New Nations

[Kingetos]

Is LA Machaka among the new nations ?

[Sombre]

Illwinter have asked testers not to talk about new nations.

You can see one new nation in the screenshots, but you'll just have to wait to hear from Illwinter.

[Butcher]

Hopefully there is a dwarf nation from CoE.

[Zonk]

Originally posted by ClassicalLiberal1848:

hope there's another free spawn nation, perhaps based on the opposite of death (growth)

Asphodel still exists, it wasn't removed from the game :) And it was rebalanced a bit.

[Torgon]

Originally posted by Zonk:

Originally posted by ClassicalLiberal1848:

hope there's another free spawn nation, perhaps based on the opposite of death (growth)

Asphodel still exists, it wasn't removed from the game :) And it was rebalanced a bit.

Asphodel is still kinda death.

I would like to see a pure growth free spawn nation. Just loads of animals with higher level beasts appearing at temples/forts. Would be cool

[Kingetos]

I would like more Asian themed nations too

[Mormacil]

Originally posted by Kingetos:

I would like more Asian themed nations too

Asian or specifically East Asian? Na'ba was Asian but not sure if that counts for you?

[ncarr99]

I'm guessing there will be an LA Na'Ba. We already have the EA and MA for that nation line, after all.

[joansam]

Hoburg nation when 🥺

In all seriousness, hoburg/dwarf/kobold nations loosely related to their CoE versions would be so fun to see in Dom

[Kenobi Lives]

Yeah, dwarves or dragons would be super cool

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Torgon:

Originally posted by Zonk:

Asphodel still exists, it wasn't removed from the game :) And it was rebalanced a bit.

Asphodel is still kinda death.

I would like to see a pure growth free spawn nation. Just loads of animals with higher level beasts appearing at temples/forts. Would be cool

Oooh yeah. Honestly there are some fun freespawn ideas, we have what, death and turmoil ones so far?

My only concern is that having freespawn attached to a positive scale takes some of the tension out of scale choice. Asphodel works only because growth is a lot weaker with popkill.

Would be interesting to have misfortune freespawn, or...sloth?

[Legowarrior]

What I would like to see is the continuing movement away from 'Planet of the Hats' motif. We see it a bit with Caelum and Bandar Log and others. More races being available to more than one nation in a single age.

Let's see C'tis outside of Egypt, or Agatha outside of their downward spiral.

On a similar note, I would like more nations to get the Ermor Treatment.

In the Middle Era, we have 3 different Ermor Style Nations. It would be nice to do the same with something like T'ien Ch'i. Let see some warning factions with similar units but different magics.

[crawlers]

Originally posted by Quillithe:

Originally posted by Torgon:

Asphodel is still kinda death.

I would like to see a pure growth free spawn nation. Just loads of animals with higher level beasts appearing at temples/forts. Would be cool

Oooh yeah. Honestly there are some fun freespawn ideas, we have what, death and turmoil ones so far?

My only concern is that having freespawn attached to a positive scale takes some of the tension out of scale choice. Asphodel works only because growth is a lot weaker with popkill.

Would be interesting to have misfortune freespawn, or...sloth?

Order or production-based freespawn on a popkill nation could work too for the same reason growth doesn't go so well on asphodel - less points for a bless with not so much of a gain.

[Mormacil]

Originally posted by Legowarrior:

What I would like to see is the continuing movement away from 'Planet of the Hats' motif. We see it a bit with Caelum and Bandar Log and others. More races being available to more than one nation in a single age.

Let's see C'tis outside of Egypt, or Agatha outside of their downward spiral.

On a similar note, I would like more nations to get the Ermor Treatment.

In the Middle Era, we have 3 different Ermor Style Nations. It would be nice to do the same with something like T'ien Ch'i. Let see some warning factions with similar units but different magics.

We do see Pans among the Basques and possibly but unconfirmed Cave Men.

[Kingetos]

Originally posted by Mormacil:

Originally posted by Kingetos:

I would like more Asian themed nations too

Asian or specifically East Asian? Na'ba was Asian but not sure if that counts for you?

East Asians
Dragon Kings for example would be very nice

[Mormacil]

Originally posted by Kingetos:

Originally posted by Mormacil:

Asian or specifically East Asian? Na'ba was Asian but not sure if that counts for you?

East Asians
Dragon Kings for example would be very nice

But we already got a ton (11) of East Asian countries, I much rather see some other nations. What about the Americas or Africa? Eastern Asia has almost a dozen nations, subsaharan Africa has 2.