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October 25th, 2003, 02:47 PM
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Re: OT: any other games?
hmmm....interesting....
I have unlocked the full Version of Stars! (finally got the serial number in email)....reading through the Online strat guide....pretty deep sounding at any rate....
With this and Alpha Centauri, i won't even notice the time till the demo comes out 
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October 25th, 2003, 06:16 PM
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Re: OT: any other games?
Well wow, I am really impressed by the Warlords 4. AI.
It is making excellent strategic moves.
I had an insane battle.
me + 2 AIs on the map: 1v1v1
I was on south, AI 1 on north east, AI 2 on north west. There is a very important thing. You cannot wander around and doing quest, you must attack asap when you can. [When you can: when your retinue units had arrived.]
So I attacked AI 1 when I had a small but powerful force. I had a nice battle with the AI, but thanks to my experienced units I managed to kill it. AI 2 became very strong meanwhile. I forced to gather all my armies in the middle. The battles Lasted for more than 1 hour with AI 2 in the middle. He kept coming but with a small sneak force I slowly destroyed his northern cities. [I kept defending the middle.]
Guess what. The AI launched a sneak attack on my south!..just like I did on the north! I was like WOW! This AI is really decent.
He razed 5 of my towns to the south with this sneak force.
There were more battles, but after ~1 more hours I captured his capital.
All I can say that this AI is really awesome. 
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October 26th, 2003, 11:06 PM
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Re: OT: any other games?
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quote: Originally posted by Psitticine:
Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire are among my all-time Favorites. I am so hoping they'll announce development plans for a sequel some day!
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many players still praise the games for features which are nowhere be seen in other games. The complex diplomacy/agenda features for example are really shining. You could even ask an ally to attack a specific city, and this is very cool to direct the AI.
The game is a bit too much on micro managing though. And the supply modules (dont remember their exact name) which gave you the production of a tile were too cheesy. The AI never used them by the way, so its was just a question of time before you outproduced him.
Still, it is one of my all time favourite. I agree 100% about the supply pods. They always seemed a bit kludgy to me, and some of the benefits they gave were rather . . . odd. Some made sense, of course, but others were just too "magic" for a game like that.
I didn't have much problem with the micro-management, but I also preferred smaller-map games. I can see how it would be much more of a challenge keeping up with things on those huge planet maps.
My favorite part was the whole living planet concept, with the monoliths and the sentient/sleeping ecosystem. I hope that, if they ever do a sequel, it will either expand on that concept or add something equally fascinating to explore.
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October 27th, 2003, 03:30 AM
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Re: OT: any other games?
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Or you could just get a Mac.
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October 27th, 2003, 05:34 AM
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Re: OT: any other games?
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October 27th, 2003, 06:44 AM
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October 27th, 2003, 07:06 AM
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Re: OT: any other games?
Or a bit less if buying 2000, which has BSOD as infrequently as XP does... Of course, XP cheats and just reboots on the rare occasion that a BSOD occurs (which is a rarity).  But then, it can keep on going even if Explorer crashes, so things have vastly improved since the days of win 95.  Going Mac is definitely not an improvement, as you are paying a lot of extra money for nothing... you can get 95% of Mac OS X by getting a distro of Linux or FreeBSD or something. You just don't get the Mac bloat.  I forget which OS it is based on, but only the interface and some programs are Apple/Macintosh in it.
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