satan showing up.
Nathaniel Jenkins
Nth for crack better be soon.
Michael Gomez
>LA Eh
Christian Wright
>big guys >LA heh... kidd....
Asher Peterson
Any changelog with all the new stuff?
Julian Barnes
OOGA BOOGA WHERE DA TORRENTS AT
Nicholas Miller
Someone'd need to buy it and zip it up first.
Elijah Price
I went through all the spells and documented all of the changes I could find, but aside from a few things (magma eruption, send horror, stellar cascades, rain of stones, various spell casting times) it's not very interesting
What are the most broken custom priest spells you've discovered so far? Auto-chestwound seems pretty funny.
Anthony Price
How do I get more commander points as Yomi?
Logan Sullivan
Build more forts.
Owen Phillips
>Game literally just released >No turns
Luis Peterson
Avatarfagging is a bannable offense, dipshit.
William Reyes
The change to StR is pretty decent imho.
Levi Edwards
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Colton Peterson
>3 assassins each turn from my starting marignon fort mages are obsolete
also now logrian wisemen are essentially StR
RIP MA Man
Ian Gonzalez
>the Ulm who brought an irl friend into that one game and failed to doubleteam rush Ermor. >the Ulm who staled >the Ulm who avatar fags with his homosexual anime avatar
Julian Green
Look forward to me joining your PBE games user. Crashing your game, with >>>>>>>>>>>>
Jaxon Sanders
torrent is up on tpb for like an hour lad
Lincoln Gutierrez
what is StR?
Nicholas White
slow to recruit
Elijah Morgan
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Jose Myers
>single player >forget to pick my nation >still need to manually close the game and boot it back up if I want to go back fucking why
Julian Walker
made me check wouldn't it have drm if it's the steam version? I might not mind buying it and sharing in a mega
Michael Lee
You can go back after pretender creation by pressing ESC
It still kills your population and thus your income. But it could still be useful in a smaller game where you won't have enough time to suffer.
Thomas Reed
Is there an easy way to see how much it costs to move from province to province rather than doing the math each time?
Eli Lewis
Thank god.
Jaxon Ross
Yomi plays really differently now, and I can't tell if it's a nerf or a buff. You can't recruit any oni units any longer; it's all free spawn in any province with a temple, and the more dominion and higher turmoil is in the province, the more oni you get. If it's hot, you get Aka oni, and if it's cold, you get ao oni. You also sometimes get oni and kuro oni, but less frequently, and once in a blue moon you'll get sacred amanojaku. I seem to get more amanojaku in caves, but I don't know if that's just my game or if they're more likely to show up in cave provinces. I don't know if I like the changes or not. It certainly makes ferrying all your oni around from province to province before you can make a mass of them annoying.
Xavier Hernandez
so domg, what's the most changed race from dom4
Ryder Moore
Are there any other nations that have gotten complete overhauls like that?
Isaiah Rodriguez
By the way, I checked and you can't summon amanojaku as Shinuyama or Jomon, which kinda sucks.
Thomas Campbell
How do you make mages auto research on recruitment? I swear that was a thing but I can't for the life of me remember how.
Aiden Carter
game options
Zachary Morales
Alright niggers, serious question here. Did they add new songs to the soundtrack?
Brody Morales
game options enable "give orders to new commanders automatically"
Aiden Reed
Options > Preferences > Gameplay > Give Orders to New Commanders Automatically
Yes.
Ian Lewis
Cool. Joining. Although be aware that I'm going to bed after submitting the pretender. I'll do a double in the morning if it's started and I end up being last in for turn 1.
Michael Brooks
Or at least I would be. Has something changed on Llama? The "Send pretender file to [email protected] with game name in the Subject" keeps telling me Valid 2h File Not Found.
Brayden Harris
it's just buggy right now
Logan Diaz
I cant send my turn in for big guys. Same thing with me.
Ryan Howard
Same problem here.
Matthew Morgan
>play day 1 on llama >get mad when people take a while to send turns lmao just blitz you nerds
Levi Jenkins
Panic
Lucas Wilson
Try again, I had the same shit, and it worked after like 5th try.
Xavier Collins
Yeah Llama is uncooperative. I'll try again if it's not filled up by the morning.
Jonathan Kelly
no workshop to make it easier the mod/map support.
no MP lobbie, because llamservers does what illfraud must do for free.
this game stays with the same dozen of autists and never grows.
Michael James
Yes but the music doesn't change for battle replays, thereby making it worthless.
Zachary Foster
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James Nguyen
>Tfw pretty lady singing song isn't in the new soundtrack anymore
Caleb Kelly
Workshop support wouldn't mesh well with the current mod community. But you're right about the other parts.
Leo Foster
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Colton Torres
Is the change to Stellar Cascades enough of a nerf to not make it worth massing? Unlike other spells Cascades is basically useless unless you hit that fatigue threshold.
