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...
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Jean-Manuel Lenez
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Oct 4, 2004 2:35 am
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"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...
In a message dated 10/5/2004 1:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... battle ... you ... Mark's ... changed. I'm sure that's not it. Just out of curiosity, can...
Actually, when I play (and I am afraid its not as often as I would like), I always create a mix of Expert and Dumb AI's. As often as not, the dumb ones give...
The RNG for combat in ED/EDIE code-wise is that is was written by Baldwin, and does not use srand() or the built in RNG. EDEE is going to use an open sourced...
you guys are in for a treat.. the new EDEE is one hot project so many new things with the very consistent empire flavor that we all love...... the AI is quite...
Real rookie here. Very interested in playing against people that don't have the units made out of that impenetrable metal that the AI seems to always have!...
Hey Dennis: I'm up for another game...just came off a win in one and looking for some new blood...er, a new opponent! <grin> My ICQ is 1407298. What do you...
Steve, I'll defer to your experience on that. I will almost always be on every night, but I am enrolled in University of Phoenix classes which will require...
i think you guys will like the new map editor it generates some more realistic worlds for you earth normal, big continient, or island type worlds where as...
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Oct 16, 2004 1:19 am
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hi, just dropping another tiny taste of things to come check out the snapshot. i have a colony island under heavy attack(red arrows) from the east by...
as you can also see i am using CB's to create oil facities to increase my supply ability(cities) for my units...in EDEE there are land CB's and naval CB's...
