Philosophy / Play Style

tbontob · #1 August 24th, 2002, 01:50 AM

I almost always wait until the AI declares war on me which more or less leaves me no choice but to "take the action to them".

I feel a tournament is a different genre entirely...

Most of the participants are not exactly peaceful. If they were, the tournament would carry on forever...

TerranC · #2 August 24th, 2002, 02:19 AM

Baisically, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

As Dr. Jekyll,

Build up the infrastructure, build up strong border lines, help allies, give and trade tech, become number 1 in the economy sector and populations, persue partnership treaties with all others, do not declare wars.

As Mr. Hyde,

Bombard any threat colonies if necessary, destroy any enemy spacecraft that violates space even if it's a medical ship or a transport carrying ... 300 Million people, all or nothing, take no prisoners.

Yes, I'm one of those hypocrits.

Game Philosophy:

Quality before Quantity (Ie: A battlecruiser that can take down a lone dreadnought/battleship, 2 battlecruisers, 3 cruiser, 4 light cruiser and so on.)

[ August 24, 2002, 01:23: Message edited by: TerranC ]

Elowan · #3 August 24th, 2002, 08:33 AM

I follow Teedy Roosevelt's axiom: "Walk softly but carry a big stick."

I mind my own business but I build up my forces and strictly enforce my borders. I expand until I think I've gone far enough and then colonize everything in sight. Once I have my arsenal built up - I research Ice/Gas/O2 - colonization (whatever I need) to increase productivity to the max; some planets being almost all storage.

If an alien race attacks me - I never accept surrender.

Q · #4 August 24th, 2002, 08:55 AM

I play against AI empires and I usually play a friendly empire style: That means I accept almost all treaty propositions and keep them, try to make fair trades (I do trade colonization technology because I think the AI profits as much as I do) and try to capture colonies and not to destroy them.
I heavily invest in my infrastructure and colonize every planet I can and as soon as I have the technology use atmosphere converters. In the late game I like to build ring- and sphereworlds until the game get's so complex (I usually play in a quadrant with 250 systems) that my computer takes more than a hour for processing one turn.

DavidG · #5 August 24th, 2002, 02:02 PM

Any game that doesn't end in a good war is dull dull dull. Does anyone really enjoy the game when they are surronded by allies and all their planets are full and they are sitting there watching their atmospheric converters being built? unmodded SE4 just doesn't have the depth or micromanagement level to make an totally peacfull game fun. (and that's they way it should be

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As far as playing to win or just for fun. They are the same thing. Doesn't mean you have to win to enjoy the game but does anyone seriously play and not try to win?

Phoenix-D · #6 August 24th, 2002, 07:14 PM

"They are the same thing. Doesn't mean you have to win to enjoy the game but does anyone seriously play and not try to win?"

*raises hand* Several of the games I'm in now, my race due to it's nature (isolationist, not expansionist) doesn't have a snowball's chance of winning.

Phoenix-D

Gryphin · #7 August 24th, 2002, 07:21 PM

DavidG,
I susspect we all "try to win" or do the best we can. I put most of my "energy" into having fun.
For example:
Giving my ships names
Tracking the history of a more successful ship, (thanks to that suggestion by someone here)
I look forward to a chance to practice "Tactics of Mistake". I might loose but it will be fun.
I look forward to the day my fleets trade shots with GrowlTigga. Who will win? Both of us. I am sure it will be a "bLast".
So, yes you are correct. We all try to win / do the best we can.