Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sounds like somebody has been playing TOO much dom2...

Well, the tricky part is one can only be beaten by the easy AI so many time before one is slightly discouraged... I've taken an estudious approach to becoming rather good at many other game and been met with considerable success, so why not apply that to this game? Whilst, I certainly don't plan on becoming a pro by being simply book smart, I do hope to figure out the general outline behind a "good way" to play dom2.

Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">{shameless plug} Read SP AARs to learn about certain nations. Mainly useful for SP. Not advised for MP. Follow Norfy's advice for MP: get beat upon a lot and avoid repeating the *same* mistakes (keep making new ones). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*This* particular woman only laments having a miserable cold that's really pissing me off, as it's ruining my ability to play Dom ...

Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Dominions II is a good thing. And as everyone knows, too much of a good thing....is an AWESOME thing!

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's an excellent idea. Let me go see what ranks are required for that plague spell again.

[ March 15, 2004, 04:11: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And this is why you need to get your *** beat by real people. So you can be owned in entirely new and different ways!

And....wait, the *EASY* AI is beating you?

Well, in that case, first, I'd suggest taking a nation that is fairly conventional, so you'll get a decent level of exposure to how the game works, and is also fairly difficult to attack. Try Atlantis, or R'lyeh. That will impede the AI's ability to rush you, and you'll be able to experience a full game without being swarmed. Once you get that down, try and go faster. Then move onto land.

Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Wow... from what I've been seeing the AI opponents are pinned down or dead by mid-game. Ermor is the only challenging AI opponent and with 2.08 he seems more peaceful(he had 1200 units just sitting in his castle mid-game).

Perhaps the developers could make the easy difficulty easier and the harder difficulties harder.

Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

Maybe because you have been playing for 3 Months and this guy has been playing for a week?

Or it might be he hasn't found the AI weaknesses yet to exploit.

Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

EARLY GAME - Expand as quickly as possible and defensively as possible.

MIDDLE GAME - Find counters for everything your closest enemy can throw at you

END GAME - Give up because the micromanagement is too harsh and you've just lost your pretender for the second time and realize you overlooked a few things of your enemy. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well that's certainly worthless advice. Giving up is cowardly, and teaches one nothing, so one just goes on repeating mistakes. One learns the most from struggling on, the worse the challenge, the more one should learn. That is, if one is open to learning, instead of whining about losing and how unfair life, the universe, and everything is.

Re: Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What\'s the goal of each?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You're just sore that you got your sorry little butt whooped by Mivayan. Your empire could not POSSIBLY have THAT much micromanagement. Although you did very well at getting your butt kicked piecemeal, from what reports I saw from my scouts.

Spacepain, I suggest you ignore the little man. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Never give up, never surrender! A warrior fights to the death! Next time, stand up and die like a man!

[ March 15, 2004, 05:24: Message edited by: Norfleet ]