Greetings Everyone, Hope you are all enjoying games of Empire when you can. I just wanted to let folks here know a couple of things. First, my beta period for...
I just joined the group after buying the game earlier this week. I thought I'd introduce myself and also make a few comments on the game. Mostly good, so...
The other suggestion I have is to have an order for that situation where I have 627 infantries and armors in a city along with a cruiser or two recovering from...
In EDIE when you put a damaged ship to sleep in a city, it automatically wakes up when it is repaired. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y!...
Usually by the point you would have 627 units at a city, you will have other things. Use the "Group" or "F7" mode and put them all to sleep at one time. Go ...
... have ... Go ... unit ... to keep ... Thats what I've been doing but it would be nice not to have to. Finding out that the unit wakes up when it's repaired...
Finding out that the unit wakes up when it's repaired has helped. This was hugely requested by the community when EDIE was being developed. EDEE will have a...
... There's also the unit report which you can sort by type, location (by city for example), status, name etc. Then pick a unit from it, view info about it,...
... (by city ... info about ... practice ... I use hotkeys to get the reports so I never looked at the menus. I found the units list and the city list just...
I play Empire on my desktop and sometimes on my laptop. Because of this I sometimes can't remember when I begin if I won the last game I played or not. So I...
Barry, I had to think a bit on this one, but that was because I don't understand your problem. Your score only changes when you win or lose. When you quit or...
Andy Young
andy.young@...
Sep 29, 2004 8:15 pm
2692
... understand your problem. Your score only changes when you win or lose. When you quit or exit (save or no save) you don't affect your player history. ... ...
I've been playing Empire now for a week or so with the new game and while I really like some of the new interface features, I have to say that overall I'm...
I will be out of the office starting 04.10.2004 and will not return until 08.10.2004. Je suis en formation toute la semaine mais je repliquerai mes mails de ...
Jean-Manuel Lenez
jlen@...
Oct 4, 2004 2:35 am
2695
"All the goodies for a challenging game against the computer are gone. Why?" Barry, I cannot give you a good answer to this because of one reason: It has not...
Mate I think you dreaming. I have played empire for years in every form on all sorts of hardware apart from the PC. I even have the old VAX / VMS version here ...
... reason: It has not changed. I had read some things implying that that was the case and that was my expectation. You suggest that maybe I don't remember...
... I played against a person once, a long time ago. Even though I was already able to beat the computer pretty regularly, I was no match for him. People are...
... I do not have time to play other human opponents regularly, so I play EDIE as I did ED, to fill in the time when I have my computer and nothing better to...
... play EDIE ... nothing better ... Advantage ... I've always played with a single computer opponent on expert level and left all the other settings balanced....
There's a phenomenon worth considering, which I'll call the "stacked deck" syndrome, that's attributable to EDxE but could be endemic to any computer game with...
... FWIW, the original Railroad Tycoon was right there for me with the games you mention. It still beats all the other later fancy ones with eye-candy because...
... the "stacked ... any ... in a ... against ... the ... allows ... Well, maybe the computer player is having this problem. I know I'm not. :) I'm winning...
... games ... eye-candy ... that in ... the ... one in ... person ... are fun ... necessarily ... I completely agree. I suppose realism is nice but I want...
I guess if someone wanted to test it all they would have to do is setup a scenario that would generate as many battles of what ever type they would like to...
What a wonderful discussion about odds! All I know is that my fighters never beat their fighters and my cruisers always receive damage when attacking....
... I LIKE orange! You can have red. Now if it were a nice maroon....say Chicago Maroon. Then maybe red would be okay. I believe you can edit the colors...
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