Noob LA Game: Cataclysm - And Begin!

Fakeymcfake · #1 September 19th, 2009, 01:26 PM

I really didn't consider myself a "noob" going into this game. I certainly wasn't a vet by any means but I understood the basics of what to aim for as far as early/mid/late game as well as some more advanced tricks as Lama has seen. Anyhow, I still learned a lot in this game, as I'm sure we all have and I think that not one of us who has made it this far in the game could be reasonably considered a noob at this point.

What it comes down to Ill, is if you're bored with the game or don't think you've a reasonable chance of winning, then do something to make it interesting for you again. Themactically, have your pretender go nuts and set yourself up with crazy goals and grand, over-the-top plans of attack. Use this game to experiment without having to worry about winning or not, it'll give us all something unexpected to deal with.

Illuminated One · #2 September 19th, 2009, 07:19 PM

Well, it's not that the grand picture is not very interesting in this game, it's very tense. I don't think I don't have a reasonable chance of winning, might be might be not, although I will have some catching up to do.
It's that I'm really annoyed of how much "menial work" I have to do if I want to take the chance. Really if 10% of the game is decision making and the rest is just making clams, watching over provinces, checking that the scripts/equipment I made are equal to those I envisioned...
Well, enough whining, I guess I can indeed do some crazy stuff and suicide over it, but that wouldn't be to far from what I originally envisioned.

Alpine Joe · #3 September 19th, 2009, 08:00 PM

Yeah this game has convinced me that gem gens ruin games. I will be playing only non gem-gen games in the future, the micro is just too much.

Illuminated One · #4 September 19th, 2009, 08:22 PM

Well, as the never dying advocate of gem gens I have to say that they are really not a micro problem for me - only that I'm forced to make as many as I can sucks hard.
The one battle against your archdevil took me 5 times as long to execute as all my clam stuff while the plan was laid out in 5 minutes.
And still I forget to not put my best caster into a spot where he is killed by friendly fire.

Illuminated One · #5 September 23rd, 2009, 01:02 PM

Well, since there are so many players who don't like when someone throws the towel I'll try to line up a sub.

P3D · #6 September 23rd, 2009, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Illuminated One

Well, as the never dying advocate of gem gens I have to say that they are really not a micro problem for me - only that I'm forced to make as many as I can sucks hard.
The one battle against your archdevil took me 5 times as long to execute as all my clam stuff while the plan was laid out in 5 minutes.
And still I forget to not put my best caster into a spot where he is killed by friendly fire.

Have you tried fever fetishes? The definition of micro.

Illuminated One · #7 September 23rd, 2009, 02:56 PM

Yes, I have.

I have only 10 to generate some extra money, though.

Illuminated One · #8 September 23rd, 2009, 04:37 PM

Executor has offered to sub in.
Would be cool if you could get his email set in time for the new turn.

Good luck to all the other players.
It was a good game, but they are checking my medications better after the incident and I can't concentrate long enough for the turns.

Err ... I mean
Zukkekon will have changed his mind. About what you ask feeble mortals?
What 'about' he asks back? His old mind is weary. Nothing he had found on this world the starspawn called him upon that is worthy.
The mortals?
They see the world yet they don't perceive it. Faced with the truth, faced with the beauty, they have to deny it, to declare it invalid, void, to not recognize their twisted state, inventing values, rationalizing reasons, making justifications, unlogical, unintuitive, to explain away that they are merely the tools of powerhungry pretenders, and harly worthy of even that. Even with their limited sentience they multiplied to fast through disgusting rituals revolving around tentacles and orifices to be taken lightly.
The starspawn?
They at least understood the basics and used their tentacles correctly.
But they didn't grasp the plan. The littlest details he had to engrave into their mind. He couldn't take it any longer.
A new mind is what he needed. Would his new mind feel the same, act the same? Even he couldn't know, for he could only know his mind.
There might be great changes, there might be none. He didn't care for anything but sleep now.