How many turns per year do you plan?

[paedair]

I wish four or more turns per year to increase strategic element of game:o)

[banzai_travis]

the number of turns per year has been discussed among the team and a poll has been taken with (we hope) acceptable results. options ranging from 12 turns per year down to 1 tpy were considered. for exact details however you'll have to wait for the preview dont worry, its not long now....

[Romanos IV]

We shall wait!

[Copperknickers II]

You could always change it if you want, though it may affect events and ageing etc.

[The Cobra]

4 turns would've been nice.

[Douchebag]

4 turns would've been nice.

4 turns is to much...how about 2 turns instead?

[Subuatai de Bodemloze]

yeah i agree atleast 4 turns per year, one for each seson.

[banzai_travis]

dont worry, you wont be disappointed when you see what we've decided upon.

[The Cobra]

Enlighten us with your great wisdom...
The modders have a vision of DOTS, that's what makes it unique, changes like 2 or 4 turns distinguish mods from each other.

[banzai_travis]

well since you put it like that... basically what we have come up with is 4tpy standard with the option at installation for 2tpy. whether or not this is implemented on first release is yet to be seen as build times etc will have to be re jigged to accommodate the changes.

but you didn't hear it from me

[Walkman810i]

That's awesome. Yet another reason why this is a real SUPERmod.

Will the movement points change too? Like will the armies walk as far during the 4 T/Y game as in the 2 T/Y game?

[The Cobra]

Will the movement points change too

will the armies walk as far during the 4 T/Y game as in the 2 T/Y game?

Sure.

Not Sure.

[Alkidas]

Actually, we haven't made any decision concerning movement points per year yet. It's still under discussion.

[Basileos]

that is actualy what disturbes me if 4 turns/year is used. SS is already extremely slow with 2 turns/year.

[banzai_travis]

that was the reasoning behind the choice of 2/4. 2 is a nice long term campaign, 4 is for the hardcore element among you all who really want to endure a 1200 odd turn campaign... suckers for punishment hahaha

[Hengest]

Another major point is that since most mods are lacking in many areas that Dominion will not, 4 turns sounds like a great thing. But Dominion will already have more realistic building times, recruitment times and the tech tree itself will mean a limited availability of units and buidings dependent on HOW you play the game, back to the RPG aspect. So 4TPY is not really that important since we have already taken into consideration much more than just the vanilla mechanics and then set a new timespan on that.

[Giorgios]

Another major point is that since most mods are lacking in many areas that Dominion will not, 4 turns sounds like a great thing. But Dominion will already have more realistic building times, recruitment times and the tech tree itself will mean a limited availability of units and buidings dependent on HOW you play the game, back to the RPG aspect. So 4TPY is not really that important since we have already taken into consideration much more than just the vanilla mechanics and then set a new timespan on that.

Wait... if you are having 4TPY and realistic building times, wouldn't that mean buildings such as huge cathedrals could easily take 100 turns to build??
Or, (this I would love!) have you made it possible to construct more than one building at once... :hmmm:

[Resurrection]

Wait... if you are having 4TPY and realistic building times, wouldn't that mean buildings such as huge cathedrals could easily take 100 turns to build??
Or, (this I would love!) have you made it possible to construct more than one building at once... :hmmm:

Well, most likely even huge cathedrals won't last 100 turns. It is because one-at-a-time building mechanism is hard coded and unfortunately cannot be changed. But we will emulate differently the building times of epic buildings with long in reality building times.

[true born Lithuanian]

4 turns per year?... OMG, I can barely reach late period of game with 2 turns per year...

[Theodotos I]

Another major point is that since most mods are lacking in many areas that Dominion will not, 4 turns sounds like a great thing. But Dominion will already have more realistic building times, recruitment times and the tech tree itself will mean a limited availability of units and buidings dependent on HOW you play the game, back to the RPG aspect. So 4TPY is not really that important since we have already taken into consideration much more than just the vanilla mechanics and then set a new timespan on that.

Umm. . . EB was not lacking at all in the RTW engine, and four turns per year was a great thing.