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So, Dominions 5

We are in an age of huge budgets. If you are making a game, you quickly realize how much every single thing you create costs. Both time and money. If you make a character, it has to have a model, a texture, a voice, lines...this all adds up.  What this means is that most of the time, every single part of the world you produce will take several hours to create. This includes silly easter eggs, lore contents, joke characters...everything. This boils down to a simple thing: There is an upper limit of content you may have in a game of certain budget. You can mitigate this by not including some features (for example voice)  allowing you to focus on others more. But all in all, you can find this in most games. There is a total amount of content and not a bit more. And then there is Dominions. Dominions is a hack. Usually games are developed over several years and then released, maybe improved later, but that's it.  But not Dominions. It is a game perpetually developed from ear...