Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Too many of the reviewers dont seem to understand (and therefor dont mention) that this is a game built around PBEM (play by email) which has its own pros and cons. Not managing battles is usually one.

You know if you go to the original post you made and hit "edit" you can change the subject, and add a note to the bottom about sarcasm.

[ January 23, 2004, 22:31: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Really? I am having fun with it as a single player game, for now... Maybe when I get better I'll be up to a PBEM game, though that could be a while. I only have one AI I am playing against right now. The indies are giving me enough of a challange. (though a beefed up pretender fixes that)

Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Guess this means I'm on your ignore list http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

Did some one say something? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

How long have you been playing Quantum?

Probably the best recommendation I have received since CIV2, and before that MoM...

Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">About a month, I tried setting up a multiplayer at apolyton a week or so ago but for some reason Dominions seems almost totally unknown there. So hopefully we will start a chain reaction and in no time Dominions will have it's own forum http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

But I have to agree with one point...

I mean come on... why had it to be "sancta maria"? Praises to the mother of jesus are not exactly what I want to hear while my blood fire moloch brings doom to the living http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I guess, you haven't met any AI programmers yet http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

About the only thing I can think of that could really use some improvement *IS* the battle orders. Order queues for all units, just like commanders, would be nice, as well as "move to waypoint" orders. Conditional IF/ELSE orders would also have been nice. And, of course, some more basics, like "Hold and Fire", and "Stand Ground". Hell, I'd settle for an order queue with an order which consists entirely of "MOVE FORWARDS". Who needs attack rear, when you could instead queue an order like "MOVE FORWARDS, MOVE FORWARDS, MOVE FORWARDS, MOVE FORWARDS, ATTACK CLOSEST"?

Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

Bah, Japher forgot to mention the fact that the game is waaaaayyy too inexpensive ! A game like that, sucking 100's of hours, should cost at least 500$ ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: This Game Sucks!!!
 

Damnit, sarcasm is to complex for me to understand in the mornings ;(

That, and my creeping doom phobia, where I have this unnatural fear that the authors of my favorite games are going to make the sequels lame. I imagine Illwinter guys randomly logging in and only seeing "to complex!" type stuff. Heh heh. whew.

--SD