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| The vast majority of discussions about Dominions happen on various Discord servers oriented around the game, or around a YouTuber or other content creator who produces a lot of Dominions-related content. | The vast majority of discussions about Dominions happen on various Discord servers oriented around the game, or around a YouTuber or other content creator who produces a lot of Dominions-related content. |
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| Discord is a modern chat platform, similar to Skype, Slack, or other IRC clients. Discord was developed specifically for gaming communities, however, and has a lot of features which allow individual communities to efficiently hold many channels and let users navigate between them easily. For many video gaming communities, Discord servers have partially taken over the role previously held by internet forums, as the main way to discuss video games, organize multiplayer teams and matches, co-ordinate modding efforts, or sometimes even to chat with or contact the developers. | Discord is a modern chat platform, similar to Skype, Slack, or IRC clients. Discord was developed specifically for gaming communities, however, and has a lot of features which allow individual communities to efficiently hold many channels and let users navigate between them easily. For many video gaming communities, Discord servers have partially taken over the role previously held by internet forums, as the main way to discuss video games, organize multiplayer teams and matches, co-ordinate modding efforts, or sometimes even to chat with or contact the developers. |
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| ===Discord Servers=== | ===Discord Servers=== |
| ===Illwiki=== | ===Illwiki=== |
| [[https://Illwiki.com/|Illwiki]] is a fan-created, funded and controlled wiki with no ads. You’re visiting it right now! It’s intended to host virtually all information relevant to the game and its community. You can find most other resources linked in this document on the wiki. Unfortunately, for security reasons, only registered members can edit the wiki, and user accounts have to be manually set up by the wiki administrators. Happily, we can be easily reached using @wiki admins on the Discord Nexus server or via moderators.illwiki@gmail.com. | [[https://Illwiki.com/|Illwiki]] is a fan-created, funded and controlled wiki with no ads. You’re visiting it right now! It’s intended to host virtually all information relevant to the game and its community. You can find most other resources linked in this document on the wiki. Unfortunately, for security reasons, only registered members can edit the wiki, and user accounts have to be manually set up by the wiki administrators. Happily, we can be easily reached using @wiki admins on the Discord Nexus server or via moderators.illwiki@gmail.com. |
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| | ===The Inspector=== |
| | [[https://larzm42.github.io/dom5inspector/|Larzm42’s “Inspector”]] is a tool which can be used to easily find the details on any spell, item, unit, or nation in the game, and more. It’s updated after every patch and is considered an essential tool by most of the community. |
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| ===Guides=== | ===Guides=== |
| [[https://illwiki.com/dom5/guides|Here is a list of guides]] collected here on the wiki. Most guides linked are hosted on the wiki itself or on the Steam forums, but some are hosted as google documents. Some are also hosted on the DominionsMods forum, notably Taorec’s very extensive guides. Disclaimer: the DominionsMods forum does not use HTTPS, so use your best judgment as to whether you want to enter potentially sensitive information (e.g. login using a password) on that site. | [[https://illwiki.com/dom5/guides|Here is a list of guides]] collected here on the wiki. Most guides linked are hosted on the wiki itself or on the Steam forums, but some are hosted as google documents. Some are also hosted on the DominionsMods forum, notably Taorec’s very extensive guides. Disclaimer: the DominionsMods forum does not use HTTPS, so use your best judgment as to whether you want to enter potentially sensitive information (e.g. login using a password) on that site. |
| An introductory gameplay guide for beginners can be found [[https://illwiki.com/dom5/beginner-s-guide|here.]] | An introductory gameplay guide for beginners can be found [[https://illwiki.com/dom5/beginner-s-guide|here.]] |
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| [[https://larzm42.github.io/dom5inspector/|Larzm42’s “Inspector”]] is a tool which can be used to easily find the details on any spell, item, unit, or nation in the game, and more. It’s updated after every patch and is considered an essential tool by most of the community. | |
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| ====Common Jargon==== | ====Common Jargon==== |
| **Boosters, Boosting**: This refers to ways of temporarily increasing a mage or Pretender’s magic path levels. “Boosters” are specifically magic items which increase path level while worn, such as the Skull of Fire. Some combat spells such as Phoenix Power may also be used to temporarily “boost” the caster’s path level for the duration of a battle. | **Boosters, Boosting**: This refers to ways of temporarily increasing a mage or Pretender’s magic path levels. “Boosters” are specifically magic items which increase path level while worn, such as the Skull of Fire. Some combat spells such as Phoenix Power may also be used to temporarily “boost” the caster’s path level for the duration of a battle. |
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| **Raiding**: This refers to attacking weakly defended provinces with highly mobile forces as to disrupt the enemy’s economy, movement, and cause psychological pressure on a human enemy while improving your own economy. Raiders are ideally as cheap as possible, and only as strong as they need to be for their job. Raiders are usually small groups of flying or stealthy units, or sometimes single commanders called <<bold>>thugs. | **Raiding**: This refers to attacking weakly defended provinces with highly mobile forces as to disrupt the enemy’s economy, movement, and cause psychological pressure on a human enemy while improving your own economy. Raiders are ideally as cheap as possible, and only as strong as they need to be for their job. Raiders are usually small groups of flying or stealthy units, or sometimes single commanders called **thugs**. (This is not to be confused with the "Raiding" ability possessed by some units in-game, allowing them to pillage enemy provinces without actually entering them.) |
