Proposition: Zen vs. Norfleet

proteus · #1 May 18th, 2004, 02:13 PM

It is very easy to play Ermor. I am playing with them 2 hours / day, I tried out all possible strategies with them.
How can I play on the internet?

Endoperez · #2 May 18th, 2004, 08:40 PM

Ermor is very easy to play, versus AI. AI can't really handle them well. You might want to try playing AGAINST them for a change. Just build lots of priests. After that you might want to consider what will happen to Ermor in multiplayer in where most are afraid of you, want to kill you before you depopulate half the world and know that the best way versus Ermor are priests. Of course, if you happen to play the normal theme they will propably find out you are not the snack they came for...

To play in internet, you can either Play By E-Mail, in which you send your .2h file to a host and he sends you a .trn file after all players have played their turns and he has hosted the game, or by letting the game automagically send the files. You have to have a host somewhere, of course, and know his IP-address and the right port. That's about all I know about that way to play MP...

Oh. And you haven't tried out all the strategies available to Ermor.

Scott Hebert · #3 May 19th, 2004, 02:21 AM

I think the idea of a documented high-level game is an excellent one.

However, just as good of an idea would be a game that paired new players with old. Then the old players can assist the new players if they need it, and new players can see how old players play _from inside the game_.

Cohen · #4 May 19th, 2004, 12:04 PM

Well, I believe an 1on1 game will be nice to see if strats are balanced, broken or what you prefer to call them ...

Surely if there're more than Zen and Norf playing, I'd be glad to be inside but I'm not very skilled ... however I fear the challenge beetween them could be heavily modified from other player intervention.

Stormbinder · #5 May 20th, 2004, 03:48 AM

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Originally posted by Cohen:
Well, I believe an 1on1 game will be nice to see if strats are balanced, broken or what you prefer to call them ...

Surely if there're more than Zen and Norf playing, I'd be glad to be inside but I'm not very skilled ... however I fear the challenge beetween them could be heavily modified from other player intervention.

I am not sure MP Dom2 1vs1 game would be very interesting. The reason is that I suspect there would be too much of "avalanche" effect. I think what will happen is that people would spend a lot of hours expanding and building the nation, than the fate of the gme will be decided in one or two large battles, since once will start to win, each next battle will be increseangly more easy to win than the previous one. With multiply players in MP other players can always interfere to prevent the wining nation from becoming too strong due to its starting victories, and by doing this severely limiting "avalanche" effect. In 1 vs 1 game there will be no such limitation, especially so on small map.

This is just a theory though, I've never tried 1 vs 1 game myself and is not very interested to try. But I suspect it to be the true, based upon my MP Dom2 experience.

Torlin HalfAxe · #6 June 23rd, 2004, 04:16 PM

So what ever happened to this little gem of an idea???

I'm sure I'd learn a lot from a report of this calibur!

Norfleet · #7 June 23rd, 2004, 05:59 PM

This idea has been shelled, because I've found out that Zen is actually one of the Great Evil Ones. Plus he seems to always be busy.

[ June 23, 2004, 17:04: Message edited by: Norfleet ]