Dominions 6 News

This update fixes a few bugs and has improvements to the user interface, like improved messages and popups. There are also some improvements to the AI and the performance of huge battles has been improved. There are also a bunch of new stuff for modders as well.

General

• F9 throne screen now has a popup showing number of claimed AP
  
• New launch option: --nouwthrones (to prevent underwater thrones)
  
• Battle performance improvement for large battles with spellcasters
  
• Can expand unit/commander entries in Income Overview
  
• Nexus can show more gates on the map
  
• New graphics for gate from Nexus
  
• Most rituals can no longer trace through void/non-void planar boundaries
  
• Secondary effects on missile weapons didn't always take effect properly
  
• Nbr of possible players was calculated incorrect for maps with multiple planes
  
• Battle enchantments could remain if enslaved and then killed, fixed.
  
• Better messages for Strands of Arcane Power
  
• Improved message for Ritual of Rebirth
  
• Ritual particle lines on map now shows movement towards destination
  
• The key 0 can now also be used to copy/paste orders everywhere
  
• Phoenix pyre triggered weapon blesses, fixed
  
• Can now use wait order in allied territories
  
• New gem selection box for messages
  
• AI can now use Arcane Analysis
  
• AI is now a bit smarter regarding dispel casting
  
• Fixed problem with spell targeting vs flying targets
  
• Commander popups now show destination of move orders
  
• Removing a magic item did sometimes not remove effects on unit, fixed
  
• Throne defender tweaks
  
• Charm could remove target's commander status, fixed
  
• AI better at equipping gems before being stormed
  
• Spell AI tweaks
  
• Icon for decay immunity
  
• Projection looked too small, fixed
  
• Fix for scout report when allied forces are not actually sieging
  
• Better assassination texts
  
• Fix for communion backlash not occurring
  
• Log text for phoenix pyre
  
• Event fixes
  
• Stat and typo fixes
  

Modding / Map Making

• New monster item commands: #growthpower, #grandcom
  
• New site command: #copysite
  
• New weapon mod commands: #defroll, #morroll
  
• New monster/item mod command: #unseen
  
• Two new event commands: #req_realmnr, #req_norealmnr
  
• Magic item type 10 for bardings didn't work
  
• Improved name pluralization
  
• Fixes for some places where drawsize didn't work
  
• Temp blood slaves do not cause bleeding after gem longevity has occurred
  
• Air shield on magic items didn't show up in stats
  
• Reanimator is now shown on magic item info
  
• Major performance improvement for events using req_mnr & req_nomnr
  
• Better reset of commanders when unloading mods
  

This is a minor update that fixes a few issues with version 6.27. Most notably it was no longer possible to cast rituals that caused events since the previous update.

General

• Call God no longer worked if not using shortcut
  
• Rituals causing events didn't take effect due to new host targeting check
  
• Cast item spells from map didn't work properly
  

Modding / Map Making

• Scripting didn't overrule aibadlvl, fixed
  

This update adds new Thrones of Ascension as well the ability to autosort magic items in the treasury (press ctrl + a). There has also been the usual bug fixes, performance improvements, stat fixes and small improvements. The Utterdark and Haunted Forest global enchantments also got some tweaks, making them a little bit more useful.

General

• Magic item treasury autosort (ctrl-a)
  
• 7 new thrones
  
• Increased max nbr of thrones to 30/20/10
  
• Utterdark now has more shade attacks
  
• Press 'b' to select all units with battle fright
  
• Disease res can now protect against disease spells too (including plague)
  
• Haunted Forest no longer affects plants
  
• Haunted Forest creates commander manikins from dead commanders
  
• Twilight removed the effects of some magic items too, fixed
  
• Battle inconsistency fix
  
• Extreme cold info was slightly off
  
• The new Praise special ability didn't work properly
  
• AI commander scripting tweak
  
• Shapechanged commanders will now lose disabled items too when killed
  
• Reanimators bless didn't give passive undead leadership, fixed
  
• Shift key for raid didn't work with sneaking commanders
  
• Fixed popup for site with no gem trace
  
• Damage that takes effect slowly over many days (e.g. homesickness) no longer triggers returning
  
• Spell AI is now less fond of Gift of Formlessness
  
• Lichcraft now removes any twiceborn enchantment
  
• Fleeing didn't work properly for lobster riders, fixed
  
• Reduced CPU usage during game setup for dedicated servers
  
• Reduced CPU usage during map upload/download
  
• Sleep clouds could affect mindless units
  
• Host target validation for rituals
  
• Improved performance for particle light effects
  
• AI no longer chooses fireshield blessing for EA Abysia and some other nations
  
• Mindless units can no longer get false damage when repelled
  
• Sleep clouds now takes undreaming into account
  
• Mindless units now immune to sleep clouds
  
• Hermit Sahir got some fire resistance
  
• Earthquake used caster's fatigue for def penalty instead of the target's, fixed
  
• Stat and typo fixes
  

Modding / Map Making

• Muspelheim type modding commands for non-capital fort recruitment
  
• New monster/item commands: #battlesum1dX and #battlesumwarm
  
• New monster/item command: #enchantedblood
  
• #bugshape and similar didn't work, fixed
  
• #aibadlvl now takes communion into account
  
• Single commander can now use more item ritual items
  
• Fix for possible host crash when using mods with #summon.. command
  
• Lobby server safety check to ensure all required mods have been uploaded
  
• Fix for map editor and bridges
  

This update mostly fixes some bugs, but there are also a few new features and a few new commands for modders. Angel-like beings now have a new Praise ability that will glorify the one true God. This automatically raises dominion in their province, but only if they are in a friendly dominion.

