The Road Ahead: Summer 2024

Greeting Leaders,

We're back with another Road Ahead, where we look at what’s upcoming in the world of DomiNations! In this edition, we’ll cover Summer for the Ages and some of the new content you’ll see in the next few months, including Library, Council, Drone Directives, and more.

Our dedication to revisiting and updating some long-standing features within DomiNations continues. Earlier this year, we talked a bit about Tournament of Glory, and we hoped that we would have more to share regarding this change to Multiplayer. However, we’re still hard at work fine-tuning the details. We’re also evaluating what’s next in the quality-of-life pipeline, determining which smaller QoL updates can supplement the much larger projects. We aim to give you more information later this year regarding Tournament of Glory and what the Quality of Life roadmap looks like!

We hope you enjoyed all that our 9th Anniversary celebration had to offer! So many of you took immediate advantage of the Instant Building Upgrades and made the Anniversary one to remember. In case you missed it, we also hosted a Community War that asked all of you to use the Custom War feature! The participation helped us to pinpoint some fine-tuning opportunities to create a better overall experience in the future. However, just as soon as one event is over, we’re on to the big yearly event, Summer for the Ages!

Summer for the Ages
Everyone’s favorite summer activity is back; it’s Summer for the Ages!

Our Age Rush will kick off on July 1st, with 60% off building upgrades for all Ages from Classical to Drone. Discounts will drop to 50% for most of August and finish at 40% in September, so make the most of the most significant savings early on!
As always, Town Center upgrades will be instant throughout the event, so take advantage of advancing through the Ages.

We’ll also see a return of Marco’s Legendary Vault in the later months, so make sure you’re saving up those Legendary Tokens if there’s a rare Artifact you’ve got your eye on.

If you’ve still got some forests to clear on your base, break out the lawn mower; all forest clearing costs 50% less gold from 7/1 2pm EST to 9/23 2pm EST.

We are excited to announce an all-new community event called "Strength in Numbers." In this event, we will track a series of in-game goals that the entire DomiNations Community works to achieve! If the targets are achieved, EVERYONE will reap the rewards! Keep an eye out on our socials as we announce a new goal each month!

Upcoming Content

Library Expansion
Those who are truly studious can look forward to the expansion of Library Chapters this summer! Four new Books will be added to the Through the Ages Bookshelf for Leaders at Drone Age or higher. You can anticipate two Economy books, a Defensive and an Offensive book. We’ll give a full reveal of their benefits, as simply sharing the type of research these books cover doesn’t exactly tell the whole story of improvements you’ll be making later this Summer!

New University Leader
Gaining knowledge is an endless pursuit! As such, Automation Age Leaders can look forward to a new University Leader expected to arrive early Fall. This University Leader pioneered the efficiencies of modern assemblies. Because of that expertise, you’ll find that this Leader will complement the Manufactory very well! For those seeking a bit more out of their Munitions, this will certainly be a University path worth investing in. More information will be available as it arrives at the end of the assembly line in the coming months.

New Councilors
This year, we’ll continue to expand your selection of Councilors! Three are slated for the near future with the first, a Diplomat, expected to arrive at the end of July. Two more are currently planned for this year, one of which you may already be familiar with if you’ve been keeping up with your Legendary Artifact collections. We’ll have more information as they get closer to arrival at the end of the Summer and the third is expected to be released by mid-Fall!

New Legendary Artifacts
With the release of DomiNations Update 12.6, we teased three brand-new Legendary Artifacts. The first of which, Morse Telegraph, became available earlier this month! Two more are still on the way, one War and one Main Hall! Keep an eye out for their full reveals in upcoming Week Aheads.

New Drone Directives
Later this Summer, we’re bringing a new level to Drone Command. With it comes two new levels for both Offensive and Defensive Drones including an updated look, with two new Drone Directives to arrive! The Directives include an Offensive Directive improving the maneuverability of your Troops, and a Defensive Directive that reduces the effective range of enemies attacking your base.

---

This Summer, we’re giving a bit more to do for those of you at Drone Age and Automation Age. You’ll be able to quickly Age Up and upgrade with Summer for the Ages. We’re also planning what’s next in our ongoing pursuit of quality-of-life improvements, with big plans still on the horizon! What Legendary Artifact are you hoping to see hit Marco’s Vault during Summer for the Ages? We hear plenty of feedback regarding quality-of-life fixes, such as working on replays, but what is the number one feature you’d like us to focus on? Let the team know! We’ll be back in the Fall with another Road Ahead; until then, fire up the BBQ and enjoy the summer!

