The #1 Difference New Players Must Know For MP

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Originally Posted by VedalkenBear

I think you overthought my statement. My point is that you cannot think of 'what would be fun to play', but rather 'what would win me the game the fastest'.

Maybe if you are a full-time salaried Dom3 player. Not if you are playing for fun though. If you are playing for fun, then you'd better think of 'what would be fun to play', otherwise there's really not much point. Obviously your game plan should at least give your Pretender some chance to ascend, so you can avoid being completely humiliated, which is usually not fun.

I completely agree that efficiency is important and not uniformity; I never said you had to be uniform. What I meant (and perhaps said poorly) is that you will never choose a less efficient means to an end in MP, because no one else does. The optimal strategy in MP is always efficiency, because there is (in the end) only one goal in MP: to win.

The goal of your nation is to win. The goal of you as a player should be to have fun. It's a game.

By the way in the MP Preponderance game I've been sending my astral mages into Strange Houses to summon void creatures. Completely inefficient! All I have to show for it is a couple mages with some summoning skill now, and a Vile Thing to show for my troubles. But it's quite fun. Also I've been messing around in the Forgotten City, and have poured at least 1000 gold into it and not gotten anything back yet. But I've had some funny battles with the horrors within. So 'no one else does' is just not true.

Now get out there and summon some Bog Beasts!