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| **Thug**: A thug is a single unit, often a mage or mage-priest, who can conquer weakly-defended provinces on their own. There are many variations on the concept, but they usually rely on some combination of a powerful blessing, spells, and magic items, which enable them to deal with large groups of weak enemies with little risk. | **Thug**: A thug is a single unit, often a mage or mage-priest, who can conquer weakly-defended provinces on their own. There are many variations on the concept, but they usually rely on some combination of a powerful blessing, spells, and magic items, which enable them to deal with large groups of weak enemies with little risk. **SC** refers to a "Supercombatant", the precise meaning of which is debatable, but is usually defined as something like a thug that goes up against whole armies, with or without support. |
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| **Scripting**: Refers to the orders given to commanders, mages and troops that they will then perform in a battle. For example, a Death mage may be scripted as “Cast Horde of Skeletons X5; cast spells”, or a squad of archers may be scripted to “Fire [at] Nearest [enemy]”. | **Scripting**: Refers to the orders given to commanders, mages and troops that they will then perform in a battle. For example, a Death mage may be scripted as “Cast Horde of Skeletons X5; cast spells”, or a squad of archers may be scripted to “Fire [at] Nearest [enemy]”. |
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| **DRN:** Shorthand for the “Dominion Random Number” generator used for most events in Dominions with a random outcome. It’s equivalent to rolling two six sided dice, and if a die lands on a six, you roll another die and add that to the total. (A common way of describing this, outside of the Dominions community, would be “a 2d6 open-ended roll”.) | **DRN:** Shorthand for the “Dominion Random Number” generator used for most events in Dominions with a random outcome. It’s equivalent to rolling two six sided dice, and for each that lands on a six, you subtract one from the total, and then roll another die and add that to the total. (A common way of describing this, outside of the Dominions community, would be “a 2d6 open-ended roll”. The manual also specifies a lower-case "drn" that uses 1d6 instead of 2.) |
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| ===Other=== | ===Other=== |
| Currently the most popular method of setting up games, and considered the easiest to use. These games are managed by the Discord bot “Mr. Clockwork” and are run exclusively through Discord, though they may have threads on the forums for recruiting purposes. The bot is found on and can be used within all major Dominions community servers. The dedicated servers used by the bot for the purposes of managing and hosting matches, mods and maps are funded by Patreon, and new ones are easily added when the current set of servers start running out of space. | Currently the most popular method of setting up games, and considered the easiest to use. These games are managed by the Discord bot “Mr. Clockwork” and are run exclusively through Discord, though they may have threads on the forums for recruiting purposes. The bot is found on and can be used within all major Dominions community servers. The dedicated servers used by the bot for the purposes of managing and hosting matches, mods and maps are funded by Patreon, and new ones are easily added when the current set of servers start running out of space. |
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| Most community Discord servers have one or two channels named something like “#multiplayer games”, “#recruiting”, or “#lobby”, which are used to organize and run new games. You can either request that someone else host a game for you, or you can try and use the bot yourself. It may seem intimidating, but it’s pretty easy. The #clockwork_help channel can be found on all servers which use the bot, and contains a list of commands for the bot, and the bot will tell you what you need to know about the process of creating a game when you use the host command. | Most community Discord servers have one or two channels named something like “#multiplayer games”, “#recruiting”, or “#lobby”, which are used to organize and run new games. You can either request that someone else host a game for you, or you can try and use the bot yourself. It may seem intimidating, but it’s pretty easy. The #clockwork_help channel can be found on all servers which use the bot, and contains a list of commands for the bot, and the bot will tell you what you need to know about the process of creating a game when you use the **!host** command. (Note that the "!" prefix may vary between servers; "!host" is correct on the Dominions Nexus, while on Clockwork Hounds it'd be "?host".) |
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| Issues with the bot or the dedicated servers can be reported to the users Drithyl and/or pencils, of which at least one can be found on every community server using the bot. | Issues with the bot or the dedicated servers can be reported to the users Drithyl and/or pencils, of whom at least one can be found on every community server using the bot. |
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| ====Llamaserver==== | ====Llamaserver==== |
| Please remember to **not join games on Llamaserver unless you’ve talked to the host first**, unless the rules of the game explicitly let you join anonymously. | Please remember to **not join games on Llamaserver unless you’ve talked to the host first**, unless the rules of the game explicitly let you join anonymously. |
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| Server issues can be reported to llamabeast via | Server issues can be reported to llamabeast via email, llamabeast (at) llamaserver.net |
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| ====Community Etiquette==== | ====Community Etiquette==== |