General

• New magic item: Pillar of Truths
  
• New ability for angel-like beings: Praise
  
• Pressing ctrl-i in battle prints host version and current version
  
• Fix for shapeshifting mounts/riders not becoming re-recruitable
  
• Fix for armors/weapons sometimes not resetting when disabling a mod
  
• Fix for battle enchantment symbols for glamour and holy spells
  
• Magic Weapons bless didn't work fully when repelling, fixed
  
• Twilight will now remove enchantments from mounts as well
  
• Better scout message when observing a fort battle
  
• Information about false supplies in starvation messages
  
• Spell AI will now cast to get high resistance values if scripted to do so
  
• Can now see temperature info in F2 weather screen, even if dominion is unknown
  
• Fixed sound effects for some tramplers
  
• Fatigue from flying and trampling didn't work properly for non-mounted
  
• Cost for twiceborn ritual was incorrect for some casters
  
• Battlefield wide spells can no longer be cast indoors (except holy spells)
  
• Spell light effects no longer worked since last patch, fixed
  
• Dead units could sometimes show up in the Position Army screen
  
• Can fix a mount problem that crashes the hosting with the --repair option
  
• Disbelieve value printed in hit points details
  
• More monsters got darkvision
  
• Spine Frog now has digestion (2 dmg / round)
  
• Dagon got digestion (3 dmg / round)
  
• Wailing Lady got tweaked
  
• Gelatinous Cubes can no longer be turned into soulless and similar
  
• Typo and stat fixes
  

Modding / Map Making

• New spell commands: #makecrater, #notindoors
  
• New monster/item command: #praise
  
• More terrain restriction details shown in nation overview
  

This update continues with some balance changes, but smaller ones than last time. The largest change is probably for Ind, they can now get commanders and shamans when they do mobilize heathens. The shamans are different depending on the terrain of the province. There are also some new thrones, a new spell and new graphical effects for fire spells. Fire spells can now scorch the earth where they hit and meteors can leave craters. There are also the usual bug fixes and new stuff for modders.

General

• Ind muster heathen ability more effective and can give commanders also
  
• New spell: Army of Immaculate Mounts
  
• Three new thrones
  
• Throne of Eternal Suffering now gives +2 morale to blessed units
  
• Fire damage area spells leave scorch marks on the ground
  
• Meteors now leave craters
  
• Gifts from Heaven increased casting time -> 125%
  
• Chaos power less affected by unrest
  
• Many 10 gold cost archers reduced to 8 gold
  
• Markatas cheaper 5 -> 4 gold
  
• Kailasa got cheaper holy troops
  
• Lion Warriors more expensive
  
• Tweaked start armies for some nations
  
• AI now respects the diplomacy off setting
  
• Pretender sensing thrones now reveals them for disciples too
  
• Summon animals now has more appropriate cave animals
  
• Apostasy shorter range and cannot target mounts
  
• Geas can now longer target mounts
  
• Invisibility and blur/displacement no longer stacks
  
• Message for found items after remote attack
  
• Fix for dispersing units retreating to wrong provinces
  
• Vengeance of the Dead no longer affects never sleeping units
  
• Dreams of R'lyeh no longer affects never sleeping units
  
• Ritual of Rebirth no longer works on spiritform beings
  
• Popups could cause flickering in fade effects, fixed
  
• Fix for incorrect growth info on heat/cold scale
  
• Jinn in lamp now got glamour magic instead of astral
  
• Fix for possible population overflow
  
• Conscription now dependent on order scale
  
• Mind Blank didn't work against magic duel
  
• Network couldn't handle turn files larger than 300 MB
  
• Curse of Stones didn't work if only mount was cursed
  
• Spell targeting fix regarding healing spells
  
• Can press ctrl-l to load map on the Map Settings screen
  
• Finding a magic item in a site will now put it in lab if it can't be carried
  
• Fix for ritual auto targeting for Mirror of Earth's Memories
  
• Fixed leak in castle wall corner
  
• More difficult to control hurricanes in Gale Gate
  
• Mekone now longer has rebate for Shield of Gleaming Gold
  
• Lightning Field didn't have its full effect, fixed
  
• Can now copy/paste orders in army positioning screen
  
• Polypal Mother and Polypal Queen can now also do Aboleth-only rituals
  
• Some foreign recruit units can no longer be recruited in caves
  
• Knife of the Damned's cursed luck didn't work
  
• Fix for length of some natural weapons
  
• Stat and typo fixes
  

Modding / Map Making

• New nation commands: #plainrec, #plaincom, #plainfortrec, #plainfortcom
  
• New nation commands: #caveinc, #caveres, #caverecpt
  
• New monster commands: #bugshape, #buguwshape, #bugswarmshape, #bugswarmuwshape
  
• New event commands: #req_targrealmnr, #req_targnorealmnr
  
• New Weapon command: #mrhalf
  
• Monster command #reclimit can now take special -1 and -2 values too
  
• Spells with number 5000 or greater didn't work in battles
  
• Nation commands #kelprec, #kelpcom didn't work
  
• More terrain restrictions described properly in nation overview
  
• Fix for add foreign recruitment not working on some existing nations
  
• AI template research goals didn't work together with custom bless effects