How do YOU play the game?

Maltrease · #1 June 4th, 2004, 07:51 PM

My only small wish for the game is that there would be more "Builder" style stuff.

I like to make long term investments in the economy and infrastructure of my empire. You can do a little of that now by picking a high admin to cost fortress (such as wizard tower, castle) and plopping it down in a rich province. Or by collecting clams and other gem producing items. Early site searching, Archaic Record, represent this as well.

The Builder vs Momentum (conqueror) play style is yet another control bar for the strategy game player.

HJ · #2 June 4th, 2004, 09:31 PM

I'm also a sandbox player, so to speak, although I do enjoy the challenge that the AI can present. I don't like to play vs. people, as that's too stressful and I play the games to relax from the real world stresses. I like to lay back and try out things for the sake of trying them out, and without any competitive drive behind it. If I were to approach the game in any other way, it would lose it's charm, and instead of having a beautiful toy that I can enjoy with a (somewhat naive) fascination of a child, I would have to reduce it to a cookbook with recipes on how to win it as efficiently as possible. And I don't like cooking, so....

[ June 04, 2004, 20:32: Message edited by: HJ ]

Karacan · #3 June 4th, 2004, 09:52 PM

On a sandbox/gamer scale I am at sandbox+2.

I wouldn't like Dominions at all if it featured modern military units like tanks or fighterplanes, even with the same game mechanics, the game context is always very important to me. The only 3D-Shooter featuring pre-WorldWarII-units I really really like isn't Wolfenstein but BloodRayne - not because of the mechanics, but because of the setting. There is something about being a rogue vampire lady secret agent. That's about the same feeling when I Gift Of Reason a Doom Horror or Abomination (though I admittedly haven't managed to summon an Abomination in DomII yet), and that's the major part of why DomII will survive on my harddisk until physical failure.

fahdiz · #4 June 4th, 2004, 10:33 PM

I'm definitely a sandboxer, but occasionally I have gamist tendencies.

Taqwus · #5 June 5th, 2004, 12:20 AM

I'm definitely a sandboxer, but one with a strange predilection for role-playing the eccentric, impractical or downright insane. Why yes, the gods must indeed be crazy!

Vynd · #6 June 5th, 2004, 01:52 AM

I'm a gamer!

Norfleet · #7 June 5th, 2004, 02:56 AM

My style defies classification. I play for survival, thus my noteworthy slow, grinding combat style: I'm not actually trying to win, it just happens as a kind of side effect of outLasting everyone else. While a gamer would likely commit himself to crushing the other opponent, I tend to be less concerned with that and would rather keep a sizeable reserve to defend against surprises....although I guess they're not really surprises when they're expected.

Many think that I'll use anything to win....but that's not truly my goal. This has resulted in some confusion.