Kayden Sanchez
How does the multiplayer work in Dominions? I've looked into these threads a couple of times in the past and it looks like you guys play by correspondence or something. Do games really last that long?
Zachary Johnson
Play by email, yes. Games can last months because you're only playing a turn per day. Possibly less for lategame, when you're swinging around 80 mages who all do different shit and need to be in specialized formations.
There's also direct connect MP for shorter games, typically a bit shorter than a Civ game.
Landon Price
>tfw no insane inbred mermaid princess gf
Jack Carter
I've been pretty happy about this yandere mermaids update so far
Nolan Kelly
Is it possible ti adjust blessing effects during the game? Like, if you increase your gods magic levels and want to add stuff?
Brody Gonzalez
I see, thanks.
How are the correspondence games? It seems slow enough to feel more like a daily chore than a fun game, is the lategame worth it?
Adrian Peterson
It seems that scales now affect the map, in a visual manner.
E.g. I'm running EA Ulm with Cold scales. As my dominion spreads the land slowly freezes and gets covered in snow. Do any of the other scales have any effect on the Map? Does death make the map look withered and grey? Does heat turn the map into a desert?
Nolan Anderson
no
Jaxson Rodriguez
It's a decent pace, and it lets you be in several games at once, so if you're losing in one you're not just screwed.
Using the time available to you can be fun. Lategame can be a slog for some nations (don't pick MA Ermor), or radical for others (forge everything you've ever wanted as MA Ulm).
Henry Foster
I don't think it'll be as universally amazing, so I don't think it'll be the type of spell that a nation is more or less defined around like it and thunder strike and similar spells have been in the past. I doubt it'll do enough at half fatigue to incapacitate elite troops that normally have respectable MR, but the attack and defense penalties from fatigue might be surprisingly beneficial, and it might be a determining factor in long battles, especially if the enemy is in an unfavorable climate, has natural high encumbrance, or you manage to inflict them with rain of stones or something similar (hard since that checks MR as well). I think it'll be a situational spell based on who you're fighting and what you have available.
Really, though, it's tough to say.
Austin Hill
No, literally just cold.
Jackson Ramirez
How do the multiplayer games usually go? Is there a set end date or are there victory conditions? From what I've seen some nations are absolutely terrible from a certain point on, are those just not picked?
Jaxon James
Some of them are set to end at a certain turn, and almost all /domg/ games have the standard victory conditions:
>Control enough thrones to ascend or >Be the last man standing or >Have opponents all concede
Most end by conceding or ascension.
As for nations, there's not a lot of them that just aren't picked. Even the shitty ones get picked because people want to pull off a win / innovative strat with them.
Adam Ross
Anyone know the answer to this? None of the overlay map functions seem to enable it, would be a huge quality of life upgrade
Jordan Edwards
>this game stays with the same dozen of autists and never grows. Better than casualised and killed off.
Dylan Watson
I don't think there are really any nations that are so terrible they aren't capable of winning now that underwater nations have been buffed a little. Pretender design opens up a lot of potential strategies that can make even weak nations good, so unless you're Pelagia and you just can't push onto land and you're killed before you get a wish engine going, you can end up being a serious threat if you play well and get a little lucky.
Power levels also naturally just kind of balance themselves out with people being more likely to gang up on powerful nations and more likely to accept help from weaker ones knowing they're easier to stab in the back later.
Games generally don't end until someone wins.
Grayson Cox
haha ur just gonna have to calculate it then i guess. enjoy dominions 5
Liam Sullivan
Llama still isn't accepting my turn or my pretender. What do I do?
Josiah Walker
retry ad nauseam. it will accept it at some point
Lucas Powell
That's Ulmish spunk, not snow.
Joseph Carter
is rlyeh good? Im new to the game but i always loved the mind-flayer look
Josiah Rivera
Thanks again for answering my questions. I was afraid it'd be like EU4 where if you play until lategame you get destroyed by countries with better attributes than yours.
What's the neatest strategy you've seen a "weak" nation pull off? Also if I were to play with a friend are there any nation combos that are fun?
Jayden Diaz
MA rlyeh's not bad. LA is hell to play and EA sucks.
Camden Evans
They have high access to Astral, one of the preeminent late-game spell-paths, recruitable mind-blasters, which are shitty in low numbers but when massed do excellent work, and an UW starting location, which is kind of a mixed bag but at least makes you annoying to invade. Stick with MA Rl'yeh, though. EA Rl'yeh has Aboleths which, although cool, only have two miscellaneous item slots and can't leave the ocean, while LA Rl'yeh kills population quickly and turns all non-Illithid commanders insane.
Dominic Edwards
Awww lame. I want to see the world bend to my will as I spread my dominion, and not just when I decide to have cold scales.
William Hall
CTRL-M shows the move points cost to every province I think?