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Rathar

March 6th, 2008 03:32 AM

Re: First inkling that you\'ve won/lost an MP

You have done a pretty good job of that in Priori Velusion I shall have to say!

Pesky bugger.. Down to 2-3 provinces a few times and wipes out a key army to set me back 3-4 turns! Gotta love it imho!

I personally have not played many MP games and have won 2, gotten second in one (one more turn!!), lost horribly but fought a turns unending battle for my capitol and went AI in a recent one when I was reduced to 3 provinces which recruited jack and crap with the two biggest players at war with me. Give me a 5% chance of prevailing even minorly and I shall stay or even less % if I feel slighted. (surprise attacks etc)

B0rsuk

March 6th, 2008 05:55 AM

Re: First inkling that you\'ve won/lost an MP

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them as much.
- Oscar Wilde

Ylvali

March 6th, 2008 09:52 AM

Re: First inkling that you\'ve won/lost an MP

Quote:

Kristoffer O said:
> I play to have a good time, mostly. Winning is an unlikely bonus. Surviving to the endgame is fun.

I agree with Gregstrom, except I prefer to die before endgame.

I like local politics and petty wars. In a game I (or my pretender alter ego) would be surprised and annoyed if another nation expected me to attack some kind of mighty far away nation. My war is my fun. A good dominions game are several games in one. Some of these might culminate to a greater epic, but I don't mind a mosaic of politics and lesser goals.

But I believe I'm more of a roleplayer than a cometitive player. Not that I don't like competition, but I prefer it on a regional level, in a global setting so to speak.

That is my perspective too. The fun of MP is in the roleplaying. Building relations. Making sneaky little plans. posting funny stories at the forum. Etc. Etc.

I find that I am much more loyal to a game where I took my time to build a personality and roleplay my pretender, especially if other player are feeling the same way. Primea is a good example.

Agema

March 6th, 2008 01:19 PM

Re: First inkling that you\'ve won/lost an MP

According to the game, whoever doesn't win, loses.

But some people may prefer to go away with the thought "I was second" because they were they were the last player to be defeated, or may even think "I allied with X for him to win therefore I was part of a team victory".

Not stopping large and dangerous opponents is also actually realistic: the rise of Nazi Germany; the Celts not uniting to resist Caesar until he'd already pacified most of Gaul; the crusaders sacking Constantinople with the Turks approaching the gates of Europe.

I think it's true that there's a sense people want to take down a bitter opponent. There's a sense of victory in overcoming a local opponent, even if you can't overwhelm the big guy who comes after.

Gregstrom

March 6th, 2008 04:45 PM

Re: First inkling that you\'ve won/lost an MP

Or, in a nutshell, players are free to set their own limited victory conditions :-)

Aezeal

March 6th, 2008 07:42 PM

Re: First inkling that you\'ve won/lost an MP

hmm once I know I'm not competing anymore I'm setting a new goal (which will always be: eliminating the one who made me not reach nr 1... to bad that USUALLY is the one who will be winning so that makes me just die faster (which is nice then I can start a new game without really abandoning the other.))

DonCorazon

April 5th, 2008 10:16 PM