Prefered Style of play?

Cyrien · #1 September 11th, 2001, 02:43 AM

Hrmmm... just had a bit of curiosity looking through SE4 sites, the strategies posted on them and etc...

So my question is this...

How do you play? Do you play to win? Do you play to escape reality? (I am the ultimate soandso emperor bow before my will!) Do you play for a challenge? Boredom? What motivates you to play the most.... other than just plain having a good time... lets assume everyone is enjoying themself if they care enough to post.

Me... hrmm... I play for a challenge (no tactical combat here) and to escape reality... it is so hard planning the complete downfall of a species that I find your games an entertaining diVersion and escape.

SirDarwin · #2 September 11th, 2001, 02:45 AM

I play for the escape and the thought of controlling a interstellar alliace

but I usually don't get a lot of free time anymore, so I just play small maps, lots of AI's and try to give as good as I take

CW · #3 September 11th, 2001, 03:31 AM

I play for my evil dark side!

disabled · #4 September 11th, 2001, 03:35 AM

I play it ebcause it is one of the few games that allows me to do super evil tings (genocide, slavery, big explosions, wars) without having to answer to anyone...

But soon... SOON!!!

I shall rule this world and do what I please...

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DAMNIT! I said that aloud..

loads machine gun...

[ June 13, 2003, 06:35: Message edited by: General Talashar ]

Cyrien · #5 September 11th, 2001, 04:02 AM

Conquest is easy. It's running the damn thing that is hard. Too bad SE4 doesn't do a better job of revolution, strife and Empire Discontent in general. Ah well.

I have always been rather good at conquest... but then it isn't really that hard. I have always prefered to have someone else have the headache of running it. Normally I conquer and then just leave and tell them they can go back to the way they were. They never listen though... *sigh* Maybe this time...

[This message has been edited by Cyrien (edited 11 September 2001).]

#6 September 11th, 2001, 04:42 AM

I play when I am bored already. The experience is its own reward and simultaneously reduces boredom.

Lonnie Courtney Clay

Puke · #7 September 11th, 2001, 05:25 AM

i, umm.. like strategy games. especially multiplayer ones that are not real time twitch-fests like starcraft. the customization is a huge plus too.

I also like role playing, if you check my profile. so i tend to play my slimy, pungent little race to the hilt. they're nice guys, just a bit sticky.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

#8 September 11th, 2001, 10:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Puke:
I also like role playing, if you check my profile. so i tend to play my slimy, pungent little race to the hilt. they're nice guys, just a bit sticky.

I am having difficulties with the computer I use, and this seems to be the proper cue for a joke. Infortunately, I know from sad experience that the jokes I tell do not go over well. So I will jut pair up a few things.
1) hilt, scabbard
2) sticky, wicket
3) slimy, greasy, grimy
4) I hesitate to touch the others even with a 10 foot pole
5) a whole lot of *ity going on around here

Lonnie Courtney Clay

#9 September 11th, 2001, 10:56 AM

I dare say very little except to reference a certain fable regarding a woman who lived in a shoe.

I am unable to play the bogy tune, which is very sad because I was really enjoying it.

Compared to other people, the difficulties which I have are rather small.

Is there anyone who would like a few spare of them before they become too great a burden ?
http://legacy.sheltonbbs.com/~jmauk/sh134.html

The tune above is able to play, although it often falters.

I ran a Norton Antivirus scan and found 46,912 files. Someone had taken down BlackIce, locked up Aol, and now controls what I can play. I suggest that the person involved withdraw their hooks before the several "unknown" processes which are already happily living together in the computer get annoyed.

Lonnie Courtney Clay

capnq · #10 September 11th, 2001, 10:33 PM

I play computer games to relieve stress and escape reality. Complex strategy games like SE IV are the only things that demand enough of my attention to keep my mind off real-life worries for a while.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"