 

Ya had me until number 7. Rest 1-6 total agree

Small groups should not be rewarded for being small. Grow your alliance and earn same way as rest or delete the alliance and join a bigger one.

 

View attachment 12109

Greeting Leaders,

We're back with another Road Ahead, where we look at what’s upcoming in the world of DomiNations! In this edition, we’ll cover Summer for the Ages and some of the new content you’ll see in the next few months, including Library, Council, Drone Directives, and more.

Our dedication to revisiting and updating some long-standing features within DomiNations continues. Earlier this year, we talked a bit about Tournament of Glory, and we hoped that we would have more to share regarding this change to Multiplayer. However, we’re still hard at work fine-tuning the details. We’re also evaluating what’s next in the quality-of-life pipeline, determining which smaller QoL updates can supplement the much larger projects. We aim to give you more information later this year regarding Tournament of Glory and what the Quality of Life roadmap looks like!

We hope you enjoyed all that our 9th Anniversary celebration had to offer! So many of you took immediate advantage of the Instant Building Upgrades and made the Anniversary one to remember. In case you missed it, we also hosted a Community War that asked all of you to use the Custom War feature! The participation helped us to pinpoint some fine-tuning opportunities to create a better overall experience in the future. However, just as soon as one event is over, we’re on to the big yearly event, Summer for the Ages!

Summer for the Ages
Everyone’s favorite summer activity is back; it’s Summer for the Ages!

Our Age Rush will kick off on July 1st, with 60% off building upgrades for all Ages from Classical to Drone. Discounts will drop to 50% for most of August and finish at 40% in September, so make the most of the most significant savings early on!
As always, Town Center upgrades will be instant throughout the event, so take advantage of advancing through the Ages.

View attachment 12110

We’ll also see a return of Marco’s Legendary Vault in the later months, so make sure you’re saving up those Legendary Tokens if there’s a rare Artifact you’ve got your eye on.

If you’ve still got some forests to clear on your base, break out the lawn mower; all forest clearing costs 50% less gold from 7/1 2pm EST to 9/23 2pm EST.

We are excited to announce an all-new community event called "Strength in Numbers." In this event, we will track a series of in-game goals that the entire DomiNations Community works to achieve! If the targets are achieved, EVERYONE will reap the rewards! Keep an eye out on our socials as we announce a new goal each month!

Upcoming Content

Library Expansion
Those who are truly studious can look forward to the expansion of Library Chapters this summer! Four new Books will be added to the Through the Ages Bookshelf for Leaders at Drone Age or higher. You can anticipate two Economy books, a Defensive and an Offensive book. We’ll give a full reveal of their benefits, as simply sharing the type of research these books cover doesn’t exactly tell the whole story of improvements you’ll be making later this Summer!

New University Leader
Gaining knowledge is an endless pursuit! As such, Automation Age Leaders can look forward to a new University Leader expected to arrive early Fall. This University Leader pioneered the efficiencies of modern assemblies. Because of that expertise, you’ll find that this Leader will complement the Manufactory very well! For those seeking a bit more out of their Munitions, this will certainly be a University path worth investing in. More information will be available as it arrives at the end of the assembly line in the coming months.

New Councilors
This year, we’ll continue to expand your selection of Councilors! Three are slated for the near future with the first, a Diplomat, expected to arrive at the end of July. Two more are currently planned for this year, one of which you may already be familiar with if you’ve been keeping up with your Legendary Artifact collections. We’ll have more information as they get closer to arrival at the end of the Summer and the third is expected to be released by mid-Fall!

New Legendary Artifacts
With the release of DomiNations Update 12.6, we teased three brand-new Legendary Artifacts. The first of which, Morse Telegraph, became available earlier this month! Two more are still on the way, one War and one Main Hall! Keep an eye out for their full reveals in upcoming Week Aheads.

New Drone Directives
Later this Summer, we’re bringing a new level to Drone Command. With it comes two new levels for both Offensive and Defensive Drones including an updated look, with two new Drone Directives to arrive! The Directives include an Offensive Directive improving the maneuverability of your Troops, and a Defensive Directive that reduces the effective range of enemies attacking your base.

---

This Summer, we’re giving a bit more to do for those of you at Drone Age and Automation Age. You’ll be able to quickly Age Up and upgrade with Summer for the Ages. We’re also planning what’s next in our ongoing pursuit of quality-of-life improvements, with big plans still on the horizon! What Legendary Artifact are you hoping to see hit Marco’s Vault during Summer for the Ages? We hear plenty of feedback regarding quality-of-life fixes, such as working on replays, but what is the number one feature you’d like us to focus on? Let the team know! We’ll be back in the Fall with another Road Ahead; until then, fire up the BBQ

 

When will global chat option available for this game?

