A great game
! Thank you very very much Maniac
!
But for great strategy games one have to know some rules:
I do not know exactly how trade works
, I have some theories but I am not sure, because sometimes my cities have trade routes, sometimes not.
It does not seem to be necessary that all cities are built at the same river, is it enough when they have ANY river in their cross? Or does it even work when they are connected via "culture"?
Experiences with difficulty/strategy:
The game does not appaer to be as difficult as Civ, when I play as emperor war is a good option to be very successful, many Opponents defend their cities with Standard Troopers against Tanks
.
I think that some of secret projects/wonders of the kind "Unity..." are perhaps a little bit to powerful: When you do not find a perfect starting site (+ Food, 3 or more, + Production, 3 or more) an opponenent who succeeds in building mining laser or that one where you get +2 population is getting very powerful, because of that very early enhancement.
I made the experience that when I have a good starting positon, it was very easy for me to build both, for the rest of the game I had double the points of the next powerful KI, so I could very fast devolop strong weapons and the game was in effect won
.
So with these early powerful projects the strong gets stronger and the weak get weaker...
I do not feel the same costs for me to build them as for Wonders in Civ, perhaps they are a little bit to cheap to build for that what you gain as advantage.
So I wonder if I should have a try with higher difficulty level or start a race for them in Mulitplayer...
When I turned off the "goody capsules" the game was a bit more difficult because the KI could profitate stronger from their bonuses and I had to build more units/formers instead of finding them.
But makes a lot of fun!, great that it is back
, Alpha Centauri and Master of Magic were always my favorite Strategy games.
Thank you very much, kind regards from Cologne,
Limboldt