Dominions Enhanced for 6?

[Darksavant]

I realize it would be a lot of work but I Dominions Enhanced along with the Spark of Divinity mods were my favorite from Dom 5. Are there any plans to port them?

[Mormacil]

None, there has been interest in a remake but not a port. One of the things that's really important is finding a meta of how the new game plays. You can't fix if you don't know what's broken. But a total port seems out of the question.

Spark though should be on the table.

[Darksavant]

It feels a bit bad to go back to the vanilla game without all of the new spells and units that they added to the various nations. There was a lot of great stuff there that added to their uniqueness. I guess as I go back to play them I can work on adding some of that back myself for my own use.

It would be good to get Spark too. It added a whole other layer of theorycrafting when starting a new game.

[Mormacil]

Dom6 changes the meta fundamentally, it will be a while to figure out what is lacking and what is simply different.

[Darksavant]

Were these mods popular for multiplayer? I just wanted them for single player. It is cool if people used the for multiplayer too.

[Mormacil]

DE was pretty popular for sure

[Red_Rob]

I'm currently working on a new version of Spark of Divinity for Dom6. I'm expanding and updating it to take advantages of the new Dom6 features aswell as porting it, so it is taking a bit of time. I expect it should be ready for initial release in about a month. I'm also working on Worthy Heroes that will take some time, plus I'll likely release some smaller mods occasionally that might become part of DE-v6 at some point.

DE is such a big mod and was so tied into how Dom5 worked that it will be a much bigger job. Honestly I will probably build a new mod using the elements of DE that still make sense (new content etc) and then include some new areas designed to enhance what Dom6 brings to the table. But that will be quite a big project and I would expect it will be several months for anything to materialise.

[Uncle Al]

Originally posted by Red_Rob:

I'm currently working on a new version of Spark of Divinity for Dom6. I'm expanding and updating it to take advantages of the new Dom6 features aswell as porting it, so it is taking a bit of time. I expect it should be ready for initial release in about a month. I'm also working on Worthy Heroes that will take some time, plus I'll likely release some smaller mods occasionally that might become part of DE-v6 at some point.

DE is such a big mod and was so tied into how Dom5 worked that it will be a much bigger job. Honestly I will probably build a new mod using the elements of DE that still make sense (new content etc) and then include some new areas designed to enhance what Dom6 brings to the table. But that will be quite a big project and I would expect it will be several months for anything to materialise.

That's great news. Doing Spark before DE next generation doesn't surprise me at all. I can see why a whole new mod is going to be required to replace DE.

Not to add to your mammoth workload, but would it be possible to do a pretender template for each one when you're making the new Spark? I'm sure people will publish their own when the mod is out, but it would be amazing to have at least one when it launches. One of the issues with Spark is the AI, as always, isn't as good as a human at leveraging the niche abilities of the pretenders, so the mod ends up favouring the human in single player.

I'd hope it might be quite efficient when you're working on a pretender to create an example version at the same time and template it, but obviously it's still more work for you to do.

Many thanks for your mod work anyway. I've had an absolute blast with many of them, especially Spark and DE.

[Darksavant]

Thanks a lot for your response and your hard work Red Rob. I am glad to hear things are in the works.

[Telos]

It looks like Spark of Divinity did get remade for Dom6 -- thanks! Any news on whether some version of Dom Enhanced has also been remade? I really enjoyed it in Dom5, and would be a lot less interested in upgrading to Dom6 without it...

[Selgeron]

Originally posted by Telos:

It looks like Spark of Divinity did get remade for Dom6 -- thanks! Any news on whether some version of Dom Enhanced has also been remade? I really enjoyed it in Dom5, and would be a lot less interested in upgrading to Dom6 without it...

Dominions Enhanced is getting re-made by bluefire, he has a channel on the dominions reddit discord. I think he's still a few months out though.

[The 8bit Pimp]

Originally posted by Selgeron:

Originally posted by Telos:

It looks like Spark of Divinity did get remade for Dom6 -- thanks! Any news on whether some version of Dom Enhanced has also been remade? I really enjoyed it in Dom5, and would be a lot less interested in upgrading to Dom6 without it...

Dominions Enhanced is getting re-made by bluefire, he has a channel on the dominions reddit discord. I think he's still a few months out though.

Do we know if they intend to bring back the enhanced nations? I'm thinking about CHaco and Nihuala mostly as I just bought dom 6 and imma play some Na'ba as I love this nation, but I was looking forward playing some Chaco too

[Mog Flintlock]

Originally posted by The 8bit Pimp:

Originally posted by Selgeron:

Dominions Enhanced is getting re-made by bluefire, he has a channel on the dominions reddit discord. I think he's still a few months out though.

Do we know if they intend to bring back the enhanced nations? I'm thinking about CHaco and Nihuala mostly as I just bought dom 6 and imma play some Na'ba as I love this nation, but I was looking forward playing some Chaco too

Juhera is being deleted and partly rolled into Ubar, MA Iram and Dom-Dan'yel are being removed and partly rolled into LA Iram, LA Nihuala is being reworked to be unrecognisable and won't be available in the first release and Albion's being wholly jettisoned I believe. Far as I know, all other nations will remain.