 

how about some more parliament laws

 

Add modern countries to game
Starting with
USA
Russia
India

These countries should have been added from start of game. Better option since y’all have the layout set out already is to allow every country in the game with one of the abilities of one of the nations currently on list ie like + 1 range from British could go whatever country the player picks his or her country then picks the perk they use or assign as staff sees fit.

By adding all the countries no more USA can’t be in game cause of biased hate. You could pick you own and everybody arround the world would feel included.

I know USA and Russia should be in game about dominations based military alone. Not to mention the other influences these two countries have had. The world was allot smaller hundreds to thousands of years ago when countries currently on list are actually huge empire except China

 

この投稿は取り下げられました

 

Ya had me until number 7. Rest 1-6 total agree

Small groups should not be rewarded for being small. Grow your alliance and earn same way as rest or delete the alliance and join a bigger one.

thanks i know it would be controversial but even game's algorithm don't show medium alliances, making wars little more productive in alliance xps is not unfair to anyone, otherwise the alliances which are currently at top these will keep getting on top well true that they have earned it but if this heirarcy goes then there are only two outcomes, 1 - these will keep getting better or 2- players will slowly get less active and ultimately a alliance will die , many alliances have been dead last few years
shouldn't we should have a system that would make even new alliances of some worth and maybe one day few of them will to the stature of current top ones.

Ya had me until number 7. Rest 1-6 total agree

Small groups should not be rewarded for being small. Grow your alliance and earn same way as rest or delete the alliance and join a bigger one.

 

I agree with you on the first points.

At this point I would agree that the alliance level should depend much more on the number of wars than on the size of the war and the ages involved. If the existing system is not to be completely discarded, then perhaps constant bonus XP if wars are started regularly? More than 75% of all wars are 10v or 15v; these alliances should also have a chance to reach alliance level 25. Currently a 15v war gives roughly 350 AXP, so it takes almost 6 years of war after war, without a break, to get to perk 25.

I have to disagree about the parliament. Parliament came as a new building in May 2020. There have been no new laws since then. By now, with continuous donations, even a small alliance (15-20 members) would be completed. Therefore, alliances that have not yet managed this have a problem with lazy players who do not donate regularly. Then it doesn't help to lower the required points.

Appreciated , well done criticism.

 

thanks i know it would be controversial but even game's algorithm don't show medium alliances, making wars little more productive in alliance xps is not unfair to anyone, otherwise the alliances which are currently at top these will keep getting on top well true that they have earned it but if this heirarcy goes then there are only two outcomes, 1 - these will keep getting better or 2- players will slowly get less active and ultimately a alliance will die , many alliances have been dead last few years
shouldn't we should have a system that would make even new alliances of some worth and maybe one day few of them will to the stature of current top ones.

An alliance that fails to grow and find members that are active, that donate to the alliance perk and actively fight wars is a failure in the leadership of the alliance’s leadership, is not the game fault.

This is not controversial, to me this simply asking for alliance leveling to be made super easy. The current system is fair and if an alliance fails it is on the Leader of alliance ultimately.
A leaders failure to grow the alliance does not justify just giving away alliance perks. Which could lead to high level players not allowing low to mid levels in alliances. That will hurt new player development way more than poorly ran alliances failing. This is how I view it.

 

Add modern countries to game
Starting with
USA
Russia
India

These countries should have been added from start of game. Better option since y’all have the layout set out already is to allow every country in the game with one of the abilities of one of the nations currently on list ie like + 1 range from British could go whatever country the player picks his or her country then picks the perk they use or assign as staff sees fit.

By adding all the countries no more USA can’t be in game cause of biased hate. You could pick you own and everybody arround the world would feel included.

I know USA and Russia should be in game about dominations based military alone. Not to mention the other influences these two countries have had. The world was allot smaller hundreds to thousands of years ago when countries currently on list are actually huge empire except China

USA and Russia are coalitions. Would be weird to be US with US coalition troops

 

USA and Russia are coalitions. Would be weird to be US with US coalition troops

China was part Mongol empire correct its not weird for them or other Asian nations should not be for USA . If folks read my entire post I suggested all countries be in game as well.

But modern countries should be in game esp USA and Russia. But they have the format they should put all countries in the game. We are Auto age in game time for USA and Russia like them or not.

 

British kettle drum!!!!!!,!,!!,!,! Totally crappy to introduce an art that the only opportunity to obtain was to spend hundreds. Rarely seen after 5hat. Come on!!!

