Epic Single Player

RadiantFleet · #1 February 27th, 2004, 08:50 PM

Hi all,

Just curious how many people like epic single player games? I'm currently playing the world war scenario with all nations, 9 strength independents, most AI's set to impossible. I've had the game machine churning on my latest turn for four hours now (and yes it's a decently fast machine, 2GHz Pentium IV with a Gig of RAM). I believe this turn is taking so long because Ryleth (me) and the Abysians are slugging out a 3-4k army battle with lots of leaders, etc. on each side. It's been a wonderful game so far, the compiler changes for the windows Version have worked miracles. Previously I've had to take games over too linux if they got too large, and then finally send them to the devs if that failed.

Arryn · #2 February 27th, 2004, 08:57 PM

My AAR is on the Orania map. Precisely because I like epic games.

Gandalf Parker · #3 February 27th, 2004, 09:06 PM

I have maps which are 450 land and 50 water provinces (500 is apparently a max), some are 2400x3200 pixels (a max on the map generator), and I love to randomize the text file so that the AIs are different settings and alliances. Plus 50 extra castle/lab/temple/or-mix is scattered around, every province gets an extra army which can be made up of anything on the monster list (finding an army of gods in a province is fun).
Anyway, the answer is YES I have been known to get into some epic single player games.

[ February 27, 2004, 19:08: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Darryl · #4 February 27th, 2004, 10:11 PM

I tend to like epic games as well. I tend to like single player, and don't seem to be like a lot of people. Most I've heard talk about single player seem to like small maps with everyone crammed in. Like a few factions vying for control of an area. I tend to prefer having a "developed nation" going to war with another "developed nation" and having various powers at my disposal.

When I first started playing, my comment was continually "What? Another nation so soon? But it's only turn 3!!" By turn 10 I had 3 or more nations visible. Hated that.

I don't see how much of the magic can be used unless the game is epic. I recently finished a game with Marginon playing on the Aran map against TWO AI's (hey, I'm still learning...). Even when things were under control I still couldn't get to level 9 magic, or 8 for that matter. I ended up winning on Dominion automatically a few turns after pulling my army out of Pangaea! (they only had a few provinces left)

It doesn't seem like the game is geared for epic battles though. Having a limit of 5 rounds of orders for a battle between thousands of troops seems like it's geared toward smaller skirmishes.

Darryl

Argitoth · #5 February 27th, 2004, 10:21 PM

you know, it's not that hard to make an epic multiplayer game. those are always fun fun.

RadiantFleet · #6 February 27th, 2004, 10:25 PM

Epic multiplayer requires coordination with other players, something that I haven't had much luck with doing!