fathertuck
Warlord
Does anyone now how much longer a marathon game is compared to a normal game? I always play at normal game speed so i don't have a clue.
Your favorite speed
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revengeofmakno
Eclectic Enigma
Marathon is indeed time consuming but my sense of historical realism cannot bear starting a war in one era and ending up halfway through the next by the time it ends. Seen another way, that means wars often lasting hundreds of years. Likewise, requiring decades and more to sail across an ocean doesn't work for me.
In practical terms, the game does require suspending disbelief around time but there is only so much of it I can swallow. Marathon makes it easier to stomach.
In practical terms, the game does require suspending disbelief around time but there is only so much of it I can swallow. Marathon makes it easier to stomach.
CajNatalie
Warlord
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Normal = 500 turns.
Marathon = 1500 turns.
So your answer is 1000 turns longer (i.e. 2 whole games).
This is another strong motivator for me to play Marathon.
globaooba
The Wolpertinger
I used to like epic, but I realized I have started well over 100 games, but finnished about 4
so now I like mostly quick, but sometimes normal.
so now I like mostly quick, but sometimes normal.johnfalcon99977
Assassin
Real thing?
So you think its realistic take tens of thousands of years too sail a round the globe ONCE.
And your spelling is awful so that leads me too think that you are a 8 year old.
Psyringe
Scout
You're slamming another user for three misspellings, with a single sentence that contains three mistakes? That's got to be satire, right?
i_imperator
Imperator
Epic, its better for waring and for large/huge maps. I've started to use marathon more though.
johnfalcon99977
Assassin
3 extremely poor, hard not to notice mistakes. If they were minor then i wouldn't care, but really! Look at them!
Yared
That Guy
I don't know Falcon, that was some pretty basic mistakes.
Anyway, remember that personal attacks aren't allowed on this forum, so at least try to stick to the subject.
Anyway, remember that personal attacks aren't allowed on this forum, so at least try to stick to the subject.
Jarlaxe Baenre
Emperor
Yeah, well, you made more mistakes while pointing that out.
Psyringe
Scout
You know the old saying "the pot calling the kettle black"? The pot insisting that the kettle is "blacker" doesn't make it better.
Look, I don't mean this as an attack, but purely objectively you've barely written a post without several mistakes (including words like "frist" or "biger" in thread titles). And this is perfectly okay in my book, because I don't care about misspellings, and neither do most other people here. Actually, playing grammar police is explicitly discouraged in the rules of this forum. Given these circumstances, you are in a very bad position to introduce a grammar police attitude to these forums, don't you think?
Falcon, I see the other guys mistakes (though enuf may have been purposely chosen like using kool instead of cool, because they think it's more kool/cool that way. And, alrdy could be seen as shorthand), but your mistakes are as obvious to me and bug me just as much. In the end, if you are going to ridicule others about grammar and spelling then yours should be perfect, barring simple typographical error.
So you think its realistic take tens of thousands of years too sail a round the globe ONCE.
So, you think it's realistic to take tens of thousands of years to sail around the globe once.
So you think its realistic take tens of thousands of years too sail a round the globe ONCE.
So, you think it's realistic to take tens of thousands of years to sail around the globe once.
Psyringe
Scout
I do think the point that was to be made has been made clearly now by several people, so yes, let's all return to the thread's topic now.
Personally, I still prefer Marathon, though I've seen that some mods offer even slower speeds ("Snail", "Eternity"). I'm not really sure whether these would be more enjoyable for me than Marathon, but I might give them a try some time ... they wouldn't make sense without all the additional content these mods add though, I think.
Psyringe
Scout
Jarlaxe Baenre
Emperor
johnfalcon99977
Assassin
Although that could have been someone like me who tends to slip into sleep in front of the monitor, wakes up 8 hours later, and immediately continues with his next turn.
you "should" get some more sleep.
I'm new, and a pathetic player.