 

British kettle drum!!!!!!,!,!!,!,! Totally crappy to introduce an art that the only opportunity to obtain was to spend hundreds. Rarely seen after 5hat. Come on!!!

British Kettle Drum from Marco's Vault is a necessary artifact for attackers after the introduction of so many OP defensive munitions!!

 

Lol I love the munitions being used as excuse for a KD. When defenders have so many disadvantages like a mass release of KD is not just adding too the unbalance of game currently.

As far munition they have helped the offense side way more than it has defense.

The Kettle Drum is one of the most powerful artifacts there is and should not just be handed out for 300 tokens it should be earned by a top 100 finish or by buying chest.

If folks want KD then ask for it out right, do not blame munitions or defenders lol everything should not be free in this game either earn it or buy it that’s one of couple artifacts should never hit Marco Vault as unpopular as my view is, it too powerful and should be rare

 

この投稿は取り下げられました

 

Lol I love the munitions being used as excuse for a KD. When defenders have so many disadvantages like a mass release of KD is not just adding too the unbalance of game currently.

As far munition they have helped the offense side way more than it has defense.

The Kettle Drum is one of the most powerful artifacts there is and should not just be handed out for 300 tokens it should be earned by a top 100 finish or by buying chest.

If folks want KD then ask for it out right, do not blame munitions or defenders lol everything should not be free in this game either earn it or buy it that’s one of couple artifacts should never hit Marco Vault as unpopular as my view is, it too powerful and should be rare

Let us agree to amicably disagree.

Since the Māori War Club was made available, the BKD should also be made available. There is no logical reason to wait 26 months as they did with the Māori. It would be a nice gesture to war attackers.

I am unable to agree with your argument that munitions help the offense side.

Financially, BHG would generate more revenue by selling tokens than by offering step-ups for the BKD. The mathematics are clear.

 

The BKD was a very well made artifact. It is really powerful combined with today's most efficient compositions (barrack troops). I agree that it shouldn't be handed over so easily and I really like the idea of bringing light/knowledge to players as a timer for the time in which the artifact will be made available for tokens, whether for 300, 500 or 1000 tokens. By the way, a timer would be welcome on every existing artifact so that players can decide whether to wait for it to appear for tokens or use other resources in an attempt to obtain it. This would be a great addition to the game. It would be a very welcome update. After all, there is no minimum predictability for exchanging artifacts for tokens. It's horrible to see other artifacts being repeated at Marco Polo up to 3 or 4 times and that artifact, even if old and moldy, that became desired never appears.

 

British kettle drum!!!!!!,!,!!,!,! Totally crappy to introduce an art that the only opportunity to obtain was to spend hundreds. Rarely seen after 5hat. Come on!!!

So the company first made artifacts available through purchases or chest rewards and then later decided, to help the community, to make them available for free/tokens - and that's their prerogative. Too bad if you paid for it before - that's just the luck of the draw.
And if you chose not to buy it at that time, that's on you. If your argument is that they should now offer it via Marco, then yes they probably should - but it would be better to make an impassioned suggestion, otherwise it sounds like a whiny complaint because you got screwed or missed out.
However, it would be a great improvement if BHG offered a calendar or timetable for artifacts available at Marco and offered them ALL in a 12 month period.

 

Let us agree to amicably disagree.

Since the Māori War Club was made available, the BKD should also be made available. There is no logical reason to wait 26 months as they did with the Māori. It would be a nice gesture to war attackers.

I am unable to agree with your argument that munitions help the offense side.

Financially, BHG would generate more revenue by selling tokens than by offering step-ups for the BKD. The mathematics are clear.

The club and BKD are not comparable. They also offset the release of club with Huey Armament and fighter artifacts now available in Marco Vault.

The BKD release would require a boost given on the defensive side if mass released. I personally fight BKD regularly in war, I know most low auto age down would be totally defenseless against constantly fighting BKD.

Agreed eventually release will be warranted but it should not be for atleast another year.

Everything can’t be free and now. Mess with game balance and deters player from spending money on chest. Really rare artifacts are money makers.

Best way to make players to stop donating is constantly devalue their purchase . Eventually even biggest spenders will learn all they have to do is say it’s good for new player base to get everything for free.

If your just wanting cheap win do like most do lol Buy the FSH and Hanger don’t update war base so they are invisible and flatten 98% of top auto bases lol

 

"a Defensive Directive that reduces the effective range of enemies attacking your base."

Only just noticed this in the OP. This is just hilarious. We get a munition that increases the range of troops and now bases get a drone that reduces the range.
And I have to wonder if the reduction is going to be more than the manufactory increase. Wouldn't that be great ...