Gold Demo Counter-Intel

[Comar]

Hey there, Mark. Did your change of station go okay? Still play EFS?

You'll like this game. Evidently the demo is a little buggy, but the one the beta testers are working with is running like a champ.

Hopefully, we can game together some in this.

[Master Belisarius]

EFS? Emperor of Fadding Sun?
A game with a lot of good ideas, but pathetic AI!
I regret the day when I sent the purchase order to chip&bits...

[Klauss]

EFS: Pathetic AI?

En contraire. I doubt that you can beat the game on hard setting.

klaus

[Comar]

Like a lot of games, the AI usually gets beat by a human ( otherwise people would not buy it ). The question is the degree of difficulty in beating it. There are some great patches out for EFS that make it better, but it's best feature is the role playing aspects that you can get into while doing strategic gaming. Still one of the best for that aspect of gaming in my book.

[Master Belisarius]

Klaus: I can not remember a game, when the AI conquered ONE of my planets.
Also, the other 'Houses' and aliens, never 'colonized' the 'free' planets.

The AI only is good defending a planet (I could say the tactical AI). But the strategical AI... simply not exist.

I have played some more games, after download a work done by some fans, to balance the units (I think that was named NOVA).
At the end, still I believe that EFS it's a game with pathetic AI, and pretty buggy.

I don't want to offend anybody, and of course that these are only my opinions. Finally, sorry for write about EFS here... but I was frustrated because a game with a lot potential (again in my opinion), was wasted.

[This message has been edited by Master Belisarius (edited 15 October 2000).]

[Mark Dey]

Hey there Comar! Yeah, I survived ok, but my computer took about 6 months to arrive. I'm convinced that instead of going across the Pacific, they moved it across Asia and Europe by yak.

SE4 seems to be ok - I just hope that the actual gold Version is significantly better. Maybe I'll see you at the next warp point - I'll let you know...

-Mark

[Comar]

Glad you made it okay. I don't know about he gold Version or the demo, but the beta rocks. Be patient.