OT: any other games?

[Mortifer]

Guys FYI, if any of you want to see a decent AI, try out Warlords 4. on hardest. Hats off, the AI is really kicking some ***.

[MythicalMino]

hmmm....interesting....

I have unlocked the full Version of Stars! (finally got the serial number in email)....reading through the Online strat guide....pretty deep sounding at any rate....

With this and Alpha Centauri, i won't even notice the time till the demo comes out

[Mortifer]

Well wow, I am really impressed by the Warlords 4. AI.
It is making excellent strategic moves.
I had an insane battle.

me + 2 AIs on the map: 1v1v1
I was on south, AI 1 on north east, AI 2 on north west. There is a very important thing. You cannot wander around and doing quest, you must attack asap when you can. [When you can: when your retinue units had arrived.]
So I attacked AI 1 when I had a small but powerful force. I had a nice battle with the AI, but thanks to my experienced units I managed to kill it. AI 2 became very strong meanwhile. I forced to gather all my armies in the middle. The battles Lasted for more than 1 hour with AI 2 in the middle. He kept coming but with a small sneak force I slowly destroyed his northern cities. [I kept defending the middle.]

Guess what. The AI launched a sneak attack on my south!..just like I did on the north! I was like WOW! This AI is really decent.
He razed 5 of my towns to the south with this sneak force.

There were more battles, but after ~1 more hours I captured his capital.

All I can say that this AI is really awesome.

[Psitticine]

Originally posted by Pocus:

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Originally posted by Psitticine:
Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire are among my all-time Favorites. I am so hoping they'll announce development plans for a sequel some day!

many players still praise the games for features which are nowhere be seen in other games. The complex diplomacy/agenda features for example are really shining. You could even ask an ally to attack a specific city, and this is very cool to direct the AI.

The game is a bit too much on micro managing though. And the supply modules (dont remember their exact name) which gave you the production of a tile were too cheesy. The AI never used them by the way, so its was just a question of time before you outproduced him.

Still, it is one of my all time favourite.

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I agree 100% about the supply pods. They always seemed a bit kludgy to me, and some of the benefits they gave were rather . . . odd. Some made sense, of course, but others were just too "magic" for a game like that.

I didn't have much problem with the micro-management, but I also preferred smaller-map games. I can see how it would be much more of a challenge keeping up with things on those huge planet maps.

My favorite part was the whole living planet concept, with the monoliths and the sentient/sleeping ecosystem. I hope that, if they ever do a sequel, it will either expand on that concept or add something equally fascinating to explore.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Stavetor:
Or you could just get a Mac.

That would be a waste of money just to play two old games.

[Stavetor]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by Stavetor:
Or you could just get a Mac.

That would be a waste of money just to play two old games.

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If it's just for the purpose of playing those two games, then yeah, I suppose so. Especially since those games are now available on Windows. But then again, what price freedom from the Blue Screen of Death?

[Daynarr]

Originally posted by Stavetor:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by Stavetor:
Or you could just get a Mac.

That would be a waste of money just to play two old games.

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If it's just for the purpose of playing those two games, then yeah, I suppose so. Especially since those games are now available on Windows. But then again, what price freedom from the Blue Screen of Death?

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Price is 200$ for buying Windows XP.