Early Game, Mid Game, and End Game... What's the goal of each?

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
hear the lamentations of their women.

*This* particular woman only laments having a miserable cold that's really pissing me off, as it's ruining my ability to play Dom ...

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Spacepain:
Sounds like somebody has been playing TOO much dom2...

Dominions II is a good thing. And as everyone knows, too much of a good thing....is an AWESOME thing!

Originally posted by Arryn:
*This* particular woman only laments having a miserable cold that's really pissing me off, as it's ruining my ability to play Dom ...

That's an excellent idea. Let me go see what ranks are required for that plague spell again.

[ March 15, 2004, 04:11: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Spacepain:
Well, the tricky part is one can only be beaten by the easy AI so many time before one is slightly discouraged...

And this is why you need to get your *** beat by real people. So you can be owned in entirely new and different ways!

And....wait, the *EASY* AI is beating you?

Well, in that case, first, I'd suggest taking a nation that is fairly conventional, so you'll get a decent level of exposure to how the game works, and is also fairly difficult to attack. Try Atlantis, or R'lyeh. That will impede the AI's ability to rush you, and you'll be able to experience a full game without being swarmed. Once you get that down, try and go faster. Then move onto land.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Spacepain:
.....why I am being beaten even by the easy AI....

Wow... from what I've been seeing the AI opponents are pinned down or dead by mid-game. Ermor is the only challenging AI opponent and with 2.08 he seems more peaceful(he had 1200 units just sitting in his castle mid-game).

Perhaps the developers could make the easy difficulty easier and the harder difficulties harder.

Maybe because you have been playing for 3 Months and this guy has been playing for a week?

Or it might be he hasn't found the AI weaknesses yet to exploit.

[Argitoth]

EARLY GAME - Expand as quickly as possible and defensively as possible.

MIDDLE GAME - Find counters for everything your closest enemy can throw at you

END GAME - Give up because the micromanagement is too harsh and you've just lost your pretender for the second time and realize you overlooked a few things of your enemy.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
END GAME - Give up because the micromanagement is too harsh and you've just lost your pretender for the second time and realize you overlooked a few things of your enemy.

Well that's certainly worthless advice. Giving up is cowardly, and teaches one nothing, so one just goes on repeating mistakes. One learns the most from struggling on, the worse the challenge, the more one should learn. That is, if one is open to learning, instead of whining about losing and how unfair life, the universe, and everything is.