this Strategy must be broke - Page 2

Atrocities · #1 October 16th, 2004, 01:14 AM

Dominions 2 is one of those games that could be far far more than it has become. I like the game but hate the deludge of micro-management and lack of support infastructure that games like SEIV have built into them.

If you combined the best of Dominions 2, SE IV, Moo3, and GalCiv into one game, ohhhhhhhhhhh God what a game that would be. The manual alone would be as thick as a telephone book.

Arkcon · #2 October 16th, 2004, 10:51 AM

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Grand Deceiver said:

What I'm trying to say is that its refreshing to see a vet still working on strategies to play the game..and that us with less experience can take heart in that we arent as bad or hopeless as we might think we are when getting our but handed to us.

Hope that made sense and that it wasnt taken as an offense.

That is what makes SE4 the greatest game of all time. Seriously, I'm never bored with the game and all its nuances. There is always something new to do. I don't know how to explain it to other people -- maybe to say SE4 wasn't written or even designed/crafted -- it was invented.

AgentZero · #3 October 16th, 2004, 10:58 AM

I don't think there's anything 'wrong' with that strategy in terms of it being a way around the way SE4s mechanics are supposed to work. In fact, I can even think of historical precedent for it. My grandfather used to build cargo ships during WW2 on the west coast of Canada. I remember him saying a lot of the time he said they only built enough of the boat so it could get itself around to the east coast for loading, and most of the work on the inside of the ship (crew quarters etc) was done en route. Sure, they were cargo ships and not warships but the principle is the same.

spoon · #4 October 16th, 2004, 01:51 AM

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geoschmo said:
... and the micromanagment headaches.

Amen!

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 October 16th, 2004, 02:18 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:

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Grand Deceiver said:
Gandalf,

Very Interesting strategy..as well as Arkcon's.

I have no real advise..but it is very interesting to me..and should be to lots of others that:

(1) based on the nuber of Posts you show;
(2) the length of time I have seen you on the Boards;

one would assume that you are one of the VERY Experienced Vets and would know everything about how to beat the game/ai's/others.

If these forums were only for Space Empires IV, that would still be a semi-truthful assumption at best... In this case, it is not. Most of GP's Posts have been racked up over in the Dominions 2 section.

And I don't play very much. I can beat the ai, but I tend to turtle.