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Starry Vere

January 27th, 2011 02:19 PM

Quick noob question

What are "clams"? I keep seeing the occasional reference to this word, and so far I've not been able to figure it out from whatever context it's in.

Soyweiser

January 27th, 2011 02:44 PM

Re: Quick noob question

Clam of pearls.

Each turn this item is equipped it places one pearl gem in the inventory of the commander holding it.

Considered to be overpowered.

(There are three items which do the same and are not artifacts in vanilla (A game running without mods), the clam is the quickest and easiest to get. Construction 2).

Starry Vere

January 27th, 2011 02:53 PM

Re: Quick noob question

Thanks

JonBrave

January 27th, 2011 05:34 PM

Re: Quick noob question

Would/Does the AI know to forge & use this?

Soyweiser

January 27th, 2011 05:37 PM

Re: Quick noob question

Quote:

Originally Posted by JonBrave (Post 769535)

Would/Does the AI know to forge & use this?

Not in the way a human player would use them. (spam spam spam spam etc ;)).

JonBrave

January 27th, 2011 05:38 PM

Re: Quick noob question

Perhaps the AI is more honorable than the human....

Soyweiser

January 27th, 2011 06:26 PM

Re: Quick noob question

Quote:

Originally Posted by JonBrave (Post 769538)

Perhaps the AI is more honorable than the human....

Winning isn't honorable?

JonBrave

January 27th, 2011 06:45 PM

Re: Quick noob question

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soyweiser (Post 769549)

Quote:

Originally Posted by JonBrave (Post 769538)

Perhaps the AI is more honorable than the human....

Winning isn't honorable?

Not if you have to spam... :)

Soyweiser

January 27th, 2011 09:19 PM

Re: Quick noob question

Quote:

Originally Posted by JonBrave (Post 769553)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soyweiser (Post 769549)

Quote:

Originally Posted by JonBrave (Post 769538)

Perhaps the AI is more honorable than the human....

Winning isn't honorable?

Not if you have to spam... :)

If it works. So if I would win with skelly spam it would be dishonorable?

The problem with Clam spam is that is hard to counter (easy to move the clams around, hard to snipe away the clam holders), even harder to detect (doesn't show up in graphs), And is quick to reach the break even point. That makes it bad from a game design perspective.

Also a pearl is the most useful gem. One pearl is half any other gem, and thus 12,5 gold.

brxbrx

January 27th, 2011 11:28 PM

Re: Quick noob question

quick noob question, quickness noob question, anyone else notice that?

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