Gwaja
King
Whoa... some heated comments going back and forth here. I surely did not expect that!
I'd say that there are right and wrong ways to playing the game, but also that there are many different right ways to playing the game as well. It seems everyone has a different approach, and that's fine. If there is only one way to play this game, then what's the point anyway? ^_^
Just some quick comments before I post my next turn sets that will surely bring floodgates of criticism of its own...
The Oracle is a wonder that is useless unless it is self built, but the benefits of the Pyramids are still there even if captured. Also the former has less window of opportunity in building it, so right from the start, you gotta either commit to it, or forget it. Oracling doesn't make sense all the time, but in this game, with being Industrious, getting Metal Casting early for the cheap Forges is very attractive. With this same map and not industrious? Probably not.... not for me at least.
The Pyramids is a tricky one. Its benefits are awesome, but it also costs quite a lot. The question, of course, is.... who is gonna build it for you if you don't build it? Sometimes it would seem very obvious... when you have scouted out your next door neighbor, who is industrious and has access to stone... (Remember the Alex game? My first next door neighbor, Stalin, just happened to be in a situation like that, and he ended up building it for me and I ended up killing him and taking it for free)... sometimes not. There is always a chance that it can be built by someone that you cannot reach for a very long period of time until at a point in the game that the benefits no longer are useful... Sure, it is nice to get it for free, but in cases where you are given the tools to make it much easier and cheaper to build it yourself, I'd rather take the opportunity to build it myself and take control of the situation.... if I can. Going back to the Alex game, even if I were industrious and had stone in the BFC in that game, I wouldn't have bothered with it, because I knew that my starting land was terrible and that the only way to survive, at least in my opinion, was to wage war as early as possible, and take better land from my neighbors.
I like going about and smashing things and capturing cities from AIs just as much as anyone... and I prefer to war with earlier units rather than later ones... and Praetorians fit that criteria rather well. But the conquest has to be worth my time and effort as well. It's not like going out to conquer something doesn't have its cost associated with it either. In an ideal situation, Lizzy would be right next to you without all that jungle separating us on the way, and she'd build the Pyramids for you, and you would go take it with your Praetorians and feel good about it. Whether it turns out to be that way remains to be seen, of course.
Just one last thing... the usage of my unique smily in the form of ^_^ is restricted to me and only myself, and that anyone who uses it shall forever be doomed as NOOBTROLL!! ^_^ J/K!!
I'd say that there are right and wrong ways to playing the game, but also that there are many different right ways to playing the game as well. It seems everyone has a different approach, and that's fine. If there is only one way to play this game, then what's the point anyway? ^_^
Just some quick comments before I post my next turn sets that will surely bring floodgates of criticism of its own...
The Oracle is a wonder that is useless unless it is self built, but the benefits of the Pyramids are still there even if captured. Also the former has less window of opportunity in building it, so right from the start, you gotta either commit to it, or forget it. Oracling doesn't make sense all the time, but in this game, with being Industrious, getting Metal Casting early for the cheap Forges is very attractive. With this same map and not industrious? Probably not.... not for me at least.
The Pyramids is a tricky one. Its benefits are awesome, but it also costs quite a lot. The question, of course, is.... who is gonna build it for you if you don't build it? Sometimes it would seem very obvious... when you have scouted out your next door neighbor, who is industrious and has access to stone... (Remember the Alex game? My first next door neighbor, Stalin, just happened to be in a situation like that, and he ended up building it for me and I ended up killing him and taking it for free)... sometimes not. There is always a chance that it can be built by someone that you cannot reach for a very long period of time until at a point in the game that the benefits no longer are useful... Sure, it is nice to get it for free, but in cases where you are given the tools to make it much easier and cheaper to build it yourself, I'd rather take the opportunity to build it myself and take control of the situation.... if I can. Going back to the Alex game, even if I were industrious and had stone in the BFC in that game, I wouldn't have bothered with it, because I knew that my starting land was terrible and that the only way to survive, at least in my opinion, was to wage war as early as possible, and take better land from my neighbors.
I like going about and smashing things and capturing cities from AIs just as much as anyone... and I prefer to war with earlier units rather than later ones... and Praetorians fit that criteria rather well. But the conquest has to be worth my time and effort as well. It's not like going out to conquer something doesn't have its cost associated with it either. In an ideal situation, Lizzy would be right next to you without all that jungle separating us on the way, and she'd build the Pyramids for you, and you would go take it with your Praetorians and feel good about it. Whether it turns out to be that way remains to be seen, of course.
Just one last thing... the usage of my unique smily in the form of ^_^ is restricted to me and only myself, and that anyone who uses it shall forever be doomed as NOOBTROLL!! ^_^ J/K!!