State of the Nations

[TimTrain]

Hello Leaders!

What an exciting first four months it’s been for Big Huge Games and for DomiNations! After two years and countless nights & weekends of work, we were finally able to get the game into players’ hands all over the world. We’ve been incredibly grateful for your support and passion for the title, and are particularly happy to have launched a fun game that I believe people will be playing for many years.

And now the real work begins!

We know that DomiNations has a lot of areas we could improve, including bugs, connectivity, AI, and cheat detection / response. We are working hard on all of these issues, and also looking to add new features for the game that people will enjoy playing. Not only is this our team’s first game as a startup (in this incarnation of Big Huge Games), but also our first mobile title, our first combat city-builder, and our first game developed in Unity, so we are constantly learning new things and striving to improve our processes for dealing with issues. We’ve also been hiring additional staff to be sure we are able to handle the volume of players this game has achieved. We have been gratified but also caught a bit off guard by the tremendous popularity of DomiNations, which overloaded some of our ability to properly support the game. You deserve better, and we are confident that we now have the staff to deliver top-quality service to our players. The community here has been very patient as we’ve worked through our growing pains, and I want to thank everyone here for your support.

Big Huge Games has also not been as active in the community as I would like, due to our mad scramble to keep up with the thousand issues that a worldwide launch uncovers. Moving forward, we’ll be spending more time online so we are listening to you – our best players – and hearing your feedback on ways to make the game better.

The Industrial Age release is now in platform review, and should be live in the next week. It contains a ton of fun new content, bug fixes, balance tweaks, AI improvements, hack prevention, and cheat detection. We’ll be kicking off the launch of Industrial Age with a weeklong Titans of Industry event, available for all players in Bronze Age and above, which boosts the amount of resources gathered from your collectors and improves the loot hauls from PvP. Moving forward, we want to be sure our forums get full visibility on upcoming releases, so here's the first look at new Industrial features and updates: https://forum.nexonm.com/forum/nexon...ial-age-update

We hope you continue to enjoy playing the game as much as we loved designing it. We’re committed to unveiling the rest of human history and doing our very best to address your concerns and feedback. Thanks so much again for all your time, support, and love of DomiNations!

-Tim Train
Big Huge Games

 

[Dalgleish]

Thank you for letting us know and for all the great work.

 

[firedancer]

Thank You Tim. I'll stay on Dominations for a while longer.

 

[Dark Patriarch]

This is a very positive post to see. I really hope to see some good improvement with the Industrial Age release and also want Dominations to be a big success. Many of us are frustrated but that's partly due to the fact that we feel this game still has a great deal of uncapitalized potential. Thanks for the post and here's to hoping there is truth in everything being stated.

 

[Nathan Win]

Thanks for the update. Hopefully, BGH is getting the messages that we all have been stating.

 

[Nathan Win]

Thanks for the update. I hope that BGH finally addressing all of the issues we've been stating and better days are coming.

 

[DestroyerArcher]

Glad to know that there is indeed a reason to stay.

 

[xGraves]

agreed, better late than never.

 

[somuchdust]

Glad to hear it! the industrial is gonna be a hard thing to head toward tho dang, Raiding rn is half to no where worth it.

 

[Averag3Joe]

Great news! In my opinion just hearing from you guys and feeling like you're here with us answering questions and responding goes a very long way. Even if you can't provide any new information it would be good to see you more active. I haven't stuck with a mobile game for as long as I have with DomiNations so you're doing something right!

 

[Endril]

Great to hear, the new mods also doing a great job at imptoving the community. Keep it up and improve the alliance aspect of the game, army AI which needs a lot of work and global chat/mailing system.

 

[Denquin]

Hooray! Industry! But I wonder what's next?

 

[David Pasquinel]

Hopefully this post marks a turn for a time of a better relationship between the developers and the public.

 

[Funken_A]

Yay, but I'm still terrified because every update I have been through made the game less fun.

I really want the game I started playing, the game that it has become has been less fun. The only reason I am staying as long as I have is because

1.) I put a lot of work into the game
2.) I really want to see space age

but you seriously have to bring some strength back to attacking troops IMO

 

[Redgar]

I care less now, but I'd like to stay positive about this message. This is how feedback should be.

 

[Rust Cohle]

The concept of "Improving AI" is folly on a grand scale. All intelligence is by nature artificial. Knowledge isn't bestowed en mass at the moment of conception. What you call intelligence is merely an amalgamation of lessons learned through trial and error, passed on anecdotally, or the witnessing of natural law firtsthand. All we can be sure of is that we are sure of nothing. What was was once canon is now dismissed as dogmatic. Like the typographers of old filling in the blanks of their maps with "Here Thar Be Monsters ". We've done the same thing with the unseen places in our own minds. The difference is, we guessed right. All right. Alright?

 

[Redgar]

This is how communication should work. I care much less now, caz I am taking a break from active play, but I do hope that it is the beginning of real changes and all active players will be much happier soon

 

[Griffondorf]

I hope with The new update whe get, that whe get more for oure monye. For exempel whit The Animel blessing( more animels with fur end leather) That The gold mines end fruit trees have more to loot end Will be reduced in time.

 

[Jidakarowdyragnarr]

We need alliance wars Tim more than a new nation

 

[FoxHunter]

I am so happy to hear they have been working so hard. The hard work so far has really shown and I have great confidence in this team that they won't let us down. I didn't realize the game was so new and on top of that they are new to developing this type of game. I hope they started off with a good game engine that will allow expansion for all sorts of things that could be unforeseen in the future. This is such a great game with excellent potential. As new as the game is with tons of more room for ideas and improvements it is so fun to play as it is. Keep up the good work guys and I know you are listening to our ideas.

Thanks a lot!