Dominus
Games
browser strategy game
SHOW HN2014
32points
44comments
#947of 2,272 in 2014
Top 42%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
2 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 13 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.41.
Execution: 0 for, 6 againstPricing: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interesting fresh ideas for the genre, such as garrisoning troops outside home hexes
From 1 comment
Actually looks quiet interesting. I know the main competition for games of this genre are O-Game and tribal wars. The former offers that you can pause your account and be…
valarauca1 on HN
Looks impressive and the tile graphics look nice
From 2 comments
Impressive looking game, how long did this take you to make?
ideit on HNWhere did you get the tile graphics? They look quite nice.
troygoode on HN
Objections
Very slow: units and castle creation take minutes
From 3 comments
Yeah I don't get it. I signed up, logged in, created 5 workers and its going to take them 20 minutes to move 1 tile? What an action-packed opening! I'll come back in 20 minutes..…
nacs on HNLooks pretty cool! I'd suggest improving performance - been waiting +5 minutes for my castle to be created.
jrvarela56 on HNFix is going up, should be back up soon.
dan335 on HN
Market and resource glitches break the economy
From 3 comments
The market seems to have glitched out. Grain was trading at 0 gold for a good few minutes. Edit: My apologies, I appear to have broken the market further. I managed to raise the…
rohan404 on HNYou need to speed up the game by a factor of 5 to 20. Also, I have infinite grains, so I just keep selling 10000 of them when there is demand again, which brings the price back…
lappa on HNIs there script or something going on? My resources keep getting set back to 1000gold and 400grain/ore I was saving up for a village... :|
ciscowp on HN
UI freezes while loading map hexes
From 2 comments
Can you hook this up to Kadira (http://kadira.io) and publish the stats? Curious to see how the pub/sub and method call load is doing. Also, please allow user interaction while…
primigenus on HNIt's using kadira. I haven't had time to look at it though. I'll try to post a screenshot later. The ui freezes when it's loading in new hexes from the server. I haven't been…
dan335 on HN
Pay-to-win concern from in-app purchases
From 1 comment
Ah, in-app purchases. Pay to win. It's not gonna be so much fun when I get overrun by someone's $20 army.
justzisguyuknow on HN
Castles placed on same tile or assigned to other players
From 2 comments
I'm at -32, 24 and I've got 2 castles on the same castle tile! Neither of us can invade or do anything, aside from killing every unit we create.
slagfart on HNUnsure if this is intended - but it appears the first castle I was placed in also belongs to another person. My username is SimpleGuy. Not sure if the rollback had anything to do…
cjslep on HN
Requests
Improve performance and server load
From 2 comments
Looks pretty cool! I'd suggest improving performance - been waiting +5 minutes for my castle to be created.
jrvarela56 on HNCan you hook this up to Kadira (http://kadira.io) and publish the stats? Curious to see how the pub/sub and method call load is doing. Also, please allow user interaction while…
primigenus on HN
Allow UI interaction while content loads
From 1 comment
Can you hook this up to Kadira (http://kadira.io) and publish the stats? Curious to see how the pub/sub and method call load is doing. Also, please allow user interaction while…
primigenus on HN
Use right click for some function
From 2 comments
Techical recommendations: - Get a cheap ssl cert since I've found many isp's blocking websocket over ws and not wss. - Pack graphics into a tilesheet, I found TexturePacker very…
marxdeveloper on HNThis > - Mouse right click should have some use too.
campuscodi on HN
Use wss SSL certificate to avoid ISP websocket blocking
From 1 comment
Techical recommendations: - Get a cheap ssl cert since I've found many isp's blocking websocket over ws and not wss. - Pack graphics into a tilesheet, I found TexturePacker very…
marxdeveloper on HN
Publish performance stats
From 1 comment
Can you hook this up to Kadira (http://kadira.io) and publish the stats? Curious to see how the pub/sub and method call load is doing. Also, please allow user interaction while…
primigenus on HN
Questions
Are hex resources finite or infinite, and do they regenerate?
From 1 comment
Actually looks quiet interesting. I know the main competition for games of this genre are O-Game and tribal wars. The former offers that you can pause your account and be…
valarauca1 on HN
Why Meteor over other Node frameworks?
From 1 comment
Is there a specific reason why you chose meteor vs other node frameworks? All I've heard is its not production ready yet - dunno if your performance issues have anything to do…
jrvarela56 on HN
How long did it take to make?
From 1 comment
Impressive looking game, how long did this take you to make?
ideit on HN
Can usernames be changed?
From 1 comment
Aw shit, roll back deleted my account, then I went to make a new one and it autofilled my email as my username, and I clicked through without reading. Any way to change usernames?
finnn on HN
Alternatives named
O-Game
From 1 comment
Actually looks quiet interesting. I know the main competition for games of this genre are O-Game and tribal wars. The former offers that you can pause your account and be…
valarauca1 on HN
Tribal Wars
From 1 comment
Actually looks quiet interesting. I know the main competition for games of this genre are O-Game and tribal wars. The former offers that you can pause your account and be…
valarauca1 on HN